There's no place like....

 It's welcome week here at SIUE. Apparently the theme is "There's no place like SIUE." I won't doubt that... but it's not like it's home here or anything. If I were to click my heels, this isn't where I would want to end up. I know I have been all acid and negativity lately...I think I should write in the morning when I am still all unicorns and rainbows. There just seems to have been shit getting in the way of my happy ending.

It's like this is what I'm supposed to feel about being here....

And I am still here:

Everything isn't as it seems.

So I have worked for years in social justice education. I will admit, I don't interrupt whenever I can, but I've never been in a situation that I felt like interrupting was "dangerous" until getting here. I've always worked with advisors and coordinators that I could walk in their office and have a conversation about why the ways they were being, or what they were saying was uncool. I don't feel like I can do that here.

Just stuck between a rock and a hard place....