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Read more: Anyone who uses an alarm clock ”is by definition sleep-deprived”
Anyone who uses an alarm clock ”is by definition sleep-deprived”
5 comments on Anyone who uses an alarm clock ”is by definition sleep-deprived”Quoting this here, because sometimes I need the reminder that I don’t control my sleep needs. S]ocietal pressure [to go short on sleep], what nationally recognized sleep expert Dr. Mark Mahowald calls “the pervasive, erroneous attitude that sleep is not a biological imperative, that it is negotiable. We have raised sleep deprivation to a badge of honor.” […] Most adults need seven to nine hours of sleep a…
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Read more: Game of Thrones Season 2 Leaked
Game of Thrones Season 2 Leaked
If you are a Game of Thrones fan it may interest you to know that season 2 has been leaked in great detail. According to Tor.com “[n]otorious author George R. R. Martin has immediately taken credit for the leaked information becoming public.” Tor also quotes “an unnamed HBO exec” as saying “Reading is for people who want to be confused. We never do it. Why should our viewers?” Ah, April…
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Read more: Thankful Thursday
Thankful Thursday
[an occasional exercise in gratitude] This is an exercise in reminding of me things to be thankful for, aka, looking for a bright side. At the moment I’m dealing with my father’s death a few weeks ago. It’s also been a year since my bout of unemployment ended. Right now I’m thankful for: Jobness, at a place where I’m happy and feel productive. Coworkers’ dogs that come over…
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Read more: A few common fallacies
A few common fallacies
From a poster going around Tumblr. Some of the examples have been edited a bit to suit myself. A fallacy is any defect in reasoning which destroys an argument’s validity. 1) Ad Hominem. Latin term meaning “against the man.” It is discrediting the opponent instead of his or her argument. For example: “You’re fat, therefore you cannot be correct.” 2) Faulty Cause and Effect. The belief that…
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Read more: Ending Gender Discrimination in US Health Insurance
Ending Gender Discrimination in US Health Insurance
These maps from FuseWashington make a point about the Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare”. Right now, most states allow insurers to charge women more for insurance than men. The Affordable Care Act will ban this practice in 2014. It will also prevent insurers from refusing to insure those with pre-existing conditions like asthma. And, y’know, “obesity” is often considered a pre-existing condition. Currently the Republican candidates all want to…
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Read more: Fat People Die Sooner, Right?
Fat People Die Sooner, Right?
Reading Michelle’s post on death (cached here if you can’t read it on her site) got me thinking. How else on earth could you explain a doctor expressing anger and blame at someone for accidentally dying? And to then vent that anger on his grieving wife? You couldn’t. There was no other explanation but the fear of death, utilizing the Just-world Hypothesis as its conduit. Fortunately that didn’t happen to…
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Read more: Doctors, Doctors, Doctors
Doctors, Doctors, Doctors
One of the things I expected in dealing with my father’s medical odyssey was “weight talks” or fat shaming — not of him, but of me. You know, the “Well, you should take care of yourself by being thin” talk. It actually hasn’t happened. I think it’s partly because the patient weighs 175lbs and partly that his primary health problem is strongly linked to smoking. “You don’t smoke?…
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Read more: QOTD: Dealing with family
QOTD: Dealing with family
Because I don’t engage in fat hating comments or conversations I really just feel more and more like the black sheep from the family. Many of my family members have undergone bariatric surgery so the stress between them and myself is even worse. I have had one cousin who is a lot older than me tell me how proud she is of me for the work I…
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Read more: Thankful Thursday
Thankful Thursday
[an occasional exercise in gratitude] 1. The man of the house is no longer in the hospital with a 104F (40C) fever. (That…was scary.) 2. My new job has better health insurance than we had previously. (I’d prefer a single-payer solution, but it’s what I’ve got.) 3. Hospice care is providing more monitoring for my father to help avoid surprises and ER visits — and they come…
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Read more: Parents
Parents
It is beginning to sink in that my father is dying. My mother died nearly 6 years ago, so I’ve been managing his finances and meeting with doctors and such. A large part of me feels numb. I’ve written before that I didn’t have the best relationship with my parents as an adult. Part of this was due to my fat, though that certainly wasn’t the only…
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