On the bright side!: my ankle healed up really quickly, and is thoroughly usable now, though I should still remember to do some stretches and exercises for it ( Read more... )

ONE THING: Soooooo what happened is, a couple days ago I sprained my ankle. I was trudging home with a million other worker ants, took a bad step somewhere among the terrible uneven concrete across the street from my workplace, and BLAMMO I and my stuff were sprawled all over the road. In the rain. With a bunch of people standing over me ( Read more... )

It happened again! All of a sudden, the Internet suddenly felt Too Much for me, and I fell off it. This has happened before, and it's always distressing--I mean, not that I mind avoiding the giant firehose of outrage-and-merchandising that so much internet/social media spend so much of their time with. That's always good for me ( Read more... )

Happy endings for that last post ( Read more... )

My computer started behaving strangely last week, making me very worried. :(

It seemed to settle down on Saturday, giving me a chance to update the OS and make sure I had a good backup. :)

It collapsed entirely on Sunday. :(

Turns out the logic board has died, but this is a known problem with this model/year and is covered under a free repair ( Read more... )

Whew. Finally, a holiday weekend to myself! I just finished a very enervating real-life task, and am exhausted--also, I've unfortunately been sick with a very peculiar and tenacious throat virus for, what, over two weeks now? UGH. Never had anything quite like it. I went to urgent care eventually, and they said the quick-culture strep test was ( Read more... )

Man, I had to do some ridiculous adulting yesterday. RIDICULOUS. It was terrible and stupid and will end up taking a big whack out of my finances and I hated it. I really didn't want to, but I made myself (the financial whack would've happened either way. I guess I just thought I should be there to see it happen, and learn about the process. Or. ( Read more... )

Sorry, everybody who was asking for topics to discuss during December! I kind of got sucked down a hole, and couldn't even seem to comment very much anywhere. A spike of financial stress that threatens to be ongoing cropped up, and for much of the month I seemed to only have the energy/focus to 1) go to work, 2) come home from work, 3) write on ( Read more... )

You know, it always seems to be a boy and a girl, or a man and a woman. And the boy is "pretending" he's about to shove the girl onto the train tracks, or into heavy traffic, or off the bridge. And the girl is screaming and scream-laughing and trying to hold onto him, while he muscles her around, lifting and pushing and ha ha ha pulling her back ( Read more... )

In the last few years before I moved here, I took up a..."hobby" sounds a little too focused, kind of. "Activity", maybe. I found that a good way to relax my brain if I were particularly stressed out, especially if my thoughts were racing around in my head, was to sit down and color in a coloring book, with no words/numbers/other left-brainish- ( Read more... )