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I've had a quieter four months with nothing major happening medically. I took too much vitamin D but it was caught right before it built up to toxic levels. My doctor said it was the highest vitamin D level he'd ever seen in an outpatient. But all I had to do was stop taking it, and that was easy.
I haven't made much progress on the employment front, although I've finally overcome my anxiety to the extent that I'm reading the job listings... it's a step in the right direction.
My weight dropped again but right now I'm just trying to ignore it. Summer weight loss is normal, right? Right. Of course. Be quiet, you!
I've added more than a hundred books to my list of nonfiction books I've read. Here are some of them:
BM 729 .W6 2001 ~ Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism ed Danya Ruttenberg. This is an anthology and its really diverse and I didn't really like the WHOLE thing, but I liked some of it. I liked seeing myself in parts of it. I liked knowing what they were writing about. I liked knowing some of the people they mentioned.
HE 8846 .A55 2000 A Phone Of Our Own: The Deaf Insurrection Against Ma Bell by Harry G Lang. This is about the development of the TTY as a communication tool for the deaf, and it made me think a lot about the politics of disability, invention, and organizations.
HQ 75.5 1999 My Lesbian Husband by Barrie Jean Borich. I'm including this just to be keeping that list of books by and for queer women updated; it's not very trans aware. It felt very generation specific. But except where it was repetitive, it was a good read.
HQ 75.5 2009 Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women by Leila J Rupp. This is also in the interest of keeping that list up to date. It didn't have much I hadn't already read elsewhere.
HQ 77 2003 My Husband Betty: Love, Sex and Life with a Crossresser by Helen Boyd. Lots of food for thought.
KF 480 2009 The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public by Susan M Schweik. I had heard a lot of hype about this book and was revved up to read it, but it was kinda dense to get through, and not so smoothly written. It was well researched; it may well have had the longest bibliography of any book I've read. And I did like knowing what it said. I liked the endnotes but I didn't like having to flip flip flip back and forth, that was seriously annoying.
LC 4717.5 2002 Aquamarine Blue 5: Personal Stories of College Students With Autism editted by Dawn Prince-Hughes. I read this book while traveling, because my local library doesn't own it. So it was special for me in that way. It was weird for me how different I think this book would be if it was published now, only eight years later. The personal stories are not all of people anywhere near being in college at the time of the writing, and the authors are very diverse. Overall I liked this book and some parts of it spoke to me. I'd never thought before about the way autistic food preferences might look like eating disorders.
ND 237 1980/2003 Ordinary Daylight: Portrait of an Artist Going Blind by Andrew Potok. This is a story about a person who goes in search of a cure and doesn't find it. It was especially interesting for me knowing that he wasn't going to find it, because I've read his later works. It was interesting to me as a person who's usually not very patient with cure seekers.
QP 135 2002 Body Heat: Temperature and Life On Earth by Mark S. Blumberg. Did you know that kids can sometimes freeze and come back to life but adults can't? It's not real erudite, in fact it's a pocket sized book of pop science, but I liked it.
RB 155 2007/08 + Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity by Sharon Moalem and Jonathan Prince. How could I not like a book that tries to find good things in diabetes? Not always convinced of the science, but a good read anyways.
I haven't made much progress on the employment front, although I've finally overcome my anxiety to the extent that I'm reading the job listings... it's a step in the right direction.
My weight dropped again but right now I'm just trying to ignore it. Summer weight loss is normal, right? Right. Of course. Be quiet, you!
I've added more than a hundred books to my list of nonfiction books I've read. Here are some of them:
BM 729 .W6 2001 ~ Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism ed Danya Ruttenberg. This is an anthology and its really diverse and I didn't really like the WHOLE thing, but I liked some of it. I liked seeing myself in parts of it. I liked knowing what they were writing about. I liked knowing some of the people they mentioned.
HE 8846 .A55 2000 A Phone Of Our Own: The Deaf Insurrection Against Ma Bell by Harry G Lang. This is about the development of the TTY as a communication tool for the deaf, and it made me think a lot about the politics of disability, invention, and organizations.
HQ 75.5 1999 My Lesbian Husband by Barrie Jean Borich. I'm including this just to be keeping that list of books by and for queer women updated; it's not very trans aware. It felt very generation specific. But except where it was repetitive, it was a good read.
HQ 75.5 2009 Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women by Leila J Rupp. This is also in the interest of keeping that list up to date. It didn't have much I hadn't already read elsewhere.
HQ 77 2003 My Husband Betty: Love, Sex and Life with a Crossresser by Helen Boyd. Lots of food for thought.
KF 480 2009 The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public by Susan M Schweik. I had heard a lot of hype about this book and was revved up to read it, but it was kinda dense to get through, and not so smoothly written. It was well researched; it may well have had the longest bibliography of any book I've read. And I did like knowing what it said. I liked the endnotes but I didn't like having to flip flip flip back and forth, that was seriously annoying.
LC 4717.5 2002 Aquamarine Blue 5: Personal Stories of College Students With Autism editted by Dawn Prince-Hughes. I read this book while traveling, because my local library doesn't own it. So it was special for me in that way. It was weird for me how different I think this book would be if it was published now, only eight years later. The personal stories are not all of people anywhere near being in college at the time of the writing, and the authors are very diverse. Overall I liked this book and some parts of it spoke to me. I'd never thought before about the way autistic food preferences might look like eating disorders.
ND 237 1980/2003 Ordinary Daylight: Portrait of an Artist Going Blind by Andrew Potok. This is a story about a person who goes in search of a cure and doesn't find it. It was especially interesting for me knowing that he wasn't going to find it, because I've read his later works. It was interesting to me as a person who's usually not very patient with cure seekers.
QP 135 2002 Body Heat: Temperature and Life On Earth by Mark S. Blumberg. Did you know that kids can sometimes freeze and come back to life but adults can't? It's not real erudite, in fact it's a pocket sized book of pop science, but I liked it.
RB 155 2007/08 + Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity by Sharon Moalem and Jonathan Prince. How could I not like a book that tries to find good things in diabetes? Not always convinced of the science, but a good read anyways.