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Apparently, Emojicon is on.

I wish they gave the titles of the speakers' talks. Like,

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Or,

"What to Do When Your Emoji Lacks Mojo"

Or,

"How to Make Everyone Like Blinky Things"

It's not that I won't, I just haven't in ages and ages, and just seems like a pain in the wazoo when they probably can't do anything to fix it anyway. Maybe I will look into it though just to find out. My t has noticed it, she didn't bring it up but acknowledged that she's noticed it when I said something about it one time. And we discovered that if she sits across from me but to my right, it's not as noticeable. Then shortly thereafter she started sitting over there all the time. Which made me even more self conscious but I never said anything about it. It's on my mind today because I looked at myself in the mirror as I came out of the bathroom stall at work today, and that eye was all wonky. Maybe I'm just tired-er than usual today like you said, it's worse when I'm tired. The stupid thing is I was born with it crossed in, but it wanders the complete opposite direction like they over-corrected it or something. I dunno. Anyway it makes it hard for me to make eye contact with people, because my eyes don't work together, when I make eye contact I have to consciously look out that eye instead of the other one - if I switch back and forth like I usually do just doing whatever, it could go off on it's own. I am babbling here. Shut up now, Art. Enough.

My faerie garden I made for my T

Would you punch it for a dime?
Punch it in three quarter time?
Would you punch it in a hat?
Would you punch it in your flat?
No, I would not punch a wall.
I never have, that I recall.

Would you punch holes here and there?
Would you punch them anywhere?

And you can tell him from growly that punching walls in front of children is not cool. Not cool indeed.

Random thought. I have been noticing in the mirror lately that my 'lazy eye' as they call it has been getting lazier and i look kinda freakish because of it. I wonder if i start wearing a patch over my good eye for a time every day the weak one will get stronger. I had surgery on bad eye as a baby and wore a patch when i was little. I don't even see an opthomologist anymore haven't in forever. Maybe i should again. I hate how this eye wanders and makes me look weird.

So, I would like to present the following excerpt from a recent e-mail from my marriage counselor to show why, at times, he can be a bit...infuriating. Because...what?!? (This part was in response to my saying that I thought punching a wall was actually kind of pathological, in response to his saying he was trying to de-pathologize it to my husband):
"I do think that we look at getting angry and punching a wall differently. I do not think that it is good to punch a wall. It is not helpful or adaptive. It is a mistake. But I also see it as a mistake that is relatively common. That does not make it ok, but I do see it in the realm of typical. Again, that does not make it alright." (He did say more than this, and is back on my good side, but this part just jumped out at me.)

Also, probably because I have a 5-year-old, the one part made me think of a Dr. Seuss book. Like:
It is not good to punch a wall
It is not a good thing at all!
(Perhaps someone else can come up with the next line?)

Keep in mind it has to be in proper anapestic tetrameters, with (usually) an anapestic tetrameter catalectic every fourth line.

Or, just have at it.

You know session was a ***** when your T found you in the bathroom repeatedly scrubbing your hands and crying and scrubbing and drying and scrubbing and drying and scrubbing, and she has to turn the water off and help you walk to her office.