I want to write SF that feels like watching Arrival felt tonight. I want to make people feel things like what I just felt. I want to think and dream in the ways this story made people do.
I mostly yell about Our Song 我们的歌 in DMs with Forest but let me hit you with some recent joys. This is a show where veteran pop singers have to match up with young pop singers, and season 1 has a lot of people I know and love from elsewhere. So let's share some joy!
Y'all, can you spread this far and wide and help my bud out? E has been so supportive to me as I healed from my trauma, and they need help right now with a string of financial bad luck. They're a disabled transgender person in Detroit, and care for their elderly Grama, and had a recent fender-bender that has made their car undrivable. It's devastating to a family who lives paycheck to paycheck
Please share, and donate if able. Thank you, friends! https://gofund.me/573df6bd#transcrowdfund
Okay wait, but I DO have a question: some of y'all probably have opinions on what instance I should set up on under my librarianship name to start soliciting consulting work. My core competencies are research data librarianship, research computing support and general STEM research support, and I have 20 years of background in science and data librarianship and in instructional technology. Which home would you suggest?
I have chronic nightmares of elevators moving in strange ways or being in very shaky high rise buildings or dropping suddenly or stopping between floors and now that I know what a paternoster is I have new nightmare fuel thanks SO MUCH
I was honest today with my PCP that I'm still unable to work and want a number of mental health related referrals. She said she supports and will refer me to whomever I pick for all of them based on insurance and people taking new clients.
I have two siblings with ADHD. I have sensory sensitivities. My exec function is shot. I have so many Autistic and ADHD and AuDHD friends I admire and yet it was STILL hard to admit I want neuropsych evaluation.
She told me, you waited so long? You could have asked me any time. I said, I know, I was going to after my last physical and then I broke my arm days later.
She pointed out that what I am going through could be any combination of trauma, attention, Autism, other sensory conditions, and also that perimenopause could be contributing. Her encouragement really helped, and I felt physically lighter for a while after the appointment.
I could visualize a way through whatever this is, somewhat better.
Doesn't make the grief and anger about the trauma go away but it does lighten it.
I think it's funny and also sort of cool that my brain is spitting out poems every so often, because I'm not really thinking of it as writing and not really focusing on whether or not I have been writing, and yet clearly I am writing.
It's an interesting way in which I'm being creative, and doing things that will develop skill, without looking directly at it As A Practice and having either demand refusal or perfectionism about it.
Everyone I have talked to today is horrified that the CDC might only recommend the next COVID-19 booster for elderly and immunocompromised people, after we have been told for years to expect it to become like the seasonal flu shot, while we are waiting for better boosters, while cases are spiking and the long COVID research is damning. Please. Ask them to approve it for everyone. We have until Friday to comment. Pls boost. https://www.regulations.gov/document/CDC-2023-0060-0001
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/your-fall-guide-to-covid-rsv-and-flu-vaccines this article mentioned in passing: "The general public should not expect to need to receive the latest COVID booster, Offit said." This was a terrible shock to me and I keep talking to people and they ask why? Why isn't it like the flu shot? What about people on drugs like Humira? What about the risks of reinfection and what about long COVID?
For reasons, I have confused Arches NP with Bryce Canyon NP enough times this summer that we're contemplating making "Bryce Canyon: It's Not Arches" items.
Friends, you deserve technological autonomy. Partners often divide up the technological work for their household. However, if your partner hogs a shared device or one that is yours, while making excuses as to why they can't or won't have their own, or insists you expose your data to the internet for their privacy, it's not okay. If you're comfortable that's fine. If you need to say no and that such a situation needs to change, it's your right.
I am watching a guy in Australia tearing down salvaged things like spa pumps and an industrial pumping apparatus to melt down and reclaim aluminum and copper and brass. He's so meticulous about reclaiming the bits and I'm in heaven identifying electronic components and guessing why they're there. He just pulled 2 350v rated 1500uF capacitors, each beer can sized, out of a pump controller (apparently?) and I'm studying them like I've just seen a new Pokemon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Mp9NRdCvw
Made plans to go to a current popular movie in a few days, my first since the pandemic times, and I'm sad and angry because being masked and not eating snacks in the theater reminds me of the safety we do not have, and seeing what my sweetie wants to see reminds me of how I haven't had the energy or health to go see the niche film I really did want to see in a theater with friends earlier this year.
I feel fortunate overall, but there is so much to grieve and be angry about.
Great news! My dear friend @mamajo just got a surgery date that is in JUST UNDER TWO WEEKS so we gotta raise the rest of their top surgery money POST HASTE. Germany does not recognize nonbinary people as transgender people, and after multiple attempts to get this surgery covered, they really can't wait any longer to get it done. https://gofund.me/81d92ea1
I'm surprised at how little press there is about what's going on with Eastern Gateway Community College in Ohio. They're changing leadership and it's my understanding that there are questions about whether the college will be able to operate this fall given ongoing investigation of their practices. This is the only recent article about it that I know of, and the rest of my impressions are because I have family there. https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2023/07/stall-tactics-frustrate-gateway/
Re last share: "
When mission-driven organizations unionize it becomes immediatly clear that the values espoused by the leaders of these organizations apply to only those they intend to serve, not those doing the actual work."
Oh so that's what the constant low level cognitive dissonance has been at every academic support job I have worked.