slipping under

I'm withdrawing from the outside world again. This happened a couple of semesters ago and didn't end well. My reaction to stress is to focus on something else and get obsessive about it. Blogging, in this case.

I haven't taken my A&P tests yet. I talked to my instructor and we're going to work something out next week, as she isn't going to be in class Thursday. I Made Contact, though, and that's good. Now I need to quit worrying quite so much about my Mother, as it seems she isn't going to keel over just yet. Hopefully she'll be able to stick to her diabetic diet while my cousin is with her. After that, it seems unlikely. If she's just by herself, she'll go back to comfort food and all that. Maybe not. I can always be optimistic. Or try...

My mother and I are too close. I have a hard time separating my life from hers.

My goal for the day is to clean the bathroom. And to only call Mom once, to make sure my sister did actually show up at the hospital yesterday and bring her home.

Laurie's Eyes

good grief...

I'm a Wind Spirit

wisdom from Bruce

'Everywhere we turn, we confront the basic dilemma of being gay in America in this century. As American, we are told to think outside the box, to avoid profiling, to be accepting of diversity. As gay people, we're told to stay in the box and cut an airhole every now and then when things get too stuffy. Just try and get a box cutter past security.'
-- Bruce Vilanch writing in the Jan. 22 Advocate.

New support for gay parenting

Gay and lesbian parents are getting a thumbs up from doctors.

Apart from getting teased, children raised by one or two homosexual parents generally do as well as kids raised by heterosexual parents, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in a report released today.

"They fare as well in emotional, cognitive, social and sexual functioning," the report said.

There may even be advantages to homosexual parenting. Studies have found that children raised by lesbians are kinder to younger kids and less bossy and negative than children raised by heterosexual parents, the academy said.

Guardian Unlimited Observer | International | Is human evolution finally over?
Is human evolution finally over?

Scientists are split over the theory that natural selection has come to a standstill in the West. Robin McKie reports

Sunday February 3, 2002
The Observer

For those who dream of a better life, science has bad news: this is the best it is going to get. Our species has reached its biological pinnacle and is no longer capable of changing.

That is the stark, controversial view of a group of biologists who believe a Western lifestyle now protects humanity from the forces that used to shape Homo sapiens.

drum roll

This is it: the first post with the new template. ta da!

busy busy

I read 1/2 of one chapter in A & P, so I stopped for more coffee and to play with the blog. Turns out that signing up for pro.blogger doesn't keep the templates from disappearing from time to time. I'm creating my own, using the cut and paste method of things that I like on other people's blogs... too bad I don't know css. I haven't picked up HTML for Dummies in a couple of weeks, though, and I want to do something hands on... I'm glad I've got my template stored offline. I just wish I hadn't made all those changes late last night without backups. I wanted to get the 'original' today. Oh, well. Maybe later.