Elise Sereni Patkotak

When I turned 21, I highly resented being carded to see if I was old enough to drink. I wanted to look old enough without any ID needed.

Now, when I get my senior discount at the movies, I quietly pray to be carded in the hope that there is someone left in the world who doesn’t automatically assume I’m that old because I look it.

If dreams reflect an alternate reality breaking through out consciousness, then I am really depressed because I apparently have allergies in that reality also and spend an inordinate amount of time struggling to breathe through a nose that is plugged up with at least four corks.

It started raining the day my friend Grace arrived. It’s a week later and it’s still raining. The rain is predicted to last until the end of this week. She leaves the end of this week. I wonder if she’ll ever forgive me and Alaska for this fun two week vacation?

Why do people always sound so startled when they say “That outfit looks nice” to me?

… it will only be because the republican candidates are even worse. But I’ll do it holding my nose and wishing there was someone with the balls to stand up to billionaires and actually fight for the rest of America. What a huge disappointment they all are.

But the only thing that makes the current mess even slightly tolerable is the alternative is unthinkable.

Do the tea partyers not get that for democracy to function, you must have compromise. Because if you don’t have compromise, if it’s my way or the highway, then you have the rule of one and that is not a democracy.

Here’s the quote that seems to have caught a lot of people’s attention. Mayor Sullivan uttered it concerning the gentleman sitting on the sidewalk across from city hall protesting the mayor’s actions regarding our homeless population. “ ‘I try to limit my discussion with first-degree sex offenders,’ he told reporters. Sullivan said the man would have to ‘clean up and make himself presentable as a good self-worthy human being would do,’ as well as filling out a form in the mayor’s office if he wants to have a legitimate meeting.” Wow. I mean, I get the sex offender part. But

Remember when we actually had leaders who put the good of their country over their re-election prospects when voting on a bill? Seems like quaint and ancient history now.

The birds are upstairs screaming their sad little souls out. I think they are saying they miss their Aunt Judy and wish she would hurry back as they think she still might have some high frequency hearing in one of her ears that they haven’t destroyed yet.

Yes, I’m talking about our august Congress. What a sad and pathetic collection of people. How the hell did we ever elect those idiots to office?