voncookie | November 11, 2009
I posted on Popular Social Networking Site that I was going down to HMB for sand, surf, and yarn, but alas, I forgot to mention “wind” (short “i”). While I got to wind some new yarn, I did not get to sit on the beach and knit with it because of the wind. (God, sometimes [...]
voncookie | November 8, 2009
Like summer in Liberal Paradise, today my brain fog lifted for about 6 hours around mid-day, and then came back, not with a vengeance, as one might assume, but enough to keep me from wanting to drive long distances. I couldn’t even make it to the Sev, for the love of Pete! Stupid Brain Fog. [...]
voncookie | November 7, 2009
You know I’m not in a good way if I’m semi-referencing a zombie movie in the title of my blog post. God, I hate zombies… But I have to admit, I’m sort of feeling like one right now, minus the putrefaction and general malodorousness. But shuffly? Check. Groany? Check. Glazed eyes? Check twice, one for [...]
voncookie | November 4, 2009
We’re all stressed out. All of us. For our various reasons, we just are. Maybe it’s the way we live our lives– you know, the American Way and the Protestant Work Ethic. Maybe it’s the fact that the universe is completely awry right now. Or maybe we’re all just crazy, bat-sh*t insane, in our own [...]
voncookie | June 24, 2008
Sometimes I’m just too damn sensitive. Yesterday was really, really weird. I’ve gone underground. More when I’m able.
voncookie | December 21, 2007
The author of The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva, Jennifer Radden, mentions in her introduction that, traditionally, the major characteristics of melancholy/melancholia have been noted as fear and sadness as a general tendency, a sort of personality quirk as it were, stemming from nothing in particular, thus “without cause” (p. 10). Well, isn’t [...]
voncookie | December 18, 2007
I’m currently reading a book titled “The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva“, and I was thinking about maybe opening up a discussion on Melancholy/Melancholia/Unipolar Depression/Bipolar Disorder, all those things that are still stigmatized (with terms like “batshit insane”, “the loony bin”, not to mention the tendency of crime-and-punishment type TV shows to exaggerate [...]
voncookie | December 17, 2007
My birthday felt like a lull between storms, kinda like it was on the East Coast where Saturday actually was a lull between storms, the icy, snowy kind. My internal storminess was as intense as your average Nor’Easter, and when that happens, it scares the hell out of me. My depressions are not to be [...]
