Oh, crap, GC, that's such bullshit, and I'm sorry. You're having a baby, and that is itself giant and mindblowing (and expensive) enough that you shouldn't have to worry about anything else on top of that, let alone mindless bureaucratic garbage that shouldn't even be a question at all because you're legally married.

Somewhere inside I'm still proud of my fourth-generation native status, but more and more lately I find myself thinking, Fuck you, you moron state. Be less stupid!

That's really frustrating, GC :( I hope you can get the adoption sorted as quickly and easily as possible, at least.

Fuck those fuckers, GC! I'm so sorry you have to deal with this institutionalized homophobia. FUCK.

What?

It's like, the most beautiful thing I've ever seen!!!

What Nora said.

All of it.

Hee. It kind of screamed "O HAI, I AM FOR AIMEE" at me when I saw it on the free table.

And GC, that TOTALLY sucks. It's total utter bullshit.

Hee. It kind of screamed "O HAI, I AM FOR AIMEE" at me when I saw it on the free table.

It's going on the shelf with my Golden Jubilee commemrative coin that says "ELIZABETH REGINA II" which always makes me laugh because of the whole regina/vagina rhyming thing and I am 12.

How I can I be simultaneously upset on GC's family's behalf, and giggling like anything over Jessica's prezzie to Aims?

Because this is Bitches, and that's how we roll.

the promotion speaker, who I like and think is a good man, was talking about the promotee telling his children someday about how he was off in Iraq defending America from the people who crashed two planes into two towers.

Oh good grief, Stephanie. I'm sorry if your head exploded. And I know that's gotta be causing you lots of stress--this is his third deployment??