Today I feel angry. It's the kind of anger that I physically carry around with me like my backpack. I think about pushing the Willard Preacher or at least yelling at him but I didn't do any of that. Still I feel like he shouldn't be here. Plenty of people say things like "my parents/I pay too much money for x thing to happen at this school," and for me that thing is the Preacher. He is so persistently infuriating, especially since most of my classes have been at Willard for the past couple years. His presence really, really frustrates me and I feel like there's nothing that I can do about it.
Matt is in D.C. right now and it was cool to hear from him. I guess today kind of went as everyone had planned. It was rainy there and rainy here. In this kind of weather smoke hangs in the air. Dr. Cornel West is speaking on campus right now, and I didn't go because I couldn't get a ticket and also I am going to the standup show at 7, so I would have had to leave halfway through anyway. Still, I think it would be fascinating to see him. I watched him in a Democracy Now video and I keep thinking of this moment when he looked directly into the camera and said something like "42% of Americans didn't vote, because they have given up on the system."
Twitter is occasionally funny but also just exhausting. And I'm a part of that tiresome collective commentary too so I can't complain. I really want to relax this weekend. I don't feel like partying tonight but I will most likely go out. Hopefully I can at least catch up with my brother this weekend.
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