Crafts

Dammit, I planned ahead. I started work in September, even. And yet I still have three gifts undone for the holidays, even assuming that I write off one gift as going out in January. In fact, the one gift I have done, I probably won't get the address for until tonight -- too late to mail it.

I am this close to asking all the folks I have gifts planned for if they'll accept an art commission (done by colored pencils, marker, or pen-and-ink, probably at Mom's kitchen table) with the promise that they will get their gift sometime before spring.

...Life or Health of the Mother...

Following post is political. You can disagree, or not, but keep things polite.

So, I saw this post on my feedreader today. For those of you who don't follow the link, it talks about a New York Emergency Room nurse who is suing her employer because she was required to assist in an emergency second trimester abortion. She claims that the hospital should have found another nurse to assist.

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I feel like I need to quote Cordelia Vorkosigan here -- a book character from Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga. She once said that she believed in a god and immortal souls, which meant that she always put people before ideas. Because if some part of people lived forever, they were more important than ideas, which didn't.

* Except maybe for people who cannot afford anything else, since ERs are obligated to treat everyone, regardless of payment ability. But my thought on Health Care are another rant entirely.

** Not funny. More along the lines of 'making me want to punch people.