While the nerd herd scrambles to see Star Trek this weekend, I'm super excited about Lymelife! I think I will have to go. And, yeah, yeah, I hear the critics are raving about Star Trek, and I'm sure if I saw it I'd have a lot more to talk about with my work crowd, but a Trekkie I am not, nor will I ever be. But, you know, live long and prosper. I guess.

I'm moving on from MM Mode (the triple M), and am now in denial of ever feeling bad at all. I go into What Was That About? Mode and pretend like it never happened. Until the next round. I was listening to Be So Happy by the Heartless Bastards on my walk, and I was like Yes! "I could be so happy if I wasn't so sad. I could be so funny, if I wasn't a drag." It's the Triple M theme song!

I'm also really into listening to Tegan & Sara's The Con right now and Aqueduct's I Sold Gold. The oldies but goodies are getting some serious play time.

My parents are coming to visit over Memorial Day weekend! I'm very excited, because my mom hasn't been up to Seattle in a couple of years now, and I'm going to take her to the Queen Mary for a late Mother's Day celebratory tea. It may look snooty, but it is incredibly delicious. Rex said he'd come to Seattle only if he doesn't have to go to "that Queen Mary." I was cracking up.

My class continues to be so interesting to me. Soon I have a paper due on a non-research based intervention/therapy, and I'm thinking about focusing on energy healing treatments, such as Reiki. I'm struggling with this, because while the woo-woo/intuitive part of me very strongly believes that energy plays a key role in ASD, my logical side doesn't want to sound like a New Agey freak in a paper I'm submitting to a professor. I've gone back and forth with my little insecure voice giving me the business about choosing something "safer" to talk about. But, I think the little voice is getting the big boot on this one. This is what interests me and what I believe in, so I'm going to gather more information and discuss it. If there isn't enough to go on in this one specific area, I may incorporate in other things like yoga and meditation, although I suspect meditation alone may not be all that useful for a brain that's hardwired to perseverate and uses so much energy to engage in the world, but the concentration and physical side in yoga may. We shall see. There is some info out there, and I'm sure I'll tell you as I discover more. That's what I do.

All of these thoughts have sparked an interest in me to expand my own energy healing practices in a way that could be helpful to someone who has AS/ASD specifically. I'm not sure how I'm going to do this or where to start--I haven't taken a healing class in ages--and I certainly don't envision it being a career, but it feels right to pursue it. Everything in me says it will be useful somehow, and even though I don't know how yet, I've learned trusting in that feeling always leads to good things. Unlike little insecure voice, which has often led me astray and deserves a hard stomp! It gets quieter and quieter.

I have more class-related things to talk about. We discussed the "culture of autism" the other day. I have thoughts about that, as well as the recent parent panel. More soon!