scrapbooking...

scary as it may be, i guess i'm going to be taking this on as a project - i want Dominic to have a cool scrapbook, and as Fairy Godmother, i figure it's my duty to provide one. making the trip to Michael's was a bit intimidating - there's sooooo much stuff out there!! i suppose some of the intimidating parts are thinking about being creative again. i sure as hell don't do much of that, particularly since i've been unemployed.

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the indianapolis museum of art...

kat, john and i went to the IMA today...it was good, except john was a bit too squirmy - i like to take my time looking at the artwork - he wanted to rush to the one thing he thought was really cool and then kinda blew off stuff we found interesting. *shrug*

i really enjoyed Amorphic Robot Works: The Feisty Children, a hands-on exhibit showing from May 6 through July 31, 2005 - as the website explains:

Amorphic Robot Works: The Feisty Children is an installation of ten robotic “children” that lurch, shuffle and gyrate to their own individual beat. Amorphic Robot Works (ARW), a collective of artists, engineers and technicians based in New York City who share artistic inspiration and work together to create robotic performances and installations, developed The Feisty Children. Led by artistic director Chico MacMurtrie, ARW invites viewers to consider the relationships between people, nature and machines.

as far as paintings, i most enjoyed Edward Hopper's Hotel Lobby - i've seen Hopper's works in books and such previously and found them interesting, but seeing a work up close and personal makes for such a different experience. the museum describes the work in saying, "Urban loneliness and the banality of everyday existence are persistent themes in Hopper's paintings." - perhaps it's because i'm really relating to those issues nowadays that the painting really stood out to me - lonelieness, banality...yup, that pretty much sums it up for me.

long time no blog...

it becomes glaringly obvious when the depression really kicks in - i don't blog. things come up, and i think "oh, i should blog about that" but then it never happens. or absolutely nothing comes up, and i think "i should blog about that" but then that never happens either.

gonna try to get back into the swing of things now...

my animal totem...

You scored as Dog. You are the Dog. You are the most loyal of your friends and you protect them at all costs. Being what you are makes you happy and your friends like that about you. Dog 83% Deer 67% Crow 67% Fox 67% Bull 58% Ram 58% Eagle 58% Stag 58% Salmon 58% Bear 50% Dragon 50% Wolf 50% Horse 42% Snake 33% Which animal totem best suits you? created with QuizFarm.com

Vagus Nerve Stimulation is NOT Electroshock Therapy!!!

ugh, seeing a discussion on Fark about Vagus Nerve Stimulators and their possible use to help depression irked me because of all the misinformation out there - VNS is in absolutely no way similar to electroshock therapy - aka ECT - aka electroconvulsive therapy!!!

Joke Of The Day...

from comedycentral.com:

George W. was out jogging one morning along the parkway when he tripped, fell over the bridge railing and landed in the creek below.

Before the Secret Service guys could get to him, three kids, who were fishing, pulled him out of the water. He was so grateful he offered the kids whatever they wanted.

The first kid said, "I want to go to Disneyland."

George said, "No problem. I'll take you there on Air Force One".

The second kid said, "I want a new pair of Nike Air Jordan's."

George said, "I'll get them for you and even have Michael sign them!"

The third kid said, "I want a motorized wheelchair with a built-in TV and stereo headset!!"

Bush is a little perplexed by this and says, "But you don't look like you are handicapped."

The kid says, "I will be after my dad finds out I saved your ass from drowning!"

wednesday's doc appt...

thankfully, it wasn't the asshole neurologist i saw last time that told me to tape my mouth shut to lose weight when i went to followup with a neurologist on wednesday - dr. salanova is much more understanding and has a bedside manner with her patients that doesn't make you want to slap the shit out of her. of course, one more thing about going to see docs at the IU Neurology lab (besides not always seeing the same doc) is that we get to teach the young docs a bit - it's not just one doc asking you questions, it's four in the room gathering data on you. so, in the morning i'm going to get some blood drawn for a variety of tests, primarily a Tegretol level to make sure i'm not overdosing on it. Perhaps that's the reason i've been so freakin exhausted this past week - usually, after a seizure, i need a day or two to sleep it off, but it's been 8 days now, and i still just want to do nothing but sleep.

*yawn*

brain damage...

so, tuesday i took a little trip to the grocery store, where i proceeded to have a seizure. spent most of that day at st. francis south, then they transferred me to st. francis beech grove, where i spent tuesday night and most of wednesday, before being discharged. tegretol level was low, probably due to my being sick a few days prior, in addition to having lowered the med level a while back when i seemed to be having side effects from it. *sigh*

tuesday i had 4 seizures - one at the grocery, and 3 more at the hospital...subsequently, i've been exhausted, sleeping most of the time weds, thurs, fri, sat, and now sunday...*yawn*...amazing how exhausting this shit can be...

15593232 Seconds 'Til Christmas!

at kroger today, i noticed one of the employees marking down all the summer/picnic-type merchandise and shuffling it all down to the end of the aisle, getting ready to move it all out...

"the christmas merchandise coming in?" i asked her...

"not yet, the school supplies are taking over!" was her response...

i suppose i should be relieved that it's school supplies - even though i was joking when i asked, i really would NOT have been surprised if they were getting ready for christmas merchandise...

Happy (?!?) Anniversary

My 2005 datebook from the InSightOut book club (a spiffy LBGT mail order book club) informs me that it is today, June 27, that is the anniversary of the Stonewall riots. It's definitely got me thinking - how far have we come since 1969? I think there are lots of different answers to that question, both positive and negative. It brings up a lot more questions in me as well. I suppose between this anniversary and last night's episode of Queer As Folk that had a plot line about Propositions taking away our rights, I'm thrown into an state of introspection that hasn't hit me for quite a while. Perhaps it's just because i was ill and unable to attend any Pride events this year, but if anyone else hasn't really given this stuff a good hard thinking about lately, i'd strongly encourage it.

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Court TV in Indianapolis

wow, one of my favorite cable tv channels is coming to visit us in Indianapolis in a couple of months - Court TV’s Seriously Entertaining Summer Tour comes to the state fairgrounds in August...

now if we could just get Bravo! to bring some of their shows to town - errr, wait, maybe that wouldn't be a good idea - the Fab 5 in Indy? Jonathan Antin, perhaps? hmmmm...

hadn't noticed the bondage theme before...

hadn't noticed the bondage theme before in wonder woman comic book covers, but superdickery.com has em all lined up to make it so very obvious - in a gallery labeled "Suffering Sappho!", surprisingly enough. *8-) my personal fave is the quote they added after this cover, featuring the skeleton of wonder woman chained to a wall: "Looks like someone forgot the safeword." ROFL

yeah, i think it's obvious that i should be sleeping right now...

ethical sluttiness...

True Ethical Slut Whoa! You scored 30 Sluttiness Points and 19 Ethics Points! Interesting...

Doesn’t sex just kick ass? You love it and your friends love it and your playmates love it. Sex is that overflowing bowl of ice cream you just have to share with the world. Because maybe, just maybe, if we can get more happy good sex out into the world, we can make it a happier place for everyone in it. You know how to communicate about what you want and how to listen to your partner’s desires. You even use your turn signals. You’re just an all around good person. You are one of the beautiful people.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 64% on Sluttiness You scored higher than 58% on Ethics

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