( Cut for politics and because this isn’t very polished. I just don’t give a damn at this point, but I want to save some of this because I need to remember it. )

The past two weeks, since DT took office, have been rough. There’s been a veritable Blitzkrieg of incompetent appointments, executive orders, bills filed to rollback protections, rude phone calls to foreign powers, and other upsetting news.

Someone posted this to one of my three secret Facebook resistance groups. It’s something that I ( Read more... )

“Growth and comfort never coexist,” Ginni Rometty said in a keynote speech. “It’s the same for people, countries and companies.”
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I need to remember this.

I’m still having trouble dragging myself out of bed in the morning. I don’t think it’s just that I’ve been sick, or that it’s getting cold and I really like snuggling under the covers first thing in the morning. Or that I haven’t had enough sleep, because I’ve really been making the effort to get to bed in time to get at least seven, preferably ( Read more... )

Coming down sick at the worst possible time has me thinking a lot about my stress levels lately, what with starting the new job and faire season hitting at exactly the same time, I might be a little stressed. I’ve been doing some reading and deep thinking about how I cope with stress and what I should be doing to take care of myself. Because I’m ( Read more... )

And then I read this, which helped my mood a teensy bit. Especially their third point.

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Do not shower with the door to the bathroom open.

You run the risk of the steam setting off the fire alarm.

Don’t do that again.

I’m an introvert, but I’m also a pretty functional one. I present to a lot of people as an extrovert, which is fine, and probably saves me a bunch of trouble in the long run (even if it is exhausting).

But I have friends who are WAY more introverted than me. And The Ferret had a recent post that reminds me that when they’re off on their phones ( Read more... )

The key to resilience is trying really hard, then stopping, recovering, and then trying again ( Read more... )

“Axel told me this very early on, that when you're writing a comic-book series, a solo series, if you take that character out and plug any other character in and it still works, you haven't written a good story,” Way muses. “With my Deadpool stories, if you take Deadpool out of it, it makes zero fucking sense.”
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