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Well, we're day drinking here at Casa Artemis. This is an unusual thing for us, maybe once every year or two, typically Xmas or New Year's Day morning, and typically on a happier occasion.

Not so much this morning - we're still waiting on news that my partner's sister has made it out of Israel (latest wrinkle is the loss of a passport and there fore a failed chance to charter a flight with the other people in her US group; we presume the US embassy is helping with this, and now she's trying again tomorrow) (and again, ours is only a small slice of the pain and worry and terror others are experiencing due to this horrific situation).

So, the daily, sometimes hourly, debate is: do we watch the news or not? IT terrifies my partner, yet there's this ongoing need To Know What's Going On. This morning we tuned into Jen Psaki's show, and within five minutes, my partner is sobbing through the horrible stories about what people are suffering. I offer the idea of turning off the news, but no, they want to watch. Maybe it's a carthartic thing? I don't know, but we're watching. I am a more stoic soul, who's known since childhood that the world sucks (credit the photo famous to many of my generation, of Phan Thi Kim Phuc running terrified from her napalmed village in Viet Nam for putting me on that path). I am sad, and angry, but I am not sobbing. My partner is.

Twenty mintues ago, my dear love of almost 3 decades is talking about how they wish sometimes they did heroin, so they could totally numb out (note: never done heroin). Ten minutes ago, they decide whisky in coffee is a fine idea. We are doing better now. I think it's partly the breaking of rules, partly the sense of having a treat. No way the alcohol is having an effect yet.

There may be marijuana involved.

In any case, we added the booze to the coffee we're drinking. Alcohol of choice (about a shot's worth in total) was a combo of Crown Royal Peach Whiskey and Kirkland Fake Irish Cream (may not be actual brand name). It's quite delicious!

We get through things as best we can.

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Suzie Greenburg's avatar

Y'all.

My mum is in the hospital. I went down there (about a 4 hour drive) when she first went in but had to come home to work. Sibling1 lives there and they are doing the heavy lifting. Sibling2 is headed there today to be in the room for a couple of days. My work this weekend is performing. I'm playing my ass off and the shows are good but I'm having emotional whiplash going from that headspace on stage trying to bring joy to the audience, and getting reports during the day about her new pain management not working as expected. I'm going to get some exercise and do a serious stretching session today, I hope it helps me center. I feel off kilter.

Oh and send more doctor jokes, if you have any, she really enjoyed the ones y'all supplied me with last week.

Hug your people, give your pets belly rubs. You deserve it and so do they.

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