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reasons today felt like high school:
Aug. 14th, 2020 12:57 amI signed up for a professional class that work is very kindly paying for, which means I get to be a student one afternoon a week, which is fun but today was a bit, how do I call it, "the fuck".
First, I got my period, massively underestimated how that would progress during the day, and ended up with a gigantic stain on my jeans which like, you are NOT SUPPOSED TO GET AT 35, dear lord. Walked around with a long shirt tied around my waist like it was 1998. I don't think anyone noticed but wtf self.
So then I'm in class, and 2 hours into it we have a 15 minute recess and I step outside, and there's a TV breaking news livestream on, and out LEFT FIELD I find out that apparently Bibi and Trump and Mohammed bin Zayed negotiated a peace agreement between Israel and UAE?????? WHattttttttttttttttt????
My twitter reaction was basically that and guys, I am still not over it. First - absolute high school flashback to the time I went to an afternoon class and discovered 9/11 had happened and like, we were stuck in class while things were HAPPENING in the real world. But anyway, that aside, this is so - fucking confusing. I'm so conflicted between excitement and despair and hating the fact that Bibi and Trump are the ones who did this and also hating that this is so clearly manipulative and timed just before the elections, and as so many protests are going on, and it's so gross and cynical and definitely not ideal for the Palestinians but at the same time, it's been such a long time since anyone in the government used the word peace, made it any kind of priority, pretended to care about it, and it's so. effing. refreshing.
...while still being weird and wtf //o\\ and WHO JUST SPRINGS THIS ON PEOPLE.
I'm also excited at the prospect of being able to travel to the Emirates someday. It was always off limits and now it's - well, it won't be!
And all of this is so weird, because like, remember, it gives you a happy little whiff of "Peace! Score! \o/" while... not actually have been at war with the other country! Like, yes, I couldn't travel there, and their athletes sometimes refuse to play against ours, and I know a bunch of people who could only travel there while being undercover. But also: the reason they were there was - okay, I don't know exactly, but it had to do with intelligence and military cooperation. Like, not exactly things you do with your nemeses.
Anyway. This is all very weird. I will continue pondering I guess. I know that pretty soon I'll be hit with all of the "why this was bad/useless" takes, but for a moment I just want to dream, for a second, about the idea of peace.
*
MEANWHILE - I am deeply in Old Guard fandom these days, hi, and also will be spending the weekend camping in the desert! Under hopefully stars! These things are totally unrelated!
First, I got my period, massively underestimated how that would progress during the day, and ended up with a gigantic stain on my jeans which like, you are NOT SUPPOSED TO GET AT 35, dear lord. Walked around with a long shirt tied around my waist like it was 1998. I don't think anyone noticed but wtf self.
So then I'm in class, and 2 hours into it we have a 15 minute recess and I step outside, and there's a TV breaking news livestream on, and out LEFT FIELD I find out that apparently Bibi and Trump and Mohammed bin Zayed negotiated a peace agreement between Israel and UAE?????? WHattttttttttttttttt????
My twitter reaction was basically that and guys, I am still not over it. First - absolute high school flashback to the time I went to an afternoon class and discovered 9/11 had happened and like, we were stuck in class while things were HAPPENING in the real world. But anyway, that aside, this is so - fucking confusing. I'm so conflicted between excitement and despair and hating the fact that Bibi and Trump are the ones who did this and also hating that this is so clearly manipulative and timed just before the elections, and as so many protests are going on, and it's so gross and cynical and definitely not ideal for the Palestinians but at the same time, it's been such a long time since anyone in the government used the word peace, made it any kind of priority, pretended to care about it, and it's so. effing. refreshing.
...while still being weird and wtf //o\\ and WHO JUST SPRINGS THIS ON PEOPLE.
I'm also excited at the prospect of being able to travel to the Emirates someday. It was always off limits and now it's - well, it won't be!
And all of this is so weird, because like, remember, it gives you a happy little whiff of "Peace! Score! \o/" while... not actually have been at war with the other country! Like, yes, I couldn't travel there, and their athletes sometimes refuse to play against ours, and I know a bunch of people who could only travel there while being undercover. But also: the reason they were there was - okay, I don't know exactly, but it had to do with intelligence and military cooperation. Like, not exactly things you do with your nemeses.
Anyway. This is all very weird. I will continue pondering I guess. I know that pretty soon I'll be hit with all of the "why this was bad/useless" takes, but for a moment I just want to dream, for a second, about the idea of peace.
*
MEANWHILE - I am deeply in Old Guard fandom these days, hi, and also will be spending the weekend camping in the desert! Under hopefully stars! These things are totally unrelated!
