Oh jeez, Stephanie. I hope Joe gets his shit together.

I still check in here when there's been trouble. Today was just awful.

I hope its is on the mend and that the hospital and her docs get their acts together, because WTH?

I've been thinking about mental illness and stigmas thereto and... I've dealt with depression most of my life now. I'm pretty comfortable with the notion that if I wanted a gun I should have to go through some additional scrutiny to get it - or possibly not get it -- just as someone with a seizure disorder needs their seizures under control to have a driver's license.

And I don't think this would inherently lead to stigmatizing me. Actually, I think discussing it reduces the stigma just as it has with epilepsy and diabetes and other chronic conditions that when I was a kid (back before the earth cooled in the 70s) were much more feared and before that were frequently kept secret - much to the detriment of all.

For now I am going to make a very nice dinner and eat entirely too much of it. And I'll drink a little bit more than I should. And I'll have baklava and tea and catch up on a bunch of Daily Shows.

Jon Stewart is of the good (except for the fact that he's usually off on days when I most need him).

I think something at the work party yesterday poisoned me (luckily iron gut means it's just uncomfortable and goddamn, my guts can rumble loudly, but not grossly disastrous,) my neck is so tweaked that rolling it made my baby toe go numb, I've got a goddamn cystic pimple in a new place and today can just suck it.

OTOH, my fuck-this-I'm-not-going-to-even-make-an-effort swim was not nearly as disastrous as I thought, in fact was better than most last weekend, and my cats are being hilarious in their rumbles around the house. And I'm buying some xmas jewelry tomorrow. And baking more cookies.

Typo! My brother in cataracts!

I've been wondering why clouding of the eye and white water in rivers are both called cataracts. Is it from the color?

I've been wondering why clouding of the eye and white water in rivers are both called cataracts. Is it from the color?

I know absolutely nothing about this, but that would be my guess,too.

I read an article about the stabbing in China. Apparently it's a crime that has been happening frequently lately. Unstable people, too many changes, personal problems, easy access to knives...it actually sounds a lot like what's happening here. Just a different kind of weapon.

Door to door, my drive home is 6.3 miles.

I happened to notice when I turned the car on to leave work that it was 5:34.

It was 7:36 when I turned the car off in my drive way,

No, I did not stop anywhere.

Thank goodness I peed before I left.

What is MARCIE?

And if there's somewhere I can paypal for legal/med advocate/anything for Ita someone point me that way?

MARCIE is the "block" option, erin_obscure. Look at my post. After the date/time stamp, there is the post number, then there are the options "Mark" and "Block." MARCIE is our nickname for the "block" option; the name comes from the Buffy episode, "Invisible Girl."