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quarantine meme
1. Are you an essential worker?
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I'm just sayin'
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and ( Read more... ) -
CBT for Chronic Pain, Part One: Introduction, Pain Scale, Exercise #1
- What is pain?
- What is CBT for Chronic Pain? What do I know about pain? Where did I get this?
- The Pain Scale, with some examples
- Exercise #1 It’s a capital error to theorize before one has data
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hey buddy, wanna buy some dog food?
OK, so another post is due later today! (Yes, I'm way late ( Read more... ) -
December memeage, still not dead, etc
I have been very absent, it's complicated, let us talk of other things.
So!
There's this meme going around. Give me a topic, or a question, or similar, and I will do my best to post about it on the day you request. You may ask me about personal stuff, random things, fic, fandoms, whatever you like. You should also request a number. Depending on ( Read more... ) -
Dear Mormon Church: how nice of u, pls to fuck off
Apparently, the Mormon Church has realized that discriminating against gay people for living places and jobs is, like, wrong. And stuff.
Because as church leaders and Jesus-followers, Mormons should be kind to the wrongity-bad-wrong fucked up souls who love their own sex. These people deserve our compassion, doncha know, and like, should be ( Read more... ) -
Quilt for Sale: Grrrrrl Power
Hey, buddy, wanna buy a quilt? *opens trenchcoat to reveal several cunningly folded and hung beauties of dubious provenance ( Read more... ) -
So about that pesky PTSD
I sometimes see fandom talk about triggers. Just to be clear: I'm gonna talk about the clinical kind of trigger, not like a discussion about fic or anything. I'm not in that kind of place.
I was going to go over the various external stressors (sixty hour weeks, government shutdown in a state job, major budget shortfall, employee problem, health ( Read more... ) -
The Dreaded Time of Year: Squash-pa-looza
Look, I'm getting desperate over here. I now have NINE tromboncinos lurking on my damn kitchen table, and this is after I gave away several. The vines have spread so far that they've climbed over my bean bed, through a tomato patch, and out the other side. One vine has a runner that is, my hand to god, a good twenty feet long. It has nearly ( Read more... )
