SHUT UP.

You are encouraging my natural state.

cycles. human nature. cycles. strangles natural state.

lalala politics

I have 5 ebay auctiosn ending tonight and am obsessively hitting refresh.

I have been reassured that mac will be promoted to first grade. Not that I was worried, but still good to hear. He got in BIG trouble today and has lost all play and tv time after I pick him up for the rest of the week.

Encouraging news: Senate voted 94-2 to strip Justice Dept. of Patriot Act right to appoint prosecutors without Senate approval citing the recent abuse.

This is also encouraging:

"We are conservative scholars, activists and writers. We do not favor a crippled executive or enfeebled government. In a time of danger, checks and balances make for stronger government because the people will more readily accept a muscular authority if barriers against abuses are strong. If at some future time Congress, in turn, aggrandizes power and invades the executive or judicial domains, we will be equally alert to sound the alarm. But today, the clear and present danger to conservative philosophy is the White House."

OK, this... is just funny:

“In DOJ documents that were publicly posted by the House Judiciary Committee, there is a gap from mid-November to early December in e-mails and other memos, which was a critical period as the White House and Justice Department reviewed, then approved, which U.S. attorneys would be fired while also developing a political and communications strategy for countering any fallout from the firings.”

So they release all the documents and emails, but there's a mysterious gap.... Let's see - in what administration did such a gap become famous? What was it, 18 minutes?

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Late to the conversation, but what the hell... Demerol is my favorite drug, though I've only had it once. That was some carefree-making, time-altering shit right there.

I came out of general anesthesia perfectly calm, and I swear I remember everything from waking up in the OR, to being in recovery and getting a morphine drip, to going to my room where my family was and seeing how often I could get the machine to beep and give me more drugs. No nausea, thank god. The weirdest part about being completely under was that from the time I went under to when I woke up four or so hours later, it felt like only a few seconds. No sense of time having passed like when I sleep. So bizarre.

I heart Percocet, too, which was my take-home drug after surgery and for leg pain during chemo. It just sort of gives me a really pleasant buzz while it makes the pain recede. It does make me itchy, though. Not that I care.

I had Vicodin for dental pain, and it didn't do squat, but that pain was the worst pain I've ever had in my life, so I'm not sure it was really Vicodin's fault.

In conclusion: Drugs, yay!

This is also encouraging:

It is. Plus the timing is interesting too....

Wuh-oah. What'd Mac do?

Glad to hear he's getting promoted. Given what you've detailed of his insane rate of picking up experience and language, the challenge of 1st sounds like his speed. Man, I'd love to visit. If I can get my act together and still give y'all plenty of normal non-event time. With my sucky planning and acting on planning, you'll get plenty of normal!

lots of disrespect in afterschool. and this is not the first report, just an escalation. he's testing and I reacted enough to get his attention. at least for a little while. he is going to be mr. mischief. my parents are enjoying watching my payback.

visit anytime after the first week of april and the last week in june. after that span of time, things get less sure or normalcy.

I have been advised that COBRA is a law, and therefore doesn't deserve the rage directed at it earlier today.

I want a law people follow. That'd be cool. Then I wouldn't owe various parties thousands and thousands of dollars.

That'd totally rock.

hee. Mom's been asking me what my summer plans are. I guess I oughta make them.