Last night went to see two of my friends, first time since at least August, despite living in the same city.

It was good to hear about Nairobi, where he just went to for vacation to see his friend, and what disrespectful mainland Chinese tourists do in Kenya now. I forget how unbearable to talk to him could be now, having to tell him how in fact, Japanese internment was a crappy thing to do, even under the circumstances, even if others were doing it too, and even if it was the British who invented concentration camps. Also, Boer war, how peaceful generally the late 19th century was, how American Civil war veterans fanned out around the world to teach the world in ways of industrial warfare, now we are all doomed, and that apparently Jennifer Lopez sat at a table next to us with some dude, and I had no idea what she looked like. Also, I still don’t agree that it’s okay to live the way they do in Kenya, with high barbed-wire-topped walls around each house and armed guards, and I would not want to get used to it.