Events

It's a chilly but mostly-sunny spring morning on the first day of May, despite some gray clouds lingering to the west. I have one meeting this morning before walking Cassie over to the new building to pick up the keys. Then starts the Weekend of the Box, when I do the last bits of packing. "Last bits" is doing some heavy lifting there, as that includes my library and kitchen, and several trips to the local charity and used bookstore drop-offs.

Josh Marshall goes to town on the institutional decay and anti-historical bent of the Republican majority on the Court:

I'm just going to leave this clip right here:

Adam Kinzinger and I may not agree on policy much, but we absolutely agree on this:

I'm at my downtown office today and tomorrow because some of my co-workers have flown in for unrelated meetings. Then starting Friday afternoon, it's a full-on sprint to the move on Tuesday. Yay.

I'm down to only 3,642 small tasks (not counting the kitchen and library—yikes!) before moving next Tuesday. Cassie continues to spend much more time in the office than she ever has before, and much more time poking me from under the desk. Is she anxious? No, but maybe she just needs a little more reassurance right now.

Cassie did, in fact, get a half-hour walk around 2:30, but as I have a 3-hour rehearsal tonight, she won't get another one until about 10:30. Pauvre chienne, je sais. Elle souffre.

Cassie's lunchtime walk will be a bit late this afternoon. My guess is we'll go out around 2:30:

Historian and political pundit Amanda Nelson posted on social media this morning that she "kinda " about the incident at the White House Correspondents Dinner last night:

This weekend will be the first big push for packing, today being just 10 days from Cassie's nightmare. The goal this weekend will be to pull out everything I'm giving to charity (mostly from the kitchen) and make a big dent on all the books going into storage. I still have to live here, though.