This post has multiple topics because I am too lazy to make multiple posts.

1. I run google analytics on this website. I promise, I’m not tracking you down at all, my meagre readers, but I generally find it entertaining. Originally, I got analytics because I wanted to use it with etsy, and as an after-thought maybe six weeks ago, I realized I could run it on here. Like magic.

The most interesting part of analytics is the search referral terms. The top ten search terms that get people onto my blog are:

1. alternate lexicon
2. the alternate lexicon
3. perseveration/rumination thinking style
4. “foreign service” autism
5. “the neurotypical spectrum”
6. alternatelexicon.com
7. ari ne’eman is a piece of shit
8. autism loneliness
9. feminism asperger
10. food choice perseveration

Now, I should note that “top ten” is sort of euphemistic, since only the first three have yielded multiple hits. Still. This list is pretty awesome.

1, 2, and 6 are self-explanatory, though 6 begs the question of why they googled me instead of typing it into the url bar. 3, 8, 9, and 10 are all things I am interested in and plan to write about more (I’m thinking maybe of writing about feminism and autism for blogging against disableism day). I have no beef with Ari Ne’eman, so I’m not sure how 7 gets you there (except that now I’ve typed it out, it will inevitably do so again). As for 4, I’ve thought about writing about my experience applying for the foreign service two years in a row and being rejected early in the process, but, here’s the thing: if anyone (on or off the spectrum) tries to tell you that people with autsim, as a rule, do not hold grudges, that person is a LYING LIAR. I’m still angry at the foreign service and probably will continue to be for years. One of the many reasons I’m interested in medical school is so I can be better than them (yes, I know this makes no sense), and I felt an overwhelming sense of loss this spring when I realized I was not taking the exam this year. It’s really for the best if I don’t write about it.

2. There are a lot of cool places I like to go to that, for whatever reason, I have utterly failed to add to my links sidebar. Please check them out while I get to remodelling (see 3, below).

FWD/Forward, a blog about feminism and disability.

Hyperbole and a Half, written by someone named Ali, too, except she spells it wrong. Her blog is awesome enough to forgive that.

Hezabelle, my dear friend Heather’s awesomeness.

The princess of denial, my other dear friend Sarah’s awesomeness.

Both blogs my girlfriend has made and sort of totally failed to keep up with (there’s Kate Miller-Heidke on one of them!).

It appears that Derailing for Dummies (a must read) is no longer online, but there’s a reconstruction.

3. I want a new theme. HALP. I’m okay messing with it a bit to get what I want–I did with this them (and sort of broke it in the process, whatever). Does anyone have an opinion on any of these?

Paper
Airmail
Look Booster
Magatheme