Yarn and books sounds like a good way to spend a legacy.

I didn't sleep well last night, I should have been up with the Bitches. Instead I finally gave up dreaming about how I couldn't get comfortable and warm (although when I would wake up I was both warm and comfortable) and read Pollyanna for the first time.

If Pollyanna had Facebook it would be all in CAPS LOCK. With run on sentences.

Thank you all so much. I did fall asleep, with the laptop actually in my lap. I am sorry that I didn't participate more.

I didn't participate, but I know everyone is glad to help and be there for you in any way we can.

How are you feeling this morning Maria?

Eh. I feel very alone.

{{{Maria}}} Please don't apologize for anything.

Do you need more distracting?

Dunno what it is they got against women's health and reproductive rights.

AHAHAHAHA. If this was not stated sarcastically, I shall respond: Misogynist men in power do not think women are capable of making their own decisions, or in fact much else besides birthing and raising babies. The thought of women having control over their bodies gives them the hives. The thought of women being sexual beings on their own terms makes their tiny cocks shrivel up and threaten to fall off.

One thing is clear and now we are at the point where they aren't even TRYING to hide it: women are to only exist as defined through men. PERIOD. End of story. This shit is NO JOKE anymore. Or, I'm just a humorless feminist, which I don't care about so much. I am scared. My own personhood is constantly up for debate and I am really starting to freak out.

I cannot tell you how pissed I am that Obama is letting this happen on his watch.

(ooh, a nice juicy rant really gets my blood going in the morning, which I desperately needed. Am at the airport and have another hour till I board.)

I feel like, if they win this, they are going to try and chip away at more stuff and keep framing it about how it's not about women it's about (whatever smoke screen they throw up). And people will believe it.

In Cat News - Penny has taken to being bratty to Dean. This morning after I gave up on sleep and started reading Dean came over and got in my lap. I was all happy, he doesn't do this as much. After awhile Penny jumped on the bed and climbed on my lap too.

She started licking Dean's ears and head and I thought "oh, how sweet she's giving him a bath!" and then she started biting him and swatted him with her paw until he got up and jumped down. And then she curled up where he had been. I tossed her off the bed for her behavior. This is not the first time she's done this and I'm not very happy with her behavior.

But then she does something adorable, like batting a little wooden ball all around the floor and then gets distracted by her tail.

sigh ... we have a couple things going on in the area that feel like the ongoing attitude towards women. One - the local CBS affiliate did a series on underage drinking. The reporter, a woman, interviewed kids who'd been seriously injured in car crashes; she also filmed a specific liquor store that not only doesn't card anyone, sells to the obviously underage. She's been getting threats from the kids because she's ruined their fun. Her kids were threatened. She had a police car stationed outside her house and she's handed over the on-air reporting to another anchor (a man). It sounds so much like the trolling that any woman on the internet can be subjected to, along with some kids who are angry that they can't get unlimited booze any more.

The other is a murder case. In May of 2010 a young woman, a senior at Virginia Tech, was found dead. The autopsy said she died of blunt force trauma. Her on-again/off-again boyfriend, also a senior there, had a history of drinking and violence. He's been charged with murder and/or felony murder (he took her laptop when he left). He's saying that he shook her and her head hit the wall, that they wrestled and fell off the bed. It's gone to trial and the defense is saying that she died because of either an interaction between alcohol (she had been drinking) and her prescription Adderall or that she'd been lying facedown on the bed, bleeding, and that she'd suffocated from trying to breathe through the wet bedding, and/or that the brain injuries were from attempts at CPR.

And what makes me sad is he's probably going to walk.