What I watched on TV tonight at work:
Water's Edge: Profits and Policy: Behind the Rising Catastrophe of Floods
Mountain Top Removal ( Wiki article ) ( series on youtubeI have some thoughts about it all, but cannot avoid sinking into horrid and vicious cynicism- and while that might feel good for a moment, it's not an appropriate response for ( Read more... )

Is today. Florence Nightingale's birthday.
In her honor, three things. Gifts for her, maybe, or for all of us.

It's also Fibromyalgia Awareness Day

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Bookplates in for someone who likes Mary Engelbreit AND loves their books:
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five more weeks of uni ( Read more... )

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
-Dennis Kucinich (from Perceval PressI'm not so inexperienced as to think that it's enough to say "Everyone, keep yourself healthy!" Or so negative as to think that it's someone's fault if I get sick, or so naive as to think that doctors should ( Read more... )

It occurs to me to mention again that occasionally i will FL a post.

99% of the time those posts are installments in The little AU series, which are all also up over at allfor1_1forall [go, read, comment, please?] or are nursing/health/body related posts and are FL because they're sometimes too graphic for people ( Read more... )

Spirits for Sale [Thank you feraluna, found posted in ndnz. Read through the whole site: I love the internet for making this kind of connection and compassion possible.

This rings true and right in so many ways.

Two other sites that move me:
Allies of the Lakota: KILI Radio and The Porcupine Clinic [I love independent radio anyway: this is one of the best ( Read more... )

So, a couple days ago naamah_darling did a marvelously articulate post about the State having any say in a woman's sexuality or the results there of (and if I've phrased that badly, I'll restate- be SO glad when uni's over and I get my whole brain back!). And then today devildoll posted about the Mary Jane statuette by Sideshow for Spidey3, which shows a very ( Read more... )

Well, hell. Not like there's nothing else to do, and I'd not really planned to muster up the confidence to try this, but DS and Bwriting are, so I will too: novel_in_90.

First Day follows a new grad RN through her first day on the job: it's written in response to From Silence To Voice and my own continuing curiosity to understand why I became an RN and why I ( Read more... )

Arrived safely, immediately went to see Night at the Museum on IMAX. Oh, my god how impressive. Never been to IMAX theatre before. What an experience. And fun movie. I'll be seeing that again for sure. And the SLASH potential!!! rampant, I tell you, rampant ( Read more... )