Thanks, Cashmere. If she were paying me I could see trying to be a control freak about it, but it is a gift so I wish she would back off a bit. She doesn't want one for the mens room at all so I'm glad I didn't already buy the top hat.
'Shindig'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Thanks, smonster. It is exhausting, but it's also what I do. So on the one hand, I get hugely frustrated, but on the other hand I spend a lot of time delivering training around accessibility and inclusion. But it's one thing to advise on policy and practice around access and inclusion, and quite another to stand up for yourself.
I hadn't even thought of putting baskets in the restrooms (/bad bride)
I hadn't even thought of putting baskets in the restrooms
People do that? I doubt I'll have time to check there's paper in there...
Not everyone does it, but it usually has safety pins, clear nailpolish, hand lotion, etc that guests might need. I enjoy making them and I am good at it, which is not something I can say about many things so when the bride say don't do this or that because it is silly or stupid, I get hurt
I can't tell you how happy I always am to see those baskets at an event. Dress hem torn? Safety pin! Run in pantyhose? Clear nail polish! Stuff I don't always have in my purse is welcome and a sweet idea.
Teppy, that is hysterical about the engagement post. Something similar happened to me recently where people thought I was already married.
So far today I have had bloodwork that did not go well, now I am getting new leg braces, and next x-rays. Can it be bedtime now?
Yeah, there are a lot of times where I don't take on the educator role like I used to.I'm just not interested in being people's entree into the Crip Experience...I don't know how it is in other countries, Seska, but here I feel like to be a good disability activist, I had to give up a lot of my individuality. Some of those people I did movement things with had nothing else in their lives. Ever.(I mean, in a way, I understand, cause they keep us so poor and stuff, but I do need to talk about other things from time to time.)
your need for accomodation
Should have added "and right to" in there.
But it's one thing to advise on policy and practice around access and inclusion, and quite another to stand up for yourself.
Oh, heavens to Betsy, yes.
I do need to talk about other things from time to time.
Like crime shows and Anderson Cooper!
I feel like to be a good disability activist, I had to give up a lot of my individuality. Some of those people I did movement things with had nothing else in their lives. Ever.(I mean, in a way, I understand, cause they keep us so poor and stuff, but I do need to talk about other things from time to time.)
Indeed. I know what you mean. I've got a (sometimes paying, mostly not) career in equality training and disability research, so a lot of what I do does revolve around disability. I don't feel the need to apologise for that, but I hope I can talk about other things occasionally. It's part of why I'm volunteering for an org that's nothing to do with disability. Even though my role is inclusion-related. But it's not like I have tons of other experience to offer. I'm OK with that... most of the time. For the rest of the time, there's vodka, cult TV, feminism, obsessing about whether the Church hates me for being gay, and so forth. (OK, so I'm mostly about the 'people hate me'. I like vodka.)