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Thank you to those who took the time to watch the orthorexia document on tv, online and/or read the article:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Stossel/story?id=5735592&page=1
I was wondering who here watched it or read the article? I'm curious. Ps. It's available to view online now. Video Link: http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5739648
I feel too much of the document was centered on raw food and not enough on the disease itself: an eating
disorder, a psychological disease that manifests the brain and body. Not every orthorexic is a raw foodist
and not every raw foodist is orthorexic. I feel it gave a bad image to the raw food lifestyle which was not
nessacary. The disease does not begin on the PLATE, it begins in the BRAIN. Food is not the whole focus
of the disease, how it came across on the document. Food is included in associated behaviors with this
disease... raw or cooked, doesn't matter. What matters is that eating disorders are a serious illness and
without proper education we can't effectively treat them... like orthorexia nervosa, which I have been
denied treatment in the past for from medical professionals who specialize in eating disorders yet know
little to nothing about orthorexia or how to treat it.
Also, those who support my recovery - I would encourage you to leave feedback on the public forum. I'm sure
most of you are reading the comments and not speaking up. I would graciously appreciate support on my
behalf as I'm sure you are aware I am getting my fair share of negative comments on there which I was pre-
pared for but don't feel I can run a one man show. I mean, if a friend of mine did this I could be at bat for them,
supporting them... but that's just me. Everyone works differently. It would also be nice to see some of your
opinions on the document over on the forum. I have left mine publically, they aren't hard to find - my user name
is my name... I've posted three comments thus far in response to the outcome of the document and Kate's
death from orthorexia. I am refraining from wasting energy responding back to negative comments. I am not
there to play immature or irrational games. I don't expect you to either. I do appreciate all the support you all
have shown thus far and a continuation of support as I fight to recover. I have worked even harder since they
filmed that document in April. It did turn on some lights for me. The air date has got me thinking even harder.
I do hope I can speak up more about this topic and eds in general on a public level. Today I was notified by
The Tyra Banks show who is "impressed" by mean and wants to speak to me... I am going to give them a
call this weekend and inquire more details...
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| ABC 20/20 - I'M ON TV TONIGHT, SHORT NOTICE! |
[05 Sep 2008|01:12pm] |
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IMPORTANT NOTICE:
ANYONE WANTING TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ORTHOREXIA NERVOSA, AN OBSESSION WITH HEALTHY FOOD AND EATING - TUNE INTO ABC 20/20 TONIGHT @ 10PM
I will be airing in this document as the "person living with orthorexia nervosa". The run time is 13 minutes total. Others will be included in this piece: Steven Bratman, doctors, recovered orthorexics, etc.
For those who can't watch it on Tv - IT WILL BE ON THEIR WEBSITE. Go to www.abc.com and link to the 20/20 news page. I am under the understanding that they will be linking my website to the story as well. Cheers!
To recap: ABC 20/20 interviewed me in my hometown at the end of April 2008. The original air date was set for August 1st, 2008 but it got pushed to the fall. I just got LAST MINUTE notice that it will be airing tonight.
Please notify friends and family. The more education the better. Eating disorders are a serious and life threatening disease. Let's keep the flow of education going so we can better understand and treat eating disorders to those who suffer.
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| Colour Revolt @ Daytrotter |
[05 Sep 2008|03:37pm] |
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I am seeing the Decemberists on November 5.
Please don't cancel again, kthx. I am really excited.
I don't know how I am going to get through my class (which I had originally intended to skip).
I really want to swim. Guess that'll wait 'til tomorrow.
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| "Are you my man?" |
[04 Sep 2008|03:51am] |
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- I, for some reason, am physically incapable of speaking to Matt Pryor.
- Tonight was, once again, fantastic. I have really missed seeing Kevin solo.
- I received my copy of This Time Next Year on blue.
- My phone is broken again and iPhone continues to call my name.
- Tomorrow will be a mindfuck in every way possible.
The new Kevin song contains the lyric, "I've got my wolf hat on..." and it makes me giggle.
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[03 Sep 2008|10:41pm] |
Hey all,
has anyone been to a Mirah show that is billed as "Mirah and the Spectratone International Orchestra"? and if so... what was it like? is it more than just a music show? this website might suggest otherwise, (http://www.lorigoldston.com/sharethisplace.htm) but you can never be too sure.
I'm thinking of going to her show in San Francisco on September 8 and i'm just curious. :) is anyone from the california bay area going?
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[03 Sep 2008|11:26pm] |
a dude gets old
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for those who read my prior entry, this is the result of the aforementioned dyson disaster. alas!
i suppose it could stand to be re-drawn anyway, though -- why i chose to ink it onto petobismol-pink construction paper in the first place is a mystery to me...
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Holy shit, I cannot wait to get my nap on later.
Regardless, last night was perfect. Perfect perfect perfect.
Today is RYAN KRUEGZ! Tomorrow is a trainwreck.
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I love how full of themselves people can be.
guilty we are all but when you can't pass a mirror and must look at it... really.
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Other then that I should be in bed.
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Gym after work, can lead to me not getting sleepy til way late.
I don't want to be 'big' anymore. I am not comfortable in my own skin, haven't been. No matter what anyone says, I need to be at the weight I want to be at.
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Work= lame.
Nothing more to say on that.
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I am growing old.
and so is my Dad.
He keeps getting sick. He busted his hip.
I don't like the fear that he will hurt himself again, and no one will be there to help him. I am going to see if he would do an assisted living situation. Something.
My heart hurts.
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[02 Sep 2008|09:39pm] |
:{ DeathBlog }:
So we meet yet again.
My uncle passed away today.
It seems like all my life consists of anymore is sickness and death. I'm emotionally spent and my heart is far too heavy.
Rest in Peace Wayne Gerald Timm
October 31 1963 - September 02, 2008
I love you and will miss you always.
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[02 Sep 2008|12:36pm] |
this is an update.
apparently i have not updated in about 3 weeks.
or something
i moved a while back
and had yet to unpack
sooooo....
today i am setting up the recording studio in the second bedroom of our new place
that is my idea of unpacking
then i gotta go get a 26 tire and tube for my bike
i also need a single crankset , but i have no cash for that.
i turned my bike into a monster
its pretty rad
other than that i think i am going back to regina soon for a couple weeks.
but i got a bit more time to hang out till then
so yeah
back to it.
...by the way did anyone notice that in bill and ted's bogus journey at the battle of the bands WYLD STALLIONS beat PRIMUS!!!
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| I wait to be exposed. |
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In approximately 11 hours, I will begin my last "first day of school" ever. That is mind-boggling, scary, exciting, and intimidating (among other things).
My final semester is already filling itself out with airplane rides, long drives, skipped classes, and the bands that are worth it all. Despite all of that, I don't want to fuck up this semester too much if I can help it. Last semester was actually pretty kickass except for that witch of a professor.
The first day of class also brings the first day of Kevin. We're doing Baltimore through New York with serious considerations of Providence next weekend. Family plans are eliminating Allston. I feel like we haven't seen Kevin in months, which always happens when we go without seeing him for more than a few weeks. I am really, really happy that these shows are finally here. And I am also really excited to see Matt Pryor, who will playing "Out of Reach" while I keel over and die.
This is my fucking jam. Gimme a full-length!
I should go to sleep in a sec. :(
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| fancy pictures! |
[31 Aug 2008|06:53pm] |
me and panda got our pictures taken!!! thanks to dashing dachs for the sweet yarn, amy "crankypants" kett for knitting up the pants, and rebecca for the photos!
i look like pat from SNL with my new haircut, but panda sure looks cute!!!
http://www.catchlightsnw.com/blog (scroll down a bit)
oh, and remember how i said i would only write jingles for hugs and breastmilk? i lied...i wrote one for cloth diapers...
http://hyenacart.com/sustainablebabyish/index.php
speaking of diapers...with the sweetest diaper collection ever, panda decided to be ready for the potty for good. a few weeks in undies without an accident. she pees on the ground sometimes, and in the pool, and the bathtub...but them's no accidents!
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i love drawing so much. i wish i could just get paid to draw whimsical pictures for carey all day. i want us to make a book together. maybe one day. we are both very good accordion artists.
i didn't even get a chance to tell him i made this owl as a present for him -- he swooped down upon it when he saw it on my desk & immediately started laughing & asking me if he could have it.
I AM SO IN LOVE. he is my favorite person in the universe, i could not even vaguely imagine loving anyone else in the world this much.
my beautiful beautiful beeee-u-ti-ful carey, my best friend my darling my everything. my partner in crime, my bearer of delicious expensive granola. sorry this entry is so sappy, but i guess it's cuz we've both been working so much the past few days that we haven't seen each other at all & all i want to do right now is lie next to him in my sheets & play with his hair.
which i will get to do tomorrow but FUCK
my baby, goddamn i miss him
but now onto subjects of less-sickeningly-romantic fare.
i finished this book last week-ish & it was so so so good. i am sad now, as i usually get when i finish a book so captivating that i hope it would never end. i would have loved to meet christopher isherwood while he was still alive. my favorite chapter-book when i was a little girl was when hitler stole pink rabbit by judith kerr, & this reminded me a lot of that, except more focused on adults than children of course. i think perhaps next i will re-read that.
i have been writing letters & drawing a lot more often lately. i drew a picture of a giraffe playing bandonion to send to my friend amy in missouri:
& a pretty epic & incredible (if i do say so myself) picture based on the animal-masked snapshots of me & my love in ohio, which has since been sadly half-destroyed by a vacuuming mishap. most of it is still intact, but half of carey's leg has been gobbled up by the unforgiving dyson of doom & gloom. i have no idea how to salvage it now. all that work for nothing. it is so sad-making. really, it just happened a couple days ago & i was so upset about it at the time that i had to go in my room & calm myself down before i physically bludgeoned my vacuum cleaner (& the party responsible, even though it was a complete accident). in other news of unfortunate household mishaps, two nights ago my laptop survived its third liquid spillage in almost as many years. this time it was only water as opposed to the beer- & vodka-&-orange-juice-spillages of the past, but it still gave me quite a fright as the ac adaptor decided to temporarily stop working & thus cause my laptop to hibernate itself into a coma. trevor's commentary on this disaster was, "i don't think i've ever known of any other technological device besides that alvin ocean explorer thing to survive more submergences in liquid." ahhhh, so true. my good ol' hardy four-year-old dell inspiron... they don't make 'em this rock solid anymore. it might be archaic, yes, but it is a strong little beast. my brother pretty much sneezed on his ibook & broke it.
i have some exciting & dramatic work-related stories i could discuss here, but i think instead of talking about work i'm going to go play katamari or attempt to fry some tofu & try to get my mind off work entirely.
to end on a happy note, this is the best website in the whole wide world. it is illustration porn. basically.
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[30 Aug 2008|10:47pm] |
Dear New Jersey,
Why couldn't you keep me? Because love is stronger than dirt and stone, and it has a gravitational pull billions of time stronger than places, old haunts, and airs. We've known each other for quite some time (26 years, approximately), and we've held hands as you showed me Skylands, Wildwood, Riflecamp park, and the Holy Park where my thoughts bubbled like juice in an apple pie. Were the apples plucked from Riamede farm? Probably. I am not going to get nostalgic.
Really, though, there's some devil-magic lurking in cool alleyways that feeds off the collective meanness of the people. It's your fault. You've spread yourself thin; water is brown, the air chokes us as we play, and the sky weeps gray stuff in the sunset hours. I'm not mad at you, my eastern mother, no, just a bit disappointed at the way you crowded every human together without so much as a warning.
My car is packed to the brim with the items I've accumulated over the years, and the hour of my departure is sneaking up behind me like a Halloween prankster. I'm going west. And in a few years, further west. I want to hit the gold west coast with no recollection of the once-beautiful lands you were.
I love you, New Jersey. I just wish you would have taken better care of yourself.
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| MOOSE FOR OBAMA! |
[29 Aug 2008|03:06pm] |
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John McCain has proven how shallow and simple-minded he thinks American women really are. People didn't support Hillary Clinton because she was a woman. People don't support Barack Obama because he's black. People choose political candidates based on their interests (or at least what people think their interests are). I know that I often give American voters too much credit by thinking they actually give a shit and pay attention to issues. But how can anyone not see through this?
Lifelong member of the NRA.
Pro-life.
Against same-sex marriage.
Hunter.
Her husband works at an OIL FIELD owned by BP.
Supports the teaching of creationism.
McCain's experience argument is now shot to shit. She was a city council member for four years and has only been a governor for less than two. I know Biden doesn't exactly fit into Obama's vision...being a Washington insider and all of that. But what ammo could the republicans possibly have if experience was their main firing point?
I cannot wait to see the debates. Cannot fucking wait.
Anyway...
Last night was Brian Bonz at Annex. It was our first time seeing him and Mike since the tour, and...yeah. Before the show, we met Lauren at SHAKE SHACK <3 and had an amazing meal. Those shakes are sooo filling but sooo worth it. Believe the hype, people. It's always worth the 45+ minute wait in line. After Shake Shack, Lauren headed back home and Bex and I went to Starbucks and then to Sugar Sweet Sunshine. I got a red velvet cupcake to go and brough it to the show, haha.
It was really nice to see everyone again. Bonz & co. were particularly jammy even though the sound was a bit painful at times.
After the set, we pretty much rushed out without saying goodbye because we wanted to find a place that was playing the Obama speech. We found a pizza place at the end of the block that was playing it. It was on mute, and we were about to walk out, but a girl in the store turned up the volume. When she did, the entire restaurant silenced and tuned into the TV for a couple of minutes. Everyone started talking as customers went in and out; but that moment that it lasted was really special. I could only hear about 3/4 of what was being said; but it was still awesome. I watched Gore's speech when I got home and I thought he was excellent, as well.
We did eventually head back to Annex to say some goodbyes. Mike let us know about some things cooking up over in his camp. Talked about the election and American perceptions of stupidity. How intelligence is viewed as elitism and ignorance is viewed as patriotism. Brian is heading back to Arizona on the 8th for his hearing. Then they play a $25 show at Bowery on the 10th. L-O-fucking-L.
Becca and I headed back to Jersey and spent a great deal of time at Tick-Tock discussing politics, semicolons, and "friendship." Three cups of coffee got me to bed around 7 AM. Woke up to a text message about John McCain's VP pick. I had much more to say about it when I woke up and started fuming about it to my mom. Now I don't remember anything.
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