The Happiness Thread

LOL, they were asking for $20k for her bail fund, it's now up to over $100k. It has been notoriously hard for the Black Lives Matter fundraisers to get money from white networks, so this is really good. Occupy found it easier to get money because white people with money tend to agree "the bankers are bad." But it's harder to convince white people with money that racism is actually a thing that deserves organized resistance (and funding). This is very, very good!

 

Christ on a cracker. All lives matter, son. I admire her effort, but civil disobedience has consequences.

 

Um?

Like $100K for your effort? I hope she donates most of it to a related cause.

 

The money is going to not just her bail fund but to Black Lives Matter network, the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP 100) and Ferguson Action. I PM'd Stacey C in hopes to take that discussion away from here. I simply wanted to post on what made me happy, not start a debate. Not interested in debates on the forum anymore, seeing how they typically go now.

 

There should be a section in this forum where we debate which debates belong in the debate room.

 

This post belongs in the debate room.
As a matter of fact, I'm moving this entire thread there. People can argue about whether someone's actually happy, or just faking it.

 

Managed to go hiking this weekend. My family has been very nice to me this week, helping with chores and agreeing to visit elderly relatives at a nursing home. I go every week and it's wearing me down, (I was also ill) so I really needed help.

 

I see what you did there.

 

Don't take this the wrong way, but...

I totally agree all lives matter, but the sentiment right now seems to feel sorta anti black. And when people say things like all lives matter and we're all the same it seems to dilute the issue at hand, which is that blacks in America have been stripped of culture, heritage, identity, and dignity and given religion and false dreams to bold onto and are still being imprisoned and killed at disproportionate rates. Didnt mean to get allserious though. I just feel some comments are more loaded than people realize. Im not upset or offended though.

 

Love that sign, @Andrae Smith. Truly.

 

Well, I am super happy and have been holing this away to myself for a few days. In fact, I may or may not have spent the past two days doing the Carlton happy dance with a notebook for a partner...

Yes, I finally have a hand written, full plot breakdown of one of my stories. After this <-- blog entry I realized I've been self-sabotaging.

By nature I like my details in place, but yet somehow, when it came to writing, all I could do was pants it away. Thus after ten years of writing, as desperately as I've tried I have never finished a story. (I've gotten a lot of great writing hours in, but the creativity always fizzles because it unnaturally takes too much creative energy from me to keep one idea going.)

I was so happy, I couldn't even sleep the other night.

 

6am gym session has me pumped for the day, working hard and writing. Also FINALLY decided whether third or first person, or many perspectives is best for my novel (FYI, first person and one narrator).

 

Me neither, but @Hubardo is right - my post #7451 doesn't belong here.

 

Had an amazing, amazing weekend. On Saturday I went to a ropes/zipline course with a friend, a trampoline arena with another friend, and enjoyed the Pride parade in the evening. Yesterday I went to our city's fine arts museum with yet another friend and enjoyed some lovely appetizers at an outdoor cafe afterward. It was just so perfect and makes coming back to work on Monday that much harder!

 

I'm sooo tired because I just worked till 9pm (summer job) but also the school from that job interview called back and invited me to tell me I got the job. So happy. So tired.

 

Congrats!

 

I made a pot roast and it came out magnificently!

 

Thanks, @Lewdog! Sounds delicious btw.

 

I just read Bree Newsome's statement, first she's said since arrested for taking down the Confederate Flag in SC a couple days ago. So happy.

 

I'm happy because we're all having a love fest over in the short story contest forum.

 

As I think about it, this is easily the least aggressive online community I've found so far, Debate Room antics notwithstanding.

 

I graduated university with a 2:1! YES NOW I NEED WINE

 

*a giant wine bottle appears before you*

WILL YOU DRINK?
> Yes
> No

 

> Yes
*proceeds to get very drunk in 34 degree Celsius sunshine*