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Jered made some great Valentine's Day Cards that I gave out at the clinic today. Stop by his site to check them out. I was very impressed!
This week I've got a lot going on. Tomorrow my day starts at 8 am when I have to attend an in-service at the health center to be fitted for a respirator in case of SARS (or something like that), then I'm off to work until 3, office hours from 3-5, client at 5, and then class from 7-9:45 pm. Long day ahead!
Thursday starts equally early with an 8 am division meeting, class from 9-11:30, work for two hours, class until 4:15, and clients from 5:30-9:30. Two marathon days.
Usually I have Fridays off which makes the long days somewhat more bearable, but this Friday is the VACES grad student conference. I'm presenting with a group of my classmates on our experience working in a student run family counseling clinic. Should be fun stuff. Our presentation is from 5-6 pm, so I am hoping that people show up.
This weekend I'm planning on sleeping. That is it. Just sleeping. After 8 am wake ups and 10 pm homecomings I am going to need a little shut eye.
Jered and I spent V-day at home. I made steak and rice pilaf with asparagus, it was quite nice. Better than anything we could've gotten at a restaurant and cheaper too! For dessert we're having lindt truffles left over from Christmas. I love that we aren't buying into the commercialism of Valentine's Day. Guys have it tough, there is an awful lot of pressure from the media telling guys and gals that diamonds and chocolate are the only way to express love. Why should we let other people tell us what we like and should come to expect? Diamonds don't mean much to me. Chocolates nice, but what does it mean? Sure, its nice when your significant other goes the extra mile and does something special for you, but how many commercials have you seen where a woman gets a man a gift? I haven't seen a single one. So men love women, and are expected to show it by spending as much as they can afford on rocks and cocoa, and women (presumably love these men back!), are expected to stand by and wait for their cliched roses and chocolates. Love it.
Sorry for the cynicism. I just believe that love is more than something we should stop and think about once or twice a year. For me, love is a mutual respect and a constant process. I understand that some guys might want to express their love by buying flowers and chocolates, and that's okay! I'm not trying to say that we should all poo-poo Valentine's Day, I just feel that the media has really given us a warped look at what we as women should come to expect.

Back to watching the Olympics, Happy Valentine's Day!