June 2012
98 posts
5 tags
Day 39
[[MORE]]
food: regular breakfast, late-ish lunch, biscuits and toast and salad for dinner.
company: colleagues. Short phonecall from my sister.
work: 8.5 hour shift
activity: showered and washed my hair, went to work. Quiet-ish day; heartrate suspiciously slow (average 105, max 165). Read a few pages on my break. Came home - went into food shops on the way but didn’t buy...
3 tags
3 tags
4 tags
Day 38
[[MORE]]
food: small breakfast. decent late lunch. dinner as made by housemate.
company: sat with housemate in the evening. phone call from the climber.
work: no
activity: listened to music; in the afternoon walked across to the arts centre. Read a bit of a couple of books. A few pages of freewriting. Walked back. Sat under a tree in the park. Stopped into food shops on the way...
6 tags
The Challenges that come with Obamacare
wayfaringmd:
about-hortense replied to your post: Great, lots more people are about to have insurance.
i don’t understand the meaning of that BUT. This topic intrigues me a lot and, as a non-american, I’d like you to stretch out ya point of view which, obviosuly, lingers behind that opening adversative.
What I was referring to is that there’s a huge deficit of primary care doctors in this...
4 tags
2 tags
4 tags
4 tags
Day 37
[[MORE]]
food: lazy, but sensible and adequate
company: the athlete, her girlfriend, and the climber. Texts to the poet.
work: nothing
activity: lazed in bed, internets/tv. Went up to the climbing centre, climbed for three hours (average hr 140, max 192). Walked down to the lakes and then went to the climber’s house while the athlete trained. Came home. Missed art...
2 tags
3 tags
5 tags
Day 36
[[MORE]]
food: small breakfast, late lunch (as in 4pm or something), half a portion of chips for dinner. Also fruit, and a sandwich-snack in the early hours.
company: the athlete, and various of her friends; also saw purplegirl for two or three hours. texts to the poet and the climber.
work: nothing
activity: coach to London, met people, sat around. Walked to Piccadilly and back via...
6 tags
SHIT I CAN'T MAKE UP: Convo between my 7year-old...
(Names have been altered slightly, just in case.)
Josie: I have a new crusshhhhh
Matt: Me too! On a boy!
Pearl: You're a boy with a crush on a boy?
Matt: Yeah he's really cute.
Pearl: Oh.
(pause for a bit)
Matt: Boys can like boys. I just can't marry him because boys can't marry boys.
Me: Yeah they can. You can marry whoever you want.
Matt: Really?
Josie: YEAH my tia has a wife so now I have a titi and a auntie.
Matt: Okay. Then maybe I'll marry him.
Dave: (from across the room) No you can't you're seven.
(Age was apparently the only foreseeable problem anyone of my elementary schoolers could see with gay marriage. I almost cried out of happiness. Later, when I was asked if boys could kiss anyone they wanted, I replied "only if they want to kiss you back." And Josie responded "Yeah! Your body your life.")
My students are the shit.
5 tags
9 tags
Day 35
trigger warning: maybe eating disorders? also mentions self-harm
[[MORE]]
food: regular breakfast. Late lunch (lazy cooking) + cake bars. No dinner and I don’t care.
company: caught up with the athlete; said hi to a couple of my colleagues; messages to the climber in the evening; texts to the poet and an africa-friend. Friends came over but I avoided them.
work: none
...
6 tags
“The widespread assumption that disability means suffering feeds a fear of...”
– Too Late To Die Young by Harriet McBryde Johnson (via laughingatmynightmare)
2 tags
Day 34
[[MORE]]
food: staggered breakfast; fruit mid-afternoon; veggie chilli (reheated) for dinner
company: climber came over in the evening
work: none
activity: internets; up, dressed, into town where I impulse-bought clothes; went to the gym (1hr 20 minutes, average hr ~170? 175? max 198). Home, showered, tidied room a bit, watched a film.
rest: slept ~11pm - 10am
feeling: ok. up and...
2 tags
2 tags
5 tags
“I have no fear of losing you, for you aren’t an object of my property, or anyone...”
– Anthony de Mello (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
yes this this this is how I love
4 tags
things I ought to do today:
[[MORE]]
sort out the clothes on my bed
go to the gym
take a shower
finish my cv
start writing cover letters
speak to student finance
work on my portfolio
text my friend
buy food
meet the climber in town
read for a bit
email my parents about home-dates
print/write/send a card to my old gp
buy socks
organise computer and files and archives and p
things...
4 tags
Day 33
maybe ED triggers?
[[MORE]]
food: regular breakfast; sensible snacks in the morning; small lunch. Ice-cream in the afternoon. No dinner.
company: visiting friends until late morning. phone conversations with the poet and my sister. texts to the climber and the athlete.
work: no
activity: dossed with friends; retreated to bed, listened to music, watched F1 and two or three episodes...
5 tags
5 tags
4 tags
Day 32
[[MORE]]
food: normal plus excessive sugar/chocolate consumption.
company: friends all day, plus dropped in to work briefly. Housemates about at points. Misc. texts.
work: n/a
activity: lazy morning; wandered into town and then to the uni display. Home for a bit, out to dinner, film in the evening.
rest: slept 2am-9.30am
feeling: primarily happy and glad and comforted, but...
4 tags
5 tags
: Centre for Economic Strategies Press Release:... →
mindovermatterzine:
A report from the London School of Economics reveals the horrific scale of mental illness in Britain – and how little the NHS does about it…
Mental illness is now nearly a half of all ill health suffered by people under 65 – and it is more disabling than most chronic physical disease. Yet…
5 tags
Day 31
trigger warning: maybe self-harm? maybe EDs?
[[MORE]]
food: regular breakfast, no proper lunch (biscuits?), sort of small improvised dinner. Vaguely aware of the need to buy some food sometime.
company: housemates in the afternoon, friends in the evening
work: no
activity: curled up in bed, listened to music, watched a couple of medical documentaries. Finally had a shower, got...
4 tags
7 tags
3 tags
Day 30
[[MORE]]
food: a lot of breakfast. half-pizza and salad for lunch. lots of sugar-y stuff - biscuits, cupcakes. No proper dinner.
company: met up with a friend for lunch; saw various archi-people; evening in the pub with some friends. Housemates around, too.
work: no
activity: Went to art therapy, then to school to meet my friend, then into town for lunch. Dropped by work, and came...
4 tags
7 tags
3 tags
Day 29
possible triggers for eating disorders?
[[MORE]]
food: I’ve been hungry? Breakfast + extended snacks/grazing + large heavy dinner (made by housemates) after which I was almost sick
company: housemates & friends around during the day, occasional people about in the evening. A few texts.
work: n/a
activity: read, wandered on the beach, read some more, drove home, internets.
...
6 tags
“Every city has a single word that defines it, that identifies most people who...”
– - Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love
I’m trying to work out what the words are - for the town where I grew up (prosperous), the city I’m in now (I don’t know), for myself (trust, maybe?)
7 tags
4 tags
12 tags
5 tags
5 tags
Day 28
[[MORE]]
food: regular meals + snacks
company: housemates & friends all afternoon and evening. Some texts to people.
work: n/a
activity: 5 hour walk along the coast path in the morning - average heartrate 152, max 196, tachycardia noticeable. Swam, lay on the beach, fire on the dunes in the evening.
rest: slept 11-ish pm - 4.45am, then til 8.30am.
feeling: mixed
mood: 5/4
5 tags
Day 27
[[MORE]]
food: regular breakfast; no proper lunch (snacks mid/late afternoon); barbecue dinner
company: housemates all day + friends later
work: nope
activity: chores/errands/useful things in the morning - emails and phone calls to work, tidied room. Drive to the Gower, set up tents, swam, fire on the dunes.
rest: slept 12am - 8.30am
feeling: happy, mostly
mood: ? 5
5 tags
“I don’t like this expression “First World problems.” It is false and it is...”
– “What’s Wrong with First World Problems” (via grrrlstudies)
& because there’s no actual credit for this quotation until you click through: this is by teju cole.
(via ungainlysweaters)
7 tags
5 tags
6 tags
Day 26
[[MORE]]
food: leftovers for breakfast; flapjack and hot chocolate mid-afternoon; dinner cooked by friends.
company: met up with archi-friends and the climber joined us for a bit. Archis then housemates around in the evening.
work: nada
activity: wandered into town, dropped by work, cafe, home time.
rest: slept 11pm til 5.45am, then til 9.30am ish, then dozed/lay in bed til 1pm....
4 tags
9 tags
3 tags
7 tags
Day 25
[[MORE]]
food: hungry. Breakfast before work; lunch at work + cake twice (for the sugar?). Dinner cooked by flatmate, followed by hot chocolate.
company: colleagues at work, and the climber dropped by. In the evening: flatmates, plus two visiting architects (lovely people). Phone calls to the poet and sistergirl.
work: 8.5 hour shift. Busy, reasonably good-humoured,...