Archive for July, 2016
Disquiet
My head and the whole universe ache. Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via heureun)
A vote for a third party candidate isn’t always a vote for Trump
Lots of people are yelling about how if you don’t vote for Clinton you may as well be voting for the Trump monster. Because of the wonders of the electoral college, that’s not true in many states. If you’re a lefty who lives in a solid red state where Clinton can’t win, vote for whoever […]
Plant spa day
Priorities
I’ve read more papers on my illness than I have on my PhD topic. I’m never going to graduate, am I?
Headache medicine’s problems with legitimacy persist despite the “discovery” of a neurobiological mechanism underlying migraine. For while the emphasis on the brain does somewhat mitigate migraine’s association with psychosomatic, feminized personalities, locating migraine in the brain also managed to inscribe gendered cultural assumptions about the personalities of headache patients into the physical structure of their […]
Something is wrong with your arm
Migraines are amazing. Partner’s arm looks like it has 17 joints and I can’t stand up. Reading and texting abilities mostly OK.
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