Petition to oppose HB 1 and HB 426 in Virginia, the personhood and  forced ultrasound amendments respectively.

One thing I conjectured in my last post on this was that women would be required to pay for the ultrasound. I was, unfortunately but not unsurprisingly, correct. Even more disgusting, it doesn't require your consent: if you choose abortion ( Read more... )

State-Sanctioned Rape: Trans-Vaginal Ultrasound Laws in Virginia, Texas, and Iowa | RH Reality Check

I can't even begin to think what purpose this could possibly serve. To make a woman realize she's pregnant? I think requesting an abortion is proof she's quite aware of that. Out of some misguided belief that the request for an abortion is a matter ( Read more... )

Normally I wouldn't be an advocate of anything involving needles, seeing as how they're, you know, horrible and terrifying. But. If you have not already gotten your flu shot this year, do it. You don't want this. Trust me. Should NOT have complained about a lack of sleep on Tuesday, because while I wasn't too badly off Wednesday - voiceless, ( Read more... )

Still sick, with insomnia last night for even more fun. Normally when I'm sick all I want to do is sleep. Last night? Sick, filled with cold meds, and tired, wound up with a grand total of two hours sleep. Did not go in to work seeing as how I'm not, you know, functional. Feel bad about leaving my coworkers in the lurch, but I don't think I'd be ( Read more... )

Sick this week. Started Monday with dry sinuses, this morning with a scratchy throat and a rapidly disappearing voice. On a day I had  a training session to run, no less, and I could neither find someone to take over, nor reschedule for tomorrow and Thursday we are down a person because they're out for training. (We may be down two people. If I can ( Read more... )

Oregon Mom Won't Return "Bunny Suicides" bookI wouldn't blame her for filling out the book protest form. She is as free to protest the book's existence as I am to protest her own actions. I wouldn't blame her for tightening her control over what her own son reads - she is his parent, and that is not only her right but her duty. I would prefer she ( Read more... )

Sorry for the late update. We had company Friday night, and Saturday morning my body decided that a sick headache complete with dizziness, chills, and stabbing pain would be just DANDY! I medicated it into submission, but since I'm one of those people who pretty much shuts down when they're not feeling well, spent most of Saturday asleep. Possibly ( Read more... )

Ohgod, what a day.

Came home early last night again because I'm still stuffy, coughing, and sore-throated. Didn't get a full night's sleep because I woke up from a nightmare where the business cards I'd laid out for DayJob all went to the printer and printed too small and I got yelled at because the company was now out $700 ( Read more... )

*sigh* The guys upstairs have been there for a week, and what day do they choose to go thumping and bumping and moving furniture around right over our heads? The day my hubby has a migraine. They've been pretty quiet apart from this, though it's not doing anything to lessen my desire for a house ( Read more... )

I don't think this is a cold any more, I think it's actual flu. Woke up last night with an actual, honest-to-God fever and got about four hours of sleep the whole night. So I took today off work, as well as yesterday. I'm not happy about having to use up two of my precious sick days before the first quarter of the year is even up, but what can I do ( Read more... )