Greetings, Internet! I hope everyone’s staying as safe and sane as can be. This week, I started using singing straws, am on a metal kick, and am seriously outlining my second chapter. Daily summaries below! Day Four Hundred and Fourteen (4/30/21) More work on my dissertation chapter outline.Attended a Zoominar on teaching medieval global history. … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 60
Greetings, Internet! Hope you’re staying as safe and sane as can be. I had surgery, and then spent the remainder of the week recuperating by watching movies and eating pie. Daily summaries below! Day Three Hundred and Two (1/8/21) Surgery at noon-ish. Fasting until then. I am so hungry. And thirsty. Oh, and the covid … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 44
Greetings, Internet! Hope everyone is staying as safe and sane as possible. I’m on the mend from last week’s ER trip, ordered and received my MIDI controller, and rediscovered my love of Radiohead’s OK Computer. Daily summaries below! Day Two Hundred and Eighteen (10/16/20) And we’re back on the road to Princeton to deal with … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 32
Greetings, Internet! Hope everyone’s staying as safe and sane as possible. This week has been quite a doozy. I had a bit of a fever, thought it was nothing, then thought it was a UTI, and then ended up in the emergency room with a skin infection. Daily summaries below! Day Two Hundred and Eleven … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 31
Greetings, Internet! Hope everyone’s staying as healthy and safe as they can. Baseball is still around (for now), I am still all about the music (in part because I am dreading the coming semester), and power surges led to an interesting couple of hours battling with my HVAC unit. Daily summaries below! Day One Hundred … Continue reading Self-Isolation Diaries – Week 21
Greetings, internet! Here I am to shake my fist at the entity that is the Princeton Housing Office (or whatever they go by; quite frankly I am too annoyed with them to spare the minute it would take to look up their official name). For the past two years, I have lived in university housing … Continue reading The Quest for Accessible Housing
Greetings, internet! A while back, I wrote about Access-A-Ride (AAR). I complained about it, but only because it is virtually the only inter-borough travel option I have as a wheelchair user in NYC, and it is not very good. It is unreliable, disorganized, and very likely understaffed and overscheduled. Since that post, it has gotten … Continue reading Adventures in Paratransit, Part Two: Two Strikes for Access-a-Ride
A physical therapy post! Huzzah! I did a post a couple of years ago called “Standing with Context” in which I explained what it looks like, and then what is actually happening, when I do standing exercises. I also did one on the importance of core strength. Go read them if you haven’t yet. This is … Continue reading Squatting with Context
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