Steph - I do, but mostly it is online. There is a Eth adopt group in NYC, mac hates going to the get-togethers and they are really get-togethers, not support meetings. The other thing is that most of the single parent adopt thingies and the international adopt thingies that I have found thus far are dominated by people who adopt babies. There is another single mom who adopted a school age boy from Eth, but she is not that active with the groups and she is also at least a hour commute away. Then there is the scheduling issue and what to do with mac if I do find a meeting.

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I have yet to actually hear Lady Gaga. My only knowledge of her is the street posters they had about 6 months ago.

I admit I am a bit dense when it comes to current pop culture, esp music. All I ever see are the random posters on the freeway offramps. Which reminds me--who is Liz Goldwyn? I see her drapey silhouette posed on billboards so clearly someone wants to build a big ol' ad campaign around her, but since they haven't indicated what she does, I remain clueless. Does she sing? Dance? Is she a fictional character in some movie? Who knows?

I know the gaga person only as the maker of the song from that Trek vid. I sometimes feel like my world is made of nothing but pop culture, and is at the same time utterly apart from it.

Then there is the scheduling issue and what to do with mac if I do find a meeting.

Any kind of parent support group that doesn't include child care is so effed up, it makes me furious.

I sometimes feel like my world is made of nothing but pop culture, and is at the same time utterly apart from it.

The paradox of pervasive media.

I sometimes feel like my world is made of nothing but pop culture, and is at the same time utterly apart from it.

I just had a celebrity-gossip conversation with coworkers that made me feel like that, too. I had no idea Alicia Keys was dating Swizz Beats! And that he's not divorced yet! Etc.

msbelle, I'm sorry everything is so damn hard for you and mac and that you're not getting all the meatspace support you need and deserve. I can only imagine how frustrating and exhausting it must be for you.

I don't understand why people are mad at Lady Gaga, so much that she's apparently vomit-inducing. She seems to be having fun in a long line of insanely-dressed divas going back to Miss Diana Ross [link] or Cher or Lady Miss Kier or Chaka [link] .

I don't understand why people are mad at Lady Gaga

I haven't heard her yet. I just know about the insane dressing thing and I LOVE IT!