Repeatedly asking for disability adjustments and having them forgotten is a common experience for many of us with disabilities. It often leads to feelings of being a nuisance or that one is making a fuss. This cycle is an example of how ableist structures reinforce themselves.

Dear partners of medical people: Thank you for supporting us. Know that decision fatigue is real & after a busy day of work we often can't make another decision at home... it's not because we don't love you or don't care, we are just mentally spent. Thanks for loving us anyway.

I woke up early, saw snow everywhere. Thought I’d actually have to shovel/clean walks cars etc. Went back to bed. Just got moving again, and looks like everything melted on concrete/cement/asphalt. Yay!

A vibe

Academic jobs pay terribly, but don't panic, you have no chance of getting one

Once upon a time I’d make this on a random weeknight like it was nothing. Gotta get out of my cooking rut.

A reminder that you can't be too careful when it comes to disposing of plastic trash around the ocean. Great work by the Marine Mammal Stranding Center 🦭

The mold.

The new Silver Spring Recreation and Aquatic Center is open! The Olympic sized pool and sporting activities are absolutely incredible.

The solution to preventing patients from missing appointments is to to blast them with MyChart messages that require two factor plus login plus an extensive pre check-in survey plus re-entering insurance plus re-entering DOB. Just text. Respond with “yes” if you’re confirmed.

The Full Pink Moon rising over Kent Island MD and the Chesapeake Bay this evening.

The amount of money I’ve had to spend as a result of Baltimore City not fixing potholes, turning a blind eye to the most egregious driving violations, encouraging conditions that increase insurance premiums…. But the public transit after midnight is worse.

Best Baltimore weather day of possibly entire year?!!

One of the learning curves we’ve had to navigate is figuring out who wants to actually be an organizer and who would like to be a civil rights-tinted influencer.

There was a period early in the pandemic where we were not allowed to bring N95s to wear in a non-patient facing department, because they weren’t fit tested. We were given 4 surgical masks/month in a brown paper lunch bag instead.

Sitting and standing all day are both bad, which leaves lying down as the best option, which is what I’ve been saying for years.

a haunted house but it’s just the left lane of the parkway behind pa plates

Well, just learned the very expensive lesson that Booking.com is, if not a scam, extremely shady. I guess I thought it was like Expedia and Kayak and put way too much trust in them. Have they always been this bad?