Just in from doing neighborhood patrol. They had us come in early, it was so quiet.

Also? New downspout installed today! Shiny white!

Plus fastest swim to date.

While I know some people have been calling for Penn State to cancel the rest of their football season, I think that's going too far.

I don't. Tulane killed it's basketball program for two years for much lesser issues. The problem is institutional. The problem is that Penn State football is too fucking important. So important that you can put a price tag on what people will take in exchange for letting children get raped: $72 million dollars annually.

College football is already incredibly corrupt, with scandals all over the place. This is not an isolated incident of people afraid to buck an institution that dominates the economy of a whole region. There needs to be massive consequences for it to mean anything at all.

My sleep psych asked if I was gay. What's the polite way to say that "Since there is no sexual interest in either of us, and it's not bothering my sleep, my orientation is irrelevant."

Turns out her laser gaydar was set of by my stoicism and my love of the martial arts. Which totally aren't as hardcore as kickboxing.

Mmhmm.

This is totally now an inappropriate and kinda weird time to ask but what is a good youth, entry-level martial art? Some self-awareness, some eventual self-defense for a girl?

I swear, the topic came up at breakfast and you were the person I thought would have an answer and then I forgot until now.

Also what does sexual orientation have to do with sleep? I mean, unless it was a come-on. Then there's the hopeful orgasm side-effect.

Weird.

Turns out her laser gaydar was set of by my stoicism and my love of the martial arts. Which totally aren't as hardcore as kickboxing.

Stoicism and martial arts, really? Not the buzz cut?

I guess it's not totally out of line for a psychologist to ask? But in this case, I'd be pissed off.

I don't think it has anything to do with a sleep psych's job, honestly. She told me the rest (yeah, there was that implication) of her gay patients were comfortable enough to tell her.

Hey, bon, do you think she'd be less than totally honest with me? Plus, my hair is totally long now.

I have wondered if she'll suggest orgasms at any point. I don't think she's that sort of sleep psych.

Hey, bon, do you think she'd be less than totally honest with me? Plus, my hair is totally long now.

In my unscientific study, lesbians of my acquaintance are not more likely to be into martial arts or stoicism. Short hair? yes.

I might disagree that it's not her business, if her business has anything to do with big psych issues that might affect sleep. Maybe you're long-closeted, she thinks. But I've never consulted a sleep psychologist.

NYT article about the governor's involvement in the trustee decision to fire Rainier and Paterno.

It's the first thing she's asked me about (visit 4 or 5?) that might count as an issue. She's never asked about any life stressors other than chronic pain. I can't even find a way to work my mother into conversation. All my other doctors know. Not her.