Switching gears a little, actually switching gears a lot. Watching the hearing today, I admire Doctor Ford so much!

It was on a few of the televisions at work and, being in the industry I am, I felt like I was alone in an office with a bunch of people in it. Everyone is so conservative and making comments about the whole event that, honestly, hurt and offended me. Nothing sympathetic or even humane said about this incredibly brave woman who had NOTHING to gain by coming forward, but EVERYTHING to lose. She has dealt with so much since her name was revealed. I can't even imagine what it took to go through with it. She handled everything with the two things our administration doesn’t have even the tiniest amount of: grace and intelligence. We need more people like her.

I'm currently watching a program that is showing the cast's reaction to the 2016 presidential election returns coming in. I actually shed a couple of tears. Like an idiot, I was hoping they were going to show a different result. The last (almost) two years have not felt real to me. All the hatred, anger, lying, stupidity, moving backwards from all the gains we have made as a people, the deliberate destruction of anything and everything President Obama accomplished... is this how things are going to be from now on? It's so depressing. Look at the election results in Sweden, Austria, Italy, France, Denmark and other countries since Trump was elected. Nationalism is rising up and it's scary.

I think I'm going to go do some baking, that should help distract me, if even for a short time..