A small personal flaw that I have is that I sometimes think that I'm stronger than I am. While my fortitude is considerable, it's not boundless and I forget that when things are good. It just starts to impact me when things start getting bad and I dont realize how much some things affect me, so I continue to act like stressors dont affect me ( Read more... )

I was rifling through some research the other day and one of the things that is a huge pet peeve of mine is that people have this conceptual idea that research is absolute truth. I am amused when people do research and find conclusions that back thier own perspectives and then use the backing of science to prove thier point ( Read more... )

B had the abortion last tuesday. It was performed at the Hopkins outpatient center, which is about the size of most hospitals anywhere else. The doc that performed the procedure was highly experienced, and there were no complications to the procedure, contrary to alarmist statements ( Read more... )

This workweek has been pretty darn long. On the good side of things is that I've been able to change my sched to come in at 1030 am everyday. The slightly ick thing is that I leave the office at 7pm. At a baseline, it lets me go and get a workout in the early morning and it gives me time to take my mornings a bit easier. Not really a night owl per ( Read more... )

This recent discussion of the past week has predictably brought out a ton of response. It's something that is very close to all of our hearts and as a result has brought out highly passionate responses. A lot of responses were more canted at "How could you think of this?" My response is that it's one of the options that can be considered. I know ( Read more... )

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With my last couple of posts I've been lucky to have heard from a lot of differing perspectives. As it is right now, B and I are like a metronome, vacilating from one side and another. Luckily for us, we've been continuing to talk over both sides and are talking over our feelings in regards to each choice ( Read more... )

I specifically asked for frank responses in regards to this because I'm kind of in a fog in regards to the situation. It's a scary thing to say the least, and I'm glad that I got the responses that I did. Abortion is a hotbed topic that is close to everyone's hearts and what I got was a heartfelt response ( Read more... )

Things have been going so swimmingly for the last 5 months it's been hard to see if things were ever going to be bad again it seemed ( Read more... )

Started my new job yesterday and holy crap they are throwng a ton of info at me. I think that once I have all of that information processed and sorted then i should be able to run smooth as silk. But until then it's gonna be a work in progress. Heh I already have an eye twitch from the info overload here. They are gonna release me to the wild on ( Read more... )