I’m loving the work at ECP so far. I feel like I can make a real difference here. The nonprofits in the US are so hobbled by the lack of support from the government. Singapore might be shit for democracy, but they have a strong sense of morality. It fits me. I’m thinking about going back to school for a year to boost my economic justice knowledge. ECP says they’ll pay for it, so that would be a good deal.

Don, meanwhile, just wants to make money. I love him, and hey, money is good, but he’s lost sight of why we got into law in the first place. I wish… well, he probably wouldn’t agree with me. And I’m not being entirely fair. He volunteers at the clinics on the weekends when he has time.

I still talk to the Underground protest people, but I can’t do the same work here that I did for them a couple years ago. Singapore’s laws are too strict to risk being caught in the act of sabotage.

JOURNAL ENTRY: JOSEPHINE LEE, MARCH 15, 2070

Beware the ides of March! Not really: today is good news from outer space. The first private station is fully populated. A hundred permanent residents, with room for twenty rotating visitors. Everyone wants to go. Don and I applied. I hope we get a slot in the next few years. Right now they’re not allowing pregnant women to travel even in the suborbital flights. Definitely won’t let them go to space. We can put off having kids for a few more years, but I don’t want to wait much past thirty. I’ve been using a new drug that enhances focus and thinking, and now they’re saying it can increase the risk of fetal anomalies, especially with maternal age.

This is why I do what I do. This kind of shit they think they can get away with: pay someone to design the drug (hey, cheap and easy desktop biogenetics!), get it to market as fast as possible. Forget testing or government regulations, because who has time for that?

I have to admit, though, the stuff works like a dream. It took a few tries to get used to it, but now I’m hooked. I can read and analyze a legal brief in half the time. But the side effects… it’s not so bad for this pill, but some of the others, especially the ones that heavily hit your gene expression, those are getting ugly. America and Europe are in such a hurry to catch up to Asia and North Africa that they’re throwing their citizens’ health under the bus. It’s like they learned nothing from the crappy mech-tech of the fifties and sixties! You can’t rush biology.

JOURNAL ENTRY: JOSEPHINE LEE, JULY 4, 2075