January 2012
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Oh my god, we're having a baby.
…Is what periodically flashes through my brain now. Mostly it just seems kind of ridiculous.
I just hope I don’t suck at baby management.
December 2011
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“when a white woman decides to kill her kids, does she say a gay man did it? Do...”
– Jukebox Jones (via zorascreation)
YES!!!!!
And it’s mostly white LGBT individuals who do this shit. “Gay is the New Black?” And Dan Savage with his racist bullshit attacking the black community after Prop 8 passed, trying to make it seem that the black community is more homophobic than anyone...
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@tesseralharmonics & @lavender-labia
tesseralharmonics replied to your photo: 35 weeks—all I really want to wear anymore is…
You are freaking fabulous.
Aw, thanks. :D
lavender-labia replied to your photo: 35 weeks—all I really want to wear anymore is…
so awesome. seriously. i love everything about this photo.
Including my egregious over-use of Picnik’s “Eye Bright” filter? :p (Sometimes it’s...
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Back from my competent doctor.
AJ’s heart rate is, as predicted, fine. She was actually moving around a bit even at 7:30 (early for her); when my doctor initially checked the heart rate, she had just kicked, and it was between 150-160 (still well within the normal range anyway), but quickly dropped back down into the 140s (typical for her over the last several months). Such movement-related accelerations, he said, are...
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white people in denial about blatant racism on...
talldarkbishoujo:
At the beginning of the current WoW expansion, monkeys were added to the classes of animals the Hunter class could tame and use for combat pets. I am not exaggerating when I say that I was putting in report tickets near daily, I saw so many Hunters running around with monkeys named after either famous black people or what they believed to be “black names” (“Laquisha”,...
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So apparently Back-Up Doc #2, after freaking out...
So there’s no record of it at all, which makes it even harder to know where on that “160-190” range it might have fallen when she probably totally fucked up the measurement anyway.
So tomorrow I’m going to see MY doctor and get a recheck, because otherwise it’s just going to nag at me. Also this leaves a clear record of Back-Up Doc #2 being a fuck-up.
Of course,...
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Oh, yeah, and Back-Up Doc #2’s brilliant solution to my constant, excruciating, and definitely WORSENING pelvic pain when walking was: I should lie down.
Wow! Walking hurts, so stop doing it! WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT.
…Oh, wait, it turns out that I still have to go places and do shit. DAMN IT.
She also told me not to lie on my back, a piece of advice that has been pretty...
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@merchimerch
merchimerch replied to your post: In retrospect, it would have been pretty amazing if I’d liked/trusted two new doctors in a row.
That sounds awful. Is this person someone that your doc shares a practice with? If not, I would run far far away and find a new backup delivery person. Also, she sounds like the kind of doctor for whom birth plans were made.
Unfortunately, yes, she’s part...
@alierakieron
alierakieron replied to your post: @alierakieron
Got it. I wanted the same, but until lupus has been definitively ruled out that’s not an option for us, either.
I just edited to add, too, that having had at least one experience where medical mismanagement directly threatened my health and well-being, I’m kind of on high alert for it all the time now. My default assumption, honestly, is...
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@alierakieron
alierakieron replied to your post: In retrospect, it would have been pretty amazing if I’d liked/trusted two new doctors in a row.
The good news is that even if you do get that one, you won’t see her for more than a few minutes at a time. I saw my OB at Meriter for all of 20 minutes: the real care is overseen by your L&D nurse, all which were amazing when we were there.
I’m sure...
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In retrospect, it would have been pretty amazing...
The first thing the second back-up delivery doc said to me at my appointment this morning was, “Is it a boy or a girl?”
The second thing, after I said girl, was, “Oh, yes, I could tell from the way you’re carrying!”
Good Christ, lady. GAME OVER.
So yeah, I had already half-given her up as a bad job when she began muttering about the fetal heart rate being...
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“When we consider the myriad school shootings that have occurred between ...”
– Michael Kimmel: Men, Masculinity, and the Rape Culture (via mollay)
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“The life of an individual cannot be adequately understood without references to...”
– C. Wright Mills (via ellavalon)
My MIL has no impulse control for baby clothes.
karnythia:
cabell:
Not that I’m complaining.
She texted me last week from a Carter’s that was having an end-of-year sale, asking if there was anything we needed; I said that more fleece and layering pieces would be good. So yesterday we got this GIANT BOX of 3-6 month clothes, mostly leggings and long-sleeved/long-legged fleece pieces, with a couple of little jackets. They’re mostly pretty...
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Also tonight in childbirth class...
There was an incredibly annoying video about car seats—it was narrated partially by a dude who sounded like he was on quaaludes, and partially by “adorable” small children who shrieked everything.
This was followed by one of our classmates repeatedly insisting that it MUST be better to leave the baby’s coat on, because it is COLD, despite the video having actually quite...
My MIL has no impulse control for baby clothes.
thestoutorialist:
cabell:
Not that I’m complaining.
She texted me last week from a Carter’s that was having an end-of-year sale, asking if there was anything we needed; I said that more fleece and layering pieces would be good. So yesterday we got this GIANT BOX of 3-6 month clothes, mostly leggings and long-sleeved/long-legged fleece pieces, with a couple of little jackets. They’re mostly...
I have a good friend who thinks that The Happiest...
maevele:
cabell:
We watched ~10 minutes of it in childbirth class tonight and I wanted to punch the dude in the throat. What a gender-essentializing sanctimonious asshole.
Some of the ideas seemed good, but I don’t think I could take an hour of that guy.
(This is a really good friend, and we are in agreement on a number of topics, but she also periodically sends me links to parenting blogs...
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@maritsa-met
maritsa-met replied to your post: I have a good friend who thinks that The Happiest Baby on the Block is the greatest thing ever.
The five S thing really works though.
Yeah, all of that looked good. I just hated HIM and all his constant sermonizing about “what mothers have been doing for thousands of years.” Except apparently we just “discovered” this reflex and need...
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I have a good friend who thinks that The Happiest...
We watched ~10 minutes of it in childbirth class tonight and I wanted to punch the dude in the throat. What a gender-essentializing sanctimonious asshole.
Some of the ideas seemed good, but I don’t think I could take an hour of that guy.
(This is a really good friend, and we are in agreement on a number of topics, but she also periodically sends me links to parenting blogs that I find...
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My MIL has no impulse control for baby clothes.
Not that I’m complaining.
She texted me last week from a Carter’s that was having an end-of-year sale, asking if there was anything we needed; I said that more fleece and layering pieces would be good. So yesterday we got this GIANT BOX of 3-6 month clothes, mostly leggings and long-sleeved/long-legged fleece pieces, with a couple of little jackets. They’re mostly pretty cute...
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update on the hot dog situation
merchimerch replied to your post: Fuck. I would kill for a hot dog right now.
Natural food stores might have nitrate free hot dogs. Then again, I went through 2 weeks of wanting to eat nothing but beanie weenie made with Celebration Roast’s frankfurters. BY FAR the best fake meat dog ever.
I’m not actually concerned about nitrates; the problem was that we didn’t have any and at 9pm,...
Fuck. I would kill for a hot dog right now.
"This sentence does not convey any information."
Actual comment I just put on a paper that I’m grading.
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“Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male...”
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The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House, by Audre Lorde (1979)
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So my MIL has some friend with an embroidery machine who, for our wedding, sent us a bunch of place mats monogrammed “B,” which is not MY surname initial. I know that MIL mentioned to her that I wasn’t changing my name at the time.
Now, MIL reports, the friend has made some burp cloths and whatnot for AJ—all monogrammed AJB. AJ’s initials will, in fact, be AJGB;...
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STUDY: More Than Half Of Black Girls Are Sexually... →
grasstomyknees:
so-treu:
Sixty percent of black girls have experienced sexual abuse at the hands of black men before reaching the age of 18, according to an ongoing study conducted by Black Women’s Blueprint.
More than 300 black women nationwide participated in the study and 700 more are being sought to take in the survey by March 2012.
Farah Tanis, Co-Founder of the New York-based...
A guy I had in class three years ago is now a pro...
I guess that’s what happen when you teach for a few years at a Big Ten?
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so-treu:
COLOUR-BLIND RACISM: The Four Frames
darkjez:
ABAGOND—
“Eduardo Bonilla-Silva asked samples of White Americans, most of them born between 1940 and 1980, questions about race issues. He noticed that at least half of them used each of the following four frames:
abstract liberalism – the key word here is “abstract”. Unlike Jim Crow racists, most whites now agree that all Americans,...
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Spouse just called from Wal-Mart.
He can’t find the ornament hooks and is convinced that they have TAKEN DOWN THE ENTIRE HOLIDAY SECTION ALREADY.
I told him this was definitely wrong, and to go find an employee if he couldn’t locate them.
Sigh.
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All I want is for someone to show me how to change...
You would think that this would be where Useless Childbirth Class would finally come in handy, but in fact all the instructor did this week was make some mysterious comment about “rolling the top,” which I was never able to interpret, and then tell us that we could practice on the dummy babies if we wanted—after ascertaining that about half the class had never changed a diaper...
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@lilylunastardust
lilylunastardust said: I get so sad sometimes that the one day of class I missed the entire semester was the day you talked about slash because you KNOW I would have been on that so fast (especially w/ my Wolfstar but that’s pretty much canon now so not technically slash)
You could always sit in this semester. :p
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argh.
I tried to go to bed at like 10, and just lay there for like an hour and a half, not sleeping and periodically needing to sit up to alleviate heartburn. Finally I got up and got online, since I wasn’t sleeping anyway, and promptly started feeling pretty exhausted, which is continuing, but I just have this feeling that if I try to go back to bed the whole cycle is just going to start over.
Christmas TV playlist
tesseralharmonics:
Thus far, I have:
The Netflix fireplaces
Die Hard 1 & 2
Emmett Otter’s Jug Band Christmas
Futurama Christmas episodes
Home Alone
HELP ME OUT HERE
Wait, there’s a fucking He-Man and She-Ra Christmas special?
WHY IS THE MUPPETS CHRISTMAS CAROL NOT ON INSTANT
I might have to make them watch Dr. Horrible because my family now loves Nathan Fillion after seeing him in...