in which I write about stuff
It’s been a long time since I’ve written about depression — I think a lot of the people I know (online and otherwise) weren’t around the last time I was really candid in this space. (I think I wrote quite a bit around 2005-06.) But it’s been weighing on me, and I’ve decided to just […]
It’s odd…by any objective measure this (the eee transformer tablet+keyboard) is too small to write on, but this morning when I sat down to write, I started up my computer…and decided that I’d rather be writing with the smaller device. Maybe it’s the distance between my eyes and the screen, or just the smallness of […]
low battery and low mood, so I’m not sure how much I’m really going to write today. Feeling the accumulated effects of the dark seasons, lack of exercise, and what else? Also, this morning, a bit of a sinus headache. Ugh, none of the thoughts that bubble up in my head sound fit to commit […]
[Apologies to my non-D&D-playing readers.] Trying to remember/work out how long it’s been since the player characters in the D&D game have been off on their current adventure, and what might have happened elsewhere in the area in the meantime. They left their supposed stronghold (Quasqueton, from the module B1, Into the Unknown) and went […]
Oh, huh…little visual tweaks to the WordPress Android app on the tablet. Probably a long time ago. I just updated most of the software on here after procrastinating for months & months because I needed to remove C’s account and wasn’t sure if there’d be side effects. There weren’t any. Today I brought some potting […]
In the time that I’ve been doing web design and development, I’ve worked in four organizations. Curiously, all of them have had primarily women employees, and the marketing departments that I’ve worked in have been overwhelmingly female. But all of them have had overwhelmingly male IT departments. United Way: about 30 employees, when I started […]
So yesterday I was in a bit of a Twitter conversation with Greg Dunlap (“heyrocker” on Twitter, Drupal, and elsewhere), in which he said “welcome to higher education!” My reply was “you mean welcome back,” because when I first met him I was still at Pierce, although I’m not sure if he remembered that. But […]
I really should write something about being back in higher ed in the context of the differences between Pierce and Evergreen. But first I have to think more deliberately about what those are. (This was brought to mind by a Twitter exchange prompted by a quote from a podcast.)
After spending a few days in a really bad place emotionally — wracked by anxiety & despair — it really helps to have a D&D game that goes well. (Said anxiety/depression being (mostly) unrelated to the game.) I could over-analyze it and beat up on myself for not getting exactly the right combination of foes […]
It might be a trite observation, but I’m freshly noticing that life really does try to get a foothold pretty much everywhere.