Of course, when most people say "vagina," they mean vulva, don't they? Damn Eve Ensler.

I don't think of it being a euphemism so much as a nickname.

Like, "Meet my vulva; I call her Mitzie"?

Also? The anti-Obama faction (whether Republican or the new fun Democrats against Obama) who refer to Obama supporters as having "drank the Kool-Aid" need to STEP OFF NOW. Because that means....what, exactly? That it took *drugging the voters* to make them vote for Obama, otherwise they'd never vote for Scary Black Man?

Hell yeah, but I get pinged when it's used period. My HUGE problem with "drank the Kool-Aid" is the whole Jonestown reference, drinking the Kool-Aid means accepting a suicidal proposition. REally? Voting for Obama is equivalent to suicide?!

Given the accepted political rhetoric in this country, I think trying to get a white woman elected would be just as hard as trying to get a black man. All the irrational blather lately has been playing right into the Right's hands, and don't think they don't love it.

I'm so tired my teeth hurt. I'm so tired that my eyes feel wobbly. I'm so tired my face feels simultaneously puffy and crusty.

I'm so very very very tired.

Alas, I am Kat WRT to tiredness today. I have no idea what it will take to get me back on a normal sleep routine. I fear it may involve sleeping pills, and how does that work when you have small kids? How much damage can you do to your body by not having a good night's sleep in, what has it been?, almost 5 years?

not having a good night's sleep in, what has it been?, almost 5 years?

I so hear you here. I had a dream last night in which I announced to someone that I was neither pregnant nor nursing (not true; I am not pregnant but I am still nursing Peter.) And I woke up thinking, damn, I have been pregnant or nursing (or, briefly, both) for 5.5 years now, and I haven't had a decent night's sleep in that long either.

Like, "Meet my vulva; I call her Mitzie"?

haha Yes!

Shoot flea, I forgot about how pregnancy screwed with my sleep too, perhaps because compared to parenthood it was relatively restful.

Bah. A few minutes ago I almost got hit by a truck. The guy was at a red light trying to make a right turn while I was crossing the street. He started pulling forward and I jumped/ran out of the way as he hit the brakes.

OK, that happens from time to time. The guy yelled out, "Sorry!" after it happened. But the weird thing was the guy in the car next to him started laughing. WTF?

I still get at least 2 good nights of sleep a week. Miraculously. But for the past 3 days, I've worked a full day then worked at another school for 3 hours doing professional development, which means home at 7 (after my usual awake at 5 routine).

Noah is teething again and he was up every 2 hours last night. And he's not angry awake, but clingy awake. At 11:00 P he wanted to play. At 1 AM he wanted to snuggle. At 3 AM he wanted to play. AT 4:30 he wanted to play. He's a happy little nocturnal critter. But, the difference is he also takes naps, which I don't get to do (but maybe I should try). Enh. It just is.

This AM I was particularly efficient. I had breakfast, went to the post office and the bank. The I walked to the Bean and got tea and then walked to school. Yay!

I will admit to having typed the words "Kool-Aid," but only in private and only in reaction to one particular group of people -- there's a thankfully tiny but fairly obnoxious subset of Obama supporters, mostly a handful of commenters on the non-b.org sites I visit and a handful of posters on sites I don't visit anymore, who are... I guess just more Obama supporters than yellow-dog Dems.

It was very interesting (if depressing) the level of segregation that developed in the political blog world over the course of the primary. For whatever reason, most of the blogs I frequent were generally Obama leaning, but were existing blogs with a purpose beyond the election. After some discussion or other at Shakesville I started feeling that I really needed to branch out more myself and try to get a more comprehensive picture. And so I went back to some lefty blogs that I don't normally read and some good ones, but also found some perviously okay blogs that were seriously off-putting in their rage against Obama and most especially Obama supporters. The mental gymnastics that the primary math required people to spout didn't help any either.

So I found some of the pro-Clinton anti-Obama-supporters histrionics to be way over the top. But on the last primary night I was casting around trying to find somewhere that was liveblogging the speeches and happened on Wonkette. Which, tone-wise, I always found kind of unbearable to begin with, but did used to be a good info source. And whoa. Two minutes there and I had a much better understanding of why some Clinton supporters felt so disrespected.

(ETA: candidate-segregation, I mean above. Though certainly the more real world forms of segregation were also a big issue.)

Yikes, tommyrot. I think sometimes people do inappropriate laughter after thing that would have been scary.

Oh, we were talking about little babies, right? Numbers of low birth weight babies are on the rise. [link] To blame? Mothers, of course!

Beavers said part of the overall increase in low-birthweight babies was due to a rise in multiple births as more older women use fertility treatments to conceive. But she said the birth-weight problem also has been worsening for single-baby deliveries.

The rate of low-weight births is sharply higher for blacks (13.6 percent) than for whites (7.3 percent) or Hispanics (6.9 percent). One important factor, Beavers said, is the mother's overall health at the time of pregnancy and her access to good prenatal care.

ION, a coworker at another location just asked for my personal email, and I totally knew why -- she's starting to look for a job and wanted to ask if I'd be a reference. Ah well.