These past few weeks have become a huge blur, I have so much free time on my hands right now I've spent most of it this month working on various projects just trying to keep myself busy. My biggest project of all of them this month has been planning my attendance to the Disability and Intersectionality Summit at MIT in October. So far, I've managed to save up a little over six-hundred dollars and have spent a few hundred of that now on booking a place to stay and the tickets for the actual event. All I can say is..not having a job sucks ass. It really does, having to rely on family members for transportation to and from doctor's appointments, not having my own car or license and relying on those same people to house and feed me these past few years has been more than stressful. I sometimes feel like I'm going insane cooped up in the house all day with nothing to do but think about all the things I'd like to be able to do. Lack of money being the biggest and furthe...
This is my first post since re-vamping my blog and creating a clean slate to work with. I've tried a few times over the years to keep a steady stream of posts going for a few months at a time but it seem like anytime I try to stick with something, especially when it comes to a scheduled writing plan, I either get overwhelmed trying to come up with "something to write about" or I get bored and I leave it behind to start another one a few months later. This time feels different. I think I've got a set schedule down, once a week is something I feel willing and happy to commit to and I don't feel as stressed (maybe still a tiny bit) about that pressing issue of always having something to say. This is a personal blog, what I write here is purely from my own experience. Think of it as more of an open journal than anything else. Most times, when I feel that urge to write something important, I write it offline or I post it like everyone else does on Twitter or on Faceboo...