Enough.

Shameful, but I only read up on the Nigerian schoolgirl mass kidnapping just now. NEARLY A MONTH AFTER. If it was a wealthier, whiter country you can bet the media wouldn't have been this delayed.  It's sad but true ... and I believe things will change but it just seems so damn slow compared to other things like smartphone releases.

The anger I feel at tragedies like this makes me think of when I first started reading Anne Rice's vampire books when I was a preteen.  There is this one vampire, the oldest and the root of all vampires.  Akasha.  She is an ancient Egyptian queen who awakes from her deep sleep into modern day life.  Upon seeing how messed up and chauvinistic the world still is, she goes a bit berserk and starts her master plan to kill off the majority of the world's human men and make up a matriarchal new world order.  Think Dexter, but a beautiful Egyptian neofeminist version on steroids.  The modern vampires of course try to stop her and keep her from this massacring half of the world.

It would be badass if Akasha was unleashed on the Boko Haram. Just saying.

Lunch Admiration of Pioneers.

This resonates with me so very much:

I do not wish for the life my father left behind, but I know that some spirit forged in that particular adversity made me possible. -Andrew Solomon

I'm reading Far From the Tree right during lunch and I just had to note that.  This book after reading the whole A Series of Unfortunate Events series is quite the fluctuation but I love both authors all the same.  They both hit with a melancholy that is also somehow light and funny.

After seeing a recent facebook pic posted by my aunt, I would like to once more openly admire my 92-year-old grandma (elegant woman below in scarf).  Those are some good genes! :)  My aunt on the far left and my aunt on the far right also look decades younger than they actually are (but I won't be rude and give their ages away - it's different for my grandma because she has hit the magical ninety-year milestone).  The woman in the middle (beside my grandma) is one of my grandma's greatest closest friends :) 

 

Okay, back to the grind!