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Daily Song (right-click): Escape the Fate - Cellar Door
This may have to go on certain of my writing playlists. (Not playlists I listen to while I write, mind you. More like fanmixes I make for myself.)

Academichic: Dress Your Best Week
I'd like to participate in that, but IDK whether I'll have the spoons.* I could try picking out my clothes ahead of time and writing the entry in advance, I guess. I've been meaning to assemble fabulous outfits more often (inspired partly by one of my coworkers and partly by the underutilized parts of my closet), but, ugh, effort. This kind of thing is usually the first to get pushed aside.

When it comes to picking out clothes in advance, there's also the problem of Boston's highly fickle weather. I can't just glance at a forecast and create five outfits for a work-and/or-class-week! I have to have backup outfits: what if it rains, what it it's suddenly and briefly hot or cold, etc?

* I'm still trying to figure out the extent to which I'm comfortable with conceptualizing my depression as a disability. I often feel like I am too functional to really count. :\

general

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lauredhel: no-knead bread

2.

katieastrophe: Right Said Fred have recorded a song for the Lib Dems, and

rho: Why I'm not a Liberal Democrat

Dreamwidth

1. New layouts on every community I administrate!

auriel |

boston |

etsy |

txtsubtxt |

virtual_meetup

2. Also considering changing my journal's layout, to the Light on Dark theme for Funky Circles (with further customizations).

fandom

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recessional: the integrity of settings and characters

2. White Collar vid to Franz Ferdinand's "I'm Your Villain", by

erda and

lisztful

3. bandom commentfic meme in

angelsandkings

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Oo! Thanks for the link to Academichic! I've been working on revamping my wardrobe, and there is SO MUCH USEFULNESS about that site.

:) I don't remember where I ran across Academichic, but I love them because fashion! At academic institutions!

See, your wardrobe revamping involves making things, which is cool. Mine involves poking through my closet and marveling at how my body hasn't really changed since high school, and at how much of a packrat I am.

Haha. I'm attempting to be one of the stylish skirt wearers who does molecular biology. My direct boss wears amazing stuff all the time, and has an apron to protect her outfits from the fish water. It's all very snazzy.

I'm actually VERY GLAD I have nothing from high school. I'm sure a lot of it would fit, but now I dress to show my shape, rather than hide it! Honestly, I rather dislike sewing, and stall out when a needle breaks (ie: right now) or I have to dig for something in my stash (ie: a zipper. Or buttons.). But it's a good way for me to get exactly what I want, and since I have the skills, I feel I need to use them!

Ah. I guess my style hasn't changed that much since high school. I don't wear shorts any more, but I actually began phasing them out back in the day. Only major difference I can think of.

\o/ for shape-showing!

Yay, linkage! And I would be interested in seeing five fabulous outfits-with-backup, whether you did it in advance or even after the fact.

I may have to try on a bunch of things and get Ellie to take pictures, then. Maybe Sunday, since neither of us will be working or traveling around the state.

just want to say I understand the reluctance to characterize depression as a disability while still recognizing that it fucks you up so hard, and so thoroughly. I am sending internet hugs and good thoughts your way, dear, and I hope you do find the spoons for your fashion adventure!

Thank you!! (I find it a lot easier to address depression when it poses risks of massive, externally noticeable failure. Bleh.)

I'm still trying to figure out the extent to which I'm comfortable with conceptualizing my depression as a disability. I often feel like I am too functional to really count.

I know what you mean. It feels so strange to think of myself as disabled even though I technically am - I've got a disability pension and while it's mostly due to my back part of it is due to the depression. I feel like I'm not sick "enough" and it's hard to remember that I'm only as functional as I am because of the meds I take.

Edited (corrected the grammar a bit) 2010-05-05 14:54 (UTC)

*hugs* I wouldn't be making the connections at all, except that I stumbled into a bunch of disability blogs. And it's hard for me to tell sometimes how much of my current abilities are due to my meds. :(