{{{smonster}}} Sorry to hear he's making it so hard for you. I hope you can get some non-stressful time this weekend.

askye, best wishes for a speedy discovery of what's wrong. Having spent 28 years undiagnosed, I know the frustration of not being taken seriously by doctors. You sound like you're pushing it, which also sounds like totally the right thing to do. I hope they figure out what it is really soon.

Saturday. Day for the first of my two criminology essays. Classical criminology vs positivism. Not the most exciting subject ever. I'm having 'what the hell should I do with my life?' issues. It was always the plan that I lived on my savings this (academic) year and focused on PhD funding, but I get *so bored* - despite needing to sleep a lot and only having about three really productive hours a day, most days. Gah. Sometimes I hate being a sickly person. I want to teach. Hmm.

{{{{smonster}}}} I wish it could have been easier. I'm so sorry, sweetie.

I also love Trudy and Erin's father.

Seska, so much ~ma for you and the Girl and coming over here. As I said, I'm willing to do A LOT to see your ass in my country, in person. Not that I'm suggesting that that's the most interesting part of you.

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positivism

is the Nazi Germany of the scientific theories.

I'm having 'what the hell should I do with my life?'

Come to Israel! We'll have coffee!

Today I get to ramble around Chapel Hill and Durham with smonster and amyth. (Mostly rambling via car rather than walking, as my ankle's still being something of a little bitca.) Yay! I haven't been out of the apartment for anything except one day of work since Sunday. But first, coffee and a trip to the vet.

positivism

is the Nazi Germany of the scientific theories.

Oh, no doubt of that. The essay is asking me to put the theories into context. Which I like. I just need to read more around the context, being neither an historian nor a criminologist.

Come to Israel! We'll have coffee!

Hee. Yes, that solves my dilemmas.

Today I get to ramble around Chapel Hill and Durham with smonster and amyth.

So cool! Have fun :)

Big fat flakes of snow. It's so pretty! Glad I don't have to go out in it. The rose is trying to bud for the 4th time this year. Little bud curled up all tight and grumpy getting snowed on.

Instead of hanging on the porch where there's food and shelter, Stray Cat #1 is on the patio getting snowed on, so she can play with Leo. Through the glass.

Good thing I went to the store yesterday. Hate to be snowed in without BACON. Donner, party of seven, your table is ready.

What the hell is "positivism"? Did this happen after I left school, or did I just block it from my negativistic mind?

What the hell is "positivism"? Did this happen after I left school, or did I just block it from my negativistic mind?

Nah - in social science context, this was mostly a nineteenth-century thing. It's an empiricist approach which holds that the principles of the natural sciences can be applied to society. Most social theorists/researchers now find this approach decidedly dodgy, but it was an important development in the social sciences in the 19th C. [link]

(((Askye)))

(((Smonster)))

The little one I am watching just woke up because he needed a diaper change and was not very happy to see me instead of mommy or daddy. He seems to be falling asleep again now.

Tea:

I'm home now with my ovaries aching. G is so adorable. I find it relatively easy for me to take care of a toddler, so I am hoping it will mainly be the first year or so that I will need to adapt baby care to my disability. t /navel gazing

It's an empiricist approach which holds that the principles of the natural sciences can be applied to society.

Oh, right. I forgot about it.

I am hoping it will mainly be the first year or so that I will need to adapt baby care to my disability.

I'm waiting for my niece to get old enough that I can babysit for her without other people there. It's not safe at the moment, as I can't get up the stairs in my sister's house to change her etc. Maybe she can come and stay with us a in a year or two. Would be very cool.

I forgot about it.

I plan to do just that, once this essay's written.