How much of your life is run by a schedule? Do you schedule your free time or vacations? How much? How have your scheduling habits changed over the course of your life? Me: I need to be at work on time. I schedule appointments with clients and keep them. Other than the bare minimum required to function in society, I find I've become the anti-scheduler. I plan a vacation insofar as arranging a place to sleep. I have made a complete turnaround. In my teenage years and twenties, I was all about the scheduling. I had a dayplanner. When I was on a strict diet, I had to plan out what I was going to eat when, when I would buy food and when I would cook it. If I wanted anything fun to happen in my life I had to plan that out well in advance. I think I just believed this was how things needed to be. Then we were forced to take a completely unplanned vacation, which sparked our relocation out here. Living out here, the whole culture is unscheduled. In the, shops might or might not be open, depending on the weather and the surf. The town locals are laid back and the first nations people are utterly, completely unscheduled, which has been an education on its own. Due to having to travel from isolated regions, first nations people are hours and hours late for medical appointments and sometimes even a day or more late. It's given me a new perspective on planning and even the illusion of control.
Neff: rights progress in this new Congress? By Neff, columnist, 8:52am EST A new team took the field last week, with the GOP flexing its muscle and might after big victories in the midterm election. As it prepared for a new on Capitol Hill, the Human Rights Campaign did some analysis that led its staff to conclude, in part, “Last year’s elections that resulted in the loss of the House to an anti-equality leadership, along with more anti-LGBT senators, certainly impede — but not entirely stop — pro-LGBT federal legislative efforts.” HRC was able to do some interesting number crunching, even before the first votes of the new session: • In the th Congress, we had pro-LGBT representatives in the House, anti-LGBT representatives and 65 reps with mixed records. • In the th Congress, we have pro-LGBT representatives in the House, anti-LGBT representatives and 43 with mixed records. • In the th Congress, we have 53 more anti-equality lawmakers in the House. • In the th Congress, we had 42 pro-LGBT senators, 35 anti-LGBT senators and 23 senators with mixed records. • In the th Congress, we have 40 pro-LGBT senators, 40 anti-LGBT senators and 20 with mixed records. • In the th Congress, we have more anti-equality senators than in the last session. Those stats make clear why the push to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell” could not be delayed, and why so wish we had accomplished much more with the Democratic majorities of the past two years. Now, as HRC says, we face real roadblocks to progress and real threats that damaging legislation might move in the House, which was the case for a decade — from to. continues .