Oh my. New York Times article about a ballet class for physically disabled kids. "She'll never be a prima ballerina. This isn't about that. She just wants to be like everyone else." *cries ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a Very Bad Day, with a severe spoon overdraft. Almost fainted three times in half an hour, to say nothing of the nausea, dizziness and panic that lasted all day. Only got through that with the aid of kasson's bracelet and dwoucke's spoon - which are powerful totems. I only wish I could find esbat's ankh (yes, the one in this userpic), which has ( Read more... )

I am a perfectionist. Like so many of my traits (good as well as bad), I could blame this entirely on my mother. I've certainly inherited some really interesting broken brain wiring from her. To what extent it's genetic and to what extent it's learned behaviour, I don't know. But it is interesting - in its sheer brokenness ( Read more... )

Things you don't need on a Monday morning: waking up having a panic attack ( Read more... )

Meh ( Read more... )

I am stressed and tired and frayed ( Read more... )

An, introspection at 6 o'clock in the morning. Don'cha love it?

I mentioned in passing earlier that I was listening to " very weird symbion project stuff". One of the tracks is called 2 Hour Tekno because kasson wrote it in 2 hours. "i was bored one night and decided to see what i could write and program, mix and master, in just 2 hours. it's not that ( Read more... )

Or, how I broke the heart of the first person who ever asked me out without realisingI was a typical geeky teenager. Had hardly any friends at school. The friends I did have weren't particularly close - they all hung out together outside school, but I never got invited. I invited them out with me, but no one ever wanted to come ( Read more... )

You always get to hear about the myriad of ways in which my body's broken, but I hardly ever get round to telling you things it does well. So... today I woke up craving toast with Marmite. Now, this might not seem like an odd thing to fancy first thing in the morning, but I haven't actually eaten Marmite since I was 16 or so. Obviously I'm low on B ( Read more... )