May 2013
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Sick Around the World →
thenotquitedoctor:
Interested in how other healthcare systems compare to the US? Check out this awesome documentary by PBS (It’s from 2008, but still pretty good):
In Sick Around the World, FRONTLINE teams up with veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist democracies — the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland — deliver...
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I feel like such a grown-up. Yesterday I called HMRC and sorted out my tax codes so now they’re right. Today I emailed someone at uni to check that he will act as my professional advisor and registered with PEDR and started filling out my record. I’m meeting with one of the directors on Friday - this is a positive thing, for all that it might be difficult. I booked a doctor’s...
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Day 383
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food: normal breakfast and lunch and dinner
company: colleagues; family
work: yes - setting up slides and getting images
activity: up. train to work. work. train home. hung out with my sister for a bit. internets, music.
rest: slept 11pm - 6.30am
feeling: good. happy. enjoyed the day. swollen throat.
mood: 5/6
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How to be a better mental health ally →
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food: normal breakfast, normal lunch, snack bars, normal dinner
company: colleagues.
work: short day. no proper project work to do, just research stuff.
activity: up. train into town. killed time, bought a sketchbook. met with cpn. train into the city. work. train home. internets/music/reading.
rest: slept 1am - 5.45am, then dozed til 7.30.
feeling: not with it. a bit...
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Day 380
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food: small breakfast. late lunch. small-ish dinner. still felt really full though.
company: sister. messages from the climber. a couple of texts.
work: no. though I did some research type stuff.
activity: read through/made notes on a few papers. walked into town; went to a charity shop and the library and the stationers. walked home. read more. internets, a bit of tv.
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“The wind dying, I find a city deserted, except for crowds of people moving and...”
– Keith Waldrop, “Poet” (via proustitute)
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Day 379
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food: normal breakfast, normal lunch, chocolate, normal dinner
company: colleagues. spoke to the climber.
work: yep. diagram, sketch up… assisting with stuff.
activity: up. train to work, work, train home. internets.
rest: slept 12am - 7am
feeling: tired. insecure and uncomfortable. a somewhat headache.
mood: 4
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Post-Crit
archistudent:
walkinintomordor:
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“Understand, I’ll slip quietly
away from the noisy crowd
when I see the pale...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via vmnealey)
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Day 377
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food: normal breakfast, bought lunch, dinner out. snacks in between.
company: colleagues; family.
work: yep. meeting then model shots then document work.
activity: up. train to work. printed plans. travelled out, meeting, travelled back. work. walked to the restaurant, met my family, went to see la boheme. train home. internets a bit.
rest: slept 11pm - 6.30am ish.
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Day 376
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food: small-ish breakfast, normal lunch, snack on the train home, normal dinner
company: colleagues; family a bit
work: yep. fun. finished the model, except for final tweaks.
activity: up. train to work. work. took an actual lunch break. more work. train home. internets. showered, brushed my hair, changed my sheets.
rest: slept 11pm - 7am, well except for dire night...
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What About Denise Scott Brown? →
When Venturi got the Pritzker phone call, though, his surprised reaction was to ask: What about Denise? “Denise” is Denise Scott Brown, who had been Venturi’s intellectual collaborator since the early nineteen-sixties, and a partner in the firm since 1969, deeply involved in everything it had done. Scott Brown was the one who’d been drawn to Las Vegas, who set in motion the project that...
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“As a jealous person, I’m interested in building love and trust with people that...”
– Dean Spade :: An Excerpt from Poly Essay Take 2 (via heavymuffintop)
Saw Dean give a talk on trans* politics and got his book NORMAL LIFE but this is the best of his work I’ve read thus far!
(via calypsoandcoincidence)
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Day 373
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food: breakfast and lunch which I didn’t like eating but finished anyway and chocolate and small-ish dinner
company: colleagues. family a bit. messages from the climber.
work: working on the model. not very efficient.
activity: up. train to work. work. train home. internets/rest.
rest: slept 11pm? 12am? - 7am. Only woke once that I remember.
feeling: today I am achy....
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Yesterday I was a grown-up and emailed the director I’m working with asking to talk about things I/they/we can do to help keep me well and sent him the list of suggested adjustments from Mind. He sent me a positive reply - he said that talking regularly sounds good, and that he’ll speak to the other directors too, and that it’s something we can discuss more (which means a conversation sometime in...
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Hyperbole and a Half: Depression Part Two →
agentive:
So much truth.
(tw: depression, suicide)
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Day 372
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food: normal breakfast normal lunch chocolate normal dinner
company: colleagues. sister a bit. texts from the climber.
work: document and drawing. had some positive feedback from my director at the end of the day. didn’t leave til 6.45 though… oops.
activity: up. train to work. worked. picked up the rest of my prescription. worked some more. train home. emailed...
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I am staying with the climber and he has been pushing me to make more decisions about food, especially picking out things to buy.
It’s good for me, I guess, but it’s hard and it makes me want to hide.
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“Metropolitan populations are significantly more likely than rural ones to suffer...”
– Researchers explore the risks urban living raises for developing emotional disorders.
Anaïs Nin had a cure, as did Thoreau.
Also see the science of “social jet lag.”
(via explore-blog)
This resonates with me.
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