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[ewt]

Is this real?

I'm getting pretty close to just giving up and boycotting goods made in the US. Except that all the manufacturing that actually makes profit there is done by 8-year-old girls in Thailand anyway, and there are some things I won't do without that I probably can't buy without some US involvement.

I don't boycott lightly or often; I figure it's better use of time and energy to focus on the good than to focus on the bad.

My brain is feeling very fragile. Brainhacking today was difficult and upsetting; I think reasonable progress was made but right now my brain is in the "OW STOP POKING ME" stage.

I think I shall buy a bowl of chips. Yes. Chips here are good, and potato products make everything better.


The rest of this evening:
My brain is a bit too fried for real work, but I'm going to try to sort out schedule-y stuff for next week's teaching. Many of my students are off school for Succot and as they're missing so many Sundays I'm going to try to get up on Thursday to do some teaching.

Tomorrow:
-horn lesson, then class, then meeting with S. re: Mammoth Project, then Horn Class. This is going to be a long and tiring day - I have hardly played at all this past week because of my hurty elbow, and while I think I'll get through okay, it's not going to be easy. I think I'd best get there early and do a long slow warm-up, then go to the library and find some music. I'm not going to have time to go home for lunch and I haven't been organised and packed one so I guess it's a Pie Day. MMmmm. Pie.
-laundry. I'm way behind on it at the moment.

Thursday:
-doctor's appointments in the morning (mental health update followed by cervical smear. I'm sure you can sense the unbridled joy); not worth going to Trinty beforehand so I'll have to go straight there afterward to practise. Possibly working on Mammoth Project the rest of the day, although I'd really like to make Thursday afternoons Sewing Time. If I'm not working on the project, I'll be doing some tidying, because I can't do any sewing until I've tidied anyway because there isn't anywhere to sew. Go me.
-more laundry.

Friday:
-In the morning, straight to Trinty to get some practising in.
-practising music for Suzuki school stuff on Saturday
-the Big Push with tidying; I want to make the living room presentable and the kitchen less cluttered. For the kitchen this is going ot mean taking everything off the surfaces, one at a time, cleaning the surfaces, and then putting things back/away (as sensible). For the living room... I'm not sure. I think I'll have to do 15-minute intervals or something.
-more laundry.

Saturday:
-Suzuki school. Possible pubbage (Porterhouse), but I really ought to get home and practise. Dinner party in evening.

Sunday:
-Gardening.

I've just been brought a bowl of chips. This place is heaven.

Comments

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

I think there are enough people increasingly worried by US policy that there just might be a viable social environment for a boycott.

I'm not sure about an alternative, because I'm not sure yet what goods would be boycotted. It might be that it's just too hard for most people.

[exmoor-cat.livejournal.com]

Doubt it. In a perfect domino effect world, boycotts work because it puts sufficient Americans out of work or about to be out of work that they can lobby their congressman to vote against such legislation, and that sufficient congressmen will do so. Afterall these voters put the policy-makers there in the first place.

However, the average American worker will simply turn around and lobby for retaliatory measures. Indeed, it is more likely that Congress will simply pre-empt the jobless hordes knocking on their doors and introduce the legislation in the first palce. We saw this in 2003 when the US and the EU came to blows over various tariff issues.

Of course, Capitol Hill does not control foreign policy, the president does and the Americans only vote once in four years for that.