I am safe. I have class on Monday evenings, but I had not even started to drive over to Columbus. Some of my friends were in the extra long lockdown area in class, but the nice thing about doing grad school in social work is that I know 95% of the professors in my school know exactly what to do in terms of working with a bunch of people in a ( Read more... )

I am fairly certain I've talked around this or brought it up in comments a few times but ( Read more... )

Three things make a post?

1: I finally fulfilled my lifelong two-year long dream of getting The Queerest Little Youth Group That Could to do introductions with name, preferred pronoun, and touch preferences (aka "Do you like hugs?" because it solicits the same information and is hella less creepy ( Read more... )

So I'm sort of getting into Imzy, thanks to Azz's kind invite. It feels sort of like a cross between Tumblr, LJ/DW comms, and the golden old school days of message boards. And not just in a fannish way, it's hitting my "home" buttons in a way directly related to the fact that my first internet home was a book discussion board called Readerville ( Read more... )

The beginning of the new school year is approximately when I try some new activity to see if it helps my productivity. This has been how I discovered Unfuck Your Habitat, the Pomodoro Method, SuperBetter (which doesn't really work for me, unlike the others), etc ( Read more... )

- Changing back to Ativan = slightly lower dose = extra anxious today ( Read more... )

if anyone wants to body-double for anxious fandom friend (that is, me) by hanging out on Skype or something to keep me on track and keep the brain weasels distracted, hit me up, please.

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( Content note: Trump, racism, my father, and American politics. Plus bonus Brexit racism too! )

( Content note: Sarcastic Brexit rant from an only marginally informed USian outsider. )

So...at some point hearing
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