dominoes

 today, the first domino was pushed. it's sad, but things are probably going to be okay. maybe, somehow, they'll turn out for the best?

to everyone who's been protesting, i'm sorry to say this again, but... unless the people protesting are the same people who voted in the people calling the shots, protesting means very little to them. israel is still - at least for the time being - a democracy, and while protesting hasn't done much aside from being a fun group activity and dividing people into teams just like a football game, it's not too late to try something different.

often, being right is less important than being effective. let's focus on the next elections. let's focus on what we'd like israeli society to become. if we want reasonableness, we're going to need to be reasonable in order to generate that reasonableness on the ground. 

politicians aren't going to generate it. they have no incentive to. right now, the government has a solid majority of our country backing them, regardless of their variety of reasons. whatever you may think of all those reasons, we're going to need to confront them, and we're going to need a way to break down walls if we're to move forward in a constructive way.

good luck to us all.

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i woke up this morning with... unclear... sinuses. again. and a nasty cough. i'm back to starting off my day with dishwashing (my mom was doing them every night while she was here, i won't say i didn't appreciate the break), then hurriedly rifling through papers until i found what i needed, and then i rushed off in the already-intense heat to the pain clinic and hospital to take care of yesterday morning's bill.

then i headed to work, and began my ninja week.

so far, so good? almost. the day went pretty well, and i took care of a few things while still getting some other things done. then i left work and discovered that all the streets around our building had been blocked off with trucks and buses, there was a large post-law protest underway.

i stopped by the appliance warehouse and made sure the electronics guy understood what the problem with our soundbar is, then i walked through the protestors to do some grocery shopping. on my way to the clinic i had to stop and "assist" drivers to get out of the way of an ambulance (i'm wondering if they legitimately didn't know how to behave?) and arrived at the clinic too close to closing time to get the form i needed.

then i returned home.

fortunately, i had time to play some toodee and topdee with mr smear before dinner, because just before dinner was served i got a call from our turkish coworker to pull me in to something "very urgent". i don't think it was urgent, and i don't see why she seems to think that 8pm is a good time to get everyone on board when she's known about the "very urgent" problem since at least this morning.

******* *****.

fortunately, i managed to eat with my family in spite of that noise, and hear a bit about mr smear's first juijitsu lesson with a gi.

i'm very excited for him ^_^

bedtime was okay, only after bedtime he needed me to come in a few times because he was scared and that wasn't easy to deal with.

i've been feeling tired and restless, and i'm anxious, i don't know what to do with myself and i don't have bandwidth to do much of anything (although i'm finding steamworld heist a good meditation).

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good luck to us all.