As a reminder that Americans certainly aren’t the only ones being cruel in the Middle East: Activists Say Israel Held Boy, 13, as Human Shield On a far happier note, janni posted some quotes from an interview with Madeleine L’Engle.…
Teen Sex
And no, it isn’t about porn spam! I’m trying to talk about this without embarrassing shadowkatt. I had something of a meltdown recently upon realizing that: 1) shadowkatt‘s beau is local now 2) He has a driver’s license. I had,…
Visual Difficulties & Fibromyalgia
I just came across this bit in Laugh at Your Muscles by Mark J. Pellegrino, MD. Now I don’t feel quite as alone with regards to my visual confusion issues this week (they haven’t just been while driving.) My fibromyalgia…
Miscellany
Today’s planned wiring has been canceled, due to me having a pain flare and curiousmay9 being indisposed, as well. I’m hoping I’ll get enough better to go to the PSE meet-n-greet tonight, though. We have to drive shadowkatt across town…
Disability & Queerness
Gender reaches into disability; disability wraps around class; class strains against abuse; abuse snarls into sexuality; sexuality folds on top of race… everything finally piling into a single human body. To write about any aspect of identity, any aspect of…
Libraries
redcub‘s post about books prompted me to go look to see if the Rowan Gant mysteries are available at any of the three county libraries with whom I have cards. Nope, not one! The Amazon page for the most recent…
Teens & Our Friday Afternoon
First – shadowkatt and mayremi—check out notinschool. It’s a new community for homeschooled teens. LJ-less C and N are in the living room with shadowkatt. sambear is finishing up something pertaining to whatever RPG they’re playing. Katie and I went…
Blah
This post was so negative that I decided that I must find something somewhat positive to balance every negative. Positive: Cobb’s library website lets me ask it to notify me when they get in new materials by particular authors or…
What Would You Put On My PDA?
I’m having a lot of those BECAUSE I CAN! urges regarding what I want to store in the wealth of storage I have on my PDA now. For some reason, I want all of the major religions of the world’s…
Wednesday
Run run run all day today again! Well, lots of waiting in various places punctuated by driving. I did mark a fair number of things off the “to-do” list, though it certainly isn’t empty by a long shot! It seems…