Naked Eye Recall

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Used the pre-sun time to do the usual morning stuff, but was shocked browsing Quora Queerism to see loudly, if not violently, transphobic refuse strewn about. In my experience, Quorans had been far more aware and open to understanding than the general populace. I kept my fangs mostly sheathed, but that was really just swapping out the bazooka for a sniper rifle. People literally arguing that no one can *force* them to have basic decency by respecting pronouns get terribly upset when you tell them Planck's Principle will take the trash out. It really felt like camp Fuck Your Feelings complaining their feelings were hurt. I also got notice that my comment on the Big Mouth Reddit was well received. Didn't remember making it, but I'd scalded some conservative troll. And I finally finished my complaint with DFEH against Facebook. Selective enforcement is discrimination. I still don't think it even constituted a valid violation, since there's nothing about "Politeness" in FB's Guidelines. I also incinerated a straw man from a passively Eurocentric post in Quora D&D. As nice as it was to flex my fangs, it was so disappointing to find rot in Arcadia.

I considered running to the bank before work to take cash out for the expected 4/20 deals, but ultimately decided to just go on my lunch break. But then when I looked at the sites, they just had their every day deals. I've got enough to last me probably another week, so there's no disadvantage to waiting for deals. Maybe it's something like Amazon Prime Days or whatever they call it, where they massively hype something up to make up for the fact that there's nothing actually happening. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Took care of NOAs quickly in the morning, and I'm really letting my hair down in the emails now. I previously would keep it fairly basic, maybe swapping out an adjective for "ducky" or "stellar." But the other week I managed to slip in a lyrical reference because we had One Crim Only, that's all they had to give. And then I titled one of them "High 5!...Dependency NOAs." And today I referenced Fantastic Four, "The Only One" by the Black Keys, and titled it "NOAs are Served!" If I get too out there, they'll say something, but I'd rather beg forgiveness than permission here.

I had my meeting with Lynelle for the Benoit, and she said she was extremely impressed. I'm still confused. Pretty much all she did was fix my formatting. Yeah, the declarations were messy because I hadn't actually finished some of them, but that was literally just deleting the old stuff at the end. The substantive, important stuff was there. She did edit out some of the extraneous details I'd tossed in, but as Jan always said: "Give me a ham and I can carve it." I would always rather give/have, etc. Too Much vs Not Enough. Obv. That's it for now, but I'll get more work in the future. Good thing, really, because in addition to the weight of the Benoit, trying to do that in addition to all of my work and at least some of everyone else's was kind of a lot.

Julian called after work, and while I was walking to the kitchen, he said his mom saw something so obvious "the writing's on the wall." I tried to remember that song a while ago, but forgot to remember it by the time I got to paper. I asked Julian to remind me of that idiom roughly 1-5 minutes into the future, and he correctly guessed it was about music. I found that hilarious and awesome, like when Lynelle laughed about The Girls having free run of the place. My friends, both professional and casual, know me. Even my most bizarre behaviors, responses, and speech patterns are "Oh, that's just Squeak." The song was "Connected" by Stereo MC's, but you probably already knew that. For some reason, I thought it came out around the same time as Luscious Jackson's "Naked Eye", but now that I look back, Connected was 1992, and Naked Eye was 1997. Not impossible to have had some overlap, and not like chrono-recall has ever been anywhere within several galaxies of my strong suits, but I guess I like to think of music being an enchanted exception to a lot of unfortunate restrictions. Unfortunately, I also discovered I was out of Crystal Light. Can't make Eric Juice without it. He had to leave anyway for something or other, but then called back while I was at the store. I didn't answer then, and he was eating dinner when I got back, but I did send him a few tracks. GAI, Irrepressables, & Elephant Revival. I'm a pusher. This thing makes existence more bearable for me! It will make your existence more tolerable, too. You're welcome!