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Friday, December 05, 2003 Two Kinds A person may claim that one is unique, but particular behavior may be widespread. I find these similar behaviors curious, fascinating, and also at times, downright annoying. People with significant others talk more about their significant others than about themselves. They skirt around the subject of themselves. It's as if they've pushed their own personalities under the rug. "My wife did this" or "My boyfriend did that." Are they trying to prove their fidelity and love for their spouses to others? Or do they just relish saying "my --insert significant other here--" as a sort of possessive idiosyncrasy? I should start tallying up how many times these people start their sentences with the word "my". I'm also tired of meeting so many young Asian women who think they are being individual by being angry and foul-mouthed. There are already many people in the world who are angry and foul-mouthed and I find it neither interesting nor unique. Perhaps they think it's a way of rebelling against the stereotypes of meek and accommodating or strung-out overachiever, but in fact, they're just creating another stereotype for themselves. And I don't think the much blogged about comedienne who makes money using this attitude is helping matters much. Not So Random Linkage: Stewardess Uniform Collection. That's a lot of uniforms. And a somewhat disturbing obsession. Oneword. You have sixty seconds to write anything about a random word. A good way to get past writer's block. Eat worms - feel better. It sounds gross, but there is some logic in this. The thinking is that the worms do or produce something that suppresses the immune system from overreacting. This is somewhat similar to the bacteria in our gut--these microbes help us in digestion and make our immune system tolerate certain foreign agents that we come in contact with every day. It also helps keep our immune system robust. Studies have been done in mice where animals kept in a sterile environment their whole lives were found to have lower white blood cell counts and an atrophied thymus (the organ that produces T cells) compared to their counterparts in a regular cage. [posted by S. Y. Affolee on 7:07 PM : ]
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