high rec

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You find yourself in the midst of unwanted dynamics, doing your best to squeeze goodness out of it. That's no small feat. In the middle of obligations, to still search for joy and purpose? That takes resilience. Give yourself credit.

I need the rest as I quietly gear up to get in my jeep and hit the road. Because nothing/nobody is stopping me...

One of the funnest days at work I had last year was 100+ med students asked what "dead" is and watching them work on an answer they could all get behind, and never succeed. I would say a person could die in the time it would take them, but that depends on your definition of dead. Given that the heart-lung machine will keep a torso 'alive' indefinitely, and if you don't count toes/fingers (sometimes arms/legs) lost to dry gangrene (which you cannot use as defining because that would be ableist), it's tough to call it! Ask them how many have advanced directives for themselves (none), or for their elders (almost none), or if they know how much those are worth (not much, but that's not why they don't have them). Ask them how many are too terrified of death to ever talk about it except when required to do so (by someone like me), apx 20%. These are the reasons I want that job in Phoenix - med students are as dark and fucked up as nurses, know less and have way more freedom to "contemplate" = I I can very happily fuck with them allllll daaayyy. But. Without that NEH $ they stole, much harder for me to bust that move. If I fully trusted Nebraska about there being an actual job, which I do not. IFFY at best, all of that. If I had to predict (read the signs), Nebraska will have a new job in the fall using all that I gave them as his own and to him it'll feel like it is his, because I am (was). And that'll be the last of that ... but we shall see. 

reading in bed for hours ft Dball bitching his head off at delivery season