I had a million reasons to feel crummy today, but I can’t really say that I did. The bus ride took an hour because there was a wreck on the bridge, work was frustrating and my boss was stupid, and I was more or less constantly hungry, but somehow, it was all ok. [...]
My first post of 2010! Except I’m not really crazy about resolutions, and while I’ve enjoyed reading the Decade in Review posts that have been going up around here, I’m not too keen on writing one myself. There are large parts of the last decade that I have no desire to air in public, and [...]
I hate reading things in the news, or on blogs, that make me hope I never have a daughter. I hate thinking that way, hate knowing that I’m not the only one who’s paranoid, who watches over her shoulder on the bus, making sure that no one is following me home, that it isn’t [...]
It is never a good sign when your health care provider takes one look at you and says, “My god, you’ve been living like this?” That was, however, the reaction of the physical therapist when she first saw my knees. She does think she can help me build up some muscle strength (Step [...]
I spent time outdoors today for the first time in months. And by that I mean I wasn’t walking somewhere, or waiting for the bus, or even at an outdoor market or something. I was simply being, out of doors. I did have a book in hand, but that was just in [...]
Everything feels clear and yet looks blurry, the way things do when you’ve been crying. My eyes are so exhausted, but they remain dry. I want to go out to a cemetary and lie on one of the benches and let everything blur like tree branches, waving in the wind. There is [...]
The issue of gay marriage has suddenly become very personal to me since I got married. This is not to say that I didn’t care about equality before, but that it matters to me in a personal way now that it didn’t really connect to before. I’m a woman, and I fell in [...]
I concede the importance of a common culture, as a means to both simplify and enrich communication. Rather than explain a whole history and feeling for each new event, to be able to say, ‘It is like this story that we are both aware of, but different in this way.’ What I worry [...]
Ryan probably rightly points out that many people would be jealous of my position at work. I am, for the most part, left alone, and I don’t have enough work to do to keep me busy all day, while I do have access to things like wikipedia and the blogs. (No facebook or [...]
Answering questions honestly and failing to watch reality television does not make you a popular person in an office setting. Not that I’ve ever set out to be popular, but it is nice to have people talk to you occasionally. When an introvert is saying that they’re not getting enough human interaction from [...]