I'll be answering questions as long as you're all asking them, even if you totally thread necro and comment in weeks or months.
NSFW questions are allowed, I'll flag the thread NSFW if I get them.
I'll be answering questions as long as you're all asking them, even if you totally thread necro and comment in weeks or months.
NSFW questions are allowed, I'll flag the thread NSFW if I get them.
I have a pretty significant interest in politics, particularly in terms of theory and dynamics, which were my primary fields of study. I have a notable anarchist bent, which leans towards Communalism. Big Apo stan, over here. I definitely disagree with Bookchin on nuclear power, though. It's genuinely the only way forward for the foreseeable future.
Health stuff wasn't really a setback, in fact, it kind of motivated me to move quickly, in the hopes that I could get a degree, get out, and make a difference before I beefed it hard. Y'know, get a little activist work in and teach people some stuff before I pass on. That's no longer an issue, apparently, and I feel a lot more free to spend time in more relaxed ways. I've stepped back from activism a lot and have pursued romantic relationships, which I'd always figured I didn't have time for. Candle that burns a quarter as long better burn four times brighter, or what's the point? I got my bachelor's and PhD each in 3 years, rather than the traditional 4. (Though 5 years is becoming more common)
I got the first signs of things improving after starting on hormones, where my bone density started improving to a point where my main hobbies, rock climbing and sailing, were no longer a significant risk I just handwaved away as "oh well, if I die a year or two early, it's only a year or two." Having been told I wouldn't see thirty motivated me to live fast and die hard, I guess. My heart started improving rapidly after that, with an ekg in early summer 2019 giving me a full all clear, shortly after I got my PhD.
You’re telling me you climbed, sailed, PhD’d and damn near died all at once? How the hell are there enough hours in the day? Super impressive
Honestly, I'd only get to go sailing during the summers when I had a lighter course load. I didn't take off during summers, just went at like 12 credits instead of my normal 20-23, and was able to sail. After classes, before studying or once I was student teaching in the summer/fall of 2019, before office hours, I'd go climbing at an indoor rock climbing place near campus. On Saturdays, my weekend day (Shabbot, didn't study or do classes that day), I'd go climb for like 8 hours or so through the fall winter and spring, as it was too cold to sail on one of the Great Lakes the city I was studying in was on. (don't wanna be more specific for anonymity), or I'd go sailing at the community sailing centre for a few hours then climb an hour with friends before dinner.
I used to be able to go up a bit under 1 foot per second on a climbing peg board. Ten foot board in 13 seconds. I had abs! I don't anymore. :C I miss them.
Wait, do you still rock climb?
Nah, I haven't been in a while. Between covid, and moving to the middle of nowhere, flatland prairie, there's not a lot of actual rocks to climb, nor are there any indoor climbing places, here.
Well.. a great big ol', "Fuck Yeah!," to you.
Get you some!