About a month ago I was reading one of my textbooks for school and it mentioned the !Kung people of Botswana, which piqued my interest so I took a break from classwork to google them. This brought me to an article that mentioned the recent bestseller “Hunt, Gather, Parent” by Michaeleen Doucleff. I can’t find…
Continue ReadingI Got a Job!
On Friday I was offered a full-time job and accepted it. I’m nervous but excited. I know that this wouldn’t have been possible without all the work I’ve done over the past several years when critics thought I was just being lazy. Getting to the new job without a car will be tricky and will…
Continue ReadingJob Interview in One Hour!
As an update to how my schoolwork is going, it’s going well and I’m scheduled to do my practicum next semester. This means that I need to be employed by a day care as an assistant teacher. I have an interview today at 11:30 and another one tomorrow. I’ve always been really, really good at…
Continue ReadingAre Free-Range Animals Happy?
With all my vegan bloggings lately, I’ve been wading through a lot of content that assumes that free-range meat is better. As I mentioned in a previous post I feel like environmentally it’s probably worse but that is not my topic for today. This time, I just want to point out that if you are…
Continue ReadingGlobal Hunger: The Other Reason to be Vegan
Since I’ve been writing about veganism, I notice that the two major arguments that people make the most are that veganism is best from the point of view of animal cruelty (which to me is indisputable, despite the fact that many will make vegans out to be bleeding hearts for having empathy), and that veganism…
Continue ReadingVeganism Again
Yesterday, I decided to give myself a day off to do whatever I wanted. Except spend money, of course, since I don’t exactly have any. This is a problem because transportation is more expensive when you don’t have a car, so I found myself in my room watching YouTube videos all day. At first I…
Continue Reading“Are you OK? Do you need anything?”
I recently mentioned to my therapist that I do most of my schoolwork at night when staff is less likely to come and knock on my door asking if I’m okay. She asked what it meant to me when people ask if I need help. To me, in a best case scenario the other person…
Continue ReadingI got my first tattoo and I am SO EXCITED
I probably would never have gotten a tattoo but I have scarring on my right wrist and all over my left forearm as a leftover reminder of my troubled youth, and my aunt and uncle volunteered to help me remedy that. It turns out that getting a tattoo is (at least from what I could…
Continue ReadingBetter Today
One time, Dr. X told me that if you’re in a crisis but you push through, things get better. Actually I suspect that I’ve had this conversation more than once with more than one person and probably more than once with just Dr. X. But the one conversation stood out and since yesterday was sort…
Continue ReadingWhy can’t anyone love me?
I just feel so deeply alone. I’ve been initiating contact with my siblings but they never ever respond. The only time I actually get to communicate with them is on Christmas if I get them gifts, so I maxed out my credit card (which had a low limit, fortunately) on Christmas presents for them. Then…
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