My Very Bad Night

I WOULDN'T TELL IT except it's kind of funny.   And because I've got no one to blame for it happening to me but myself.   

The other day I did the last big chunk of my transplanting of seedlings I started this Spring knowing full well that I was bending the wrong way,  sitting on a low stool, bent forward and twisting from side to side.   I know better than to do that and didn't count myself as a hapless victim when, as I got up I had the unmistakable thought slight signs of sciatica.   Did I watch out for that over the next couple of days?  No.

So when I lay down to sleep last night, after another day of not being careful it was myself who I cursed when I felt the now severe agony of sciatica in my left buttocks and right down to my leg to my foot.  I tried this and that position finally finding one that I didn't feel pain in so I finally fell asleep around midnight.   Which may have been somewhat OK.   

Being a hot day and sleeping in a room that gets hot as frickin' hell on hot days I left the fan on in my window to blow the finally cool and refreshing air in my window.  Only about two in the morning a skunk who had obviously sprayed someone parked itself outside to hunt for grubs in the plants right outside my window, the stench of which woke me up and forced me to try to get up to turn off the fan and close the window only to repeat in reverse and in greater pain the actions I'd taken lying down - it's a lot harder to get up from that than it is to get down in that, you feel every bit of gravity you're working against to do it.  

So I'm really set up to enjoy the 4th of July.   It he hypocrisies surrounding the citation of the Declaration of Independence which the goddamned Roberts Court hadn't nullified a year and three days ago,  making the soon to be Donald Trump II into an impune monarch of the kind that the First Continental Congress had rejected in that document,  nullifying their declaration of Self Evident Truths,  their claimed intentions of establishing a legitimate and just government in place of monarchy,  the crime spree by Trump and the Republican-fascists - THE PARTY OF THE ENTIRELY PARTISAN AND FASCI-MONARCHIST SIX FASCIST MAJORITY ON THE ROBERTS COURT - are destroying all of the progress won against the Constitution to bring it only part way to what we were promised in the Declaration . . . . if that weren't enough,  now thanks to the stupid prescription of how to fittingly celebrate the adoption of that document by John Adams,  I'll have a night of listening to idiots setting off fireworks,  thanks to goddamned Republicans in New Hampshire And Maine, joined by some idiot libertarian-liberal Democrats, all night tonight. 

I detest the 4th of July.   And it's not just the fireworks and the death and maiming and fires they cause,  it's that the very engine of American nationalist patri-eroticism is bringing us into the fasci-monarchy that the worst of the framers such as the real instead of the Broadway-Disney Hamilton set us up for in the worst aspects of the Constitution.   

Well, if the skunk hadn't come along, it wouldn't have been nearly as funny.   And all the poor creature wanted to do was find something to eat.   Americans,  we did the rest of it to ourselves.