Hey all! I know I've been super quiet lately. These old blogging sites just ain't what they used to be. :P ( Read more... )

I think a lot about work. Work in the capitalistic "job" sense of the term ( Read more... )

When it comes right down to it, I have nothing but love for the body I've been placed in ( Read more... )

Though I've been more dedicated this go-'round, I am, once again, getting really fed up with college. I still kind of don't know what I'm doing there, or if a degree will even end up being worthwhile. I still feel kind of under-stimulated. I still get major anxiety and stress over writing papers. Between moving, exhaustion, and sickness, I've ( Read more... )

(Title of this post is the first sentence of the introduction to No Pity by Joseph P. Shapiro ( Read more... )

It's 8am and of course I've been up all night. The last time I was up early, and had gotten sleep, was before I dropped my morning class from spring semester. There's a certain sort of peace and joy in the morning that I miss out on, sleeping through them all the time. But then, I'm such a late-night person. There's a whole other sort of peace and ( Read more... )

Today I got my hair trimmed and highlighted. The hairdresser and I got to talking about disabilities and she told me about some friend of hers whose daughter has a rare disease--she couldn't remember the name of it, just the initials and the symptoms: upon injury to a certain area of the body, the soft tissue in said area turns to bone. I came home ( Read more... )

I remember being young and having weekly physical therapy sessions and being asked similar questions at the start of each school year. One of these recurring questions was whether I felt achy either on a day-to-day basis, or when there were changes in the weather ( Read more... )

(I feel like I should be rationing my posts right now: days and days without an update and here I am, writing two posts within an hour of each other! Ah well ( Read more... )

Because of my disability, I can't raise my arms above my head unless I'm lying down, and I don't have a lot of dexterity or hand strength, or fine motor skills, or whatever you want to call it. I've never been able to put my hair up at all, so after many disappointing attempts in various positions, I eventually gave up and figured I'd just have to ( Read more... )