Oh crap

Both Geraldine Ferrero and Diane Wynn Jones died today. Ferraro was
the first woman to run for VP. Wynn Jones wrote Howl's Moving Castle
along with numerous other amazing kid's fantasy books.
suckage

That's who the pick to do the mortgage fraud perp walk?

Go to the NYTimes and search for No Mortgage Brokers Behind Bars, But
Borrower Is or something to that effect. It's Nocera column if that
helps.
Isn't it lovely how that dilligent agent dug and dug and dug till he
could prosecute a borrower? I know I feel safer knowing that as long
as there are enough zeros attached to the dollar amount that you
steal, you'll be safe and sound. But your everyday mortgage holder
better watch what they say over cocktails.

When therapy clashes with reality

So i have an awesome therapist who's been hitting me hard with the
cognative behavioral stick. It's a wee bit hokey, but it works. Last
week (after the perfect apartment debacle) she made me write and
repeat 'I deserve good things to happen to me'. Today I went and saw
an appropriately priced place and Dickens could not have written a
slummier hole if he tried. Massive woodrot, security system that's
been broke so long that tenants have faded notes up reading ' honk or
yell for apartment 5', the floors were so uneven that I'm not sure if
it's a structural issue or if the lumps were dead things under the
carpet. But this is what the social worker thinks is appropriate. So
how does that mesh with the therapist telling me that I deserve good
things? Someone's view is scewed and I'm not sure whose.

about that AT&T Tmobile merger

Black Agenda Report has a petition to ask the SEC to stop the merger.
Go sign it for me because I can't from my TMobile phone.

Excuse me

while I go hide under a table to vomit and cry.
What? Like you've never left a dentist's office feeling the same way?
Of course it's the Kid who had the drilling done, so he's the one in
pain. But fucking medicaid, which only pays for (some) dental for
children is only paying the drilling portion. The dentist gave kid a
temp filling for free when i nearly (ok, not nearly but actually)
cried when they told me it would be 660 bucks to actually crown his
tooth. fucking fuck fuck fuck. That's more than I make in a month.
That's more than I make in 2 months. Argghhhh. I'll be the girl
hugging her knees and rocking under the table in a corner covered in
tears and vomit mumbling 660 dollars over and over.

Dammit child, stop growing!

Children always pick the most inopertune time to grow. We are on our
way to the dentist and the convo goes like this: Me: go rebrush your
teeth, for a whole 2 minutes, and put on a shirt without a hole in it.
Kid comes back a few minutes later in a dirty shirt. When I complain
he tells me all his other shirts are 'too short to wear in public'.
Damn. I'm allready trying, vainly to scrounge together money for a
past due electric bill and phone bill (so we can have lights and
internet in our new place when we find it) and mattresses that aren't
bed bug infested (700 gets us 2 brand new sets), and maybe a couch and
a tv from the thriftstore. So if you are a dude or have a dude in your
life who has some decent men's xl tees and hoodies you were planning
on sending to thrift store heaven, send me an email. i will totes take
them off your hands.

One simple rule for being an ally and not a douchenozzle

Are the people that you're fighting people with equal or greater
privilege than yourself? Yes? Congrats! you're an ally. No? YOU MIGHT
WANNA CHECK YOURSELF.
That's really all there is to it. Always fight upward. It might seem
like swimming upstream, but remember that you're clearing the way for
the mass of people behind you.