Finally caught up! Wow, busy day. And I was some behind from yesterday too. Stupid work keeping me from reading bitches. Pfft.

Feeding. Tube. Is. Out.

ION, I am SO happy Drew is coming home tomorrow!

I did get to chat with Drew on the way home today. I was going to visit. Alas, "getting off work early" turned from 3:30-4 to 5:30 (aka prime traffic time). And since he's coming home, he said don't bother trekking up there. And we had a nice long talk. Only to be interrupted by dinner being served. And the silly boy apologized. For getting dinner. To eat. By mouth! It was a beautiful thing.

wrt "wife beater" shirts. I do recall from my youth my father wearing the ribbed flavor of those shirts. And I do recall when he had too many beers, him getting violent with my mom. And for me, the name fits. Not that I use it. Not that I assume anyone who wears one is going to beat their spouse. And it might explain why I don't wear that flavor of shirt OR drink much. That being said, yes, I find it VERY hot when a woman wears a butch cami!
eta: I should add, thankfully my mother was smart enough to divorce my dad when I was still young, because she didn't want "the kids to see their father doing this".

ION For the baseball fans out there. Anyone else been watching the Yankee/TB games this week? Thankfully they all were on national tv stations (MLB network for the first 2 games, and ESPN tonight). Wow! What awesome games. Fabulous match ups! I'm in the 7th inning for tonight's game. It really makes you wish these two could face each other in the World Series. It would be a great series. Such an even match up. Truly good baseball!

Congrats Drew on getting rid of the feeding tube and your imminent return home!

I knew that was going to be Eve Salvail, ita.

FWIW, I am wearing a butch cami right now, AIFG.

Drew and Kristin, I'm so glad to hear the good news for the both of you.

{{bonny}}, you're in my thoughts. I'm so sorry you have to go through all of this.

ION, I want to kill whoever decided yesterday that the bus of 23:40 doesn't have to exist. I waited in that bus stop for 30 minutes last night, instead of seven. So it took me two hours to get back home from swing dance class, with the Clinton traffic (whenever there's a major minister/PM/President in Jerusalem... we're fucked, traffic-wise). Oh, the gronk.

And oh, Barb, the site looks wonderful! Congrats!

FWIW, I am wearing a butch cami right now, AIFG.

Tease!

FWIW, I am wearing a butch cami right now, AIFG.

my sistah! (mine's grey)

Quandry. Hive-mind help from volunteers and activists much appreciated. I volunteer for a small but fast-growing organization that shall remain nameless. I support its aims and activities entirely, but the way it's being run is starting to do my head in, and to affect me on an inclusion level. The latest plan for communication between volunteers is one that I can't participate in for disability reasons. I've mentioned the words 'reasonable adjustments' (a legal term under the UK's Disability Discrimination Act, meaning accommodations) in an e-mail. I'm not sure the inclusion point is even beginning to come across, though, because of the way the organization is run and structured. Part of me wants to quit - it's a voluntary post. Part of me wants to try to hang in there and see if practices can be reformed. But I don't know if it's too late - if the org has been established in this decisions-made-by-one-or-two-people style, and will continue this way. (Am I making any sense at all?)

erika, I get your point about the r-word. And it's hard for me not to use what I see as slightly more neutral terms like 'idiot', so I see the problem when a word's familiar. But I have friends with learning disabilities who hate the r-word, and I value their opinion, so I try not to use it. I'm not so good at asking others not to use it. Partly I don't think that's my responsibility, and I'm partly I'm a fraidy-cat on a personal level. Despite being able to protest many things in large groups (preferably with chains at the ready to attach ourselves to buses).

Pix, fantastic news for you and Drew. Must be such a relief to be getting out of the hospital. I hope you have some help with looking after him at home!

Seska, if I understood your post right, you're more than right to be angry and frustrated with the org's behavior. Since I'm a very polite and quiet person, if I were you, I'd send a very firm, even aggressive email, telling them that I have, sadly, to quit if the organization won't allow a change to allow more people to volunteer at - and mention that you'd like to see if there's any way you can help with that change, but that you don't feel as if it's a priority for them.

Anyway, in your shoes, I'd write that email, send it to Big People there, and wait and see what will happen. The important thing is not to fight windmills - you have only so much energy to fight for a better world, and you should do it on your own terms. I think.