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Monthly Archives: October 2004
Peer Pressure and its Deleterious Effects (on Hermit Crabs)
When I was living in Japan back in the late 80′s my mom, my youngest brother Tim and his then-fiancee Erin came to visit for a few weeks. My mom grew up in Japan, so our outings weren’t all the usual gaijiin sight-seeing kind of things. Although we did some of those too. Mom wanted to go shopping, to places the gaijiins didn’t frequent. Places she remembered fondly from her youth. One of the BIGGIES was Japanese grocery stores, where she would browse happily down every aisle, looking at every … Continue reading
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Our Somewhat Eccentric Household
My kids are forever shaking their heads and grinning, saying “I love living here!” ’cause between the hubs and me, you just never know what to expect next. Recently I got it in my head to pull up some of the landscape blocks from the front yard and put them around the fruit trees we’ve planted in the back yard. I’ve been thinking that if I build raised flower beds around them and then wrap wire fencing around those (to keep our two pygmy goats out) it will look nicer … Continue reading
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Wandering Wombs
I was reading in my psych text recently about how back in pre-Freudian times when women suffered from “hysteria” they decided that it was caused by a “wandering womb”. The root word of “hysteria” is from a Greek word that means “uterus”. The malady had various manifestations, including spontaneous blindness, partial or even full paralysis, inability to speak, unexplained pain in various body parts, and of course a multitude of mental illnesses. Since they thought then that only women suffered from this malady, they naturally deduced that it must be … Continue reading
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Just Because You’re Paranoid…
A while back Jeff told me a story of a woman with paranoid personality disorder who thought that the Mexican Mafia was following her around and talking about her on their secret phones. A nurse at the hospital she was in said she had come to him one day, eyes wild, saying frantically, “They’re back, they’re BACK!” “Who?” he asked. “The Mexican Mafia, with their secret phones. They’re HERE and they’re after me again!” She pointed down the hall to a new Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) who had just been … Continue reading
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Beginnings
Well, it would seem that, thanks to GreyStork and Wonko, I’ve become a part of the seething masses of web bloggers in the world. Wonko wrote the code that runs the site, and GreyStork set it up for me since he knew I’d never get around to it for myself. And both of them have repeatedly told me I needed a blog. If you need someone to blame, therefore, blame them! So… now (thanks, guys!) I have a blog. And even a logo, although he looks more molten than toasty … Continue reading
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