I suspect your coping skills are pretty damn good, ita, but it never hurts to review them with someone who is up on the subject and may have some ways to touch them up or try other approaches. And yeah, the "not-drug-seeking" on your record (and a professional to contact to back you up) may be a positive, alas.

Delaying my trip to see my folks because I cannot turn my head left without pain, which won't be conducive to changing lanes on the highway or merging with traffic. Went to see the chiropractor twice (went home to ice and heat compress in between). I feel sooo much better, but the deep tissue massage means that I'm going to be sore as fuck now.

Good news is that means I won't have to spend the entirety of Thursday with my older brother.

ION, I tested the strength of an orchard spider that made a home between the driver's door of my car and the side mirror. 44mph was all it could take before it bailed at 45.

AWESOME news on Prop 8 and DOMA, I really had absolutely no positive expectations on either front.

eta I'm not sure what to make of my two typos where I spelt home as hope. It's definitely not a freudian slip, with all the anxiety I have about how cranky visiting my family makes me. Except that maybe I was rooting for the spider and I'm hoping I don't end up losing mine.

So did anyone else in Chicago get an emergency alert for flooding on their iPhone this morning?

I kept getting Amber alerts. It scared the shit out of me the first time. Now I have turned it off.

You're getting emergency flooding alerts on your iPhones? We are seriously living in the future.

I saw a therapist yesterday.

Anything that helps, right?

Kinda don't feel bad AT ALL that they're not invited to the wedding.

Kinda? Try all the way not bad. Hope you feel better today.

This map of how US states have evolved on domestic partnerships and marriage equality is pretty cool: [link]

eta: But I didn't know how many states have enacted a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

So did anyone else in Chicago get an emergency alert for flooding on their iPhone this morning?

I got one a couple of hours ago. Unbelievable intrusive noise.

Oh, I made the mistake of reading the comments page on the LDS church owned news station. Some voices of reason, more voices bewailing the moral decline and decay of America. Fortunately the Salt Lake Tribune is a reliable source of moderate-looks-like-raging-liberal-here stuff. But I hoped the other place would have some sense.

I may be able to explain the Prop 8 decision. Standing is one of those concepts that's easy to state but often tricky to apply in a particular case. Standing is basically "why do you care?" Taken to an absurdity, it means you can't sue if I get into a car accident with my next door neighbor. One of the principles of standing is that you can't challenge a law simply because you're a taxpayer who doesn't want your taxes spent on X, Y, or whatever.

Thanks for this, Fred Pete! I was feeling completely lost on the whole standing thing.

Glad to help, Polgara.

Well, we just found the source of the smell in the pantry.

In other news, yuck.