Hello everybody. This is Jennifer Metteries, and this is not a normal episode, obviously. This is not an

episode about a particular disaster, anything like that. Last week, I went to New York City to visit

some of the memorials there and work on the book

that I started back in September.

And so this particular time, I got a chance to go to New York and go around to some places,

not all of the places that I wanted to go to, but I only had a couple of days,

and it was cramming in things when I could and taking account for the fact that my depression

has not been very good lately, and last week it was absolutely terrible. That is one thing that I

wanted to address before I get into some of the

things that I did on my trip is that I had really bad depression all week long. I have had

really kind of ups and downs and mostly downs for the past couple of weeks, and I was kind of

hoping that going to New York would alleviate some of that. And it did. I'm not going

to lie, but also it's, I think more than anything, the one thing that helped was being able to go

to the weed store and pick up THC lollipops and gummies. So I got home and

got to try those and it turns out they work really great. I am on about half a gummy right now,

for the record. The important thing is that when I left for my trip right about the time that I was leaving for my

trip, the news leaked about the Roe versus Wade decision and what that might entail. And that

did nothing to improve my mood all week either. It was sort of this kind of thing that

was dwelling on the edge of my mind. And regardless of how you feel about it, it really is a

snowball effect in terms of how many politicians came out afterwards to say, well, now we're going to outlaw this

and now we're going to outlaw that. It's a very worrisome time for a lot of people right now.

But I'm not going to talk about that because I don't really feel like it. Like I said, half a

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