Inauguration!!

[oyceter]

I am still jetlagged beyond belief (I swear, I haven't been this jetlagged for a long time) and classes are starting and my act is so not together and my brain has exploded a billion times yesterday reading comments on the Great Cultural Appropriation Debate of DOOM, part Umptymillion and I have complicated feelings about the rhetoric of the USA and the (US of) American dream thanks to finishing Octavian Nothing 2 a few days earlier and my own personal issues about nationality and belonging and I still have my own doubts and there is the economy and all, but.

But.

Oh people, I did not think I would ever see this in my lifetime.

And I should write more to counter the massive word-splooge of doubt and fear and hesitation, because oh, so much of that is because I am afraid still of what will come and what our new President has to see us through and I am afraid of being part of that "us." But.

I feel as though a long nightmare is over, and the dawn is breaking.

Comments

It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Your icon is exactly how I feel. I get everyone saying, "Be cautious, the President can't solve everything," and so forth, and it's all true. But there is nothing wrong with being happy and leaving the cold water alone for one day!

Re: It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

[oyceter]

I know! Me too! And just news of what he's been doing in the first few days makes me SO HAPPY.