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reflecting
I've been digging through my photostream again, looking at the photos from about a year ago. I absolutely ache for this girl. She has no idea of the kind of hell that is coming, and also that it will eventually be okay. And then not okay and then okay again. And that this cycle will continue for the rest of her life. A beautiful thing, ( Read more... ) -
Athletes at Every Size
For a long time I have carried around this idea in my head that I am too fat to exercise. Despite all of the messages out there telling us we *should* be exercising (because otherwise we'll be bad fatties...ooo), there is a distinct lack of actual imagery, videos, photos, etc of fat people in the act of exercising. The media portrays all athletes ( Read more... ) -
Calling all Fat Activists and wannabes!
Krissy and I brainstormed over a lovely brunch yesterday about having a central hub for fat activists to set up profiles and share the projects they are working on. She then went home and created this awesome site! If you are at all interested in fat activism, please check it out and join us :)
http://fatactivistnetwork.ning.com/
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Writer's Block: Novel Ideas
It will be the cheesiest, most cliched, most hackneyed novel this world has ever seen...I can't wait!
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Looking back
I've been looking through my flickr photostream today. I was doing the 365 project for a while so I have about a bajillion photos of myself from February to now. In most of them I look like this:
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In the basement
I can see this window from my bed but I didn't notice all the spiderwebs until I saw it during the day. Clearly this is the hot spider hangout in my bedroom. All it needs is a little flashing neon sign....I can just imagine it..."Winston's" :D
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literary fun
Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST
from Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion by Pema ( Read more... ) -
stunted
Today I got a call from a parent who wanted to disable the discussion board feature because "I don't want my son to be able to talk to any of the other online students". I get the feeling that kid is going to have a whole lot to share with his therapist someday.... -
this is not my userpic :(
After a few weeks of turning it over in my head, I came to a realization today: I don't want to be a graphic designer. Sure, I enjoyed the class I took this summer and I do like fiddling around with layouts and things like that, but I honestly just don't care all that much about fonts, I don't have all that much drawing ability, and when my profs ( Read more... )
