Obama, baby
I can't seem to focus my mind lately, and my intended LJ postings have of course suffered.
I'm still enjoying having the baby on board, but with less than a month to go, I'm feeling a bit imposed upon. To say the least. Last weekend, my back finally kicked in, and I've had difficulty walking since then. (for those who haven't known me long - I have a history of back trouble, and had a herniated disc taken out 8-9 years ago. Since it was my lower back, I imagine the little guy is pressing against that point now) I'm getting a hideous grinding/pain when I lift or set down my right leg, or if I shift from a sitting/lying position to stand.
Cookieman convinced me to visit the doctor, and he gave me a prescription for Tylenol/paracetemol with a tiny bit of codeine. I won't say it comes close to fixing it, but it's nice to have something to take beforehand if I want to go out for a walk or so.
He is still happily cruising around in there. Every little shift he makes feels significant, though. Like, some little shift that might not have been anything but cute before is now like "WOAH SIMMER DOWN THERE JR." heh. cute.
I've kept in touch with the ladies from my prenatal classes, and we've met up a couple of times since the classes ended. One of them has already had her baby, on New Years Day, after going into labor just before midnight. She's now highly recommending having a sip of the chili vodka some pub in town sells, in case any of us are getting desperate. :D
In other news, my tutor for my business course has decided she's got too much on her plate right now, and has dropped my group. haha. So now we've all got an extension on the latest assignment while the Uni tries to find a replacement for us. In the meantime, our next session will be a joint one, with tutor from another group adding us on to his. I can't really worry about all of this at the moment, and will just concentrate on getting the lastest paper written on my own. unfortunately. She left at the worst time, just at the time when we'd be getting help regarding the assignment. of course!
I spent Tuesday watching the inauguration coverage. I can't help but comment on this, because I didn't feel this was being made as big a deal of when I was in the US for the actual election, but: the BBC just KEPT banging on about how black Obama is. I am not exaggerating here when I say that in the literally 7 hours + of coverage and people-on-the-street interviews I watched on BBC, they interviewed exactly one non-black person, and that was an 8 year old kid. It wasn't for lack of choice. Hell, one time the reporter was next to a massive group of white and asian people, and really honed right in on the one black lady standing there. And the look on her face at being chosen was a bit bemused, like "oh right I'm the black person here, of course!" And one time he was standing next to a couple of white folks of a Certain Age who might have really had something interesting to say, and just ignored it for the stock standard quote of the day. I should say that his question was always "how do you, as a black person, feel about this occasion?" or something along those lines. So even when the person wasn't going down that road with their answer, obviously it was steered there eventually.
I do not at all mean to take away from the Huge Historical Moment this is, that a country which was built on slavery has now elected president someone who, 200 years ago, wouldn't have even been considered human by law. However, he was voted into office by the majority of Americans, and the coverage really felt like it was forcing the one issue and not touching on how anyone felt about you know, the significance of finally having an intelligent president again after 8 long Bush years. I just felt he was being a bit marginalized, and was surprised because I almost always prefer BBC news coverage to the equivalent, hyper-sensational American news.
If Hillary had been elected, would they have only spoken to women for the entire day? No men at all?
That having been said: it was all awesome. Great speech. I didn't love Michelle's dress as much as many others did, though. She looked a bit too brocade-y. If she'd had a hat, she'd have been the Queen. It wasn't terrible, though, and at least it looked... warm. :D
Here's a nice satirical article regarding John Roberts's slip-up: here.
I'm still enjoying having the baby on board, but with less than a month to go, I'm feeling a bit imposed upon. To say the least. Last weekend, my back finally kicked in, and I've had difficulty walking since then. (for those who haven't known me long - I have a history of back trouble, and had a herniated disc taken out 8-9 years ago. Since it was my lower back, I imagine the little guy is pressing against that point now) I'm getting a hideous grinding/pain when I lift or set down my right leg, or if I shift from a sitting/lying position to stand.
Cookieman convinced me to visit the doctor, and he gave me a prescription for Tylenol/paracetemol with a tiny bit of codeine. I won't say it comes close to fixing it, but it's nice to have something to take beforehand if I want to go out for a walk or so.
He is still happily cruising around in there. Every little shift he makes feels significant, though. Like, some little shift that might not have been anything but cute before is now like "WOAH SIMMER DOWN THERE JR." heh. cute.
I've kept in touch with the ladies from my prenatal classes, and we've met up a couple of times since the classes ended. One of them has already had her baby, on New Years Day, after going into labor just before midnight. She's now highly recommending having a sip of the chili vodka some pub in town sells, in case any of us are getting desperate. :D
In other news, my tutor for my business course has decided she's got too much on her plate right now, and has dropped my group. haha. So now we've all got an extension on the latest assignment while the Uni tries to find a replacement for us. In the meantime, our next session will be a joint one, with tutor from another group adding us on to his. I can't really worry about all of this at the moment, and will just concentrate on getting the lastest paper written on my own. unfortunately. She left at the worst time, just at the time when we'd be getting help regarding the assignment. of course!
I spent Tuesday watching the inauguration coverage. I can't help but comment on this, because I didn't feel this was being made as big a deal of when I was in the US for the actual election, but: the BBC just KEPT banging on about how black Obama is. I am not exaggerating here when I say that in the literally 7 hours + of coverage and people-on-the-street interviews I watched on BBC, they interviewed exactly one non-black person, and that was an 8 year old kid. It wasn't for lack of choice. Hell, one time the reporter was next to a massive group of white and asian people, and really honed right in on the one black lady standing there. And the look on her face at being chosen was a bit bemused, like "oh right I'm the black person here, of course!" And one time he was standing next to a couple of white folks of a Certain Age who might have really had something interesting to say, and just ignored it for the stock standard quote of the day. I should say that his question was always "how do you, as a black person, feel about this occasion?" or something along those lines. So even when the person wasn't going down that road with their answer, obviously it was steered there eventually.
I do not at all mean to take away from the Huge Historical Moment this is, that a country which was built on slavery has now elected president someone who, 200 years ago, wouldn't have even been considered human by law. However, he was voted into office by the majority of Americans, and the coverage really felt like it was forcing the one issue and not touching on how anyone felt about you know, the significance of finally having an intelligent president again after 8 long Bush years. I just felt he was being a bit marginalized, and was surprised because I almost always prefer BBC news coverage to the equivalent, hyper-sensational American news.
If Hillary had been elected, would they have only spoken to women for the entire day? No men at all?
That having been said: it was all awesome. Great speech. I didn't love Michelle's dress as much as many others did, though. She looked a bit too brocade-y. If she'd had a hat, she'd have been the Queen. It wasn't terrible, though, and at least it looked... warm. :D
Here's a nice satirical article regarding John Roberts's slip-up: here.