Eep.

Today the first line of this song was actually appropriate...

The bluest skies you've ever seen are in Seattle
And the hills the greenest green in Seattle ( more )

The local paper did a story on "Here Come The Brides" being released on DVD. Complete with links to the song, lyrics, and trivia.

No, I do not need a copy.

In other news, I followed up a great weekend - despacho ceremony, lunch on the "dinner" train, helping out at the gaiaconsort show, time with skydancer and jw1776 - ok, I also did laundry - with acid reflux making sleep difficult Sunday night. I took an acid-reducer around midnight and dozed off. Then at 2:30am ( TMI )

jw1776, bless him, brought me towels and other useful things.

So, basically, yesterday sucked. I got better over time, but it sucked. Today was better. I did drag myself into the doctor for ( a previously scheduled thing )

. I was feeling fairly droopy by the time I go to Third Place Books so I stopped home for tea and browsing. Picked up a used copy of The Documents In The Case. I'd perked up from the tea and a scone, but didn't stay for the socializing in case it's contagious...

The brain seems to be working again, which is good. I hope to be back to normal tomorrow.

cause or effect?

From a WSJ article on the CDC's new guidelines "encouraging doctors of all specialties to ask women about their reproductive plans, and consider all treatments, procedures and medications in terms of what impact they would have on a possible pregnancy" comes this little factoid:

A study of 2001 birth data published this month in the journal Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health estimates that half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unplanned, with about a quarter of pregnancies in college graduates coming as a surprise.

The implication is that college grads, being better educated, plan their lives more. I can't help but wonder if some of those college grads ARE college grads because they took action to not have a baby while they were in college.

I also wonder about their definition of "unplanned". I've known people who "just did it once"; I've known birth control failures; I've known people to have "well, we decided to skip the birth control and see if it happened, but we weren't really TRYING". The first two are definitely unplanned; the last, well, isn't.

(More on the CDC guidelines at the Washington Post. While I like that my doc asks what I'm doing about birth control, I think that blocking women's access to treatments that are non-pregnancy-friendly is a mistake too.)