I have done a good job of avoiding both doomscrolling and hopescrolling, because both of them are dangerous to my mental health. I have my lesson plans ready for tomorrow; I am off Tuesday and Wednesday, because no one deserves me, and hopefully the world is still here on Thursday for me to return to work, but I make no Goddamned guarantees, and if I am still a lunatic, I will stay home for a third day in a row.
I have been working on Platinuming Black Myth Wukong all day today and once I am done with that I have a lot of housecleaning, a bunch of books and Dragon Age: Veilguard on deck. I have plenty to keep me from thinking until it’s time to inject cable news into my veins for 24 hours straight on Tuesday night.
God help us all.
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I am curious and a bit afraid to ask because I don’t want to run the risk of being talked into it, but how is watching election returns not detrimental to mental health? It strikes me as doomscolling and hopescrolling combined, and the likelihood of a definitive answer in the wee hours of Wednesday morning (at least on the U.S. east coast) seems highly unlikely. If it does happen, and if it is the bad answer, I don’t want to add sleep deprivation to my distress. If it is the good answer, there will be litigation. There is already litigation. Am I neglecting a civic duty if I vote and then wait until at least when I get up Wednesday morning to check on the state of things?
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I may actually make the answer to this tomorrow’s post. The short answer is you aren’t neglecting anything if that’s what you have to do, though.
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