Getting a better sense of the "civility" problems in Shorewood Hills. Barford sends out request for forester protective gear, Van Asten objects, Barford asks him to call her. Instead he tells her to put on "big girl pants," says the forester is "underqualified," a friend of her's, & should be fired.

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I've gotten a request through the grapevine for this entire thread that ended with Trustee Van Asten talking about dick size. So here it is below. It starts with Van Asten sending an email to the wrong Hurley.

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Making a beeline to my cross-isthmus bus stop, the mysterious vaguely commercial building with googly eyes on it was open! Apparently an art gallery! And I was a few minutes too late for this evening’s opening (which sold snacks like a movie theater!) but glad I unlocked the mystery of this space!

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My niece latched onto "all done" as a universal signal of "I don't feel like doing this shit"

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I talked to a man who got stuck in an elevator, a wheelchair user who had to go on his balcony and shout to ask for food, a woman who had to sleep in her chair because she couldn't use her COPD machine. The crisis in Gary is the product of structural neglect and racism, but also climate change.

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