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political nightmares

i did not sleep well last night.
first, my body is sore from all the silly dancing and being stuffed into incredibly uncomfortable costumes @ yuri’s night, and then we went hiking yesterday on top if it, and when my muscles ache i find it hard to sleep.

second, i had a really frustrating dream. i dreamed that i had produced a bunch of brown t-shirts that said something about Obama on them in white text. somehow, one of the words was the exact opposite of what i meant, or perhaps there was “not” included that shouldn’t have been, so it said something like “Obama is not the future”. i don’t know what the exact phrase was, but the editing mistake was horrifying, and the t-shirts were being sold like hot cakes all over the internet and all kinds of conservative people were buying them and i couldn’t stop it from happening. i woke up frustrated and panicked and confused, especially since i’m not even a committed Obama voter and would never even think of selling political t-shirts on the net or doing anything that “activist”. i’m way too seriously skeptical of all politicians to ever even wear a candidate button, so why in this dream was i doing such a thing?

i think it’s because i sometimes feel like what i write here is equivalent to hula hooping naked with ‘free tibet’ painted across my chest at a rally, for example, and it makes me feel exposed and defensive, especially when it starts uncomfortable conversations with friends and family. that’s what i get for writing about politics when i said i wouldn’t. it’s a source of stress instead of a release valve for it, and i definitely don’t need any more stress.

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