Did I tell you guys I got a bed for Ruby that matches mine?

I have the Pop Flower set from Isaac Mizrahi, so it's all orange and pink and bright. And I found a wicker basket on clearance at Ross, the same shade of orange, lined with this soft cottony fabric with an orange flower print. So I put a soft pillow and blanket in it. She lurves it, and is asleep right now inside it, next to my desk.

Ruby's bed sounds awesome.

As does your Pop Flower set.

I love your description of therapy, and wish every therapy-resistant depressed person would read it and have things go click.

And, in something I never thought I'd say, Billytea said what I was planning to say about shaved beaver.

Umm.

Huh.

Carry on.

I just want to clarify that I'm not one of those "you just need meds" kinda people. In fact I was really resistant to taking meds. OTOH, I've been in psychotherapy on and off for 20 years. It's a long hard process. But unless someone's got something like schizophrenia, which is clearly related to nature vs. nurture, I'd never recommend meds without psychotherapy.

And, in something I never thought I'd say, Billytea said what I was planning to say about shaved beaver.

We shall call it 'sheaver'.

But unless someone's got something like schizophrenia, which is clearly related to nature vs. nurture

I don't think that's true, since the cause of it is unknown. There are theories about viruses, and genetic disposition to it, but nothing about nature v. nurture.

Sorry, I knew I should have edited that for clarity. What I meant is that schizophrenia has biological causes, not causes that have to do with one's upbringing (which psychotherapy could help with).

Argh. It's another one of those Monday things. Didn't we decide to ban them from ever happening?

You guys don't have a bank holiday today, I take it?

Nope. May Day ain't really special here....

No, no particular May Day celebration here, we're having Memorial Day at the end of the month which fulfills some of the same excuse.

But this is the day when some of the immigrant workers (legal and less-than) are going to skip work in protest, which gives it a good "workers of the world unite" flavor to me, as well as a necessary heads up in some of the areas where they're a significant labor force. I also heard that a Spanish-language version of the Star-Spangled Banner is supposed to be aired over a number of stations, which has some of the rightwingers foaming at the mouth over the "desecration" (as if any of them can remember any of the verses beyond the first).

There was a straight-faced comment in the NYT about how having a national anthem in another language was risking turning us somehow into Canadians. Personally, I think I'd like that.