It's almost six o'clock and I still feel like crap....

[liz_marcs]

Gawd...I spent the entire day wanting to do the Technicolor Yawn. So I've crawled to my computer but I have zero energy to do more than stare listlessly at my FList page.

I'm heading back to bed.

Oh, gaakked from, well, everyone:


Better Personality Quiz


You are a WRCL--Wacky Rational Constructive Leader. This makes you a golden god. People gravitate to you, and you make them feel good. You are smart, charismatic, and interesting. You may be too sensitive to others reactions, especially criticism. Your self-opinion and mood depends greatly on those around you.

You think fast and have a smart mouth, is a hoot to your friends and razorwire to your enemies. You hold a grudge like a brass ring. You crackle.

Although you have a leader's personality, you often choose not to lead, as leaders stray too far from their audience. You probably weren't very popular in high school--the joke's on them!

You may be a rock star.


Cool! Wish I had the energy to be excited about being a rock star....

Also gakked from around:

Don't forget your "refund" of extra time from paidmembers because LJ has been wiggy. You've got seven days to claim your prize. Read all about it here

hyperion_lobby is looking for people to list as part of a regular fanfic listing. Looks like they're trying to be a central clearing house on Buffy/Angel fanfiction on LJ. Not sure of the rules (i.e., cross universes or such). You can give them permission to link to your journal here

An article found courtesy of jennyo and ginmar about About Some Doctors and Pharmacists Refusing to Distribute Birth Control Pills to People with Legitmate Scripts.

Even thought I'm too sick to get properly pissed about it, I remember my mother telling me this story:

Back in the early 70s, my mother's physician suggested she get her tubes tied for health reasons and refered her to a surgeon. Said surgeon refused to tie her tubes because "it was against Catholic teaching," but said he'd give her a hysterectomy because that was okay. (A woman in her early 30s!) My mother hit the roof, my father hit the roof, her doctor hit the roof. They found another doctor who'd do it, she went to the not-Catholic hospital to get it done. They prepped her and were about to wheel her in (she's half-drugged by this point) and realized that they FORGOT TO GET MY DAD'S PERMISSION. So they held off until they found him (he'd gone to get coffee), which meant a half-hour delay. Almost 30 years later, my mother AND my father still rant about the absolute stupidity of needing "his" permission for "her" to get a surgical proceedure done. Even though this was medically necessary, because my mom's ovaries were involved people got really wiggy about it.

Can we please let the women have control over their ovaries? Thank you. Jebezus people. Read your fucking history. Birth control and abortion (up until "quickening") were perfectly legal when the Puritans ran the Massachusetts Bay Colony back in the fucking 1600s. It wasn't encouraged, but no one said boo about it. These were religious-fucking-fanatics. Puritans. I think that says everything right there.

Ooooo, maybe I'm feeling well enough for a little outrage.

Comments

[maystone.livejournal.com]

As with jello, there's always room for outrage.

Thanks for all the links. I love LJ; it feeds into my constant need for new info - I'm like an internet shark, gotta keep moving, gotta keep shoveling it in.

Hope you're feeling better soon, Liz.

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[suaveswede.livejournal.com]

eeriely accurat.

You are an SECF--Sober Emotional Constructive Follower. This makes you a hippie. You are passionate about your causes and steadfast in your commitments. Once you've made up your mind, no one can convince you otherwise. Your politics are left-leaning, and your lifestyle choices decidedly temperate and chaste.

You do tremendous work when focused, but usually you operate somewhat distracted. You blow hot and cold, and while you normally endeavor on the side of goodness and truth, you have a massive mean streak which is not to be taken lightly. You don't get mad, you get even.

Please don't get even with this web site.

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

There are places that still require husband concent for all kinds of procedures related to women. One of them -- you ready for this? You should sit down -- is breast reduction surgery.

[hpchick.livejournal.com]

That made me laugh hysterically.

I guess I can understand the reasoning behind it. He probably uses them more than she does. Also, if they are large enough that she needs to have them reduced, then they are probably one...sorry, two of the main reasons he married her in the first place. It's all about priorities...it is clearly more important for a man to have a say in whether his wife keeps her huge tits than it is for a woman to have a say in her own health and comfort.

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

A big, massive "hee!" to "he probably uses them more than she does."

What I want to know is this: does a husband have to provide concent for breast implants? Because, if not -- that's just a women's rights lawsuit waiting to happen.

[hpchick.livejournal.com]

Sorry you're feeling yukky. Hopefully you'll be better by the 4th.

Yay! New Living History on the list. Gotta go read. Bye.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Feel better soon! *sending health vibes*

I took the quiz, too: I'm WRCL too. Hey, we could rule the world! Go us.

Can we please let the women have control over their ovaries? Amen to that, sister.

[(Anonymous)]

Holy crap, that's quiz is hilarious!

You are an SEDF--Sober Emotional Destructive Follower. This makes you an evil genius. You are extremely focused and difficult to distract from your tasks. With luck, you have learned to channel your energies into improving your intellect, rather than destroying the weak and unsuspecting.

Your friends may find you remote and a hard nut to crack. Few of your peers know you very well--even those you have known a long time--because you have expert control of the face you put forth to the world. You prefer to observe, calculate, discern and decide. Your decisions are final, and your desire to be right is impenetrable.

You are not to be messed with. You may explode.


As for the ovary thing, both my mother and grandmother had hysterectomies fairly young. Apparently it was the in thing to do to women who'd immigrated into the country back then...

Meh. Religious 'morality,' as big an oxymoron as 'military intelligence.' According to the Bible, no marriage shall be enforced in such a way to prevent a man from having other wives or mistresses. That bit gets left out of current debates on the sanctity of one man, one woman marriage, I notice.