breakdowns come and breakdowns go

From Twitter 08-12-2010

Aug. 13th, 2010 at 3:14 AM

notemily: Photo of me, a white girl in her mid-20s, wearing glasses, smiling, looking up and to the right (covert affairs - otp)

08:05:04: DEAR CONSCIOUSNESS, YOU AND I ARE NOT FRIENDS
08:15:08: *dies of awake*
08:20:03: RT @davisac1: #Losttaughtme that everything happens for a reason, and that those reasons are usually really stupid.
08:21:21: @cleolinda Is it me or does Harry look like he's got a secret communication device in his wand?
08:36:07: OK so I just discovered wordpress and I'm amazed that I ever thought blogger was better.
08:37:46: Oliver is making little cooing and chirping noises again. I need to record that somehow. #kittanz
13:25:13: @scalzi Dude, you have a lot of anger. You should really...
13:25:32: @jpetroroy Yay! I wish I had a 16 year old cousin, I would send her books all the time!
13:27:23: It's a rhetorical question, like "Where's Waldo?" or "Are you smarter than a fifth grader?" #psych
18:58:04: Marked as to-read: Teacup Full of Roses by Sharon Bell Mathis http://bit.ly/90FYuN
18:58:55: Marked as to-read: Five Were Missing by Lois Duncan http://bit.ly/ctRdfd
19:01:42: Marked as to-read: The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories by Agatha Christie http://bit.ly/cj5uo6
20:02:59: Mmm, sherbet. #burnnotice
20:10:50: Janelle Monae is coming to Milwaukee! Unfortunately it's as a "special guest" with Of Montreal.
20:10:58: I'm sorry, "of Montreal."
20:14:39: Hee hee. "Guys who'd love to see Michael locked up." #burnnotice
20:25:11: Woo! Shout-out to libraries! #burnnotice
20:52:43: EW gave Scott Pilgrim a B+! http://bit.ly/abeHTp
20:52:56: @bryn_elizabeth Sam would be an awesome dad!
20:53:42: Although it was Owen Gleiberman, and I usually take his reviews with a huge chunk of salt.
20:55:19: @bryn_elizabeth Hee hee, I so can.
21:45:41: "I felt sorry for her. That's why I had sex with her." OH GIVE ME A BREAK. #svu
21:47:27: PASSIVITY IS NOT CONSENT. PASSIVITY IS NOT CONSENT. PASSIVITY IS NOT CONSENT. #svu
21:49:40: @notasecretagent By the level of silliness, and how silly a mood I was in.
21:53:45: Go Jeri Ryan! #svu
22:07:46: Kittens attacking my feets!
22:44:36: My kittens make adorable cooing sounds when playing together. They don't quite have full-grown meows yet. Adorable.
22:45:18: Also, Oliver likes to climb on top of the cage, and then walk around with his legs falling through the holes between the bars. Silly.
23:09:06: Got into an argument with a coworker today about whether or not fat automatically equals unhealthy.
23:09:36: He started talking about there being a range of "acceptable weight" and I said I don't think there's any unacceptable weight.
23:10:25: "400 pounds?" Nope, not unacceptable. "But doesn't that cause health problems?" Health should be treated independently of fatness.
23:10:58: Because in the end, it comes down to this: there is no possible benefit to fat-shaming. And it does a lot of harm.
23:24:47: @LizLovesSVU Correlation, sure. But so what? It's still not an excuse to shame fat people.
23:25:13: @LizLovesSVU The fact is that nobody knows how to permanently change a person's baseline weight.
23:26:40: @LizLovesSVU People seem to think that because fat is sometimes correlated with certain health conditions, that it's ok to blame those...
23:26:55: @LizLovesSVU ...people for being sick, because obviously they should just magically lose weight and their problems will go away.
23:27:40: @LizLovesSVU I think we shouldn't ignore the fact of unhealthiness. Treat the disease, not the fatness.
23:28:07: @LizLovesSVU http://bit.ly/4tmtSX
23:29:36: @LizLovesSVU Who decides how much weight you "need" to lose?
23:30:54: @LizLovesSVU I have genetic high cholesterol. Nothing I do is going to change that.
23:31:16: @LizLovesSVU I mean, I don't even eat dairy and I still have high cholesterol.
23:31:52: @LizLovesSVU I know that feeling, I lost a bunch of weight due to being sick and then gained it back later, and I spent A LOT on clothes.
23:32:07: @LizLovesSVU But one thing I learned is you feel much better about your body if your clothes fit, no matter what size they are.
23:32:45: @LizLovesSVU But why can't you focus on having that lifestyle without worrying about the weight?
23:34:46: @LizLovesSVU It really sucks to be sick and not be able to be as active as you want. I sympathize.
23:37:52: @LizLovesSVU I don't get why people focus on obesity being the problem instead of the diseases themselves.
23:38:19: @LizLovesSVU Athletes get injured all the time but we don't blame them for being athletes, we just treat them.
23:39:53: @LizLovesSVU Yeah, but people don't talk about how horrible it is that they're figure skaters.
23:40:21: @LizLovesSVU Or worse, say that they don't deserve treatment because they brought it on themselves.
23:40:54: @LizLovesSVU Can it, though? Nobody really knows how to make someone permanently lose weight.
23:41:11: @LizLovesSVU If diet and exercise help the actual health problem, then great, but the weight shouldn't be the focus.
23:44:07: @LizLovesSVU OK, but then we should be focusing on getting people to exercise more *regardless of weight.*
23:44:15: @LizLovesSVU There are plenty of sedentary thin people.
23:47:08: @atomic_love Yes, that's what I'm saying.
23:49:19: @LizLovesSVU I'm a fan of "intuitive eating"--eat what your body wants, when you're hungry, and stop when you are full.
23:49:35: @LizLovesSVU I'm always surprised at the number of people I've met who don't know how to stop when they're full.
23:49:51: @LizLovesSVU I had anemia too, whee.
23:52:45: @LizLovesSVU I really hate when parents say "you have to clean your plate," for that reason.
23:53:00: @LizLovesSVU Yeah, I have IBS, so I went through a similar thing.
23:53:14: @atomic_love Would it? How do you know?
23:54:30: @atomic_love Get back to me in five years. What worked for you does not necessarily work for all.
23:54:36: @atomic_love http://bit.ly/4tmtSX