Clarissa's Blog

From Klara’s daily daycare report:

Happy National Anthem Day! Today we listened to the anthem of our country, “The Star Spangled Banner.” We tried to say the word “anthem” while we listened to it! – Goals: Sings a new word , Tries to sing Pledge of Allegiance 

Motor skills

We pretended to write the President a letter! We each got our own crayons and paper and marked on the paper as if we were writing a letter. – Goals: Puts paper in an envelope , Uses writing or drawing tools with limited coordination

I wonder what they could have possibly put in that letter. 

Is Brill a respectable publishing house? Or is it one of those vanity presses?

I had an article accepted in an edited volume. But then the publishing house went bankrupt. The editors had it accepted at another publishing house. And then it went bankrupt. Now they have it accepted at Brill, and I’m worried our edited volume will destroy Brill, too.

I don’t know why so many people are so excited about this “big scoop” of Rachel Maddow’s. All it means is that legal immigrants is in just much of a danger as the illegal ones irrespective of how long ago they came in. Yippee.

That report was seen as a blow to the Trump administration, which is hoping to put his travel ban on more solid footing with proof of risk from citizens of the seven countries.

It’s like people are soft in the heads. A blow? This report is a fucking gift.

We are surrounded by idiots.

Now we seem to be unsure whether we need to inform whoever we decide to hire about our healthcare situation. I’m sure I don’t need to mention which position I’m taking.

The municipal authorities in Madrid have been working hard to prevent a private van from sporting a sticker that says “Boys have penises.” It’s great to know that Spain’s economy has improved so dramatically that there is now money to be spent on rejecting the “hate-filled” message about boys’ penises. 

Woke up, turned on the news. 

“Let’s see how the tone of Trump’s tweets changed since he took office!” the commentator announced. 

Almost broke the remote in the rush to switch over to a recording of Shark’s Tank. 

Can anybody explain what it is that happened at Concordia yesterday? I missed everything. 

The very first thing I did on my new phone was to buy something with the Amazon app. I feel like myself again. 

And if you have to ask what “it” is, then you are not my friend.

Bannon asked repeatedly, “Don’t we have a problem with legal immigration?”

“Twenty percent of this country is immigrants. Is that not the beating heart of this problem?” he said, meaning the problem of native-born Americans being unable to find jobs and rising wages.

And this is why the position of, “I’m a legal immigrant, so I’m superior to all those undocumented, illegal losers” (which is very popular in the Russian-speaking immigrant community, for instance) is dumb.

Keep telling yourself that everybody loves you since you did everything “by the rules”, you dumb fucks.