I'm actually impressed with my body, with the understanding that I know if it was the dead of winter, I wouldn't be feeling this well.
I've been doing a lot of manual labour (7.5hr shifts) the past 2 days, and while I'm sore and tired, I feel okay. Usually over exertion causes my body to wage an all out war on me (It's better in the summer because everything with my body is better in the summer). It's not summer, it's not even warm, heck it has been snowing the past two days (It's April... right? Did I miss something? Make the snow stop already!)
I haven't even gotten dizzy! (Which is my brain's go-to way of telling me it's done with whatever I'm doing)
I know I couldn't do this all summer, but I also know that I wouldn't have been able to do one day, let alone 3 days of this 5 years ago, and that makes me really happy, that I'm able to do it now :)
Slowly getting healthier...
The Healthy Rants of a sometimes healthy mature University student.
Friday 25 April 2014
Wednesday 23 April 2014
Why It Matters
Women aren't special.
I'm sorry but they aren't.
Women are human, we are all human. They have different struggles, but everyone has struggles. It is important to recognize them, acknowledge them, and the try to alleviate them, but it's important to do that for everyone... not just women.
Recently my University changed the "Women's Studies" program to "Diversity and Social Justice Studies", a change I was enthusiastically in favour of.
Some people thought this was a ridiculous move, that it didn't matter. Some thought that it didn't make sense because it was still "women's studies" but by a fancier name.
The reason it changed it's name is because it's not all about studying women. It's about looking at... well, Diversity and Social Justice.
Women have struggled historically, but so have people with disabilities, various ethnicities and races, homosexual, asexual, bisexual people, transgendered people, men who do not fit into the societal norm of "masculine", men for various other reasons, people who don't conform to gender, sexuality or sex normatives.... they have all struggled, they have all faced discrimination and hatred directed towards them, they are all human and they all have the right to be acknowledged as such and offered the same human rights as other humans.
They are all important.
My "Sex and Culture" course, my "Theories of the Body" course, "Aboriginal People & The State in Canada" course, my "Masculinity Studies" course, my "People and Animals" course... none of them have anything specifically to do with women.
They have to do with people, and the way people treat others.
So it matters that Women's Studies changed it's name, because it's important that we acknowledge everyone and treat everyone fairly.
Equality shouldn't have boundaries.
(side note, you should all watch this: Laci Green- Why I'm a Feminist )
I'm sorry but they aren't.
Women are human, we are all human. They have different struggles, but everyone has struggles. It is important to recognize them, acknowledge them, and the try to alleviate them, but it's important to do that for everyone... not just women.
Recently my University changed the "Women's Studies" program to "Diversity and Social Justice Studies", a change I was enthusiastically in favour of.
Some people thought this was a ridiculous move, that it didn't matter. Some thought that it didn't make sense because it was still "women's studies" but by a fancier name.
The reason it changed it's name is because it's not all about studying women. It's about looking at... well, Diversity and Social Justice.
Women have struggled historically, but so have people with disabilities, various ethnicities and races, homosexual, asexual, bisexual people, transgendered people, men who do not fit into the societal norm of "masculine", men for various other reasons, people who don't conform to gender, sexuality or sex normatives.... they have all struggled, they have all faced discrimination and hatred directed towards them, they are all human and they all have the right to be acknowledged as such and offered the same human rights as other humans.
They are all important.
My "Sex and Culture" course, my "Theories of the Body" course, "Aboriginal People & The State in Canada" course, my "Masculinity Studies" course, my "People and Animals" course... none of them have anything specifically to do with women.
They have to do with people, and the way people treat others.
So it matters that Women's Studies changed it's name, because it's important that we acknowledge everyone and treat everyone fairly.
Equality shouldn't have boundaries.
(side note, you should all watch this: Laci Green- Why I'm a Feminist )
Thursday 10 April 2014
What's that word again?
Sometimes I don't get out of bed until 9 or 10am.
It's not because I'm lazy.
I sometimes wish it was.
It's not because I don't want to.
It's because I can't.
Sometimes when I wake up,
My body decides that it has more control over me,
Than I do over it.
Sometimes I speak really fast.
It's not because I'm trying to get something over with,
or that I'm trying to be confusing.
It's because when I slow down,
When I let my brain think
I lose words
I lose thoughts.
They're not actually lost...
They just don't want to come out.
Sometimes I take the elevator.
Not to get some place quicker.
Not to avoid the stairs.
But because the pain in my legs is too much.
Two flights of stairs seems like 200.
Sometimes my mind is foggy
Words don't come out right
Numbers don't make sense
I can't think straight
I feel like all the knowledge
I've gained in the worlds
Has disappeared under a cloud of grey
Sometimes I type words incorrectly
Not because I'm not paying attention,
But because my fingers and brain,
Don't seem to be communicating.
Sometimes I remember who I used to be,
A person in the distant path,
That doesn't seem like me at all.
Sometimes I am absolutely terrified of the future.
Sometimes I'm not though.
I'm thankful for everything I have
I am grateful that I'm alive.
I am hopeful about the opportunities in life,
that I have been given.
Sometimes the hard things overwhelm me...
but most of the time I am happy with the life I have,
even though it means constantly changing and adapting.
I am stronger, I am more focused on happiness.
I live in the moment, because even if you're healthy,
you never know what life will bring.
Stay Healthy,
Elyse
It's not because I'm lazy.
I sometimes wish it was.
It's not because I don't want to.
It's because I can't.
Sometimes when I wake up,
My body decides that it has more control over me,
Than I do over it.
Sometimes I speak really fast.
It's not because I'm trying to get something over with,
or that I'm trying to be confusing.
It's because when I slow down,
When I let my brain think
I lose words
I lose thoughts.
They're not actually lost...
They just don't want to come out.
Sometimes I take the elevator.
Not to get some place quicker.
Not to avoid the stairs.
But because the pain in my legs is too much.
Two flights of stairs seems like 200.
Sometimes my mind is foggy
Words don't come out right
Numbers don't make sense
I can't think straight
I feel like all the knowledge
I've gained in the worlds
Has disappeared under a cloud of grey
Sometimes I type words incorrectly
Not because I'm not paying attention,
But because my fingers and brain,
Don't seem to be communicating.
Sometimes I remember who I used to be,
A person in the distant path,
That doesn't seem like me at all.
Sometimes I am absolutely terrified of the future.
Sometimes I'm not though.
I'm thankful for everything I have
I am grateful that I'm alive.
I am hopeful about the opportunities in life,
that I have been given.
Sometimes the hard things overwhelm me...
but most of the time I am happy with the life I have,
even though it means constantly changing and adapting.
I am stronger, I am more focused on happiness.
I live in the moment, because even if you're healthy,
you never know what life will bring.
Stay Healthy,
Elyse
Totally Different
As you can tell, I suck at updating blogs. I think it's because there's so much on my mind, especially with school, that I often don't allocate enough time to it.
I've been thinking about starting another blog, a general one... then I realized, I should just modify this one.
So this blog is now devoted to... everything I want to talk or rant about.
Ranting is healthy, it gets things off your chest, so the title is still appropriate :)
Stay Healthy!
Elyse
I've been thinking about starting another blog, a general one... then I realized, I should just modify this one.
So this blog is now devoted to... everything I want to talk or rant about.
Ranting is healthy, it gets things off your chest, so the title is still appropriate :)
Stay Healthy!
Elyse
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