I really wish I'd gotten here 15 minutes early, because this is a clusterfuck.

This weekend:

Saturday, there's Matilda's team's last soccer game of the season (they have a tournament in 3 weeks, but that's entirely separate); Hec has a father/son event with Emmett up at Sonoma; a college friend who's in Berkeley for the weekend for a professional conference will come and hang out with us in the evening. Somewhere in there will also be the folding of all the laundry that ever existed and the carting off of a couple of bags to Goodwill.

Sunday, church and then my dad's house, and then check in up at the hospital, where a longtime friend and anchor of the Faire community is trapped in one of the ICUs and his college-age sprog needs company and distraction.

I hope to make some headway on cleaning etc. around the house, and catch up on some TV. I feel like I have had nothing but busy weekends for long enough that I am overdue for not having any plans.

I am never getting out of this place.

Supposedly I'm moving. We haven't left yet. We haven't finished packing. Mostly because I'm getting so overwhelmed I keep shutting down but also Mom and I keep butting heads over what of my stuff I don't want to take. I have been long past the point where if it's not packed I just want to throw it out but I shouldn't fir various reaso5. And now all that's left is random inexpensive crappie I want to thow out inste5of spending time finding something to pack stuff in since we ran out of boxes.

Also I haven't spent more than 5 hours with one person in about 5 months so dealing with that transition is hard.

Good luck, askye. At least you're in the home stretch -- the end should be in sight.

I know it's hard askye. You will get through this, and you will be moved.

Am I the only one who remembers that within the last year we published an article about the massive decrease in deaths from opioid overdose in states with legal medical marijuana??? We're going to look like asses. I guess I should mention this to my boss when I return the editorial.

I'm also wondering if the claim that pot doesn't have proven therapeutic effects is due to the lack of controlled studies. I don't know if that's true, though.

I hope I'm not chiming in way too late since I've been conferencing with students for over an hour, but wanted to say I'm with you in that the unspoken agenda here seems to be there's no reason to change the status of marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule II but in fact there's all sorts of reasons, the most important being the need to have proper studies on it to see what, if any, medical properties it might have.

Oh, askye, I'm sorry. Packing and moving sucks so mightily, even when it's a necessary thing for a good reason; it's still just brutal.

Ugh askye, I feel for you. If it's any help, I am a strong proponent of throwing out the random inexpensive crap instead of packing it. You can always buy more later.