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After the election, I was struck dumb with alexithymia, unable to express my sadness that the Great American Experiment was over.
Here you go, early birds!
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You have no idea how upset I’ve been since Nov 6. It is so bad I’ve been diagnosed with terminal alexithymia.
” alexithymia”
Aw geee. I thought it was a word to describe all the girls that are madly in love with me.
My husband was struck with a paroxism of alexithymia
the morning after the election when he came to breakfast and found that (adding insult to injury) Tammy Baldwin (the leftist lesbian) had defeated former Gov. Tommy Thompson for the US Senate in Wisconsin. I think he shoullllllted something like, “Oh, S**t!”
Everybody knows that the game is over
Everybody knows that the good guys lost
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed.
While i suffered from alexithymia after the election, the passing of my father-in-law yesterday has helped to put that into perspective a bit for me. It’s still an atrocity, and i’m still praying that the Mayans had it right, but i have been able to move on a bit from the trauma of 11.6.12.
Alexithymia
As we might say to a watch maker with a hammer: Break it down into parts. So here we go with that same fine sense of a buffaloe herd in a garden patch.
Alexi with her sister Disalexi we know as the “Dis Sisters”.
Thy is old fashioned talk for “your’re” or something.
Mia is how Grandma at the Eye-tellyun restaurant says “me”.
There you go, alexithymia, alexi thy mia, Grandma Alexi talking to herself in the mirror after too many glasses of the house wine.
Teacher has some errands to run, and then a lunch engagement. I will grade any new entries when I return.
On election night, at the point where an obama win seemed likely, I had to go to bed, since I had a medical diagnostic procedure (requiring anesthesia) scheduled the next day. But I already felt a profound sense of disappointment and sadness in the pit of my stomach. Thus I had no alexithymia.
The next morning, I found out what had happened with the election. That only enforced my sense of disappointment and sadness. But I put it out of my mind so that I could go to the clinic. The results of the procedure were very positive.
Once the effects of the anesthetic wore off, and I tried to learn what had REALLY happened, my main emotion was anger at the likelihood that this election was “won” via massive voter fraud, including the disenfranchising of our brave troops overseas, who put their lives on the line to defend and protect us. Again no alexithymia.
There are certain things that happen to me in the Orthodox Church that have emotional content, but which I cannot describe in words. But this is not due to alexithymia, since these things are ineffable (another potential Word of the Day).
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ineffable
Tomorrow begins the Nativity Fast, on the Orthodox New Calendar. As is my practice, I will be fasting from posting on this forum—if I am indeed able. And I will be going to Holy Confession, including confessing sins relating to my internet posts.
However, PLEASE—in the meantime—PLEASE Governor Romney and Reince Priebus (my Orthodox Christian Brother, by the way)—DEMAND recounts in every state that has evidence of voter fraud. DEMAND that all military votes be counted!!!! Then we shall—against all odds—have a President in the While House in 2013—NOT a dictator who gained reelection by fraud and deceit!!!!