It's him, all right

Damn...

http://www.noertker.com/aewc/jb.htm

This is probably the most famous person I know. Well, knew.

I don't understand

It's almost two months into the new church year, and yet every week the music schedule is more confused and the communication is more erratic. Shouldn't some of this be getting worked out by now?

Understanding Sylvia Plath

There's a theory that the poet committed suicide due to her PMS. A researcher apparently charted her ups and downs with her cycle, including pregnancies, and found correlation. I think this should be considered as a possibility. When I was 17 I was almost at that point. I was living with symptoms like bursting into tears in class for no reason other than simple misery, for up to two and a half weeks a month. One day a girl in my dance class was talking about how going on the Pill had helped her PMS. I went home that day and said (almost this bluntly), "Mom, gynecologist. Pill. Now." And that's what we did. And thank all the stars in the sky that we did.

I realized today that I've now been on the Pill longer than I've been off. And no plans to change that till I absolutely must, thank you very much. Unfortunately I still have a few bad days on most months, and this one is pretty bad. Where last night I was irritable and tense, today I'm paranoid. Not only is everything about *me,* everything is about me and it's *bad.* It seems to be worse in the evening--I don't know why.

Line of attack: Drink a very strong cup of Women's Liberty tea. It's from Traditional Medicinals, it's dong quai, and it's absolutely the best thing I've found for these symptoms. Second, evening primrose capsules. The second best thing I've found. And then hope for the best, or this is going to be a very short evening out.