Behind the cut are photos of a 32 year old woman, a UK size 16, with a BMI of 28, right in the middle of the ‘overweight’ category according to the NHS calculator. I have put these pictures behind a cut because some people might not want to look at a body of those dimensions, but also because I am going to accompany these pictures with talk about ( Read more... )

I moved apartments over the weekend.  Only a block away in order to gain a roommate, but it’s not the distance one drives that is the main cause of stress when you move, but the packing, movement of heavy objects and the slow unpacking/adjustment of new environments.

On Saturday, I sat down for one last check of the internet and I saw my British ( Read more... )

This was supposed to post yesterday and didn't. Damn you, Dreamwidth!

I'll be honest, I've not done a lot of link farming this last week. But I do want to link to a series of excellent posts by the wonderful alas_a_llama  , who has been blogging around the Bloody Sunday Inquir, something I was ridiculously underinformed about until his blogs. And so I feel the ( Read more... )

It appears the UK political blogosphere is just alight with exciting and vibrant conversation about how Total Politics (a site I've never visited) is having a wily waving competition and how we just don't care because all the Tory Boys always win it with their gossipy issue-free blogerising but we're voting anyway because that'll show 'em.

And I'm ( Read more... )

When I woke up at 2.30 this morning with a rush of a panic attack, layered over it were two emotions: annoyance because high stress and panic attacks make it hard to sleep at 2.30 in the morning in a heatwave with a cat on my bed where my knees should be, and relief, because I can use the adrenalin.

If I use it, of course ( Read more... )

First, a note on Personal Responsibility, as it applies to a number of currently hot topic:

THESE ARE THINGS YOU CAN'T CONTROL:
- What happens to you
- What other people do to you
- What other people think about you
- What other people say about you
- What other people do in situations you care about
- What other people do in situations you're not ( Read more... )

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I used to get to link blog regularly thanks to Delicious and Delicious Glue - now most of my link sharing happens through Facebook and Twitter, so if I want to do a regular linkblog over here, I'm going to have to farm my links myself. As you might notice, I have a new LibDemmery type icon. I guess actually declaring my new partisan status means ( Read more... )

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