met a pro-life former state rep today!

I made 3 signs today in preparation for the TX Rally for Life on Saturday. Hollllaaaa!

Also, awesomeness this morning when a conservative former state representative, Arlene Wohlgemuth, came to my Social Work Policy class. My teacher had warned the class ahead of time that the speaker would be sooooo opposite what we believe -- because apparently everyone in a class believes the same thing -- and just gave us a heads up that a conservative woman would be speaking to us. Turns out, she was awesome. Although she shared a few different opinions that the majority of the class, she communicated so well that it was a really friendly discussion.

Of course, secretly I wanted pro-life issues to come up the whole time... and then, like clockwork, the minute that class was over- someone asked a question ("How did it make you feel when Texas Monthly named you the Worst of the Worst?") which led to her talking about her awesome pro-life work, or as my classmates might call it, "her anti-choice destruction of women's rights. That very last minute just made my day. I went to shake her hand afterwards and thank her for her pro-life work and ended up discovering that I have random pro-life mutual friends with my liberal sweet professor. LOL. Trying to figure this teacher out.

Seriously though, now I'm googleing Wohlgemuth and realizing.... wow. I wish she could've spoken the whole class about the policy changes she has seen in the pro-life realm of Texas. Maybe a future Bobcats for Life speaker?!?!?!? Say whaaat?!!! E-mailing her in 3... 2... 1...

rallying the troops

We've got a big weekend coming up on Saturday. The TX Rally for Life is being held in Austin and, if by some miracle my dreams are brought to fruition, we will have 100 representatives from TX State there. I'm actually guessing that realistically we'll be looking more at somewhere around 60, but "shoot for the moon," right?

Yesterday instead of a regular meeting we had a poster-making meeting. I personally had a lot of fun and it was nice to see some of the group back together for our first official Bobcats for Life event of the semester. I really like the people who show up to the meetings; we really have a lot of fun together.

Anyways, here's some pictures from yesterday taken by the wonderful Rebecca Zamora.

Roe's 39th Anniversary

made this for the B4L FB page.

MSW

Researching and writing this afternoon. Yesterday I had orientation into my school of social work program. It was a lot to take in; basically planned my life and classes from today until August 2014 when I will *hopefully* graduate with my Masters in Social Work (MSW).

I decided today to utilize the university library research databases and can't figure out why I haven't been all over this thing before! Then I wandered across an article about increasing the number of people working in the "abortion care" industry. The article was authored by two PhD's, an MD, and..... an MSW.

That just made me stop and think for a little bit. Seeing those credentials that I am working so hard to earn being used for research on something I'm working so hard to end... it just seems so ironic. The conflicts of values within a field filled with so much good intention and compassion will always exhaust my heart to dwell upon.

Back to my research!

2012 Resolutions

A little late, but better late than never!

A few resolutions to share:

• take care of myself. take medicine, vitamins on schedule.
• write substantially. with conviction and commitment.
• stretch daily.
• make more to-do lists. prioritize items.
• stop selling myself short. be confident in my work. do something to be proud of.

That's all for now.