Day 17

I helped my brother for a second day at the fixer upper. My mom and I pulled nails and took off hinges and knobs. It was fantasctic to get myself away from the computer. Took a break. Stop complaining about him. Stop feeling like there's so much to do, too many things that can possibly be done because there are so many things going wrong. I will be ok. I still need to contact 18 more people. I will be needing more things to do at my actual job.

Day 19

Had the best Gay Straight Alliance club day in a long while. I asked for volunteers for my session for the teacher's conference for Understanding LGBTQ+ kids. A good handful volunteered. They also started talking. About things that they wanted to do. It was a really good showing for attendance. I'm going to be great. This is the first time I'm giving a session to co-workers. I already have one of them full. The second already has 13 attendees out of 20 and it's in a week. Love this.

When I signed up to do these sessions I walked into my principal's office to let him know about it. To warn him. To ask directly if there would be an approval process. He just looked at me and said thank you for doing the session. I used to need approval for rainbow symbols. It's such a relief to get this kind of support. To only worry about buying cookies.

Day 20

I had the school principal and the department chair in my classroom about the future of the debate team and the health of the head coach. I had an idea yesterday. Starting my own business tutoring English remotely. The idea of not having to deal with these problems. The problem like the young man who was crying in my classroom this afternoon because his friend played an embarrassing video.

Today Donald Trump made comments condemning the store Nordstrom for dropping his daughter's clothing line. He has such thin skin. Why isn't he learning what isn't working? If he would just stop tweeting, reacting defensively about everything, and stop going after judges and media personnel.

The republicans silenced Elizabeth Warren last night with a rarely used rule about making a fellow senator look bad. She was reading the words of Corretta Scott King about Sessions and the speaker warned her and then invoked the rule barring her from speaking for the rest of the hearing. The new repeated quote is Nevertheless, she persisted.

I am persisting.