On Timelines
This was lovely. I always think about how the internet, smartphones etc. keep us from remembering -- I never learn anyone's phone number anymore, although I can still recite those of my high school friends from 25 years ago. But the internet doesn't let us forget, either. That must be hard, and I'm so sorry for your loss.
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On IUDs, or A Detailed Guide to Long-Term Sperm Scarecrows
Only downside to my Paraguard is when the string disappears and the OB has to go looking for it to make sure it's still there. Um ... how big is my uterus that something could get lost?
BTW, as I mentioned upthread, I'm due for a new one and all these insertion horror stories have made my uterus crawl back up behind my spine. I can feel my cervix sealing itself.
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On IUDs, or A Detailed Guide to Long-Term Sperm Scarecrows
@Unaccompanied Lady I get them all the goddamn time -- I've even had seizures from extreme episodes. Only "medical procedures" for which I didn't have them? Childbirth. Twice. I was more afraid of passing out during the epidural than I was of pain. I didn't freak when my Paraguard was put in, but I'm due for another one this spring and I'm feeling pretty Dready Dreaderson about it.
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On Death and Psychics
My mom went to a psychic once who told her two great, true things. The first was that 1968 had been a very big year for her -- the year she graduated from college and got married. (Lest you think that was simple math based on birthdate, my mom went to college when she was 16, not 18.) She also told my mom that there was a huge wedding in her future. "It's so big," she said, perplexed. "I can't figure out why it's so big." It was "so big" because my parents were invited to two major weddings happening on the same day, and had been all in a tizzy figuring out how to handle it.
OK, that was boring? Fun thing? My awesome bachelorette party idea: HOT MALE PSYCHIC WHO AFTER TELLING FORTUNES IS ALSO A STRIPPER.
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On Joyful Noises
@jenergy Those are the best kind of parrots :-)
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On Joyful Noises
@laurel I'm really hesitant to offer anything that may be taken for truth, so ... the weird thing is, while stress exacerbates El's tics, so does boredom (?). And if she's concentrating she doesn't tic, so we've actually been spared having to get her certified in the school district as "special needs," because for some reason that was the line for her. She is vehemently against anything that might formally separate her from other kids, and I don't blame her. (But if that changes, and she starts yelping throughout a standardized test, will other parents complain? I DONT KNOW!!!!)
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On Joyful Noises
@Lily Rowan Same here. The private school kids were badass in all the right ways.
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On Joyful Noises
@rayray I got through ten pages of that before the severity of the guy's tics made me borderline hysterical. Love Lethem, but couldn't read on.
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On Things I Am Deathly Afraid of After Reading the Hairpin
Pippa Middleton's ass traumatized me for life, but I can't really blame The Hairpin for that.
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On Moms
Wow, you were right in my hood! (I live under a BQE bridge, basically.) THIS is why I shouldn't wear my pajamas to drop-off in the morning -- fuck the NY Times; I could end up on The Hairpin!
(Who am I kidding, I'm still gonna wear pajamas, but maybe also lipstick.)