I'd been having really unpleasant digestive symptoms for the past 6 months. Summarized without too much detail, it's been half a year of nearly non stop diarrhea/ loose stool. It's not resposive tochages in diet, or over the counter medication. The only reason I've been able to function at all, is a prescription strength anti-diarrheal pill. My PCP ( Read more... )

So MIA had this to say about the Black Lives Matter movement "Is Beyoncé or Kendrick Lamar going to say Muslim Lives Matter? Or Syrian Lives Matter? Or this kid in Pakistan matters?"

All I can think of in response is, when will MIA say LTTE victims' lives matter?

Watching the election season heat up, I wish I could bring myself to care about the outcome of the Democratic primaries ( Read more... )

I have few very specific things to point out.

1. The Hammonds, the Oregon ranchers whose supposedly unjust setntece for multiple acts of arson and poaching is beging used as a pretext for the Bundys' war games don't want them there. neither do the rest of the locals.
2. The Hammonds got the mandatory minimum for what they did and the feds let them serve ( Read more... )

And it doesn't feel any different.

Still processing the wedding, which wasn't a complete shit show, much to my surprise.

Will write more later

R and I are getting marriaed Nov 6 ( Read more... )

And we have a venue and a guest list with 30% RSVP rate.

And $400 in the bank.

Dear old dad is covering the food ( and the emotional blackmail has begun already).

I just want to elope.

[thud]

I'm getting married in 5 months.
Shit.
[commence freakout]

It's the middle of February and we are planning our November wedding. I'm the only one working, R is in shool full time. Even with a tiny, tiny budget of 2K, it's very hard to same money for anything even resembling a reception ( Read more... )

So the Republicans now have bought both the House and the Senate.
We are so very, very fucked.