(Ganked from irismoonlight)

I have many friends who deal daily with problems and pasts that seem overwhelming. I am also in that group. The following video link may be triggery even though the message is delivered only in text.

It gets better.

An update sort-of to yesterday's (f-locked*) post ( Read more... )

The brain is still mostly stuck in the grey goo that has been encapsulating it for the last month and a half, however, I am going to try to make some relevant posts today. I was contemplating doing one ginormous post, but realized I really am not that ambitious at this point.

( Umm, might be TMI for some, so I'm saving your f-list and putting my self-indulgent whining behind a cut. )

I am having an interesting epiphany and have no clue how to use the knowledge to help myself. What follows is just an interesting observation of my reactions to certain interactions and, please, please, not a request for ego-boo or such. Just a note for me to mull over and find a process to work with.

( Default reactions and assumptions )

You're really getting on a bit
You are either old or have really messed up your hearing by turning your amp up to 11 and listening to Spinal Tap. Or both.

The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 8kHzFind out which ringtones you can hear!I had to have my speakers up to full volumn to hear even that! But I lost the upper ( Read more... )

post by odanu, a lj friend who just recently got her degree in Social Work and is now working in a shelter in her home city. The referenced post is about her observations, general, about the types of people who use the facility and one of her friends entered a comment to which I responded with ( what is behind the cut )

I have been putting off writing about this for a couple of weeks and I am not quite sure why.

You see, Linda Hamilton was on "Larry King Live" talking about her struggle with bi-polar disorder and a lot of what she said about it really, really hit home with me. So I found the transcripts online (the link above is the full transcript page) and ( Read more... )

( My Google Needs )

Got an e-card from my niece last night and a snail-mail card from her today. Other than that, all's quiet on the western front ( Read more... )

( In my e-mail )