I'm a ridiculous person. I know this, and I fight this feeling of self-loathing pretty often. Today though it was a particularly odd day they got me a bit riled up. Well I was in Philadelphia for a conference I encountered a different type of homelessness than I was used to. I feel like in Hartford and New York City people who are homeless ( Read more... )

I like lighting Shabbos candles and love the way Christmas lights look in winter. I absolutely love being around people yet also find comfort and joy when I'm alone on a random night. I like ethereal, ambient music and clever lyrics. I absolutely love the idea I'm spending the rest of my life with this wonderful person yet also have plans in case ( Read more... )

We finally took the child to Disney World. It was an amazing trip but for none of the reasons that I thought it would be. :-) basically from ride one we realized that the kid really does not like rides. If it wasn't a dislike of being jostled around, then he didn't like how fast things moved, or he didn't like screens being in his face, or he didn' ( Read more... )

As I prepare to take my entire family to Disney World in the next few weeks, I have to reflect on how blessed and privileged we are to travel as much as we do. Well I know that some of these trips are not the best financial decisions I could have made, each one of them represents a very unique time in our lives. Outside of countless trips to New ( Read more... )

So I have not been diagnosed with anxiety and haven't really even considered that. However I have to wonder when I have weeks like this. :-) I say this because this week has been going pretty awesome. I'm working on many different projects but all of them are timed out so that I'm not overly stressed out. I'm sleeping well, working out and doing ( Read more... )

I was recently speaking with a colleague about how the digital age is really changing the whole profession of teaching and education in general. Prior to the need to standardize education that was necessary in the industrial revolution to get the type of workers and educated populace that was needed to work in factories and whatnot, most of the ( Read more... )

As we approached mid-to-late December I have to look back at this year in all in wonder. This year I became a woman in terms of hormones which is just kind of f*****-up considering I've always had wicked high testosterone in my body. It's throwing me for a loop and has a lot to do with my personal identity and it's something that I'm still ( Read more... )

Leaving all of these stream-of-conscious livejournal entries while I drive to work using Speech-to-Text is probably not going to reflect well on me if I suddenly pass away without editing them. I've been thinking a lot about death and other things over the last few days as I've had a muscle pain in my neck that started a little bit the day before. ( Read more... )

So, in talking to a friend today I think I finally found a way to explain some of the things that happen in my head. I was recently involved in a car accident and if seen a couple accidents happen on the road since then. And is made me jumping in the car and has made me feel very perplexed about how my brain works. I don't want to use terms like ( Read more... )

I am realizing that I am a simple person. :-) I appreciate a good Walt Disney World podcast, did you know about Harry Potter, sunsets and nature and laughing with my family. Unfortunately this also means that I am absolutely 100% not cool. I find potty humor disgusting, I'm in the mood to laugh about some things oh, most of the time I can't help ( Read more... )