(Content note: depression, exercise talk ( Read more... )

An article of mine is finally at the stage where it will be published - all I have to do first is fiddle with the bibliography a bit. I'm trying to hold things together to do that. It makes things a bit brighter ( Read more... )

I seem to have largely contained the worst of the brain crap to the point where life is more 'dismal around the edges' than 'three minute toxic explosion warning'. I can cope with that, mostly, through a lot of practice. That's not to say I don't find it frustrating. The only way to move safely out of the room with the red button of toxic braincrap ( Read more... )

So, I fear that the invasion of the toxic brain crap may be trying to repeat itself. Somehow I find knowing what might be coming scarier than stumbling into it unawares. Birthdays are always a flashpoint so I'll give things a bit longer to die down before really worrying.

The first almost-week back ( Read more... )

It's a bit bittersweet really. About a year ago I was sat in the bedroom that was the site of much of Ducki's adolescence being periody, taking stock of my life and coming up with all sorts of things that could do with improving and ways of doing that. I spent a lot of time looking into options for getting fit in my local area. I made detailed ( Read more... )

Sometime about a year ago I was posting a whole lot of goals I hoped to achieve. Some were ambitious and some would look like no-brainers to most people. Some were location-specific and hence stopped being relevant over the summer. Some were supplanted in time/energy terms by the big fuck-off move we did at the start of September. So, it's been a ( Read more... )

Captain Awkward: 'The stinking pile of wordpoop that is I'm not going to choose a side'

We have our housewarming in a few weeks - it was going to be Halloween but I ended up with a late teaching shift that day (my shifts suck every other week, but at least it isn't every week!) so we put it back to a week where I'm off on Fridays instead. It would have been doable on the original date, kind of, but combining 'let's have a party after ( Read more... )

My attempts to be eco-friendly have taken a bit of a battering since we moved. We were spoiled in Stirling - food waste collections that included cooked and non-vegetable food, tetrapaks could go in the normal recycling, everyone got a free compost bin when the council stopped collecting garden waste last winter - I knew it was probably better than ( Read more... )