Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland needs financial help, and we're seeking additional patient-instructors at the Free Clinic The job lilyofthewest is writing about is the same one that I do, and have written about in the past -- you're also welcome to ask me any questions about it that you might have. We do need both male and female instructors, since we also teach the male GU exam.

Also, there's a big exciting new Bisexual Health Report out:

"The long awaited -and amazing- Bisexual Health Report was released
today by NGLTF, BinetUSA and Fenway Institute. You can read the press
release and download the report here (It's on PDF)"

http://www.thetaskforce.org/reports_and_research/bisexual_health

And an article about the report:
Bi Health Report Challenges Doctors

Also, the NY Times writes about police infiltration of antiwar groups (this was known to be happening in Cleveland, too)

And Susie Bright writes about the concept of NSFW, and its intersection with class (ironically, this is one of the only pieces of her writing I can access from work, because her personal blog is blocked by our censorware) -- I absolutely agree with her in theory. Unfortunately, the company I work for definitely doesn't, and she doesn't really address that side of the issue -- that those of us 'getting away' with online access from work are already treading a thin line, and that NSFW material can be the breaking point, or a trigger for disciplinary action. Which isn't to say I don't view it/read it, if it's not blocked by the censorware, but is to say that it makes a difference whether one of the higher-ups is prowling the room when I do, and having a warning is concretely beneficial to me. I think it's idiotic that our business culture (and culture in general) care which way we're wasting time online on-the-job (however, issues of network safety and bandwidth are legitimate issues, I should note). I find the delineation between sexual material and all other material in how we think about free speech, obscenity, etc, to be utterly infuriating, and a topic about which I rant pretty frequently. And yet, I need my job. Argh.
I'm in the foulest, crappiest mood I've been in in quite a while. Depressed and lonely and weepy with a side-order of mean-as-hell/spoiling-for-a-fight. Some part of it is biochemical, I'm almost certain, some part is post-event crash, some part is that I'm tired and stressed. And a big heaping helping is that [livejournal.com profile] lunatickle, [livejournal.com profile] fabulousmisst and their moving van pull out Saturday for DC.

Please don't try to cheer me up right now; I don't seem to be capable of taking even the most well-intended advice graciously at the moment.

This workday cannot be over soon enough.

*stress*

Jun. 16th, 2006 09:54 am
The thing I notice most about being really exhausted is how much more I stress that I'm forgetting important things, losing track of something amorphous. In general, I just get anxious much more easily because my brain feels so overloaded and untrustworthy. Right now I'm having trouble dealing with more than the most cursory IMing -- it's Friday, so work's not quite so bad as earlier in the week (although we've got an extra person out), but the accumulated exhaustion is more than making up for the dip in workload, and I'm getting overwhelmed and losing track of my trains of thought frighteningly easily.

Mom and Dad just called; they're on their way down to General Convention now. It was wonderful to see them, I just wish it hadn't happened to fall in the middle of work hell, when I couldn't take time off, and was coming home every day already worn out.

Today I'm stressing about finances, and remembering to pay all the bills, and what's still out there that hasn't processed through the account yet, and which bus tickets I need to buy when to where, and when my PT appt and counseling appt next week are, and remembering to write back to emails, etc, etc, etc. And I really do think that almost all of it is already on my "To Do" list, but that's not reassuring me; some part of my brain is absolutely positive that I'm forgetting something important, and I'm going to screw something up.

Tonight I'm supposed to get together with my coworker/friend who's out for surgery, but after than I really need to try to catch up on sleep better -- I'm supposed to be volunteering at Pride tomorrow at 9am (what the hell was I thinking??), and I'm going to be there pretty much all day, since [livejournal.com profile] lunatickle's band doesn't play 'til 2:30pm, and [livejournal.com profile] chameleonpixie will be meeting me there after she gets off work. I really suspect I won't be going to the Burlesque show on Sunday, though. I need some recuperation time. I'm much too frayed and frazzled.

I wouldn't suggest bothering to talk to me much today; I'm likely to be grumpy and irritable and less than ideal company.

Blarg.

May. 18th, 2006 09:48 am
I'm feeling grumpy and crappy and depressed and irritable and achey. And I had shitty dreams to go with my shitty mood.

*snarl*

On the positive side, I'm getting a decent amount accomplished. Bills are paid, PTO scheduled for my Dr's appt next week, and an opthalmologist's appt scheduled for the same day to make better use of the time off and finally replace my old lenses (also need to remember to stop at the lab to get my lipid panel drawn, and at the pharmacy to pick up the iron supplement the doctor called in).

I've also updated my "to do" list, and I'm very glad I don't have anything scheduled after work, but given the party tomorrow, it really can't be another early night tonight -- I've got a massive amount of cleaning to do. So, almost all housecleaning has to happen tonight, house party tomorrow night, escorting Saturday morning, and maybe the CLAW volunteer party tomorrow evening, although that's looking less likely right now, since [livejournal.com profile] fabulousmisst isn't particularly certain she's planning on going. Sometime Saturday I have to finish whatever cleaning I managed not to get done for the party, and then Sunday [livejournal.com profile] chameleonpixie and her mom arrive.

Now, rather than trying to interact with human beings any more than absolutely necessary, I'm catching up on news articles. It's keeping me busy and out of trouble, but I can't say it's really doing much to improve my mood. Bush is an asshole, and the world is going to hell. News at 11.
Pregnancy & Childbirth | Wall Street Journal, Washington Post Examine CDC's Push for 'Preconception Care'
[May 16, 2006]
The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post on Tuesday examined CDC's new "preconception care" recommendations -- published in the April 21 edition of CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report -- that encourage women to maintain physical and emotional health before they become pregnant. According to the Post, preconception care includes the recommendation that all women "between first menstrual period and menopause" take "folic acid supplements, refrain from smoking, maintain a healthy weight and keep chronic conditions, such as asthma and diabetes, under control" (Payne, Washington Post, 5/16). The goal of CDC's recommendations is to make preconception care "as common as prenatal care" for all women, including those not planning to become pregnant, according to the Journal (Chernova, Wall Street Journal, 5/16). Any physician can oversee preconception care, which involves developing a "reproductive health plan" for women, and clarifies when and if there are plans for pregnancy, Janis Biermann, vice president for education and health promotion at the March of Dimes, said (Washington Post, 5/16). Some doctors say that preconception care is a good idea but will be hard to include as part of standard medical appointments. In addition, health insurers usually do not cover preconception care, in part because there is no billing code, according to Hani Atrash, one of the authors of the recommendations and associate director for program development of CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. CDC is calling on the American Medical Association to develop a billing code to allow physicians to begin charging for such care, according to the Journal. Unplanned pregnancies also are a "major stumbling block" to preconception care, and a study published this month in the journal Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health estimates that about half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unplanned (Wall Street Journal, 5/16).


Wow. Way to make assumptions about what I'll do with my body. And way to make me feel like I'm nothing but a uterus to be maintained in ideal condition for babymaking for the entirety of my "fertile" years. Ew.

Oops...

May. 2nd, 2006 09:25 am
Apparently the panic snaps and my program got left in a bag at [livejournal.com profile] fabulousmisst's place, so I won't be putting up pics of them, or the exact descriptions of the lectures yet.

Ah well; I'll have more fun writing about it when I'm in a better mood anyway. Right now I feel like crap, looking at my screen is unpleasant, and I'm just generally in a lousy mood. I have to deal with the May escort schedule today, and all the college students leaving for the summer means we're pretty fucked, so it's going to suck to figure out. My appts yesterday didn't particularly help my mood, either.

Today's going to be rather long -- I need to run home to vote before heading back out to class. Thankfully, [livejournal.com profile] fabulousmisst is a treasure-trove of info on local politics, and caught me up Sunday on what I'd missed.

Expandmedical updates of very little interest to anyone but me )

Blarg. I should just end this post now. The mood I'm in, the longer I leave it open, the more I'll find to bitch about.

Argh.

Apr. 14th, 2006 09:03 am
To finish up the prereqs for the nursing program, I need a year of chem, and a semester of microbio. There's also one other class that I can take as a prereq or coreq (ie once I'm already in the program), but I can't recall what it is off the top of my head.

I just started looking through the schedules for next semester at CSU. Nothing I need is even in the afternoon, let alone evening. All smack dab in the middle of the day, when there's no chance I can arrange my work schedule around it. So, just to be sure, I also checked the summer schedule, and no luck there, either.

This may mean I need to take the classes at Tri-C instead, which I don't consider ideal, but seems to be the only likely option.

OK, looks like BIO 1100 (Intro to Biological Chem) and BIO 2500 (Microbiology) would work for me from there -- need to check with the nursing program folks at CSU to make sure. I could, technically, fit one or the other into my schedule over the summer, but given the shorter term and therefore longer hours, I think it'd wreck me, especially given the other stuff on my schedule (like the PT appts). I think I'll go with my original plan of taking the summer off, and see about taking one or the other of these (maybe both, since they'll be cheaper than CSU) in the fall semester.
So, randomly on Saturday I started getting a godawful horrible earworm. That nauseating "Tonight, I celebrate my love for you" crap? Yeah. Constant repeat. The only two lines I know. *grrrrrrrr* And then I figured out where to place the blame. Damn M&Ms commercial. Fuckers. Evil fuckers playing horrible earwormy shit during my Daily Show. *kill*
Rage or caffeine pills. Or, not and. Absolutely must remember this.

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