I was talking through some of the internal choques I felt after class on Monday – and my mom sent me this and reminded me to stop running into the side yelling “it’s a wall!” Not sure this is helpful to anyone else – but wanted to share.

…because you don’t need access to something that is open – right? This open v ______ (the blank is mercurial because I am having a hard time defining open in a static way so the opposite is escaping me) has been rolling around in my mind since last class – so I am going to attempt to get some of my questions/thoughts/tensions out here for potential conversation. These thoughts all stem from my other class where we are reading among other things Nickle and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich which is essentially a book about her having low-wage jobs and trying …