Talking is hard ... sometimes

I can talk just fine. I babble an absolute ton when I have the energy to do it!

But when I get tired it gets harder and harder … it’s not that I can’t talk, it’s that instead of pulling words off the tip of the tounge I have to trek over to the nearest mental fishing hole, set up my mental fishing rod and bait the mental hook and sit there until I metaphorically 'catch' the word I want, then mentally trek back to the conversation I’m trying to have and THEN I can say it. The amount of energy it takes to "fetch" a word goes up as my total amount of available energy goes down, so the net effect is that I get quieter and quieter and quieter as my energy goes down.

I just wanted to share this because I wrote the above paragraph in email and it's one of those things I occasionally try to describe to people and - usually - fail utterly and I really like this description. So saving for posterity :)

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Against closure of St Kilda CASA - Signal Boost

SIGNAL BOOST:

I'm sharing this petition again because it's important and also because today I was privileged to see the person who started the petition. She doesn't have her own internet connection because she's in transitional housing and can't afford it, so she can't promote this herself - a catch-22 of disadvantage.

Please sign the petition and please also share it with other Aussies. Our most disadvantaged friends need the voices of the rest of us to speak up for them when they are unable:

Victorian State Governmnt: Stop The Closure Of St Kilda Centre Against Sexual Assault

Please sign and also share the petition - you're welcome to share this post's URL, I'll set it to publicly viewable.

Thank you.