Life is Filling with Win.

Life has been good to me, as of late.

Transitions.

There’s a reminder that I heard a lot at the school while I worked there [I suspect that I'll be back there once the new school year kicks off]; transition periods are hard. For some students, that meant Mondays after returning to campus from a weekend at home. For others, it was time spent in transit or switching from one activity to another. Regardless, some students require what is politely deemed “more support” during transition periods. This extra support can range from leading a student through processing hirs feelings [without explicitly naming the processing as such, since many students are reticent to use coping mechanisms that are openly labeled as such], to lowering expectations, giving more time to transition, and being generally more understanding of any irritability or anxiety on the student’s part. Sometimes we all need “more support”.

JDA 2009: Transgenderism and Citizenship.

I know, I know, this has been a long time coming.

Spelunking.

Caving was amazing. Fantastic. I left without taking any anti-anxiety medication, unlike last time. I also didn’t bring any along with me. I was going to do this on my own. And I did. I pushed myself at several key points during the trip, and turned back at a really reasonable place. I contorted my body into unnatural shapes and slithered around like the most awkward snake ever. I spent between five and six hours underground.

Memorial Day 2008.

It’s funny, isn’t it? In that sort of gut-wrenching irony that makes me hate the world, this is funny. America has perverted Memorial Day into a gluttonous consumeristic capitalist “holiday”. We are bombarded with advertisements that insinuate that the way to be a patriotic American citizen is to BUY BUY BUY, of course at deeply discounted rates and on fantastic financing terms! It seems that everywhere is having a sale, and we buy into it all.