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It seems flaky to admit it, but the weather is screwing with my mood. I didn’t think I was ever going to admit to anything like Seasonal Affected Disorder. However the weather here in Sydney lately has been so crazy and humid like I think I have to. I recognise though that SAD and other [...]
Go Home On Time Day. — a good idea Possibly Related Posts: heading to cold Saturday Snap: The view from down here A few random facts about me just for some fun — clay chess Saturday Snap: Signature hat
Feminist Scribbler makes some very familiar points in her post about managing the often dichotomous reactions to disability from those closest to us. I will expand on this post in the next few days. Possibly Related Posts: Doing the limbo The email I wrote for international day last year Language matters: offspring steps to a [...]
It started with early morning garbage collection this time without swearing or very loud male gossip. From bed with the laptop on the floor I checked my BlogTracker stats. I got a huge pleasant surprise: my stats and hits had gone up quite markably. This as a result of FWD/Forward picking up this post on [...]
I have incorporated 3 lonely stranded blog posts from a half started typepad blog here. These are from a long time ago Dec 06-Jan 07 but I thought they were worth bringing into the fold. Apart from a comment I added to one entry regarding a missing immaterial photo I made no edits (though I [...]
i used twitter yesterday much like I think it was intended, or at least a very handy way of using it to broadcast a problem PB was having with Vodafone (the Australian phone company) and his iPhone. It wasn’t solved through the tweeting but the up to the minute information was shared and further broadcasted. [...]
In September 2005, while traveling I started this blog. That was a long time ago in both time and headspace. I have had many hiatuses from this medium, hence the four years to get here. I have had a variety of topics, many self serving muses. But I’m still here and I enjoy it. The [...]
I’m sitting up in bed swimming pleasently in 19th century british literature. Jane Austen has long been a favourite of mine, both in the elegant video productions and in the books, at least those I have read, largely Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. I have recently bought Persuasion following watching the recent movie [...]
This is a good post about identification as a person with a disability, for a women with a mental health issue. It brings up some interesting thoughts for me about “what actually is disability?” That’s medical vs social model stuff, but its not just that. Its about the labels we as people with impairments use [...]