I saw myself in the subway today.  Twenty-five or so and Asian and wearing lipstick, but otherwise, me.

She was stimming like crazy.

People seemed to both avoid and ignore her, giving her twice the personal space of anyone else, but also never really watching or noticing her.  I watched her intently, at first in surprise - because I've ( Read more... )

This will give you a headache, but it’s a headache worth getting I think:

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…The scariest opinion I have heard about this well-done little video is “I think that’s probably accurate, but I don’t want to watch it because I’d rather put off having to think about that world for as long as I can”.

That’s a pretty terrifying summation of the modern view ( Read more... )

(Title brought to you by the New England Fireball meteor that scared the pants off of us the other night!)

Hey, Internet!  I've been doing too many things to count; I am buried in projects, and I would be completely overwhelmed with stress too if it weren't for lovely people in my life insisting that I also exercise like gangbusters - so I' ( Read more... )

Well, I'll be damned.

That's why I say "I'm sorry" too much.  In business emails, to friends who see me cry, to total strangers in passing - that's why I do all of that over-apologizing.

(Shockingly, it turns out that the answer is not "because I have female body-parts"!  Who would have guessed, right?)

I do it because I mean to ( Read more... )

Are you considering, planning, executing or finalizing an adaptation to a polyphsic schedule, and feeling the need for some expert assistance?

Well then, I have great news!  You can now hire me for personal help with your schedule, adaptation, or really anything else.  :D

…That's right, after years of offering my help for free as ( Read more... )

Just…wow.  O.O

Pages and pages and pages…is it making me a better writer, or just giving me an out from hearing critiques that would be useful to me?

I don't know, but I've never really found the happy medium between "anonymous enough to feel safe to write honestly" and "actually read by anyone", lol.  So I write a whoooooole lot of ( Read more... )

Oo, I think I've solved a big one:  The age-old problem (to me) of needing three very specific things from my personal organization software* and process/system, and having them be VERY hard to get in ways that don't interfere with or ruin each other.

(*not that personal org should or must be done with software, but it's inevitable that at ( Read more... )

So, I'm a big fan of principles.  "Being principled" or living by priniciples is making descisions based on how well your actions align with what good is.  It requires thinking about what the "Principles of What's Good" are to you ahead of time, and then controlling your emotions and biases in the moment and following their guidance instead.  I ( Read more... )

Today I randomly figured out that using capitalized passive verbs without subjects* is an elegant and simple way to write a phrase like "our God-given lives" in such a way that it fits with my spiritual understanding (I'm not a theist, if you weren't aware).

Thus:  We practice gratitude daily for our Given lives.

…and that's how ( Read more... )

Sleep is a civil right.  And not just any sleep - good sleep, correct sleep, sleep that leaves you rested, is a civil right.

I feel weird stating that so strongly, but I feel like I almost never see it stated.  And isn't it pretty obvious? 

• Food is clearly a civil right
   
• Sleep, like food and a few other basics ( Read more... )