We’re out of creamer
Jul 13, 2007 Adoption, The Story of My Life
And Diet Coke. I’ve started a mean Diet Coke addiction in the past month. It used to be an occasional desperate treat when I was gunning for a deadline but Brett, in his purported efforts to spoil me, bought a big old case of it and suddenly I was hitting the ‘fridge every afternoon. And then he leaves me like this — bereft of caffeine. Damn that man!
Actually I think he’s bringing me back some from his run. He and Madison just went off and I swear the small child said they were going to stop at CVS to buy gum for her and Diet Coke for me. But I don’t want to get my hopes up.
Open Adoption Support is coming along swimmingly. We have 61 members now. I’m adding a lot of bookmarks, including links to some obscure resources. I have a list of books I need to add, too. Even if the socializing part stays fairly low-key, I’m hoping it’ll be a one-stop place to gather information about open adoption. Especially to answer the people who say that it’s too new and there hasn’t been enough research on it yet. That’s not true. There’s been quite a bit of research, which is why most adoption professionals are behind the open adoption movement.
Speaking of that — does anyone know if it’s kosher to reprint an abstract? I have no idea how abstracts are allowed to be used but I’d like to offer a resource library of open adoption studies with the abstract and information how to get the whole study but I’m not sure if abstracts have the same copyright issues that a whole study would have. I know one of you academics could tell me. (It’d be a lot easier to cut and paste then to rewrite in my own words but I’m willing to do the other if need be.)
July 13th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Welcome to the dark side. I’ve been addicted to Diet Coke since I was about 14. Needless to say I try not to think about it too much. Once a year I take myself off of it for a few weeks to either prove I’m not that addicted to it or just because I’m crazy that way.
Honesty, I’m glad to know it is just one more thing we have in common.
July 13th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
My mom gave me a case of Coke when she got buy one get one free, and I was hooked right away. I hadn’t had any coke in months. Now I am going cold turkey.