Change of plans, I'm actually gonna move back to Kansas! o.O

I almost forgot it's stabby needle day, 😭

It feels very surreal that this is my last week in my current place. Or that this isn't just a move to a new apartment, it offers the possiblity of multiple radical shifts in what my life has been like over the past 4+ years. I hope the overwhelm is more bearable this time around.

Went to bed feeling migrainey, woke up still feeling migrainey... possibly all I will manage to do today is drive across town to pick up a wardrobe box from U-Haul and also croissants from fancy croissant place, 🫠

The Marine Mammal Center has rescued a sea otter pup in Morro Bay, California, after it was separated from its mother.

My therapy homework was to take an edible and watch Grey's Anatomy but ~apparently~ last night's episode features a massive bus crash, and bus un/safety was a major theme of today's session sooo... I think I may need to just stick with New Girl instead! 😬

I am not someone who's into the paranormal (like at all!) but, uhh, actually, I also need answers to each one of these questions!

Me: "[Supervisor] told me today that I know more than I allow myself to know. Which, 😑" GVD: Most "I told you so's" in this line of work are tragic but this? This is delightful!" Me: "Yeahhh, I knew you'd like this one. 😑"

...this week has been a truly horrific news cycle for survivors of sexual violence and now former foster care children/youth and/or adoptees. Which is also to say, I might be offline for the next several days. :/

I was looking over my cache of Adoption🥚 social justice stuff and found something that was I think posted? Or maybe I accidentally found it. Back in 1972, Black social workers were begging for Black children not to be placed in white families.

the right loves #adoption for all the reasons you would guess: an “alternative” to abortion; an alternative to social support for people in crisis; a general disregard for human rights; MONEY; profit-seeking from gross social & material inequality. the problem is that liberals love adoption too.

...I don't know enough swear words for this. 🫠

I didn't realize this until just now with this Zoom I'm in but it seems all psychoanalysts have British or East Coast accents in my head and it's actually quite jarring to hear Texan accents instead, 🤣

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"I have spent my entire life trying to get away from the loneliness of being abandoned by my parents....You can't pre-grieve your parents as much as you might want to or need to." -how to lose your mother Molly jong-fast

It’s horrifying how many people seem convinced by the “the victims were mostly teens—so it’s not that bad!” argument. As if the sexual abuse of women and teen girls isn’t equally as egregious. We don’t need a hierarchy of sexual violence. We can just say that all rape is wrong.

This is your regular reminder that most men who sexually abuse children do not meet the clinical definition of a pedophile. They simply want to abuse their power and no one is more vulnerable to abuse than a child.

Lolll @ the text the property manager just sent reminding everyone that ~marijuana~ isn't allowed on property

I... have somehow put myself in a situation where tomorrow I have 8am supervision, 6 clients, therapy, and then (maybe but also at this point maybe not!) a 2hr zoom talk with a psychoanalytic poet. 😬

"Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be, among many other things, our most violent form of nostalgia." ~Adam Phillips, Missing Out

Dear therapists, I beg of you, when working with single people, please hold both being single and being in relationship as outcomes with equal potential to be fulfilling Neither without grief, and neither without joy But, bear in mind that the world treats single people esp women very differently

News from Seattle in the late fall/winter:

Hell yeah, Seattle!!!

So cool to see starfish in November!

Seal!

Holy hells, Seattle did it!!!!

😍😍😍

Looks like I'm gonna have to lay down on the dock again! 😁

Crab feast! 😬

NOT a banana slug, 😅

GVD, on premature ct endings: "It's hard to talk about one's unconscious dynamics. People find all sorts of ways to avoid it." Me: "Shh, stop talking about me." GVD: "Was I talking about you? I thought I was talking about people!"

I suspect it annoys GVD when I insinuate I'm a terrible therapist or supervisor but it annoys me when they disagree because, like, how the fuck would they even know*?! 😂 *I know, I know; I'm just... in a weird-bad headspace this week. Blame it on the move! 🙃

Very glad to see this!

Howww is this only my second workday of the week. Feels like it should be Thursday already. Or Friday!!! 😭

Next: #WASHINGTON, the 3rd state which is *newly-implementing* robust P.A. policy for 2026 in response to the tax credit expiration. Notice how Gold plans go from costing an avg. of 24% *more* than Silver this year to an avg. of 28% *less* starting in January?

📣 OK, as promised, here's my *deeper* dive into how 14 states have instituted #ACA pricing policy which will *dramatically* mitigate the expiring tax credits for a significant portion of enrollees...IF enrollees take advantage of it: acasignups.net/25/11/11/the...

The BetterSleep white/other color noise commercials on Hulu irritate me so much. It's all just static!!! 😤

Aurora over Seattle tonight: #seattle #aurora

Purple hues visible from Washington state by Snoqualmie!! Big aurora show ahead tonight if you can find clearing #wawx #aurora

UPDATE on Northern Lights sightings across Western Washington as geomagnetic storm arrives a bit early :O emeraldcityweather.com/massive-sola... #wawx

To the east, to the east, everything you own in a box to the east.

Amazing!! Got to see naked eye visible #aurora from Federal Way, WA…in the light polluted Seattle metro area! Shots from iPhone 15! #wawx

northern lights from the seattle suburbs #seattle #weather #wawx #pnw #nature #naturephotography #photo #photography

Chatting about saints and,

[redacted Midwestern state], *damn*! 😍

The northern lights!

📣 OK, I'll be posting a longer thread version about this post tomorrow, but since I've been promising it for days now I wanted to at least get it out there: There Will Be Graphs: A deeper dive into how 14 states are dramatically mitigating the expiring tax credits. acasignups.net/25/11/11/the...

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