December 2008
38 posts
Motion Sickness
It is caused by the disconnect between visually percieved movement and your inner ear’s sense of movement. There are many kinds to be had: car, sea, air, space. Just depends upon what kind of travel you’re into. The worst is stimulated - I can no longer play 007 on Nintendo 64 or see part of the Bourne franchise without consequence (symptoms).
The symptoms are usually dizziness,...
Happy Holidays
My next door neighbor *mailed* her family holiday card to my house.
Extreme
I saw The Wrestler yesterday and it made me think of the ‘extreme’ aesthetic and lifestyle. Then today I found out one of my coworkers was on Extreme Makeover. Here is the list of work she had done:
Browlift
Crow’s feet release
Upper eyelid lift
Rhinoplasty (nose surgery)
Breast lift
Liposuction of the chin, hips, knees and thighs
Tummy tuck
Xtreme!
Pathological hypothetical situation
Let’s say your ex had blocked you from seeing their tagged photos shortly following the end of your overlong, dysfunctional relationship on a social networking site. What if then they were to un-block you the same day a person they used to be secretive about seeing yet insisted nothing was going on with tags them in a few photos? Would it be folly to assume this is being menacingly directed...
Chicken egg
Is it that coffee puts me to sleep or that I only drink large amounts of coffee when I am very tired and therefore fall asleep? Meh.
“You’re cute. What’s your heritage?”
– Woman in Rite Aid, asking every person who makes eye contact with her.
While You Wait For The Others - Grizzly Bear
Lesbian Necrophilia →
The microscopic aquatic creatures known as bdelloid rotifers are used to enduring dry spells—in more senses than one.
Tactile-emotion synaesthesia →
A young woman who experiences tactile-emotion synaesthesia, gets no kick out of denim. Fleece and dry leaves disgust her, while the touch of tennis balls, fresh leaves and sand are heaven.
Hibernation
Wake me in the spring.
“In Arab culture, throwing shoes at someone, or sitting so that the bottom of a...”
– cnn
Seasonal foods
Things that are gross: eggnog, candy canes. You don’t see people walking around drinking or licking either of these things outside the holiday crush.
Wants versus Needs
When I was little, my mom tried to explain the difference between wants and needs at the grocery store using a cookie as an example. She said, “You don’t need this cookie. You just want it.” And I said, “But Mommy, I NEED this cookie. I NEED this cookie.”
With the holidays upon us, I always think of this and wonder if it belies my trouble buying things for myself...
life mimic art- actor stabs himself onstage in... →
She made us drinks to drink. We drunk em. Got...
Such lyrical ingenuity.
All day today, people around me have been whispering. I believe part of it has to do with a series of emails we were sent regarding cutbacks on expenses, namely, cups, varieties of tea, amounts of coffee, and hot chocolate. It has set my nerves on edge and I would like a strong drink. I wish for these to appear in my cold, nail-bitten fingers:
Hot Toddy
Manhattan
Pisco...
Owl Puke! →
Damn, sold out! This was my favorite biology day in middle school- dissecting an owl pellet and putting together a mouse skeleton.
Benjamin Button
My colleague’s husband is a very old man. His health is failing and he was recently forced into early retirement. She has brought him to work like a child and placed him in an empty office with a can of coke and headphones.
When I was little, I used to leave my mom’s office to roam the halls of the History Department, trolling for treats. Different professors could be counted on for...
Desperate times, unusual measures
1. Sell your hair
2. Be a guinea pig
3. Turn in gold for cash
Thanks, cnn!
Comb your hair and don't wear sweats →
"No sloppy seconds" →
Sean Avery made me think of the guy who sits at Powell and Market Street to chide the general public with this cry.
For the birds
I learned in a meeting today that you will not see a bird at the Getty because there is a sonar parameter emitting a frequency to drive them away.
Time for a haircut
Sitting at work, holding scissors.
Sunday
Yesterday I got up to use the bathroom around noon. I brushed my teeth but not my hair. I thought about putting in my contacts but did not. I ate a plum and opened a room temperature diet doctor pepper.
I got back in bed. There were many things I should do. Pay bills, call two people I’d been avoiding to do something, study, clean. Instead, dear sister, I picked up Twilight and read it in...
24 Hour Fitness
The day after Thanksgiving my parents, sister, and I made our way to the gym to do penance. We got on elliptical machines in a row. Elliptical machines simulate a strange, ellipsoidal movement that one would be hardpressed to recreate off of it, unlike the treadmill to running, the stairmaster to going up stairs, and so forth. My dad commented that we should get a picture for our holiday card. The...