God, teen pregnancy.

Has anyone heard of microcurrent pain treatment? I can't tell where the woo ends with my sleep psychologist. It's just, the intensity with which she pushes this is creepy, and she's really bad at explaining anything scientific.

Also, to some degree, fuck her. Don't ask me if I want to stop my emergency room visits like it might not have not occurred to me before. You are not the bearer of all epiphanies. I have been working on this for years, plus I'm not stupid.

I vacillate between thinking she's talking down to me and wondering if it's a revelation to her too, or was. Not that she's all crap--her relaxation techniques are both valid and valuable, but she seems alternately surprised that I can modulate my heart rate myself, and being sure it's a result of my martial arts spiritual evolution. Tae kwon do, capoeira, and krav maga, lady. So not about the qi.

how do you all feel about Texas reducing the number of meals prisoners get?

Three hots and a cot really does seem like the minimum you should expect.

Yeah, one of those things.

She's really cute with her mismatched socks.

Kind of embarassingly, I didn't actually know what spaying was until just now! I don't know what I was thinking -- they tie their tubes?? Come on now.

Yeah, our Jenny arrived preggers, delivered and went into heat two days later. We knew it was bad and wrong, but she was driving us crazy so we let her out. She was calm and happy and all attentive mama when she came back. And yup. So we had her spayed before things got too far along. She was able to continue to nurse her first litter, though, till they were eating well. Not a happy solution, but needs must.

Are the prisoners still getting the same number of calories? Are they making them into chipmunks? Isn't fewer supposed to be considered worse in just about every situation? I don't care so much about what prisoners have to look forward to, as much as it just seems inhumane and unhealthy. Andthe fact that sick prisoners still get three squares seems like an implicit admission of that.

Also, they're calling a meal served between 5 and 7 AM "brunch." That's just wrong.

In other news, apparently Louisiana just banned legal tender for second-hand merchandise.

Have legislators and policymakers lost their minds?

You cannot ban legal tender. Can you?

So ... you're supposed to use illegal tender? Monopoly money? Barter?

This country is going insane.