{"id":448,"date":"2019-08-13T15:01:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T22:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=448"},"modified":"2019-08-13T15:01:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T22:01:36","slug":"a-warm-beautiful-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2019\/08\/13\/a-warm-beautiful-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Warm Beautiful Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At ninety degrees or even a little more, the heat is fine. However, the sunlight is stronger than ever because of the Planetburn, and being out in it is a bad idea. <\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, it&#8217;s a warm beautiful day. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was Monday and it went &#8230; without incident. I was told privately, by work-friends, that they were surprised to see me, and also that I should watch my back. <\/p>\n<p>Today on the warm beautiful Tuesday afternoon I started to see the outlines of what the second thing meant. <\/p>\n<p>I got schooled by the new-Chair, hereinafter referred to as the Colonel, about not responding in a timely way on the google calendar thing, to not indicating my compliance and probable attendance properly. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure those are the first two items going on a list somewhere. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mind. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a warm beautiful day. <\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>The other antidote to fearhate is called EMDR. It stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. <\/p>\n<p>What I can tell you is that I am becoming more aware of the fact that I have trauma. I have trauma, and it is the proximate cause of the fearhate. <\/p>\n<p>Last year I approached the same thing from the perspective of the body, and myofascial release of tension in the muscles. <\/p>\n<p>This time it&#8217;s about the mind, and about the trauma. I don&#8217;t like being weak or seeing myself as a victim, and for a long time I&#8217;ve pushed the thought away successfully. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not pushing it away anymore. <\/p>\n<p>EMDR is about confronting it and fixing it. <\/p>\n<p>Two links on the subject:<\/p>\n<p>An Overview of EMDR Therapy &#8211; Part 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7uUjXexlU8Y\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7uUjXexlU8Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ASMR EMDR THERAPY &#8211; FULL SESSION<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ogh9oa7ulPo\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ogh9oa7ulPo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second one is kind of frivolous and loopy, but it gives you a taste, and it&#8217;s helping me, a little and so far. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of frivolous and loopy, I said straight out yesterday, though in an ironic tone of voice, that I was voting for Marianne. The reactions all picked up on the irony part with no apparent understanding that I was telling the truth. <\/p>\n<p>Sort of. I won&#8217;t be voting for her unless she reaches the General, because I&#8217;d have to re-register Dem to do so in the primary. <\/p>\n<p>My vote is &#8230; cosmic.<\/p>\n<p>This goes all the way back to the days when I was actively experiencing trauma. <\/p>\n<p>I was a flaky liberal hippie wannabe at 15, and my icon and touchstone was the Yippie, Abbie Hoffeman.<\/p>\n<p>I was the writer then too. The writer not doing a great job of being the writer then too. <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t changed much in the essentials I don&#8217;t think. <\/p>\n<p>The world has changed radically around me, in most ways for the worse. <\/p>\n<p>The parts of me that have changed are around the edges, how I respond to the world, and how I respond to the repressed trauma being at least as strong as I am now. <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s changed is who I am to Those People. <\/p>\n<p>But that too is a pattern. <\/p>\n<p>The perfect Candidate lets loose with the perfect Interview. <\/p>\n<p>The Employee has no respect for his superiors. <\/p>\n<p>Eventually they catch on to that fact. <\/p>\n<p>Until professory, the longest I&#8217;d ever held a job or worked at a single place was three years, and even that was driving a truck, where I had virtually no contact with the Bosses. <\/p>\n<p>In Webmastery and then Professory, I had respect at least for the Mission. <\/p>\n<p>But that has changed now too. <\/p>\n<p>That is why I am once more becoming&#8211;by my own volition, and by being set up for it&#8211;the man who is not a professor anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The man standing in his own driveway, maybe even literally again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At ninety degrees or even a little more, the heat is fine. However, the sunlight is stronger than ever because of the Planetburn, and being out in it is a bad idea. With that in mind, it&#8217;s a warm beautiful day. Yesterday was Monday and it went &#8230; without incident. 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