Torn on the subject of NaNoWriMo

Today is the first day I'll get a chance to write (later this evening), and I'm still torn.

So, a poll!

[Poll #1289886]

Or, perhaps, should I given NaNo a miss this year given the state of my health?

Please click the eggsies

Tried to get a "zombie" egg and absolutely couldn't. *mutters about disappointment and shattered dreams*

/ /

My scroll with all the dragons you've helped to grow up big and strong.

Thanks, guys! :-)

Purity Balls

I'm listening to a special on purity balls on TLC, and finding it very creepy. It's quite disturbing how, in my opinion anyway, these girls are being brainwashed away from the possibility of their own freedom -- coerced into signing away their sexuality until they sign the marriage contract, forbidden from finding the mate that is really best for them, and so forth. And the way that some of the fathers look at their daughters sets off MAJOR alarms for me: perhaps I'm seeing something that's not there because of my own background of sexual abuse, or perhaps I'm more sensitive to cues that are actually present.

The girls they're interviewing sound so brainwashed, so scared of sex, and so oppressed. It's truly sad.