no title for today (when was there one?) just trying to work from a tangent.
So. This person on youtube was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. So I looked it up, and looked up the criteria for diagnosis, and found that they were very... iffy. There are so many grey areas I can think of, compared say to an orthopeadic diagnosis. From the medical encyclopedia on answers.com:
Psychologists and psychiatrists typically use the criteria listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) as a guideline for diagnosis of bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses. DSM-IV describes a manic episode as an abnormally elevated or irritable mood lasting a period of at least one week that is distinguished by at least three of the mania symptoms: inflated self-esteem, decreased need for sleep, talkativeness, racing thoughts, distractibility, increase in goal-directed activity, or excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences. If the mood of the patient is irritable and not elevated, four of the symptoms are required.
How do you tell when a patient is "irritable" and not "elevated"? I mean I know friends who sometimes have the symptoms "decreased need for sleep, talkativeness, distractability, racing thoughts"-- although admittedly not for a whole week. From this information I feel quite insecure from the thought that I could be very easily misdiagnosed if I went to a psychiatrist.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
ooo post #202!
I'm in Davos, Switzerland right now, and I have wireless!! YEAH. oh dear it's sad that I'm spending my holiday on the internet, but I have the flu ): and therefore I have to stay in. But it's good that I have wireless, so I can reply to nerdfighter kimberley. This is odd. I don't have anything to say right now. It's like when people start their vlogs and say: "I'm bored" and then ramble for the rest of it.
I realise that if I don't paragraph, only the first bits of the paragraph will be read and people's eyes will skim over to the next and not read it completely. I have to go out for lunch soon, or it will get crowded. Maybe then I'll post a postcard to harold v crick and geeru and michele (I don't have other people's addresses, damn.)
I like having internet. Because today is dec 17! When all the project for awesome videos go up. I can't post a video, because my memory card doesn't fit into the laptop, so I can only edit/post videos when I get home. Okay link to the project for awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4hqWfp3374
I've got to go now, because the internet is getting laggy and it takes like 10 minutes to dress up to go outside. Tchus!
I'm in Davos, Switzerland right now, and I have wireless!! YEAH. oh dear it's sad that I'm spending my holiday on the internet, but I have the flu ): and therefore I have to stay in. But it's good that I have wireless, so I can reply to nerdfighter kimberley. This is odd. I don't have anything to say right now. It's like when people start their vlogs and say: "I'm bored" and then ramble for the rest of it.
I realise that if I don't paragraph, only the first bits of the paragraph will be read and people's eyes will skim over to the next and not read it completely. I have to go out for lunch soon, or it will get crowded. Maybe then I'll post a postcard to harold v crick and geeru and michele (I don't have other people's addresses, damn.)
I like having internet. Because today is dec 17! When all the project for awesome videos go up. I can't post a video, because my memory card doesn't fit into the laptop, so I can only edit/post videos when I get home. Okay link to the project for awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4hqWfp3374
I've got to go now, because the internet is getting laggy and it takes like 10 minutes to dress up to go outside. Tchus!
Monday, December 08, 2008
This is an epically PHAIL attempt at bumpity bump. Rush of posts is going to end when I finally realise that this blog is not a forum, and that I am the sole contributor. Oh, did I mention that this template is awfully outdated? Not that I have strayed from the Fandom or anything, but hbp is going to be out in 6 months, and I still have the GoF layout?!
Response response response to what people have talked about lately.
Poor, poor, geeru is stuck at home babysitting for most of the holidays ): I would love to drop by, but things are not convenient at her side at the moment. Please, please geeru answer your bleeding phone so that both of us have a respite from boredom.
Recently met a singaporean nerdfighter on youtube!!!!!!! [YES.] I hope we will be able to get together, along with the wrock people in time for the hbp release. The last time there was a harrypotter event, I failed to turn up and was a lousy wet blanket, despite fangirling about the DH release for more than a year prior to the event.
Speaking of nerdfighting, lauren's yule ball video and john's response has strangely reawakened my love for the awesomeness that is papertowns and the vlogbrothers.
Looking at lauren's video has also reminded me not to blog past 12midnight or regret it the morning after. [*sigh* it IS past 12 already.]
I really really need to call people/ talk to them in person. People like aforementioned geeru and colonel mustard and yingling and felicia. Except that it is a) never really the right time to call and b) I keep on forgetting. Although! between the hours of 12-3am are always great times to call me :D just text me in advance so I can keep my phone on.
This blog shouldn't be too personal. I will aspire to be dignified and less frivolous and angsty on whatever is available to the general public because it will ruin my Image! ("as what, an internet ___ star?" my other self retorts.) Revealing too much personal information is never never never safe on the internet, as italktosnakes, owlssayhooot and billilovesmargot have so expertly demonstrated. I don't want to get stalked. I don't want everyone to know what's bothering me at the moment. It's not something everyone should know. *whines* ["Then why are you on the internet in the first place, you naive ___bag?" taunts Other Self.]
Revealing bits of your personal self online makes the things you tell your friends less valuable and private. It also makes you look like a self-absorbed, emotionally insecure prat. It also can be used as potential blackmail material, not very ideal if you're financially inept, like me. I can be so contradictory at times.
oh oh go visit yingling's blog-- link in the left sidebar.
Response response response to what people have talked about lately.
Poor, poor, geeru is stuck at home babysitting for most of the holidays ): I would love to drop by, but things are not convenient at her side at the moment. Please, please geeru answer your bleeding phone so that both of us have a respite from boredom.
Recently met a singaporean nerdfighter on youtube!!!!!!! [YES.] I hope we will be able to get together, along with the wrock people in time for the hbp release. The last time there was a harrypotter event, I failed to turn up and was a lousy wet blanket, despite fangirling about the DH release for more than a year prior to the event.
Speaking of nerdfighting, lauren's yule ball video and john's response has strangely reawakened my love for the awesomeness that is papertowns and the vlogbrothers.
Looking at lauren's video has also reminded me not to blog past 12midnight or regret it the morning after. [*sigh* it IS past 12 already.]
I really really need to call people/ talk to them in person. People like aforementioned geeru and colonel mustard and yingling and felicia. Except that it is a) never really the right time to call and b) I keep on forgetting. Although! between the hours of 12-3am are always great times to call me :D just text me in advance so I can keep my phone on.
This blog shouldn't be too personal. I will aspire to be dignified and less frivolous and angsty on whatever is available to the general public because it will ruin my Image! ("as what, an internet ___ star?" my other self retorts.) Revealing too much personal information is never never never safe on the internet, as italktosnakes, owlssayhooot and billilovesmargot have so expertly demonstrated. I don't want to get stalked. I don't want everyone to know what's bothering me at the moment. It's not something everyone should know. *whines* ["Then why are you on the internet in the first place, you naive ___bag?" taunts Other Self.]
Revealing bits of your personal self online makes the things you tell your friends less valuable and private. It also makes you look like a self-absorbed, emotionally insecure prat. It also can be used as potential blackmail material, not very ideal if you're financially inept, like me. I can be so contradictory at times.
oh oh go visit yingling's blog-- link in the left sidebar.
bumpity bump.
The cons next year are LEAKYCON and AZKATRAZ! yay. I think that there will be people in the fandom going to both, but I just don't have the money. Right here are the facts:
LEAKYCON will be in Boston, MA from May 21 to May 24.
After October 1, 2008, the price goes up to $185 for registration, and then up to the full price of $199 after February 1, 2009.
$189 per night for up to four people per room at the historic Boston Park Plaza Hotel.
Total Cost: $185+$189= $374USD=$570.50SGD
AZKATRAZ will be in San Francisco, California from July 18- July 21.
$145 - Basic Registration, available through February 28, 2009
$165 - Basic Registration, March 1 – May 31, 2009
$190 - Basic Registration, June 1 – June 30, 2009
$200 - Basic Registration online, July 1-15, 2009
ONLINE REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE ON JULY 15, 2009
$200 - At-the-Door pricing
$165 plus tax per night, for up to four people in a room. In other words, there's no extra-person charge for the third and fourth person in the room.
Total cost: $165+$145= $310=$472.80SGD
So altogether azkatraz wil be cheaper than leakycon, but I don't think I can make it because I'll be having school. Leakycon is closer to the school holidays and I *might* just make it since it's at Boston, where I'm permitted to go for summer school. (how coincidental!) However, at both cons there are age restrictions. I'm over the age of 14 (that's good.) but anyone under the age of 18 needs to have a parent accompany them, or have a chaperone over the age of 21 who is registered for the conference, and complete and notarize the chaperone authorisation form. That's the most sticky bit.
On programming, I have the feeling leakycon will be more wrock-centric than academic-paper-centric. Not that I don't like going to a wrock concert, but the academia of harry potter is something I've not experienced before, and it would be fun to go for a lecture or two. (or three. or four.) And I want to watch a panel and participate in a discussion! They haven't confirmed formal programming yet, but it says there will be *some* of it there. There's also youth programming at leakycon, which sounds promising. But I'm not old enough to go for the snarry events! damn.
Azkatraz looks to be a bigger event, since it's being promoted by HPEF, who did Portus and Lumos. But but but I haven't considered transportation from boston to SF, where azkatraz is... unless I can find a summer school in SF.
And most of you have noticed by now that I haven't considered the flight costs, so here they are:
NWA roundtrip from sg to boston= $2318 SGD (leakycon)
NWA roundtrip from sg to SF= $1909 SGD (azkatraz)
Northwest is one of the cheaper airlines from experience, so I stuck with that. I might research other airlines if I'm really serious about going. Turns out that a flight to SF is cheaper and faster, by about $400.
The Boston University summer school releases its exact dates on dec 15, so more updates then. In the meantime, I have to worry about money matters.
The cons next year are LEAKYCON and AZKATRAZ! yay. I think that there will be people in the fandom going to both, but I just don't have the money. Right here are the facts:
LEAKYCON will be in Boston, MA from May 21 to May 24.
After October 1, 2008, the price goes up to $185 for registration, and then up to the full price of $199 after February 1, 2009.
$189 per night for up to four people per room at the historic Boston Park Plaza Hotel.
Total Cost: $185+$189= $374USD=$570.50SGD
AZKATRAZ will be in San Francisco, California from July 18- July 21.
$145 - Basic Registration, available through February 28, 2009
$165 - Basic Registration, March 1 – May 31, 2009
$190 - Basic Registration, June 1 – June 30, 2009
$200 - Basic Registration online, July 1-15, 2009
ONLINE REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE ON JULY 15, 2009
$200 - At-the-Door pricing
$165 plus tax per night, for up to four people in a room. In other words, there's no extra-person charge for the third and fourth person in the room.
Total cost: $165+$145= $310=$472.80SGD
So altogether azkatraz wil be cheaper than leakycon, but I don't think I can make it because I'll be having school. Leakycon is closer to the school holidays and I *might* just make it since it's at Boston, where I'm permitted to go for summer school. (how coincidental!) However, at both cons there are age restrictions. I'm over the age of 14 (that's good.) but anyone under the age of 18 needs to have a parent accompany them, or have a chaperone over the age of 21 who is registered for the conference, and complete and notarize the chaperone authorisation form. That's the most sticky bit.
On programming, I have the feeling leakycon will be more wrock-centric than academic-paper-centric. Not that I don't like going to a wrock concert, but the academia of harry potter is something I've not experienced before, and it would be fun to go for a lecture or two. (or three. or four.) And I want to watch a panel and participate in a discussion! They haven't confirmed formal programming yet, but it says there will be *some* of it there. There's also youth programming at leakycon, which sounds promising. But I'm not old enough to go for the snarry events! damn.
Azkatraz looks to be a bigger event, since it's being promoted by HPEF, who did Portus and Lumos. But but but I haven't considered transportation from boston to SF, where azkatraz is... unless I can find a summer school in SF.
And most of you have noticed by now that I haven't considered the flight costs, so here they are:
NWA roundtrip from sg to boston= $2318 SGD (leakycon)
NWA roundtrip from sg to SF= $1909 SGD (azkatraz)
Northwest is one of the cheaper airlines from experience, so I stuck with that. I might research other airlines if I'm really serious about going. Turns out that a flight to SF is cheaper and faster, by about $400.
The Boston University summer school releases its exact dates on dec 15, so more updates then. In the meantime, I have to worry about money matters.
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