Yikes, Jesse. That's horrible.
My first bf was from Cincinatti. We weren't together long enough for me to visit out to his ol' homestead but I heard from him about the bad side of the German roots there. Other Ohioans have reminded me of the geography out there by calling it "Cincitucky".
As for working, no. I became too disabled to hold a regular job in late 2007. So I have time. I have limited energy, though, due to constant pain. And my knee is messed up on top of the disability. But even more than that is just my worry of being alone on a bus at midnight in areas of town that are a little shady. I'm still considering it. I've got to wrestle with that problem SOMEtime if I'm going to be staying here. It's a sad fact that the lion's share of the cultural events in LA are on the West Side.
Spidra, if you don't mind me asking--what is your disability? Feel free to tell me to butt the hell out. Are you getting SS or CA Disbility at least? It ain't much, but it certainly helps.
I'm on SSDI. Bilateral thoracic outlet syndrome, which has cause bilateral cubital and carpal tunnel syndrome. Also some pretty serious depression.
Ugh, hate the haters and the hate.
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Also, I didn't know that Covington KY was right by Cincy.
Right across the river.
She wasn't hurt, but I guess some other people were, and apparently there's like a rash of these things going on right now.
You know what? I haven't paid much attention to the news for the past 3 weeks b/c of all the other stuff going on, but I *did* read about that. Shitty, shitty stuff.
We weren't together long enough for me to visit out to his ol' homestead but I heard from him about the bad side of the German roots there.
What was the bad side of the German roots? My half-German family might want to know.
I once had some nimrod that worked in the group home I was staying in insist to me that she knew so many depressed people with CP because it was part of the brain damage. Which might be true. I'm no biochemist, but she wasn't either. And anyway, I think she left out things, like asking permission to wipe your ass is not a sign you win at life. And it might be a little bit stressful when everyone's first assumption about you is that you're a total idiot. Etc. Etc.
I feel for you on the transit thing...there are scads of things I just don't try because adding two and three hours of wait time and crap like "Oh, you said *West* 28th drive," makes everything short of actually witnessing miracles not worth it. Sigh.
On a totally different note, here's a new ways to get chores done that may be relevant to Buffista interests: [link]
Fun! Could we maybe make a team for those of us without other members of our households? (Also, I just said "relevant to your interests" to a coworker today...)
Shitty, shitty stuff.
Indeed.
Steph, I tried but probably failed to express what he said to me in a way that made clear he was not tarring all folks with German heritage in the Cincy area, or indeed the US. What he told me (and he was German-American himself) was that there was a lot of racism in the Cincy German-American community and, at least back in the day, a lot of Nazi sympathy. But he was telling me this back in the '80s so maybe things have changed or maybe his native Cincy take on things was not in line with reality. I guess what I should say was that hearing that from him gave me a different impression of Cincinnatti and the surrounding area of Ohio/Kentucky than I'd had before.
Fun! Could we maybe make a team for those of us without other members of our households? (Also, I just said "relevant to your interests" to a coworker today...)
I don't see why not! And you can create different characters to belong to different parties.
Question for the hivemind:
"everyday life" or "daily life"?
