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Ah, my brain. There you are.
So odd. When my car slid off the road, I didn't even realize it at first, and then - possibly because everything was happening so slowly (truly slowly, not shocky slowly) - I never got seriously scared. I was alarmed when I realized I was heading toward the retaining wall and relieved when I didn't hit it, and exasperated through the process of ( Read more... ) -
I don't have a 'oh whoops' icon. I should remedy that.
I don't love snow. Not most of the time. I want to love snow, but I only have an occasional burst of enjoyment from it. I blame a lot of this on too much urban living, which isn't really fair: I look at snow and think about digging my car out and traffic congestion, but digging my car out is something I might have to worry about anywhere. ( Read more... ) -
And to think I used to be good at math.
Plea to anyone out there who has a better grip on comparing health insurance plans than I do ( Read more... ) -
emotional vocabulary
To anyone who cares to answer:
What is the difference between 'sad' and 'unhappy' to you?
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No Safety
I am amused. In rereading King of the Dead, I discover that the title of this journal - which I imported from the title of my LiveJournal and so have been using for more than 17 years - is a misquote. The actual quote is 'There is no safety in this life ( Read more... ) -
The image is striking...the first time...
I have just, with frustration more than sadness, returned to Audible my purchase of R. A. MacAvoy's Lens of the World. I dearly love the book and was looking forward to listening to the whole series over the next couple weeks of commuting, but I could not cope with the narration ( Read more... ) -
And he wants to come back next week.
I saw an adolescent today whose mother used to force him into psych hospitals, counseling, psych meds, all based on fictitious stories about his behavior and mental health, before she abandoned him altogether to relatives and never looked back.* For him to choose to go into counseling again on his own account - this time to deal with the effects ( Read more... ) -
In Media Res by any means necessary
Many years ago, friends told me I should watch a show called Farscape, and leant me some terrible-quality VHS tapes (I did say many years ago) of Season 1 episodes. I was entranced from the first episode: so much world-building, happening so quickly and elliptically. A whole set of plot and relationships being revealed woven through the quite ( Read more... ) -
My scheduled viewing has been interrupted--
My TV-watching plans, following up on suggestions, have been derailed; I have an adolescent client who wants me to see the anime he likes so he can talk about it with me, so I'm checking out Naruto ( Read more... ) -
Armistice Day
I can't - or I won't - call it Veteran's Day. It's not that I don't respect veterans. I do. I'd be more than happy for them to have a holiday. It's that the Armistice was something very specific and worth remembering in its specificity, on the day, at the hour and minute. It feels to me that broadening that out to all veterans of all wars ( Read more... )