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In college I took a class called “Pregnancy and Childbirth in America” that involved getting an oral history of your birth from your mother, if you were so lucky to have her around. I’m extremely lucky that I was and am, further because my mother was thinking about me and planning for me from long before she even got pregnant, so her history was heartwarming and quite thorough.
One thing I was totally unprepared for was her discussion of people touching her pregnant belly. We Meils don’t much love being touched and DO much love a good story, so I always wondered if she was exaggerating a bit…but Jessica’s piece on celeb gestation introduces the topic too convincingly for me to overlook!
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/05/20/new_york_times_pregnancy_on_the_red_carpet_stop_leering_at_pregnant_stars.html
She makes the point better than I could, but as if being in a pregnant body you can’t control very well (which I know assumes the privilege of being able to control your body to a degree) isn’t uncomfortable enough, now you’re a public object :P
also, imagine being on the other side of this: http://imgur.com/gallery/skej2to
I gain weight in my tummy easily so you have been warned: NEVER ASK ME IF I AM PREGNANT. IF I WANT YOU TO ASK ME ABOUT IT I WILL WEAR A TSHIRT EXTENDING SUCH AN INVITATION.
OOF
Family (vacation) planning - v.1
My nuclear family is planning a vacation to Hawaii in August.
Since I travel quite a bit for work on fairly short notice (at a very fast-moving company that I love) planning a trip 4 months from now is semi-absurd for my lifestyle. (I had a completely different job + boss 4 months ago and another set 4 months before that.)
However, my little brother is in law school and my mother and father work in more traditional offices, so tightening up an agenda, flights & hotels asap has become a family requirement.
Besides choosing Kauai as our home base, we have a lot of holes to fill & need to pull it together fast.
Kayak & TripAdvisor have been quite helpful so far in parsing price, location & popularity, but I’m also trying to pull together something more visual for my mom to review on her ipad.
So, later this week it’s on to pinterest, findery, and caterina’s original joint, flickr, to look for stuff that looks brain-breakingly beautiful.
Hopeful that some image searches will makes it easier to choose between Maui and Oahu for our last few days.
In my new life, four months from now, how do I even know what I will like/want? I’m at least somewhat confident I’ll want some awesome mental snapshots that look like stock beach photos, so here goes at narrowing the field :)
Ij (institute for Justice) Clinic for Entrepreners
this makes me very happy. from their site: “What Does the IJ Clinic Do? We don’t want legal complexities to thwart Chicago’s entrepreneurs! With our help, clients: The IJ Clinic also provides opportunities for community members to come together and learn about entrepreneurship. Every year, we host workshops, seminars and discussion groups. We are also happy to speak to business groups, community organizations or classes about how cash-strapped entrepreneurs can make their dreams reality.”
The IJ Clinic provides free legal representation for lower-income entrepreneurs in Chicago. We are not a walk-in service or help desk for urgent questions. Rather, we focus on building long-term relationships with a small group of clients. University of Chicago law students advise our clients under the guidance of IJ Clinic attorneys, so the Clinic is also a training ground for future advocates for entrepreneurs.
morning meditation via danielle morrill: zombie startups
also not to be overlooked http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
Dregs One: A response to Vice Magazine, San Francisco's people of privilege, and social workers who be fakin' the fonk:
A friend of mine sent me this article last night and it pissed me off. This morning I decided to write an open response: Social work in the Tenderloin will kill something inside of you There is no denying that the Tenderloin is a rough neighborhood. The poverty, drug peddling,…
good british food (+ I sat @ kitchen bar & the chef was NOT HAPPY with his kitchen = good entertainment)
