Monthly Archives: October 2004
The Eclair
When I was pregnant with my firstborn son many, many years ago, I once craved a chocolate eclair. Cravings while pregnant can not, by any stretch of the imagination, be compared to non-pregnant cravings. Pregnant cravings are Kodachrome cravings; high-resolution, perfectly lit, color-balanced works of epicurean art, radiating the barest hints of tantalizingly delectable aromas and flavors. Non-pregnant ones, in comparison, are faded sepia, blurry, pixellated, low-sodium and fat-free, tasteless and boring. I could almost taste chocolate eclair, I wanted it so badly. Almost, but sadly, not quite. Every particle … Continue reading
A Wee Wonko Story
Many, many moons ago when Wonko was an innocent babe… No, wait — THAT wasn’t Wonko… At any rate, a long time ago when Wonko (a.k.a. Ryan) was much smaller than he is now (and his brain wasn’t fully developed), the kids and I were in our somewhat elderly Oldsmobile one day on our way home from Alamogordo, NM to Holloman AFB. In case you’re lousy at geography like I am (the only places I can reliably point to on a map are places where I’ve lived — fortunately I’ve … Continue reading
Orgone Energy Distraction
A couple of weeks ago my psych prof Dr. Carlson mentioned, as sort of a brief post-script at the end of our section on Sigmund Freud, a guy named Wilhelm Reich. Dr. Reich was a Freudian analyst who thought that there should be a way to detect the libido energy that Freud theorized powered the human id. In the process of pursuing this goal, he discovered an omnipresent form of life energy that he named Orgone Energy which emitted blue light and seemed to have positive psychological and physiological effects. … Continue reading
Can You Do This?
Walking toward Starbuck’s for a caffeine break between classes one day, I encountered Steven for the first time. He was seated at an outside table next to the entrance, and with the natural openness of the developmentally disabled, he looked directly at me as I approached. I smiled at him as I reached for the door. “Can you do this?” he asked, making a circle with his thumb and forefinger and peering through it at me, the thick lens of his glasses magnifying the encircled eye so it loomed larger … Continue reading
More on Alien Abductions
I received the following message from Mike Menkin today. He thanked me for posting his website (stopabductions.com) and offered some additional websites and information for me to share with you. The photograph he mentions is definitely worth a look! Subject: thought screen helmet Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:06:42 -0700 From: Mike Menkin Organization: Lasentec Thanks for posting stopabductions.com. You may be interested in my other website, aliensandchildren.org. For information on alien abductions see ufoabduction.com I still make thought screen helmets and give them to abductees to try. They are … Continue reading
Valuable Information for my Family and Friends
Midterms are looming, so I’m going to resort to entertaining my blog fans (yes, both of you!) with reruns for a few days, until I have time to think again. (I’m doing a lot of thinking, actually, but unless you enjoy reading about stoichiometry and redox reactions and limiting reactants and such, I’m pretty sure you’ll prefer the reruns.) So here’s a little bit I wrote one day when I was sitting around being sick, and entertaining myself by doing random Google searches and seeing what popped up: Finally, the … Continue reading
Wandering Body Parts, Revisited
Felicity’s comment on my Wandering Wombs story reminded me of this family funny… Last year Jeff and I went on the Atkins diet to shed a few extra pounds, and as a result Jeff got into the habit of munching on mixed nuts while watching TV. He buys them from the bulk foods section, so they’re in a flimsy plastic bag instead of a can or jar. (For a while I kept dumping them into an empty plastic jar that originally came with nuts in it, but Jeff kept throwing … Continue reading