Mamma Mia (Queer I Go Again)

  Are you tired? Waking up late? Having too many  afternoon naps? Me too! There’s a bit of a “well aren’t we all” mentality at the moment, stuck in a dichotomy of acknowledging the toll of our current shitty circumstances /and/ discrediting it/. It’s a level of Stiff Upper Lip mentality of aggressive resilience that can only be achieved in trite films on the Home Front. Optimism isn’t bad. But stoicism is self destructive. So yes, Why did i ask? You’re probably fucking tired. But maybe I can convince you of the tricks of the trade.  I have chronic fatigue. Most of you probably already knew that; unfortunately having a chronic illness that permeates every part of your life does, in fact, come up in conversation quite a bit. For those of you who don’t know what chronic fatigue is, it is an illness, which is sometimes linked to the immune system, that leaves you drained and — you guessed it — fatigued. It has many other long term symptoms that aren’t just tiredness, just as being sad is n