Yearly Archives: 2004

Orgone Energy Distraction

Posted on October 21, 2004 by

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 →

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Can You Do This?

Posted on October 19, 2004 by

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 →

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More on Alien Abductions

Posted on October 15, 2004 by

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 →

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Valuable Information for my Family and Friends

Posted on October 10, 2004 by

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 →

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Wandering Body Parts, Revisited

Posted on October 8, 2004 by

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 →

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Peer Pressure and its Deleterious Effects (on Hermit Crabs)

Posted on October 6, 2004 by

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

Posted on October 4, 2004 by

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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