Even More Misc

[jesse_the_k]

Seems I needed even more thyroid supplements than I was getting. Based on my wobbly understanding (cascading hormonal systems are hard) some folks don’t get all the hormonal goodness from one type, and need two. Now that I’m taking liothyronine in addition to levothyroxine, I’m feeling more human again. According to this meta-review, I shouldn’t be, but see above re: hard I'm happy to have read the inagural post on Plato’s Nightmare/Aesop’s Dream: Discovering images of disability in folklore and classics of literature. Two themes co-incident in the author’s life – fairytales and living with disability – inspire her to ponder where they overlap in general.

begin quote  I've chosen the philosopher Plato to represent the denial of disability -- the idea that only the "Ideal Human" is a fit subject for stories. And I've chosen Aesop, who legend says was himself, disabled, to represent the desire to see our real selves in our tales. This blog's central focus will be the exploration of traditional tales and fables that deal explicitly with disabled characters (including both cognitive and physical disabilities). But I will also venture out along the spectrum of where the subject of stories and the subject of disability meet, to include disability's appearance in proverbs and platitudes, "High" literary works, such as the plays of Shakespeare, literary wondertales, and more modern fantasy novels such as those by Mark Twain and George MacDonald. quote ends

Comments

[capri0mni]

Thanks for the signal boosts, but your links are funky.

Here's a clean one to my blog: Plato's Nightmare / Aesop's Dream

[capri0mni]

And here's the link to the article on managing hypothyroidism:

The meta-review

(I kept trying to paste both links in a single reply, and just kept losing my reply)

[jesse_the_k]

Thanks for cleaning those up. My HTML-slinging seems to be ossifying.

[capri0mni]

Somehow, somewhere, the address of the page linked from (lj friends page on the lj side, your journal's addy on this side) got smushed together with the page you're trying to link to.

Do you have a Quick Key stuck on, somewhere, that's doing this automatically? Or have you been typing with gluey fingers again? ;-)

[jesse_the_k]

I figured it out! I was using a separate editor (Nisus Pro) to compose my entry. Thoughtlessly, I had curly quotes on. The presence of the high-ascii quotes in the URL caused the DW parser to smush things together. The weird thing is I could see the error in the preview, but when I went back to edit all was fine. I'd need to crank the type up above 30 points before I could readily distinguish the straight quote & the curly quote.

Let that be a lesson to me. And thanks again for the help!