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Perfectly Broken
Trauma to the body is difficult to deal with when you’re not already saddled with mental illnesses like depression or PTSD. Those ghosts taking up residence in my brain made it that much harder to accept.
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Distraction is the better part of valor
I broke my femur, but I still don’t know if there is also tendon or ligament damage. My future is as fuzzy as it was a few days ago.
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How the Amoeba Cat became a creature made of spun glass
On Friday, July 4th I slipped and fell in the kitchen. My leg twisted severely, and I was racked with pain so terrible I screamed uncontrollably for 5 minutes.
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I was homeschooled. It was pretty cool. Can we stop with the dominant narrative that it is awful?
There’s no such thing as a universal homeschooling experience, and having one region dominate all others in discourse is super annoying.
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Small Things
This is meant as sort of a general update on my life.
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Minimizing Mental Illness: a message to allies
Having mental illness means you learn to minimize what’s going on with you, or you learn to be alone.
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The Great Rewashing of 2014
For three days I suffered until finally Mr. Katje kicked me out the door to go get some godsdamned antihistamines, for Zeus’ sweet sake. (Actually I don’t really think Zeus cares if I’m itching or not; I think it’s rather a thing below his sphere of “Shit I Care About”.)