4/8: The Countdown

I currently have this page up and an hour and ten minutes until the nail-biting refresh. I REALLY don't want the government to shut down because, I mean that would suck. But I also desperately do not want that stupid clause revoking funding for Planned Parenthood to go through. I am lucky enough to be a rich white girl with a strong, independent, liberal mother. When I wanted to go on birth control, I told my mom that I wanted to go on birth control and she asked around work (she's a doctor) to get a recommendation for a good gyno and a month later, I was on birth control. It was easy breezy lemon squeezy. I'm not sexually active but I do have the cramps from hell and I am going to college next year and let's just say that I'm not a huge advocate of abstinence until marriage.

So no, I have never had a pregnancy scare and I can have all of my reproductive needs taken care of by a very good gynecologist who is paid primarily by the very good health insurance provided by the high-end psych hospital my mother works for. But not all of my friends are so lucky. I'm the oldest of my friends and, as such, the first to get a car. The summer I was sixteen, I received a panicked IM from my then-fifteen year old friend telling me that she'd swiped her V Card and now she was late. 2 days later, it turned out she was just late but this was not before I had located every Planned Parenthood in the greater Cincinnati area. Now my best friend has her first boyfriend that I have ever approved of and is contemplating when to swipe her own V Card. She has also informed me that I will be taking her to PP first because no fucking way is she getting pregnant!

So now I've refreshed the page and it seems like the government won't shut down and the GOP has removed that particular clause. Thank god because I have no idea where else to take my friend for cheap birth control that her mother won't find out about. Which is of course an attempt to prevent an abortion EVEN THOUGH IT WOULD RECEIVE NO FEDERAL FUNDING. Jesus Fucking Christ.

Today is awesome because: The closest thing to work I did in any of my classes today was watch Big Fish.