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7 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 0 replies · +2 points

I did this this week! Meds are important and inflexible, psychiatrists' schedules are a *massive* pain, sometimes you need to just go ahead and see someone who can write you a prescription. PCPs are absolutely competent to do this.

7 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 0 replies · +12 points

I found The Toast at the very beginning, when I was nineteen years old. It taught me that power and authority and joy, the right to *be* and the the right to speak, are things I can work towards claiming for myself, legitimately, as I go out in the world. They aren't just things that belong to other people or other people's gifts to me when they think I've done well. My resolution is to carry that feeling forward, develop it, and never forget it.

7 years ago @ The Toast - An Open Thread, and Se... · 0 replies · +3 points

uhhh, currently I am listening to "Whistle" by Flo Rida. Ridiculous goofy music against gloominess, always!

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +3 points

Ohhh, *every* hug. This will be over soon -- you'll be taken care of, you'll be out of the hospital, you'll feel better.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +8 points

Yeah, like, I am a student and haaaate spending money, but I would have nothing wrong with a $15-plus breakfast that was actually worth the $15-plus.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 9 replies · +22 points

That AAM interns letter is crazy and fascinating, but some of the comments are way the hell over the line. There's no need to go on an extended discussion of how useless interns are, how we have nothing to offer, how we're spoiled children, and how everyone who has taught us is incompetent (and leftist! shock horror).

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +3 points

OMG. I can recommend some BOOKS about the Children's Bureau and early American child welfare policy. Basically, the Children's Bureau was pretty awesome and Julia Lathrop fought for it like hell in a man-filled Congress that did not care.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +2 points

Yup, get psyched. :) I just graduated last year and this is probably the biggest thing I miss. It's such an intense and special way for you to get to live your life for a little while.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +4 points

Yes, thank you very much for this choice.

7 years ago @ The Toast - Aunt Acid: Advice on P... · 2 replies · +17 points

"Where should I be putting the priority -- with Kitty or my former roommate?"

I'm sorry, but -- what is this formulation? "Should I show more consideration for the human being or the animal?"

I guess I do not have pets and animal welfare/environment stuff is not a *major* part of my ethics, so I realize there's space for disagreement on this according to what people's priorities are, but...a human being is a human being. A cat is not a human being. There's not an equivalence. Aunt Acid's right: don't hurt your friend.

(There are also the other considerations: the letter and Aunt Acid's response are fairly clear that it wouldn't be a harmful, dangerous situation for the pet to be returned -- I read the need for medication as arising after the cat passed into LW's care, not that LW's friend had denied her cat needed medication, for example.)

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