About Me
- About Me: I'm multiply disabled and multiply queer, a religious Jew and a student teacher.
Travel
- Places I love: quiet company
- Places I've been: About half the states and DC, Israel, England, Prague
- Places to see before I die: A world in which everybody accepts itself and everybody else as beautifully limitted with infinite potential.
- Dream Vacation: I want a vacation from the confusions of my body. No pain, no dizziness, no nausea. I want to travel and meet people for a day or two and play chess and play football and hear their lifestories, take pictures and move on. And when I come back, I want somebody to welcome me home.
Books
- Favorite Books: Syrup by Maxx Barry, Wired For Sound by Beverly Biderman, Road Closed by Michael Kehoe, Anatomy of the Law by Lon L. Fuller, Count Us In by Jason Kingsley and Mitchell Levitz, Hidden Talents by David Lubar, Reading the Lines by Pamela Tamarkin Reis, Exiting Nirvana by Clara Claiborn Park, The Earth Moved by Amy Stewart, Stranger at the Gate by Mel White, The American Heritage Dictionary
- Favorite Authors: Jill Pinkwater
- Favorite Genres: nonfiction with autobiographical elements (ie book about ants with explanation of author's involvement in studying ants or travelouge)
- Favorite Characters: Bean from Ender's Shadow, Michael from The Only Alien on the Planet, Oliver Sacks from Uncle Tungsten, 6 from Syrup by Maxx Barry, Eugenides from the King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner.
- Favorite Quotes: Depression is not a sin, but what depression does, no sin can do.
- Recent Reads: a lot of Terry Pratchett; The Mummy at the Dining Room Table Eminent Therapists Talk About Their Most Memorable Patients; Please Stop Laughing At Me
College
- School Name: Depaul University
- Status: Undergrad
- Class of: 2009
- Attended: 2004 - 2009
- Degree type: Bachelors
- Major(s): Math Education
- Sports: Chess
- Organizations: Hillel, Math Club
More About Me
- Nicknames: Jockey
- Nationality: Chicagoan.
- Religion: Judaism- Not Otherwise Specified
- Heroes: are people who adhere to their morals externally derived and internally considered, are cheerful and persistant, make purposeful lasting positive changes on other people's lives, and never take pleasure in others' emotional pain.
- Interests: medicine, mathematics
- Expertise: taking care of myself
- Occupation: Student, freelance weaving assistant
- Industry: education, textiles
Food
- Favorite Dishes: mashed potatoes
- Favorite Desserts: apple crisp
- Favorite Drinks: pedialyte
- Favorite Junk Foods: potato chips
- Best meal ever: Meals are best when I can concentrate on enjoying everything I'm feeling and seeing without integrating them or separating the sensations. Tasting, feeling the bread while kicking my feet and rocking back and forth, feeling the winter air and hearing the traffic and people and the library's heating system, watching the blur on the streets, knowing warmth is just inside and I'm safe out here, lingering over my supper with no worries.
- Foods I hate: too many to list due to gustatory and oral-tactile sensitivities and poor digestion, frustration from bad carb counting, and negative association because of gorging and upchucking during diabetes onset
Music
- Favorite Artists: YLove, Moshe Skier, Science Groove
- Favorite Albums: I like to fall asleep listening to the various Ruach cds. They're compilations of songs from different artists, mostly Reform Jews.
- Favorite Genre: I like most music styles. I'm not particularly fond of opera, and when there are words, I like to be able to make them out. The content of the songs matters to me. I also like to be able to sing along.
- Favorite Songs: Listing some that I've got on my Windows Media Player: The Quark Song by the Cosmic Cabaret, Johnny's got the Diabetes by Frobelife (on youtube), Glass Prostate by the Green County Boys, The Elevator Song by Jeff Eisenberg, I'm Gay from the musical Let My People Come, Hillel's Song by Mah Tovu, Amar Hashem from the Moshe Skier Band, Shalom-In-the-East from MOTIF, Birthday Song for You by Jonah Gaster, The Five Book Strut by Noam Katz (an awesome song about the five books of the torah), We're Diabetic by Pat Morris, Had Gadya as sung by Rabbi Rob of the Hoboken Synagogue, the Snell's Law Song by Russ and Eli, Falafel by The Sabras, Ki Eshmara performed by Sami Feldman (it's just instrumental, but I always find myself singing the words), Glucose Glucose by the Science Groove, Sukkot by YLove and Yuri Lane. Of course, I also enjoy many songs that aren't on my windows media players
- Favorite Lyrics: Man, there are too many to choose from! Take any one of the above.
- Songs for Roadtrips: What say I stick my head halfway out the window and just listen to the roar on the highways, and we can talk when we pass through cities.
- Songs I hate: Anything with lyrics that are sexually explicit, explitly homophobic, racist, or that make generalizations not applicable to me (ie that we all want to be hugged). Often I dislike songs because they have tones uncomfortable to me.
- Guilty Pleasure: the radio. 'nuff said.
- Songs I repeat the most: hmmm, repeat playing or singing? I've been doing a lot of singing Shabbes songs lately. Yeah. But many many others as well.
- Band I wish I was in: I don't want to join somebody else's band. My artistic sentiments fly best when they fly solo. But hey, I like to sing. Not like professional singing but just like for fun singing. I don't have any sense of tempo so that would kind of kill any attempts at synchronization necessary for a band or choir.
Style
- Where I shop: Thrift stores.
- Brands I love: cafepress
- I like to wear: Baseball hats.
- Prized Possessions: Tshirts from events I attended and groups I belonged to.
- Guilty Pleasure: kippa
Movies
- Favorite Movies: Bed-Wetting: Jasper to the Rescue!
- Favorite Genre: Documentary
- Movies I can watch over and over: slideshows with pictures of people I know
High School
- School Name: Walter Payton College Prep High School
- Status: Alumni
- Attended: 2002 - 2003
- Organizations: Math Team
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- Member Since: 3/15/2004
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ooh where is it? ^^? -
if u wanna know the class numbers, they're 33544 33545 33577 33578 -
psy 218, 221, 345, and 347 I've already taken 105 and 106, and i needed these for my concentration area :) -
arg...all the classes I wanted were taken already...ah well I ended up taking psychology classes...all of them =_=" ah well my schedual kind of sucks, and I really wanted to take health and nutrition too! :( oh well. -
oh I ended up cancelling a class and taking it late, so right now I'm in LSE with Haymes. You should take him! I think you'll like him alot cause he gives alot of readings, and there's 2 essays and one day you have to present what the readings were about. Sorry I haven't been on xanga lately :( b -
Yea i know!! AWESOME! :) -
awesome! i finished the title page and the bibliography. I'm gonna come back ok? -
25 pages! -
ok it should be ok like this. I finished formatting everything. I'm also making a cover page -
the testimony to the hearing was a testimony in court! Legal document, in other words. The screening thing could be called a journal article- I saw three versions of it and was not sure if it was.

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