Since a friend (not here) asked if this meant I'd be able to "cure" my sleep disorder, I wanted to clarify that. The sunglasses won't fix this and then I'll just be okay. In order to keep the progress I've made, I'll have to wear them every single day, without fail, until I'm willing to go back to my natural schedule ( Read more... )

So the first few days of Doof didn't go so well. I woke up early but was still going to bed late. I knocked myself out with Gravol on the third night, and then there was about a week of fuckery, where either 1) I was out with friends twice until 3 AM, or 2) the kids were sick and keeping me awake ( Read more... )

I wore the Doof Glasses (aka my special blue-light-blocking sunglasses) from 4:30 PM yesterday until I went to sleep. I didn't fall asleep any earlier; it was between 2:30-3 AM, as usual. Also as usual, I woke up around 6:30 or so, was up for about an hour, then went back to sleep ( Read more... )

I'm so damn fed up with my sleeping disorder dictating my life. I'm angry that I would have gotten a job with a great company months ago, except that not being able to work mornings screwed it up. I'm resentful that I'm already dreading the week-long Scout Jamborees, since I know there's no way I can get up at 7 AM for more than one or two days at ( Read more... )

they went to the shelter to back up their fabricated claims of abuse, in the interests of preventing men from having access to the kids post-divorce ( Read more... )

So a friend of mine says to me and a number of other people, "Barbara Kay is doing a lecture! Let's go crash it and stare at her in stony silence!" See, Barbara Kay is a woman seething with internalized misogyny, who writes about "gender issues" for a notoriously conservative paper (the National Post) and gets lauded by mens' organizations for all ( Read more... )

I decided to do the "30-day gratitude challenge" meme going around on Facebook, where each day I post something I'm grateful about/for. Since things posted on FB so quickly disappear into the ether, I'm reposting them here. This is what I've done so far.

( 19 things I'm grateful for. )

I fucked up a bunch of things on my driver's test, but I didn't make any dangerous mistakes, and I didn't break any laws. So my driving instructor decided to be kind even though I'd made a bunch of mistakes (two feet away from the curb on my parallel park, driving too slow, stopping too much, slowing too much before turns where there wasn't a stop ( Read more... )

Originally posted by old_blueeyes at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Originally posted by twbasketcase at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media ( Read more... )

There have been various tabs accumulating for... awhile now, that I've been intending to post. So here we go, with a miscellaneous collection of things I found interesting.

AMUSING
A picture wherein a toddler and a monkey regard each other with the exact same wary, unimpressed expression.

A LOLCat that well-describes how I feel about my time ( Read more... )