t tacklehugs Nicole

Oh, I didn't know you'd moved! I completely understand money constraints (especially pet-related). At some point could you email me your new snail mail so I have it in my address book?

erin- thanks for the tip. my mascara and eyeliner are running old, and i already have replacements purchased so i think i'll dump those and call it good. Thankful for once that i live alone and don't have to worry about spreading it to anyone i love since i've already been effectively sequestered...aside from work. So obviously that's prolly where i got it. Whoever spread to me their child's icky eye virus can suck it and should be carting my laundry up and down my scary basement stairs. And buying me a pretty dress for next weekend to help balance out the vanity nadir caused by constantly pushing my nerdy glasses up my nose.

I suggest rockin' the sexy librarian look!

I haven't decided if I will wear my glasses for my wedding; probably, although I may buy a new pair. I do not love contacts.

Hrm, i wonder if i ordered a new pair today if i could have fun glasses in 8 days....

eta: not sure if i have the wardrobe for sexy librarian, but i can certainly pull a messy bun for daytime adventures!

As for the FB status thing--the Neurodiversity Movement is really trying to get some footing. Mostly to combat the AUTISM IS WORSE THAN DEATH! panic that Autism Speaks spreads and to fight against the ignorance and woohoo quackery being spread by Jenny McCarthy and the Anti Vac crowd.

I saw the new status being used on FB! Very cool.

Hil, nice one on the FB friending.

Erin and erin, I vote for new glasses for both of you. (I always wished I wore glasses as a kid. I wanted to look like a funky librarian.)

Even though Lexapro and Celexa are related, you *really* should still taper down Celexa and taper up Lexapro.

This. I've come off Celexa a few times (I always end up back on it eventually!) and it was hard work even when I was substituting another SSRI. Tapering off can make it much easier. Best of luck with the swap, Scrappy.

New evening class last night - Sociology of Inequalities and Diversities (I have sort-of-grammatical issues with the title). I didn't know whether to comment or not (I didn't, in the end) when he put up the list of 'diversities and inequalities' that would be referred to on the course. Class, race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, age, etc. 40 years of disability rights campaigning, and we're still 'etc' to mainstream sociologists. Grrr.

I am going off lexapro right now ainfg! Otoh, it was making me fat. And I don't think I need it to stop the migraines--well we shall see. But in the meantime, whoah, weird floaty dizzy head thing. I'm splitting my pills up and also taking them less often. It's the unscientific taper, not under doctors orders. But to combat my guilt, I finally made a neurologist appointment! I last had one scheduled in September. Which she canceled and rescheduled on me three times and then canceled for good. The next available was in march.

I was taking a celexa/wellbutrin/nortriptylene cocktail for years....now am down to just celexa. I've tried weaning of it repeatedly but find that my (already thin) filter just....disappears. Like, i say all the entirely inappropriate things floating across my mind. Well, that and the endless, uncontrollable crying at every sappy commercial. I find myself highly motivated to just stay on it.

(et because i am unable to capitalize my first person pronoun.)

Internet stalking is creepy; checking out potential on Google is just 21st c. grapevine, IMHO.

This, and

I can be social tomorrow night.

Is my raison d'État. Why being social and sociable today, when I can be both tomorrow? It's only a day away, and that's how I can avoid it.

Katrina Bee, I'm sorry for all of the shit. I hope your smart cats will help you to get the guns, if not to get this matter over with.

And I'm sorry, but I have no idea about the drugs you're speaking of.

A huge comfort these days: in less than 2 years I'll see American and Australian Buffistas. And travel. And hike. And will be free. And have new, strange food. And new, strange people. And new, strange experiences. And generally speaking, wouldn't get to a point where "possibly buying a new lipstick next month. Maybe more something purple-ish" will be the highlight of indulging myself with new things. It's VERY exciting!

Now, in the latest ep of "My Sister and the IDF": Sister's about to finish her service this Sunday, yay!. She still didn't heard a word from IDF, her commander, any official or anything whether that will happen or not, nor signed any "will stay for another month" forms, boo! What's gonna happen this Sunday? How bad will I'd like to smite the assholes that are giving my precious thing such a hard time? Stay tuned!

And now, back to my studies. I won't cry. I won't break. It's just another... screams.

For the Buffista sociologists: a new post about "Gay Marriage and the Social Construction of Social “Problems”", from Sociological Images: [link]

(I swear I used to talk about other stuff, other than my daughter. If I am thread-hijacking, please tell me to take it LJ or the like.)

Conference with Emeline's teachers this morning. We are starting the ball rolling with assesments for ADHD. One of her teachers taught Special Ed for years before gtting Montessori certified and she thinks that my gut instinct about there being bigger issues afoot are right. She's been through it with her daughter, who showed a lot of the same behaviors that Emeline has been showing and Em has just been miserable at school. She doesn't want to try anything new because she can't focus on it and knows she'll get into trouble, other kids don't want to play with her because she's so boingy that she inadvertently hurts them and then she gets upset that she hurt them and she didn't mean to, she can't hold eye contact for any amount of time at all, she is distracted by anything all the time, etc etc etc.

They want, and we want, to get it figured out and get it "fixed" [insert better term here] before she starts hating school and it really becomes a BIG problem.

It's not the end of the world and it's not my fault or Joe's fault - it's brain chemistry; it's physiological - but man am I depressed about it. Joe is upset about it, too. But all in all, if it is ADHD and we decide to do medication and it helps her? Well eff being upset about it.

They do love her, though. And she is really bright and they don't think she needs to be held back, but they also said we need to figure this out because it's affecting her progress.

t slumps

Thank you guys, for the millionth time, for being so supportive and being my "invisible" sounding board. It helps so much I can't even begin to verbalize it.