February 2012
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Nightmare
Irrational fears can have physiological effects. For example, I was woken up by the fact I was scratching and clawing at my own body from an extended dream involving bedbugs.
Dear lord. They are worst things ever. There are none here (I have checked). I cannot yet go back to sleep; I am too paranoid, still, and my chest and side hurt, still.
Skeeved out.
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Tumblr Staff: A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs →
mohandasgandhi:
shortformblog:
staff:
One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that means that Tumblr sometimes gets used for things that are just wrong. We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of speech,…
In which Tumblr takes a tough stand against a dangerous...
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What Audra and I fight about
- Why was I running late and what was I doing that I shouldn’t have been doing.
- Why didn’t she put away her clean laundry that I cleaned and have sitting in that basket for two weeks.
- Who ate the damn last strawberry yogurt and why was it you.
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Neil Gaiman: What today is... →
neil-gaiman:
”Well, when I changed schools, when I was a kid, my Dad made a point of telling me how much he had always looked forward to Presidents’ Day, when he was a boy, because it’s the law that on Presidents’ Day, the kids who go to school dressed as their favourite presidents get a big bag of candy.”
Happy President’s Day! hearts & hugs, Mr. Nancy
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gingerhaze:
White Collar is the story of an adorable couple that adopts a con man and raises him as their own. Together, they fight crime!
My God YES
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What is Love
1- I wasn’t sure about Shilah when we brought her home. She is, still, half-blind, with mottled and cataract-covered eyes. Milky and blue, except where it is black. Her fur is calico and she is tiny and she is a proud little thing. If she does not like a thing, she will hiss. Swipe and bite too, but always she will hiss. Her near-blank eyes make it terrifying.
We had her almost month and...
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Audra doesn’t like the terms “high functioning” or “low functioning” when it comes to autism. Her experience, and now mine, is that words like these do not paint the whole picture of that child (which is an awesome picture, as it is) and create a class stratification, usually from outside society, parents, friends, and family. Kids aren’t awesome kids but...
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Why did the face of Boe not go to the party?
doctorwho:
doctorwho4eva:
Because he had no body to go with.
#funny #joke
Snirk
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Little Brown announces Lemony Snicket’s new series →
to-goboldly:
lancasterhazelgrace:
“Who Could That Be at This Hour?”, is the first in the “autobiographical” All the Wrong Questions series, which will explore Snicket’s youth “in a fading town, far from anyone he knew or trusted.” The novel will be released in hardcover, audio and e-book simultaneously with a one million first print run.
BRING THIS UNTO ME!!!
What. What? WHAT WHAT!...
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“Two years ago, while delivering his State of the Union address, President Obama...”
– New York Times editorial (via curiousaleta)
The strange thing is that he probably could have a formidable campaign without the PACs and he would then be a leading example for the people running after.
(via karamazov-alexei)
Really? In this political climate, how is Obama supposed to beat his GOP...
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Staying home today, because I feel terrible. Thanks, little kids. Thank you for sneezing into my face and coughing on my eyes. At least you are all are cute.
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“Eliminating lead exposure from lead paint would, it has been estimated, lead to...”
– Mark Kleiman, How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (h/t phredology)
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We are watching Doctor Who. We have been watching since the start of Nine. We are at the end of “Journey’s End”.
Audra is fanning her face and asking me, “We did they do that.” She is fanning her face and yelling, “This is too sad. I have too many emotions!”
She is in the Club now.
January 2012
60 posts
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Early
I get to work early. Almost twenty minutes early. I don’t really have a choice in this but I don’t go in twenty minutes early. I have a problem with that, on principle.
I’ll sit in the car. Sometimes I’ll listen in the radio. Sometimes Radiolab or This American Life. This morning, Of Monsters and Men, Stars, and Elizabeth and the Catapult.
Kids are on the playground, in...
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“To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before...”
– Huff Po (via rachelfershleiser)
This is the most beautiful thing. Can we send her flowers?
(via jaimealyse)
Virginian things
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“This is somewhere between the top, the Nobel Prize, and the bottom, the...”
– Woody Allen on Directors Guild of America nomination for outstanding directorial achievement (@Variety_DMcNary)
Zing!
On the weekends, I wake up at normal time. Normal time is a quarter of six. If I don’t, then it becomes that much harder to get up at all on schedule.
In these, I’ll just lie here. I’ll be forcibly cuddled by a sleeping Audra (who talks in her sleep). The cats, one at a time, will curl up and snuggle. I can even watch the dawn rising, from under the covers.
I am awake, but...
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In case anyone is interested because I'm... →
mohandasgandhi:
mohandasgandhi:
And there you have it.
In case you wanted, you know, fact checked history on Palestine….
History? History. History!
Write one leaf about being slapped.
writeoneleaf:
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“I wonder what it feels like to slap someone,” Audra wondered. I stared at her. “I- I have no idea.” There was something new in the room now. This something came with an air, and with this air came a smile. A grin. Suppressed laughter. And so she slapped...
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