My mom didn't work until I was in High School (the '70s), but she did go to some grad classes and did LOTS of volunteering. Political campaigns, Headstart, other lefty stuff She then worked full time at a newspaper for quite a few years before she opened her bookstore, which she worked at fulltime until she sold it when she was 70. My dad was always proud of her. Some of her friends worked and some didn't, but they were all active outside the home, so I never thought of women as those who didn't work.
Mal: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous. Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.
'Safe'
The Crying of Natter 49
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Scrappy - Jan 28, 2007 8:04:20 pm PST #6588 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
sumi - Jan 28, 2007 8:19:58 pm PST #6589 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Anthony Bourdain critiques the Top Chef contestants.
SailAweigh - Jan 28, 2007 8:25:10 pm PST #6590 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
My father was pretty enlightened for his generation (born in 1923), perhaps because his mother worked, too. I always took it for granted that women always had that choice. It surprised me to find out during my divorce that my ex had always expected me to be a SAHM after I had kids. It wasn't any part of the reason we got divorced, but it did show me just how unrealistic and unworldly some people can be in the face of their expectations. We needed my income, no ifs, ands or buts.
DavidS - Jan 28, 2007 9:14:22 pm PST #6591 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What else? Better ideas?
You've been in more than a few bar fights? What was that line you told me? "We'd go out looking to start trouble. And then we'd finish it."
§ ita § - Jan 28, 2007 9:31:06 pm PST #6592 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oy. I can't work out if it's worth taking anti-nausea medication if I'm not nauseated. I do think I might toss my cookies, but nsm with what I've come to think of as nausea.
At the core the stuff must work against reverse peristalsis, right?
Ah, fuck it. Can't hurt.
Lee - Jan 28, 2007 9:35:33 pm PST #6593 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I hope it helps, ita.
§ ita § - Jan 28, 2007 9:39:51 pm PST #6594 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's kinda been a suckass week. A suckass week with a couple cool revelations, but not enough to turn it around.
Tonight's migraine assault will involve Lidoderm, more Skelaxin, Vicodin, anti-nausea, and maybe another Imitrex. On top of the Neurontin, Cymbalta, and Elavil I was already taking.
And melatonin which doesn't seem to have made a difference to the migraines, but I'm slowly stairstepping the dosage. Tonight we go up.
Lee - Jan 28, 2007 9:42:47 pm PST #6595 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I hope the coming up week is better, all the way around. it's way past time for it to be.
-t - Jan 28, 2007 9:44:55 pm PST #6596 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm getting dizzy just reading the list of drugs, ita. Hope they do some kind of good, somehow.
§ ita § - Jan 28, 2007 9:51:24 pm PST #6597 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Huh. I just found an incomplete page on Wikipedia. I needed to add to the ketoprofen page to add that it's available in the UK under the brand name Ketoflam. Precious few pages mention the UK name in conjunction with either of the US brand names, Oruvail or Orudis.
Okay, enough talk about painkillers.
Thanks, guys. I'm off to kill some pain.