Other Countires: writing from a state of .....

 Happy President's Day. I can't wait until the President is a woman. In the meantime, I am thinking of how to include diversity in my courses and projects to aid students in broadening their perspectives. Then I thought of myself. A neighbor came into my building today with a little tree. I freaked. This guy has had flooding in the past and seeing that tree just hit a button for me. Then It was explained by my sister that I was being biased against him by calling him a Jibaro Loca. Maybe it is my insensitivity and my lack of broadening my perspective when I am dealing with him. She might be correct but a tree when your washing machine has flooded the apartment below you, your dishwasher has flooded other apartments, and now a tree. At least it is a beautiful tree with a lot of green leaves and little flowers. But where did he get a tree in February??? 

 After cleaning my car off of snow for the third time in a week I just realized I still have some muscles buried underneath the fat. I am not as sore as times one and two and am ready to teach at 2 pm instead of a hot drink and a shower. the sun was bright gleaming off the snow and I remembered snowball fights with my sister and friends growing up. We used to call them snow wars because of how long they took and the remnants of snow that were everywhere including in our underwear. But wow was it fun. It was a nice memory. Sorry, no pictures this was before the world decided to document everything with a camera. 

 Today is day one and I can't figure out what to write. I thought I would start by typing and see what my figures felt was a good idea. At our last union meeting, someone made a comment that incensed me. It was a discussion about vaccinations and I was upset that as a college professor I could not get one even though I am a teacher. You see I don't teach in a classroom. I have been sequester since last March. Well, a person said they had to wait for the obese people to be vaccinated and we don't hear them complaining. As an obese person of color who is much more likely than the thin White woman to contract and die of COVID-19, I was beyond pissed. However, I just left the gathering. After all, I could have yelled all day and she would not have gotten the message. Before that meeting, my school decided to put about 30% of classes back in the classroom. Our students were yelling for it and some of us did want to leave the house. However, there was no provision that we would b