You know you’re a geek when …

… you sit up in bed at 3 am trying to figure out if your breathing pattern is a sine wave or a cosine. And it makes perfect sense even when you’re awake. I’m hopeless. What’s your oddest not-quite-coherent thought?

Epic fail

Stopping my Geodon wasn’t a good idea. Four days off it and I’m crashing. Big time. I broke down and had to take it this afternoon. I hate needing this stuff. I don’t want to take them anymore. To level myself, I’m sitting outside in my rocking chair, with my laptop, decaf coffee, and Death [...]

A weekly dose of reality

I really hate Sundays. That’s the day I spread my bottles of meds out on the dining room table and fill my pill case for the coming week. Geodon, the anti-psychotic, Lamicital, the mood stabilizer, and Prozac, the anti-anxiety and anti-depressant drug, all go into the little compartments to be measured out morning and night [...]

A declaration of human rights

Decades after the recognition of civil rights irrespective of race, religion and gender, the United Nations has come out with a compact affirming the right of those of varying ability to be included in society and to control their own destiny. On May 3, 2008 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities went [...]

I am one grain of sand

As of January 2008 there were approximately 155,583,825 sites on the internet. That’s roughly 1 for every 42 people on earth. Any guesses on how many of those are porn? Contrary to what your mother says, not nearly as many as you might think. Most studies estimate the rate at less than 1%. I’d guess [...]

Random bullets ala Parts-n-Pieces

It’s been a good summer so far. Happy thing: The best writers’ workshop I’ve ever attended Happy thing: great reviews from peers on my current manuscript Happy thing: “excellent dialogue” comment from writing instructor Happy thing: making plans to go back next year for 2 weeks Happy thing: chocolate velvet decaf coffee Not-so-happy thing: fighting [...]

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see famous look-a-like faces From the folks who brought you I Can Has Cheezburger.

Happy dance!

I interrupt this regularly scheduled vacation to tell you all that … I GOT AN A IN STATS! I guess everyone else must have had trouble with the final, too. At least it doesn’t seem to have counted against me much. Time to make a drink and celebrate! For the span of 2 months, until [...]