What estate agents say to disabled flat seekers #1

- Are you sure you wouldn't rather live in Wimbledon?

Things I Will Never Understand #1

Virtual hugs.

That

was quite a week.

Guess which one worked

Me: Hello, my blackberry is telling me I have an unread message and I don't."

Orange Business Support: [An entirely complicated answer which basically involves taking my blackberry apart, deleting all my messages, joining a coven, and chopping off an arm.]

The Internet: [Go to your main message inbox, click on today's date at the top, and click the phrase 'Mark Prior Opened'.]

A Definition of Irony

It is Blogging Against Disablism Day. I had planned to write a long post about the challenges of holding down a full time job while holding down a full time disability: about education, exhaustion, discrimination, and the delicate balance between financial, professional and medical security.

Unfortunately, because I am holding down a full time job and a full time mobility impairment, I am too exhausted to bend down and pick up yesterday's junk mail from the doormat, never mind write any kind of eloquent blog post in my spare time.

Oh well.

The most disconcerting thing about alopecia...

... is the amount of hair I'm pulling out of my mouth.

Conversations I have had

Me, finger digging in scalp: "Is that my other bald patch?"

Her, riffling through my hair like a pack of cards: "No, that's the crown of your head."

Overuse of Exclamation Marks!

It's unnecessary! Except sometimes!! Like now!!!