July 2010
12 posts
For me, living in New York City is living in one of three stages:
In stage one, I am blissfully in love with the city. I love cities. I love people. I love exploring. I love learning. New York City is like one giant textbook for me and sometimes there are beautiful, amazing moments where I am just so happy to live here in this spot.
In stage two, I am like a normal person living anywhere. I...
IN OTHER NEWS my mom just left me a message about setting up a Flickr account:
“Zoe, it says I need a user name. What is that? Should I put in something like Kitty Mainstreet?”
Kitty Mainstreet would be my porn name.
This is the sort of thing I feel weird about commenting on because I am very much a spectator of Internet Feminism, not an active participant. I read. I read lots. I almost never comment. And this week’s shitstorm at Feministe (that’s right, I name names! Because no one is reading) is basically why.
I think there is a tendency amongst privileged Internet Feminists to engage in, for...
Sady Doyle: Let Us Say →
That I were a little Interfeminist, who is kind of appalled by the amount of acclaim she’s received relative to her general uselessness, and I wanted to spend a little less time complaining about how useless I am in public (all I’m doing is preaching to the choir! I don’t deserve to be liked this…
This is something I have been mulling over myself, because I have a similar Internet-Based...
Like a lot of people with attention issues, I crave scheduling. It makes my life easier and organized and, ironically, more creative and social.
My schedule building at work hasn’t been going well—I need to re-evaluate this weekend to look at what the root cause could be (is it the job itself? the atmosphere? will working from home more help? will forcing someone to focus on my...
As addendum to that last bit, and because I am thinking about internet interactions and real life interactions and cutting people off and so on: I am really, really glad I never cut my older brother (and by extension, my family) out of my life.
Trust me, I had good reason and I wouldn’t begrudge anyone in the same position if they did. But my older brother, who is maybe the world’s...
I was a LiveJournaler. For years. I technically still have one, and still read my friends pages, but haven’t updated it in my months. I get frustrated with LiveJournal because 1) I had stopped writing as much, for various reasons and that meant it was empty mostly and 2) I stopped feeling able to speak about things I really wanted to talk about.
So, because I am too lazy to set up a...
I read a fair amount of blogs. Some are tech-related, because that’s my job and an area of interest, but of late a lot of them are about the following:
Adoption (specifically older child adoption)
Foster care
The failures of international aid
Down syndrome (specifically written by the parents of children with down syndrome, though I follow a few blogs by self-advocates)
Gender
Racism
...
When I get sick, I clench my jaws even more than I normally do (which is a lot). I am sick now and this means that, on top of everything, my jaw really hurts. Awesome.
I just left my keys in the bathroom for the second time this week. The first time I left them overnight and had to talk to security to get them back.
Thank you, ADD-brain, for always making life interesting.
Ahhh, my bottom teeth are so sensitive right now. It’s the most annoying feeling ever. Ah!
Vacation
I am in France. It’s amazing. I’m so, so fortunate to have the family I do. Makes me think the concept of “familial privilege” should be examined more. Happy. Tipsy. I have a pool to swim in, which will be so good for my leg. Love vacations. Considering ways I can make my life like a vacation.
