I Would Much Rather Be

Younger Feminists Actually Care About Stuff That Came Before Them, The Same Way That I Totally Cared About And Loved And Felt So Lucky To Have Access To The Feminism That Came Before Me. To Have Younger People Take What Me And My Friends Have Done, And To Say 'we Have Access To That, But We're Going To Put That Through Our Own Internet Generation Filter And We're Going To Make It Into Something That Speaks To Us And Is A Lot Smarter.'

It Takes Your Mind Off Things When There's A Cat In Your Lip And He's Purring While You're Petting Him.

I Saw A Video On Youtube Of A Girl Who Had Very Similar Reactions To Late-stage Lyme Disease As I Did. And I Thought It Was Crazy. And When I Saw Her Basically Have A Seizure On Camera That Looked Very Much Like My Seizure I Felt, "oh My God. That's Me." And So It Was Really Important To Me, And I Said To Sini, 'we Have To Find Some Way To Not Just Talk About Lyme Disease, But To Show It.

I'm Totally Into Taylor Swift. I Think She Has Super-clever Lyrics, And I Love That She Writes Her Own Music. Some Of The Themes She Writes About Are Stuff I Wish Was There For Me When I Was In High School, And I'm So Happy She Really Cares About Her Female Fans. She's Not Catering To A Male Audience And Is Writing Music For Other Girls.

One Of The Reasons I Went Back To Music Even Though I Was Extremely Ill Was Because I Started To Forget Who I Was Aside From Being Sick. And When I'm Performing, Or Even Lecturing, It's Like I'm Myself Again, And That Was A Really Amazing Discovery - That, All Of A Sudden, I Have A Get-out-of-jail-free Card.