I'm pleased to report that our Northern Lights experience was a major success despite beginning on a rather unfortunate note: Icelandair failed to deliver my mother's bag as promised, and in our flustered hurry to leave with enough time, having waited until the last minute in the delusional hope that they'd follow through, we left … Continue reading A “Person with Epilepsy” Abroad: Fourth Update You Don’t Care About (City and Lights)
A “Person with Epilepsy” Abroad: Third Update You Don’t Care About (London to Reykjavik)
Another overly detailed update, first backtracking a bit. Upon arrival at Heathrow yesterday, I was told that due to weather issues, the evening flight to Reykjavik would almost definitely be cancelled. They were hoping mine would "beat the storm." Comforting. Because of texts from my poor mother, who had already arrived in Iceland sans baggage … Continue reading A “Person with Epilepsy” Abroad: Third Update You Don’t Care About (London to Reykjavik)
A “Person with Epilepsy” Abroad: Second Update You Don’t Care About
I'm now at Heathrow, having spent yesterday in London. I'm again writing this from my phone, so bear with me. Overly detailed updates for November 29 I said goodbye to Cambridge Friend, who had to leave early to teach a workshop. It was hard. I don't want to talk about it. Before departing for the … Continue reading A “Person with Epilepsy” Abroad: Second Update You Don’t Care About
A “Person with Epilepsy” Abroad: First Update You Don’t Care About
I'm now in Cambridge seeing a friend whom I consider an aunt/second mother. Cambridge is my happy place; I feel uncharacteristically relaxed here. On the plane from Reykjavik to Heathrow, I was trying to figure our how many times I've visited. I estimated ten. Kinda crazy to think that this is my eleventh. And now … Continue reading A “Person with Epilepsy” Abroad: First Update You Don’t Care About
Six-Month Checkup: Ugh (Positivity!)
I had an appointment with my epileptologist last Wednesday. I make this weird assumption that specialists are going to be angry about something that I did or didn't do or about the fact that I haven't made better "progress," even if the lack thereof isn't my fault. And so I was incredibly anxious on Tuesday … Continue reading Six-Month Checkup: Ugh (Positivity!)
Thinking about Epilepsy: Featured Questionnaire #4 (The “You Never Know What Other People Are Going Through, so Always Be Nice to Them/Flattery Totally Works—I’m Blushing and Feel So Good about Myself” Edition)
Featured Questionnaire #4 comes from a fellow PhDer and one of the most genuinely nice people I’ve ever had the pleasure of encountering. Although we’re enough years apart in our program that I haven’t spent a lot of time with her (I’ve also been pitifully absent from my department since my epilepsy diagnosis … I … Continue reading Thinking about Epilepsy: Featured Questionnaire #4 (The “You Never Know What Other People Are Going Through, so Always Be Nice to Them/Flattery Totally Works—I’m Blushing and Feel So Good about Myself” Edition)
Thinking about Epilepsy: Featured Questionnaire #3 (The “I’m Successfully Inspiring/Shaming People into Learning More about Epilepsy” Edition)
Unlike me, subject #3 works in a science-related field, so we should take everything she says extra seriously. She's also one of the coolest, most caring people I know. How much did you know about epilepsy before meeting me/before I was diagnosed with epilepsy/before reading my blog/before frantically Googling “epilepsy” three minutes ago? … Continue reading Thinking about Epilepsy: Featured Questionnaire #3 (The “I’m Successfully Inspiring/Shaming People into Learning More about Epilepsy” Edition)
Thinking about Epilepsy: Featured Questionnaire #2 (The “Child Hippie to Adult Academic” Edition)
The author of the second featured questionnaire and I go back to when we were child hippies unschooling on the West Coast. Now we've both moved east and are both in academia. Life's so weird. How much did you know about epilepsy before meeting me/before I was diagnosed with epilepsy/before reading my blog/before … Continue reading Thinking about Epilepsy: Featured Questionnaire #2 (The “Child Hippie to Adult Academic” Edition)
Thinking about Epilepsy: Featured Questionnaire #1!
If you know me in real life/are Facebook friends with me, I probably bugged you a few weeks ago to fill out a questionnaire about epilepsy. While I finish analyzing the resulting data (i.e., while I procrastinate and let the files fester somewhere in the depths of my computer), every few days I'll post excerpts … Continue reading Thinking about Epilepsy: Featured Questionnaire #1!
OCD and the iPhone
Continuing the series debuted with "OCD and the Fitbit," I'd like to further embarrass myself by providing you with another window into my dysfunctional relationship with portable electronics. I got an iPhone 6 on Saturday. It's truly a thing of beauty. Aesthetically, anyway: I can't tell you much about its functionality beyond what I read … Continue reading OCD and the iPhone









