I got really upset with Miriam's dad and spent most of the evening in the spare room with the door closed reading Building Construction Before Mechanization.

I have therapy at 10 tomorrow morning, and I'll have a lot of things to talk about!

Someone in a group I'm in, asking about joining a subgroup specifically for Canada, posted "I requested to join Canada some time ago, is there something else I need to do?"

I read that and originally thought it was actually a post, possibly a joke one, in an immigration community, and just thought "Yeah, you and me both, my friend!"

I have no news on ( Read more... )

I'm starting to see a therapist for EMDR work for trauma recovery. Danae has been doing that for a while and has found it to be the most effective form of therapy she's ever had, and she's had a lot of therapy. I'm giving it a try on her advice and suggestion. Tonight, I've spent a lot of time going through old LJ posts to find events and dates, ( Read more... )

It's been a long while since I've caught folks up on life here.

The greatest center of activity right now is preparing to move to Regina, Saskatchewan in Canada. My partner is starting a new post-doc at the university there and I'm coming along. I can hardly wait to get out of here and go somewhere new.

I'm taking charge of planning and logistics. ( Read more... )

I have a few bits of old hi-fi gear I'd like to sell, as well as other electronics. Looking online, it kind of seems like I'd make more money disassembling certain things and selling a bunch of individual parts. But I honestly don't think I could do it; it would really hurt me to disassemble something old and unusual and functional and beautiful. ( Read more... )

"...and lots of magic smoke came out," I said to my therapist, talking about working on the UPS. "Do you know about the magic smoke ( Read more... )

In my last therapy session, I talked about my feelings that I don't seem to get much out of large events like pride parades or naked bike ride, or sci-fi/fantasy conventions, or kink social spaces like the local dungeon. I ran my idea about those events from earlier by them (them=my therapist); that once people have gone to the same event a few ( Read more... )

I looked in my mouth with a light and inspection mirror. The area looks...alarming ( Read more... )

In therapy this past week, I realized/expressed that when someone does something that seems inappropriate, my instinctive response is to assume that I do not understand the context and that it probably *is* appropriate and I am not socially/situationally aware enough to understand how. So I don't know how to say that I feel something is ( Read more... )

I spent a while in therapy on the topic of conventions. (Here referring to sci-if/fantasy conventions of the sort I grew up going to with my parents and that I've attended sporadically on my own as an adult ( Read more... )