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Rape! Discuss.

Y’all have seen the articles, right? This one, where a rape survivor (we are not victims, not once the event is over, not once we’ve lived past it….so please, please, stop calling us victims, OK? It just makes us feel like soft little bunnies who can’t defend ourselves against the Big Bad Mens) is denied health care because she took preventative steps to prevent diseases from her rape, thus making it a pre-existing condition?  Read more >

Would You Like Fries With That

So any of you on Twitter or on the receiving end of a frantic email string (looking at YOU John) may have already seen this. I quit my job on Friday. OK, I guess I actually turned in my intent to quit, as I gave the standard two weeks notice, but still. Yeah. No, I did not have another job lined up. No, I do not have interviews lined up. I barely have a current resume.  Read more >

My Father Has Cancer

My father has cancer. Prostate cancer. I’ve known for a little while now, two weeks or so. But my brothers didn’t know yet, and  couldn’t write about it until they were told. I cried when I hung up after hearing the news, more out of shock than anything. I mean, what are you supposed to feel after hearing something like that? “I wanted to tell you that I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Please don’t tell your brothers.”  Read more >

Anxiety

I’ve always been a worrier, even as a little girl. At first it manifested itself in variations of the apocalypse. I’d wake up in the dead of night, convinced I’d been left behind in the rapture. I’d check on my parents; if they were still in bed, I hadn’t been damned yet (I also, apparently, wasn’t very optimistic). Then it branched out to more generic things. In third grade I was in the nurse’s office nearly every day, convinced I had stomach cancer (must’ve been on Discovery Chanel, or something). Every time my parents fought, I was sure they were  Read more >

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WonderSpot
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January 2008
About Me: 
I am a (recently) liberal Christian, living a wonderful life in SoCal. A few things that I love: Harry Potter, wine, fresh laundry, sunsets, and Sephora. A few things I really, strongly dislike: clogs, beer, shrimp, Right Wing Christians.
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