i (tentatively) finished up in the front/garage mid week and have consistently been in the shower for most of the last several over nights while cleaning or typing during the day. while i am still aiming to 1. finish the basic shape of things, 2. clean the bedroom and then 3. sit down and start typing through the coffee table book and continue with the cataloging, i'm again extending the first section.

i need to get all of the boxes up on the ceiling in the kitchen and living space and seal up the bottom part of the side entrance before it gets much colder. i don't want to lose the heat i've built up downstairs. i also want to get the last remaining wayward pieces of furniture out of random places and into their correct spaces. i can do this in one lengthy step.

it's very dry in here for some unclear reason, which makes it easier to continue the showers overnight until i don't need them anymore.

my hair is very dry but finally effectively detangled and should be approaching normalcy in the upcoming days. i had a lot of dead hair to pull out. my hair grows fast and if i can reassert some normalcy nobody will tell the difference when i open the door in the spring. in addition, i'm apparently skipping my yearly bleaching. i wanted to wait until i was done cleaning and it's too late now. bleaching will commence again in the spring. i may dye it a kind of dark purple for the fall so that it's a lighter shade of purpley when i do die it again.

this isn't how i wanted to spend the year but such is real life. the place is almost set up. really. it's an awesome apartment that is going to just get better as i move to rebuilding the studio and start to get to work on some projects again, hopefully by the end of the year.

so, i'm going to spend the next few days in the kitchen and the side area between continuing the long showers. everything will come out, i'll clean (including steam mopping the floor and getting into the furnace room to clean) and seal it up, and then i'll be able to put things where they belong rather than where they are. when that step is complete, the bottom of the side entrance, the kitchen, the listening room, the library/front entrance and the studio should all be in their intended form and broadly tidied up, meaning the remaining steps in here will be done in an essentially installed (finally) apartment, rather than one in constant flux. i'll be continuing with the long showers overnight as i work through this. then, i can sit down and shift to typing for the winter.

final completion in the form of video updates is still not imminent but medium term - restarting early in the year. the kitchen will slow me down as i add final touches. i am finding the cheap items on amazon haul to be useful to me in this regard as they have a lot of the cheap tools i need to do the things i want.

it's apparent that the absolute last thing is going to be that side door as i'm trying to avoid getting in my landlord's face about it. it's necessary. but he's just ignoring me. it's one of those situations where i know he's reading the texts but wants me to call him because he prefers verbal communication. i don't. i think he gets it. i will call him but not until i've sent him enough txts that he completely understands what i want and why so i don't have to get into the verbal debate. i understand that a substantive number of humans just want to skip doing the homework and work it out face to face, but i'm the type of person that expects that people show up to the meeting (or to class) having already done the reading. it's a lot easier to have the verbal communication, which i find to be messy and inefficient, if everybody shows up having read the textbook, first. that way, we don't have to go over the readings. but a lot of humans don't realize that or don't care, they just want to skip the homework and learn at the meeting. i find that doesn't work well. it's ok if we don't agree on this so long as we understand each other. i'm pretty confident he'll fix the door if i just fucking call him and i guess i'll have to get around to it eventually, i just want to make it clear what i want in writing, first. 

if i get it all done at once and without complications, it could be done before the end of the week.

that's therefore what i'm doing; it's the same basic plan that's been in motion since may, but modified for shifting priorities to maintain the same goals, yet again.

these kids are right-wing thugs.

you need to fight fascism everywhere you see it.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/teenager-loses-hand-picking-up-grenade-in-france-school-protests/

i skipped my shower last night because i was washing the floor and i never got in. time to get in there now. my hair is getting better and my skin is clearing up, but it's going to be a long process, and i need to find some way to get these retards to fucking stop.

this is an old article that deconstructs the fakeness of the lfi's fake leftness.

i'm not in france. i've never been to europe.

but trying to co-opt the far right like this has created a frightening, toxic outcome of right-wing violence being labelled left-wing. the whole thing needs to be abandoned and people outside of france need to take not of how badly the whole thing failed.

you don't build socialism by mobilizing the right. that's not even reactionary. it's just cynical and opportunistic.

they didn't order the riots, but the riots are still their fault, and there's enough of a danger that the party should be dismantled before it does something frightening.

https://dissentmagazine.org/article/whose-populism-mixed-messages-france-insoumise-melenchon-left/

the fake left party in question doesn't seem to be responsible for organizing these protests, but it does seem to have inspired them, and it has not been vocal enough in distancing itself from them. the unions are even trying to co-opt the protests, which are not working class in origin, and redirect the anger towards something more definable as left wing. i don't want to state it won't work because i'm not that close to what's happening in france on the ground (i don't pretend i could know), but that seems desperate and doubtful.

melanchon has couched his disagreement with the protests in caveats that should not exist. he needs to be more forceful that these are not leftist protesters and they don't represent the left-wing; they are far right extremists and the left is getting smeared.

the problem is that while the fake left party has taken a step away from the protests, the reality is that there are a substantive number of people involved in the party, and running for it, that are not in particular disagreement. the fake left's embrace of the far right is dangerous politics. there are grounds for a strong denunciation of not just the bad actors but also the bad politics and the people responsible for it.

the left-wing eu bloc in question, which is also fake left but not as fake left as lfi, should react first by suspending the lfi as a member until it undergoes reforms to purge radical right elements from itself. melenchon should dissolve the party as toxic and unworkable and allow the left to reform outside of it for the upcoming elections.

https://www.politico.eu/article/push-to-ban-eu-left-group-over-french-riots/