Post called on account of party

I need to learn the NATO alphabet. If only so I can strategically refuse to use it.

Tired

Today I did All The Laundry and then went to a party. It was fun, and my house is full of nice clean-smelling neatly folded clothes, but I’m also very tired. Sparkly was very helpful though. Ey had a fit of organized-ness and neatened up the closet as well as putting everything away.

Do I need to coin a phrase for this post I’m writing, or no? I kind of think I do. Next question: should I do it properly, as if I expect people to actually understand and use this phrase, or go all Hannah Arendt?

I should do it properly, the problem is, I can’t think of a phrase that I can take seriously as anything besides a dramatic metaphor.

Why do I try to write things with, like, overarching organizational structure? Why do I try to write as if I’m explaining a thing I understand?

I thought that’s what I was doing, of course, but apparently I don’t actually have any intelligible analysis of this topic, I just think it’s a topic that needs to be analyzed.

Argh.

Rambling about the social model of disability

I wrote this a lonnnnng time ago, and it’s more a rough outline of ideas than an actual post (I was imagining it as an outline for a speech, I think?) but I might as well do something with it.

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Two parties –> no post today.

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So much confusion could be cleared up, so many problems could be better addressed, if people would admit how much our actions aren’t rational. How much we’re influenced by situation and habit and reflex and expectation. How much the emotional content of a situation can outweigh the facts.

On vacation until the 19th

Tomorrow there’s a social media campaign against the “Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act”. It was proposed by Represesentative Tim Murphy in response to the Sandy Hook shooting, and apparently the UCC shooting has prompted more interest in it. What it would do, if it becomes law, is reduce privacy protections on healthcare records relating to mental health, make it easier to force people into psychiatric treatment they don’t want, and move government funding away from community support programs and towards institutionalization.

So tomorrow I’m going to indulge my desire to rant about this stuff a little more. For now, I’m going to bed.

Well, I held out for about a week, but I’ve caught Sparkly’s cold.