everything sticks until it goes away

[erika]

As people are posting about Amina, and online identity, and such, I just want to say: there are multiple people online who can verify that I'm a real person & my journal is real.

panda, of course, silent_lorelei (those two went to high school with me, if you want REAL verification).

nonethefewer can also verify, deadhero, soshesays and redgreenblue and ofc elfbabe who has never met me in person but has known me for NINE YEARS NOW. And if we get into people who've known me online since I was practically in puberty, there's probably a bunch of other people too, but those are the ones I can come up with off the top of my head.

If I forgot you, it's not that our meeting wasn't memorable, it's just that I have a really shitty memory but you have been reading my journal for some time now, so you should know this.

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Tomorrow I start my training for the sexual assault counselling line. FOUR fucking hours at a time.

In other news, I'm so fucking tired I cannot stand it. My TSH is low enough that there's no real likelihood of getting a doctor to prescribe T₃, but I'm considering dyssomnias at this point, to be quite honest: specifically narcolepsy and sleep apnea. I don't have a doctor's appt until late July—writing reminder in my calendar to call them on Monday and attempt rescheduling.

Comments

[delight]

Have you thought maybe also idiopathic hypersomnia? It tends to be seen comorbidly with depression a lot. *shrug*

[erika]

Hmmmm. That fits except my daytime naps DO relieve my drowsiness for a few hours.

Or it's the Adderall. Shit. They're probably going to want me to stop taking that for the test, aren't they. >_<

[sporky_rat]

What's this about people needing proof of people being who they are?

[panda]

I googled 'Amina' and got this

[erika]

pretty much what panda said

no big deal either way, tbh.

well, in the sense that NO ONE has asked me for proof (possibly because i would show them a picture of my vulva), etc.

[mighty_claw]

my life is too dull to be faked. if i weren't real my journal would be much more interesting.

[erika]

heh, that's kind of what I think, but believe it or not, especially when I was younger and gave out less details about what exactly I was doing/who I saw/where I lived etc, I had a lot of people accuse me of not being who I said I was.

[mighty_claw]

that's ridiculous. if people accused me of that, what could i say? i spend most of my life at work, asleep or in front of a screen. honestly.

[nonethefewer]

Oh, yes, absolutely.  Me and penghuin met you... uh... five years ago?  Something, during our drive from Boston to Portland.  Your doggie was approx. the cute, and Iowa is the state of CORN.

[erika]

Doggie is still the cute, and Iowa is still CORN. (And hogs, you forgot the hogs.)

[deathgaze]

I guess I'm too trusting, but I never doubt when people say who they claim to be.

That training sounds brutal, but I'm sure it will be very rewarding!

[erika]

Yes! I had my first training last night & it was awesome. Less sitting in place than I had worried, more activities.