This is just a collection of thoughts that have been rattling around my head for a while. There's no conclusion because I have no recommendations or solutions. In other words, academic post is academic.

So, Red Tails. It's not a bad movie, but it's not really a good movie. It starts after the story begins and ends before the story is finished ( Read more... )

( Lia continues to talk too much about history repeating itself )

Went to the doctor on Friday. Need to elevate my feet, which I'm not doing now, and consume less sodium, which I'm going to try to do starting tomorrow. And apparently, I have benign tumors in my feet, which is sort of gross. He says we won't know what they're made of until someone cuts them out, which makes me sad because it will be that much ( Read more... )

Two things ( Read more... )

OK, so thyroid thing. I've been exhausted for weeks now and the sleep I get isn't good sleep. When I'm at work, other people keep borrowing my blankets to battle the arctic atmosphere, and I feel no need for them. I'm comfortable temperature-wise even though I'm told it's freezing. I've been, like, STARVING for the past few weeks and craving ( Read more... )

Just need to unload this from my brain.

Have you ever had someone say something to you flippantly or jokingly that just hit you in the middle of some confluence of circumstances in such a way that it managed to just knock the wind out of you?

1) I've been following Sociological Images and racebending for a while, and I can accept that I'm more sensitive to ( Read more... )

I was raised to believe/realize/understand that too much of my presence is undesirable and to be avoided at all costs. My mother was always very emphatic in explaining to me that there is a time threshold in human interaction and once I passed it, the people I cared for would no longer tolerate me, and she was careful to ensure that I observed ( Read more... )

Wow. I'm having a spate of good luck financially, of which I'm naturally suspicious, as is my way. Still I'm enjoying it. Got more than expected for my tax return, actually got tax return paperwork in the middle of January instead of early February, and the deposit showed up in my bank account a week later ( Read more... )

I guess I'll start with the obvious -- I haven't posted in ages. But there hasn't been anything to post. I'm not really sick anymore, but I'm still exhausted all the time with funky/ineffective sleeping habits. I'm frustrated with my job situation. I feel stuck in this place because my brother is kind of a snob and doesn't want to live in the ( Read more... )

I'm kind of wigging out. Like, I have all these ideas of things I want to make, but it takes time to make them and time to acquire the materials to make them, and this all has to wait anyway because I don't have money and because I have prioritized other things to make ( Read more... )