Stupid Hurts

Since my hours got cut at my night job I started hunting for a day job. The same day my night job increased my hours back to what they were previously, I was hired on at an arts and crafts store that I have been hanging out in since before I could drive.

Looking at my resume I am really only qualified to fix things or break things, but she hired me on to help her teach a class called “kids and clay” and I also get to make stuff out of clay for customers to paint. So far it is pretty interesting, initially I was more uncomfortable around the kids than I was around the drunk drag queens I deal with at the bar. But I found out if you treat them basically the same way they are all easy to keep in check.
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I did recently realize that I spent three hours playing with clay and painting and I got paid for it.

So I also got to thinking recently about an old argument that came up in a restaurant once. It involved the ethics of having kids when you couldn’t support yourself to the degree you saw fit. I got my ass chewed by girl who was working in an all night greasy spoon, who was pregnant soon later. Because she felt I was wrong for trying to get a vasectomy on the state dime, seemed to make a lot more sense than expecting the state to pay for her birth control every month for the rest of her life or worse yet having to feed her and her child for several years. I have always felt it was wrong if you had kids and you were not able to provide a comfortable and loving environment, it takes more than just money to provide this, it takes a degree of maturity and stability. I recently heard someone said they had a child partially because they like being pregnant. I have suggested celibacy in an effort to keep someone around when she didn’t like condoms and she chose not to take birth control. It made more sense to play it safe than risk a kid, plus I enjoyed her company and I still would have enjoyed even if there was not sex involved.

For some reason she didn’t see it that same way I did.

So less than common knowledge is the fact I have been trying to get a vasectomy since the beginning of this year. Honestly you think it would be a lot easier to get done. Sterilization is ultimately a much cheaper option than food stamps and diapers.

When I moved out to Ok I found out that their family planning department will cover the cost of the procedure. So I applied to have them pay for it. They sent me the card and I spent 4 hours on the phone trying to find a Doctor that will take the card. Since no family planning places provide the service you have to find a urologist. Unfortunately I live in such a small town that there are no urologist. Grrr. So after lots of phone work and aggravation I finally got the first appointment made I need to get the ball rolling. But instead of being a 6 week process like it is in Alabama for some reason here it is nearly a two month process. After my first appointment they will not see me to preform the actually procedure for 31 days later, and then whenever they decide schedule the follow up.

This means a lot of my summer plans are getting bumped to the wayside. It also means two or three weeks off my bicycle in June.