At the end of August I attended an online workshop, Short Story Intensive with Mary Robinette Kowal. The ultimate assignment for the class was to write a short story based on all the previous work we’d done. We had ninety minutes. I was pretty proud of my first draft, and…
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Once again I have a Betta fish – though after the last one I had grown cold on the idea of having a fish in my office (to the point where I got rid of all the tanks and supplies I had used on my previous underwater companions). But a…
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I went to the doctor today for a followup on how my anti-depressants are working. Not as well as I’d like – even with the higher dosage I still had almost two weeks worth of days in the three months where the depression either had me on the edge of…
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A few weeks ago I was going through containers in my office, and I decided to pull out all of my journals, morning pages and writing notebooks. When I was done, I was surrounded by no fewer than 40 various sized notebooks, plus another 30 or so “fit in your…
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I have begun to see a therapist as treatment for my depression in conjunction with the medication I am on. Talking with her this week, taking compliments came up. I don’t take compliments well. That phrase sounds funny – like I get aggressive you you attempt to compliment me. And…
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So, I have committed my weekend (well most of it – thanks to the holiday) to a Short Story Intensive workshop being hosted by Mary Robinette Kowal. I am stoked to have landed a spot in this class, and excited to be working with Mary again. I’ve had the pleasure…
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I took a training class in Inspiring Trust yesterday as part of a series of 3-hour courses to earn a “Supervisory Challenge” certificate that is offered by the institution that employes me. One of the exercises in the class was to look at a list of about 70 values, mark…
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My sibling, And, and I discuss gender and gender identity a lot since de has come out as genderqueer – that is, not identifying wholly as either male, or female. We discuss gender binary as a social construct, and how language enforces this. Most recently (today in fact), And posted in…
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My depression lies to me. One of the lies it tells me is that I don’t do things right, up to and including depression. That is, it tells me that my depression is not the same experience others have (based on conversations and my reading), therefore it probably isn’t even…
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Today is a coping day with regards to my depression. I’m still trying to figure this thing out, but I came to the realization that what I have accomplished thus far today is because I have many tools I’ve incorporated into my life to cope with the depression. Things that…