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It has been a crap week - okay, couple of weeks - in so many ways, the simplest of which is that I've had something that started as a cold three weeks ago and won't go away and is still wiping me out.

But! There are kitties in my house again! So that's one happy thing, even if they are currently ignoring me very hard.

And we marched today! We'd planned to go up to DC, but the person running the carpool was nearly arrested on Thursday and decided to take the weekend off, my sister had to catch a plane at five, another friend has crowd issues, and I wasn't sure if I was well enough to be trapped in a crowd in the heat for very long, so we went to the Baltimore one instead, since it was just a few blocks from friend's house.

I am glad we went! If you're feeling ground down by stuff, and you can physically make it to a rally of like-minded people, it really is worth it just in the way it boosts the spirits. And a medium-sized rally like the one in Baltimore (the Sunpaper had it at around 1500 peoplez the Baltimore ones are rarely huge because most of the organized groups go to DC instead) is not nearly as physically taxing as the big ones.

Anyway here is a photo of my friend's sign in someone else's tweet.

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KITTIES. Hooray!

I hope the cold goes away ASAP.

Kitties think it is TOO HOT. (They are correct.)

It's a good sign. And what's the story behind the kittens?

I hope you feel better! Three weeks is kind of long to be suffering.

They are my sister's kitties, but she leaves them with us when she is off being a Adventurous Archaeologist in Foreign Parts, so they've spent quite a lot of time here lately!

You are their auntie! That sounds nice. Do you ever post pics?

Yay kitties! I had a month-long cold back in February, but that was February. July is the wrong time of year to have horrible colds. :P

(I don't know if you're even on Tumblr anymore, I vaguely remember you saying something about your status there but not what you said, but I have a new one because trolls. I hate that I've had to let the fuckers think they win in order to keep any of my spoons for purposes other than annoying them, but sometimes it's like that, I guess. :S Anyway, let me know if you want my new Tumblr URL.)

100 deg + humidity days are definitely the wrong time, let me tell you.

(I got your mass message! I sporadically read but never post these days. I just have to remember how to add a new account...)

Thank you for marching!

I have no idea if it did any good, but it made the marchers feel better, and that's not nothing!

Congrats for marching on such a hot day!

We were actually in the shade of a massive oak tree most of the time, so it wasn't that bad! (They had set up the speakers' stage on the edge of a grove of trees, facing a big open field, and ended up basically having to turn around and speak the other way because *nobody* was going to voluntarily leave the shade of the grove.) I can't imagine how it was for people crowded onto asphalt without any shade at the bigger protests, though.