hurgh

[dragonlady7]

Violent tummy ache for about 2 hours finally yielded a brief worship session of the cold, cold porcelain goddess.
Immediate relief of tummy pain made me so giddy that I immediately went back to my desk and got right to work. Ironically enough I was more productive than I've been all week day.
In the midst of this I get a gmail chat from someone whose identity I should probably not reveal as I don't know that this was a public announcement per se, but we'll just say someone to whom I have been very close for a long time.
She is pregnant, and threw up nineteen times yesterday.
Impressive.

So I am thoroughly out-womaned.
(Also, congratulations to her, and for some reason I was more excited about her being able to use the term 'babydaddy' than the actual prospect of her producing spawn.)

Is there a word for the female version of macho? You know the type, I know you do. You know exactly what I'm talking about. It can be expressed in different ways, but you know what I mean.

Simply staying at work despite violent nausea is not womacho enough.
I might as well give up.

Actually I am attempting to eat a saltine. The success of this attempt will govern my actions for the afternoon. Should it result in a violent tummy ache there's no goddamn way I'm staying at
hurp
Fuck this, I'm going home.

Comments

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

I am totally trying to figure out who it is, but given that you and I know almost none of the same people, my chances are slim.

Hope you get better soon!

[buschibaby.livejournal.com]

Given that absolutely no-one I know (apart from you two) posts here, I can quite happily say that it's me.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

*does happy dance*
*subduedly, from bed*

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

OMG! Congratulations!
I clicked the refresh on my email while this boring lady was yammering in my ear, and when I saw your message from my LJ alerts I found myself completely incapable of interviewing her anymore.
First I hear you're getting married. Now a kid. This is like domesticity! Wow!

[buschibaby.livejournal.com]

I like to think that a shotgun wedding means I'm still somehow edgy.

Thank you!

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

I *think* it only counts as a shotgun wedding if the, erm, babydaddy was the one being dragged to the altar. :)

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

No, not necessarily. A shotgun wedding could be anyone forced into marriage with the woman to maintain her respectability. It's not like they're waiting for the baby to be born so they can do DNA tests, in places where this sort of thing happens.

Like, er, London, apparently.

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

Awesome!
We have hit nirvana.
We now live in a world where a woman must marry another woman to maintain her respectability. Yes!

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Isn't that the raddest thing ever????? I'm psyched too.

(I know, I'm terrible about responding to comments, but i was on such a roll today I figured I'd just keep going and find the old ones I forgot to answer. ;))

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

It is seriously rad. You have GOT to take photos and post them. I have to see this. :)

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

> still somehow edgy
Bwahaha!
True.
Sort of.

You're just skewing demographics all over the place.
Too bad it's not right after the civil partnerships thing was legalized, and you're therefore not one of the first couples the media would totally be all over profiling.
"Well, she knocked me up, so we had to do it-- good thing that law passed or I'd be in real trouble."

[buschibaby.livejournal.com]

The first women to do the CP thing got very acrimoniously divorced less than a year later, which must have been pretty awful after all the coverage they got.

I'm just glad that I can't get embarrassingly pissed at my own wedding - much more fun to dance and hang out and not have my civil partner grumpy with me for being an idiot. Plus, the best way of not smoking I have ever come across is to have a bun in the oven. It appears that while I have no moral code re: damaging my own body, I'm quite good about protecting a foetus from bad shit.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

> moral code

Not surprising, I think.
I hope it sticks, though. :)

> acrimoniously divorced

There was an awkward little incident in Canada when they realized, about a year after they'd legalized gay marriage, that they'd neglected to legalize gay divorce.
Bummer.

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we've written endless stories about people from elsewhere who went to MA to get married and now can't get divorced in their state, which doesn't recognize gay marriage, and also can't get divorced in MA, because the state isn't allowed to divorce non-residents. Oops.