Here are a couple of things I forgot to mention about the weekend. The first is that, while we didn't see the Holiday Trolley on State Street, we did at one point see dozens of bikers dressed as Santa pass by. The second thing was that a year-old baby girl was baptized at the Mass on the far east side, and then the priest took her and paraded her around the sanctuary to thunderous applause. It was such a joyful moment, and the baby loved it.
Today I was supposed to be on campus, but I was far too sick to go in. The weather was horrible - tons and tons of snow. Travalon had to work late, and then it took him an hour to get home because of the terrible roads. I never ventured outside today, but Ma Hat did send a photo of the fresh snow where she lives, one state over.
I'll admit that the stuff is pretty to look at, and it's really important for insulating plants and animals (maybe too late this year? It's been so cold without snow), but I hate driving in it.
Because I have dealt with narcissists and their gaslighting before, I am very averse to being gaslighted. Someone in the far-right Catholic camp has been emailing me, trying to convince me that I am wrong about the insurrection, and that's gaslighting - I saw it with my own eyes live on TV. This person actually sent me a link to some report and said the problem is that I get my information from unreliable sources and they are getting theirs from reliable sources. But guess what their "reliable source" was? A congressman who took a bunch of the insurrectionists into the Capitol for a private tour the day before the insurrection, so who would have more to gain from saying nothing happened than the guy who seemed to have helped them plan it?? That's like the fox saying, "I'm not the one stealing your eggs, you silly hens - it's that goose that you thought was protecting you," even after the hens SAW the fox stealing the eggs. What's weird to me is that so many of the hens believe the fox, which in this case is the Dunning-Kruger coalition of hereditary billionaires who think they know how to run the government and are busy telling us any reason (like a violent insurrection) that we give for not trusting them is wrong. "Who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?" The thing about gaslighters is they know you'll get frustrated with them saying your lived reality is wrong, you have to believe their version of events, and then when you do get frustrated, they say, "See, you're emotional and not thinking clearly. I'm the one working from cold, hard facts," so the only defense is not to respond to them. After this person insulted my intelligence and my news sources and I didn't respond, they emailed two more times. Apparently they don't know how to f--k off, but if they keep pestering me, I will relish telling them to do so in giant, neon letters. Go gaslight someone else, you damn freak.
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