No. I don't know what triggered it. This has happened a couple of times, usually when I'm in high stress. I just go from doing fine to the total opposite in a matter of seconds.

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did you just call my cell? I have like zero reception in my office. do you need my office number?

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Conrad gives me a Bye-Bye, Birdie earworm.

Totally.

Still not getting a poncey vibe off Alistair. Sure, it's very British. So is Annabel. They sound like sibling names without being cornily matchy. Alistair makes me think handsome Scot, maybe with a side of dashing WWII RAF pilot.

Nope. I didn't just call. I'm kind of incoherent, so I'm just staying on the Internet. Plus, if I try to make a call, I lose my wireless connection.

well, what a coincidence! It was a Private Call. Ooh.

I think I'm gonna take some meds and go take a nap. Thanks everyone.

I see the kid in the class that has to miss recess to see his therapist. I'm not sure why...never met one. But I'm with Hec.

yoo-hoo, vw? you still there? How has school been?

ETA: that was a cross post people!

Yup, what everyone else said.

Want kids myself, check (also? Had many years of not wanting/fearing having kids for many many reasons, which changed as I got older but which were totally valid at the time, and I remain totally unfazed by people who once didn't want them and still don't, for my reasons or any other on earth).

Baffled by anyone who dogmatically insists Oh, but you MUST!!1! or How selfish, don't you DARE!!1!, check.

Completely mystified and repulsed by the child-haters, check. I remember a really baffling one who used to run around in the MWT threads on Table Talk. Why on earth? You don't like them, you don't have any, you make a point of only having friends who don't have any -- fine, great, problem solved, so why are you spending so much of your spare time and energy in the one folder on TT where they're the central topic of conversation? Nobody's hijacked your browser and taped your eyes open and forced you there. Whaaa?

Also, the whole unilaterally hating and despising something you, your parents, and everyone on earth you value started out as, equally baffling.

What's funny and sometimes maddening is that Tom's dr. won't give him a vasectomy and mine won't give me an IUD because we're too young and those are options for "families." i.e., people with children.

Ick. That's kind of fucked up. Have you ever talked to other doctors, or maybe asked for a referral from Planned Parenthood or someone? It's far from the first time I've heard of doctors refusing to do this, but it always sounds so wrong; smug, paternalistic, infantilizing of the patient. Bleah.

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We're here, sweetie.