reality-based ravings of a suburban revolutionary

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I saw matociquala tweet earlier this week that ello makes her miss LJ (sort of) (HUGE LIBERTIES IN THAT PARAPHRASE BEAR SORRY), and I realized I super miss LJ.

so I'm trying to put together this lawyerly exit plan and it's producing large toxic levels of anxiety, but nothing like the levels of dread actually doing my job creates. From about February until the end of July, I was billing about 300 hours per month without respite, vacation days, weekends off, etc. And it finally pushed me into the wall; I realized that really there was no line, no boundary they wouldn't cross, no cry for additional help that would actually work, no actual thing I could say that would cause them to operate the team any differently no matter the cost to me.

And then I started having symptoms that my primary care doctor now thinks are consistent with rheumatoid arthritis. I'm on some amazing anti-inflammatory drugs but won't get the good ones until after my first appointment with a rheumatologist on November 4.

And now I'm just done. And then Merwin and I got sort of nuts--we found a house in the fancy suburb of Toledo that we'll be able to afford, eventually, on Merwin's salary alone. We bought it. We're selling my house (closing will be like, I dunno, next week or something). Moving. Daycare and house payments will be WAY cheaper. We've got some milestones we're putting together as "we would like [x] in place before PRHM quits her job." And then, folks, we think I'm just going to quit. Anyway, I've posted most of this to twitter at some point but 140 characters per tweet doesn't really, I think, get the feel of what I'm up to here.

So that's what is new with me. What is new with any of you that are still here???? [I'm going to post this to Ello too for kicks and giggles because that's where I guess we all are going to be now].

Hey!  kate_nepveu has a great post up at tor.com about writing pregnancy, labor and delivery in SFF.  If you write SFF, you should read this post.  When I'm reading a book and a character is going to be pregnant, the inevitable "Oh no!  She's barfing in the morning! She must be pregnant" as pregnancy-signal irritates the shit out of me.   That's not generally what always happens, folks, and it doesn't typically happen right away.  My personal early pregnancy sign?  Not barfing.  My boobs get out of control, I mean, like an extra cup a week, and I'm more susceptible to motion sickness.  Also, I stop liking fatty pork.  Don't ask me.   But my first weeks of pregnancy are pretty much indistinguishable from heavy duty PMS.   I was eventually hyperemetic with Puppy, which means I barfed ALL OF THE TIME throughout my entire first trimester, but that was due to a medication interaction.  Last time I pretty much didn't barf at all, but at about week 9 I started having some terrible fatigue and pretty regular nausea.  With Puppy my second and third trimesters were a breeze, except for the part of the third trimester in July in which there WAS NO BREEZE, and we couldn't afford air conditioning, and some occasional OBNOXIOUS lower back pain.  Also?  I gained like 58 pounds overall.  Seriously.  I started at like 120, lost 12 pounds due to vomiting, then gained 70 pounds.  Idk.  But it wasn't a cute little baby bump.  I had a baby body change.

Which is not to say that any of MY symptoms were typical or should be what people writing pregnancy should write.  But what Kate says is exactly right; pregnancies are all over the map!  So please write them that way.  Kate gives some really good ideas in her article about how to start to do that.

 I can barely watch the update.

Oh bb.  I can't even drink that shit.  So hot with the more reddish hair.  My hair used to be that color; now it's darker.  He's completely hot; I would date him even if I wasn't a spy.

OH GOD She ran to protect us.  Doyle's killing families.  I love you Rossi.

JJ you look so hot.

Prentiss, you are awesome.

HOLY SHIT.

Originally posted by rosefox at "My body hijacked"

Hey all:

I just did a slight flist cut.  For most of the cuts, it was just large inactivity, comms I'm not really reading, etc.  But I did it pretty quickly.  If I cut you and you want to know why, or think I may have slipped up, or you actually ARE reading even if you aren't really around (which I do for months and months at a time so totally understand), let me know by PM or something.

Thanks!

Guys, I'm sorry, but I don't have such a sense of humor about some things.  I think I need a break.  <3

Woo Hoo we are going to Zingerman's Roadhouse for breakfast and I'm a have a gluten-free bits and grits waffle that has bacon and five year vermont cheddar cooked right in. 

Okay, enough drama and fail for JUST A FEW MINUTES.

Top Chef tonight!  Finale AND Desserts.  It's like I'm spoiled.

AND speaking of spoiled, I think I forgot to tell y'all what I got from newmontreal for the BIG FOUR OH last month!!!!  It's thematically on point so let's go ahead and feel free to call me spoiled. 

I got a 3 pc. set of Shun knives, the classic set.

I LOVE USING THESE KNIVES.  I was excited to come home and slice onions to use this knife, for serious.   I have NEVER had such an awesome kitchen implement ever. 

Teenager FOUND.