I love this quote by Ann Coulter: Liberals go to therapy. Conservatives go to church. (Right Wing News compiled her best quotes from last year — most of them are too long, but some of them are real gems). It’s so true, isn’t it? Priests, pastors, confessors — they’re really like shrinks (is shrink a derogatory term?)
I stopped seeing mine. Not for any particular reason other than I’ve been too lazy to call my insurance to see what it’d cost me to keep seeing her. But I also felt like I’d go in and just sort of sit there, not sure what to talk about. We spent the first session talking about my mother, then she never came up again and she was the reason I was there in the first place!
I had four sessions with her and in two of them she asked if I thought I had a drinking problem. And I said no both times (btw, I’m quite confident I do not have a drinking problem). So when I woke up on the morning of my 4th scheduled apointment with a raging hangover, I called in sick — I wasn’t about to go in there after I’d just told her I didn’t have a drinking problem, hung over on a school morning! I’m sure she would’ve been suspect of the validity of my previous denials. Besides, I was too hungover to talk.
So I’ve started to blog about more personal things again. Mostly because I’m no longer worried about future employers finding this blog. If you search for me, there isn’t anything I’m really ashamed of online. No naked photos of me (at least none with my face — haha, just kidding, potential future employer!), no stories about late night drugfests (just the occasional boozefest with friends), no compromising videos, no crime or violence. Just my raw voice. Oozing with sarcasm and heavy handed with profanity. It’s me! Yay!
I read this in the news today about a settlement in racial harassment suit against a health clinic. It obliquely reminded me of some of Ann Coulter’s quotes. Racism in code words — think about it — that someone would come up with coded language (not very well coded) to deride someone else because of race. Sneak attack racism. Who the fuck comes up with this stuff? And how much hate must you have in your black coal heart to think this is ok — in a place of healing even. Tsk tsk.