Thirty Six Days of Me - Day 02: Your first love, in great detail

Discussing my relationship with someone else, particularly a relationship that is ended, is particularly challenging for me, who has a tendency to remember and hang on to unhappy memories rather than the other sort. Discussing any person in particular tends to be a catalogue of their ( Read more... )

Thirty Days of Me - 01 Introduce Yourself.

Alright, let’s do this thing.

Hey folks - I’m Debi, also known as IB but mostly just known as Debi. I’m nearly thirty and still a full time student, currently in my eleventh (11th) year of post-school education, having spent four years as an undergraduate and 6 doing a PhD in palaeontology. I’m currently ( Read more... )

One of the major reasons that my blog has been so quiet recently, isn't just that I don't have the concentration to blog, though concentration's been at a premium for me, and it isn't just that I've fallen out of the habit, though I have. It's also that I'm aware that my blogging pre-hiatus was of a certain quality, and as the hiatus stretched, I ( Read more... )

There was some mention on two of my friends' journals recently of how impossible it is to  describe having ADD. And it is impossible, believe me. It's impossible to comprehend how anyone's brain works, so the only way I know that my brain is different from other people's is that other people seem to find easy what I give myself panic attacks simply ( Read more... )

Sometimes I just blog offline

( Scans of varying quality under the cut )

Comments on the most reason Blog on demand about teachers made me think. and I should be continuing with that meme (I still have things to write about) but I got distracted and this seems like an important Thing I need to Deal With ( Read more... )

And back, to the Blogging on Demand meme, which is proving remarkably fun for me. matgb wants to know:Given your strong views, why you're not more involved politically, either parties or issue groups.
The short answer is: I have no time. The self-deprecating but somewhat honest answer is that it's easier for me to be strident and opinionated in words at ( Read more... )

I hate losing momentum.

A while ago, I focused for a little while on sorting through pictures for landmark analysis, which was important work and it needed to be done, but I got so caught up in it that I forgot have to do everything else, and still didn't get lots or progress done, either.So coming into the museum, primarily for a meeting with my ( Read more... )

As many people who know me IRL probably already know, I suffer from a mild case of that affliction which is far more common in men: the 'I'm more macho than you' syndrome. You know the one: it requires its sufferers to constantly win arguments to prove their prowess in maths and science. It requires constant in advised displays of physical strength ( Read more... )

Ever since I was a young child, there's been a symptom of being ill - a feeling, I think, that is very physical indeed but I've never ever been able to describe sufficiently to others. In fact, this lack of description has added to its status as something mysterious and dreadful which has always brought on anxiety fits that an ill adult shouldn't ( Read more... )