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Students: Are you coming to the anti-HR4437 rally/protest on Saturday?

Me: I guess so. Said I am. Guess I don't have a choice now.

I don't much like going to protests alone, and I don't really want to hang out with my students, if I even find them. Everybody I've asked is busy (Lalo's excuse is best - he'll be in Italy). But now I have to go - if I back down, they'll never trust me again. Who wants to come with me??

All I really want? A day to vegetate.

Aztec boy told me to wear white - that's what all the hip kids are wearing, to demonstrate the nonviolent atmosphere. I got my colors, I'm in the gang.

Today the kids brought up spring break, and then one of the girls said, "My dad says that disaster hit New Orleans as punishment for all the witchcraft and stuff there."

WTF?! I said, "Well, some people think that, but I believe that god is not so vengeful." She wanted me to disagree with him, or she wouldn't have brought it up like she did. But she didn't want me to call her paternal unit an ignorant idiot. Sigh. Another day in the trenches.