in the process of reading the newspaper, i just came across this little comment in an article discussing the contreversy of giving this new HPV vaccine to free to girls in grades 6-8.

"At the Chatham Christian School in Ontario, head administrator Hilda Roukema says the parent board will make the final decision, but she plans to recommend against it. The school teaches abstinence, and saving sex for marriage. “We don't want to encourage our Grade 8 students to be sexually active,” she says. “My hunch is that we're going to say we're not going to do it.”
This attitude frustrates Marg Johnston, a mother in Kitchener whose 13-year-old daughter, Sydney, received the vaccine at school last week. She and her husband will pay out of their own pockets for her 15-year-old daughter, a Grade 10 student, to get the needle.
“Don't bury your head in the sand,” Ms. Johnston says. “At some point they are going to be sexually active. Even if your daughter is a virgin on her wedding night, what about her partner?”

ZING.


in other news... i've been having nightmares again, not just one a night but a bunch. after waking up from one... i fall back into another. after weeks of not having any dreams (that i remember), i've cycled into this. i'd kinda like to know why.

anyyyyway...

woke up this morning with a hangover and tingling in my left hand. the prior a result of my own fault, the latter as a result from my shitty shoulder. wicked. i actually had a really good time yesterday. did some "team bonding" with the group i'm orienting with. we drank from 1230 in the afternoon until about 930 when i left cause i NEEDED to go home. thankfully the brit couple were walking my way. i found out that i'm really fortunate to be with this group. they're supportive, intelligent, funny and like most nurses... love to party. i love the fact that each individual nurse comes from a different unique background of jobs and learning experiences and specialities. the stories that get tossed around a table are insane. to the outside ear, we must sound rude and disrespectful and disgusting. we speak in a language that most lay people can't comprehend, tell the grossest stories involving every body fluid or cavity known to man and some animals, deal with some of the best people we'll ever meet and most of the worst. we've been punched and kicked and choked and verbally abused... saved lives and helped end others and we've all lived to tell about it and ultimately laugh about it. thats how we care and how we cope.

hahaha.. i love it.

right now... i've got a twitch in my thumb and an empty tummy. this girl needs some protein and some serious electrolytes.

also.. its at least 15 degrees outside WHY THE FUCK IS THE HEAT ON????