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A brief history of my mental illness.
LiveJournal used to be my platform of choice. Then Facebook happened. But much of my blogging on my mental illness has been here. If you're going to continue looking, then here's the place to be. Much of my posts over the past few years have been about my mental state ( Read more... ) -
Confessions of an extremely reluctant Likud voter
Note: This is written in English because it's my mother tongue and even though I've lived in Israel for ten years and am mostly fluent I'm a lazy bastard and I find it easier to express myself in English. If you have a problem with it, feel free to bugger off ( Read more... ) -
This war is really starting to wear on me.
This is my fourth war as an Israeli. Four wars in the nine and a half years since I moved here.- 2006: The so-called "disengagement", in which thousands of Israelis were forcibly removed from their homes in Gaza, leaving Gaza completely without any Israeli presence whatsoever, led to the vacuum of power in which the Hamas terrorist regime took hold ( Read more... )
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Zombies, RUN! 5k training: Week 1, runs 2, 3; Week 2, run 1
A slight delay, but don't worry, I'm actually keeping up with the program.
Week 1, Run 2
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Couch to 5k... with Zombies, RUN!: Week 1, Workout 1
First, a quick thing on methods of measurement (because, SCIENCE!): I weigh myself almost every day, first thing after waking up, before I drink or eat anything, after I go to the bathroom, and with as little clothes as possible, to get the most accurate weight that's not affected by things that are not me. My scale measures to 100g. I'll convert ( Read more... ) -
Couch to 5k... with Zombies, RUN!
I am in pain. My throat is burning from being incredibly dry due to increased breathing rate. My lungs hurt because they haven't had to process that much gas exchange that rapidly in a long time. My leg muscles are sore. And I don't give a damn, because so help me God, I need to beat the Blerch. More importantly, I desperately need to lose weight ( Read more... ) -
Ask me why I'm a Zionist
Around 10 years ago, I was a student at York University. I wore a number of pins on my backpack, some nonsensical, some political. One of them stated simply, "Ask me why I'm a Zionist". The environment surrounding the Israel/Palestine conflict was toxic then as it is now, and unfortunately I involved myself in the debate more than I should have, ( Read more... ) -
The gluten-free experiment has failed.
A few months ago, when I initially was given the news that the Celiac diagnosis is indeed confirmed, five years worth of denial and convincing myself that it's just not true were met with a reality that I was not ready to deal with. I took a few months, started to slowly reduce the things that had gluten in them, attempted to prepare myself ( Read more... ) -
Three weeks on the celiac diet and I'm fucking losing it.
Some ignoramus asked me recently if I'm feeling better now that I'm on the diet ( Read more... ) -
Because the celiac diet is nominally better than cancer
If you've missed the drama up until this point, a quick recap from Facebook:
6 January at 15:39
6 January at 21:08
7 January at 10:45
7 January at 14:55
9 January at 13:29
10 January at 13:50
26 January at 18:45I'm gonna come out and admit it: I was a bit of an asshole. I was also incredibly pissed off. Really fucking pissed off. And I'm still ( Read more... )