i keep writing emails/comments and then thinking that i should post them as a blog entry. so they are:
1. bean and i have been trawling the internet and various scientific journals for whatever information we can lay our hands on about factors in ivf success rates. one day, i came across a fascinating paper published in the journal of reproductive medicine that claimed to prove that intercessionary prayer improved ivf success rates. of course, it didn’t take long for it to come out that the main person behind the study is known as a fraud and con-man obsessed with trying to prove paranormal events. for a fleeting moment though, i considered begging you all to get down down on your knees and pray to the lord on our behalf. hallelujah!
2. once upon a time i was hanging out on az’s blog as i often do, and i followed a link to nix’s blog (i do love to blog hop) , which i then lurked on until recently, when he wrote a post called ‘the future’ that spoke to me so much that i had to post this comment:
hello - i came here via az’s blog and have been lurking - i hope you don’t mind! anyway i wanted to respond to this post because i identify so strongly with what you are saying. when i was a teenager and in my early twenties, i used to tell my mother (to her great horror) that i thought i would die before i turned 30. i seriously believed it at the time, because i just couldn’t imagine a future with me in it. how things have changed! now i am 32, and i didn’t die before 30 (though my mother did, to my horror), and i am in a very serious and lovely relationship, and we have bought a house and are trying to start a family - these are all things that i never thought would be possible. i never even dared to dream of them. and yet, and yet - like you, now i can see a future. i can see myself old and comfortable and happy pottering in my garden and cooking beautiful food for my beloved. it took me years to get to this point, but fuck it’s nice to be here. weird, but nice.
(hm, i think i need to post this on my own blog! it’s something i have been thinking about for a while)
