Day off
I always feel like I am taking too much sick time and people will be judging me but I looked at this year with my manager and I had taken 8 sick days and 6 vacation days. Something is wrong with how I...
View ArticleInstead of relaxing
Somehow I just have 8 million other responsibilities. Working on it! One nice thing today, my neighbor let me know she is going out of town for the weekend and I can park in her driveway!
View ArticleAwesome Foundation Disability, 69th winner
The 69th winner of the Awesome Foundation Disability grant is Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn with the project SPANKBOX! NICE!! SPANKBOX is a photographic installation that depicts individuals with physical...
View ArticleA translation from a while back
Every once in a while I think of this poem by Nicanor Parra, and want to find my translation again. So here it is! I think it is weirdly compelling and it also makes me laugh even if it is a somewhat...
View ArticleDisability Technology Foundation plans
I gave a short talk at the Aaron Swartz Day Hackathon about my new project, Disability Technology Foundation. Its goal is to open license assistive tech of all kinds; to archive and share plans on how...
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powering through vs. space to heal
I am in a flare up of my mobility and pain issues (arthritis/joint pain) which means I cannot really do much, am using my manual wheelchair in the house, need to rest quite a lot and am not exactly on...
View ArticleThe slowest nice vacation
I am back to walking a little and we went ahead with our planned vacation. We tried to plan it so that even if I wasn’t doing too well it would still be enjoyable and relaxing. So for me that means as...
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Historic bricks from San Francisco City Hall
San Francisco’s original City Hall was built (on top of a cemetery!) starting in 1872 and finally opened in 1879, to be actually completed in 1899. (You can see some interesting photos and more history...
View ArticleThings that could be in my mailbox in order of horribleness
Anxiety and hypervigilance are weird survival tools that help you get through situations where you don’t have much control. For example if you are a small child in the 1970s freaking out about every...
View ArticlePet peeve about local tourist advice
When I am skimming through the various San Francisco related subreddits, there’s one kind of post guaranteed to get me commenting. It’s when someone asks for tips on where to bring their relatives who...
View ArticleA thought on current trends in transphobia
As I read Erin in the Morning today citing a lot of pearl clutching freakouts by Republicans about “sex change surgeries on children” (which, by the way, isn’t a thing) in order to drum up hatred and...
View ArticleWhat makes access amazing for you?
I was thinking about event accessibility today and events I’ve been to as a wheelchair user. There are bare minimums of accessibility that mean I can get in the door, and usually that’s what people...
View ArticleWho gets which words
I had to laugh yesterday at myself for being outraged, when someone maybe 15 years younger than me was shocked that a GenXer would say “chonker”. I can fucking say “chonker”!? Is that not our word? I...
View ArticleMy high school banned books article, banned
In high school in Texas the 80s (Cypress Creek) I wrote two articles for the school newspaper that were banned. I was just thinking about this as I looked at the totally bonkers list of books banned...
View ArticleGeek tour of the San Francisco Bay Area
People come to San Francisco, still, in pursuit of the technoutopian dream, but also they like to pay homage to an idea of “Silicon Valley”. Now that the Mozilla monument has gone to storage, there...
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Hip hop and a party
I took the 49 and the 30 buses across town to the Palace of Fine Arts for the International Hip Hop DanceFest – its 25th year! If you can, grab tickets and go tomorrow, it was an incredible trip. The...
View ArticleHappy 2024!
I didn’t do a year in review for 2023 and I hope I will do something like that. But it’s too much for this morning and I feel like just starting fresh with a diary of this first week. On Sunday, NYE, I...
View ArticleWeird SF and a kids’ book binge
I did a lot of trying to say no to things and step down from things I wasn’t doing (well enough, or in some cases, at all) which was kind of my therapy homework and which was very difficult. Why is...
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The Unquiet Grave
Morning reading: The Unquiet Grave by Palinurus (aka Cyril Connolly). A little treasure chest by a thoughtful, neurotic slacker, reader, and writer, a sort of miscellany as he muses on the problems of...
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