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Another step in the study of kuru
Gene protects brain-eaters from mad cow-type disease @ Reuters
I remember first learning about the laughing sickness of Papua New Guinea in my Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology class a few years ago. The different studies and theories relating to it interested me. My teacher discussed how linguistic anthropologists were studying ( Read more... ) -
life & death
One thing I don't like to admit to people is how much I hate being alive. I think I don't like to admit it because I don't want to admit it to myself. I mean, sure, I don't want to bother other people, either, but as much as I hate being alive, I also hate admitting that I don't appreciate life. I once did. I mean, I've never really minded the ( Read more... ) -
screwy in the head
I am convinced that I am crazy, but I am also convinced that my crazy is largely biochemical. I think that I have a lot of anxiety due to my inability to feel comfortable, and that this is at least a big part of what makes me crazy. My inability to feel comfortable is due in large part to my various health problems, most of which are undiagnosed ( Read more... ) -
I am terrified to speak
I spend so much time thinking about my problems, or other people's problems -- social problems, environmental problems, etc. -- but it all just rolls around my head and doesn't go anywhere. I am so stuck in things ( Read more... ) -
I forgot to mention before
I had two terrible nightmares last night. Both of them seemed to revolve around a lot of confusion and a sense of hopelessness. The first one was an extremely gruesome dream that involved people suffering all sorts of ailments; mostly terrible injuries, severed limbs and extremities, and heavy loss of blood and other bodily fluids. Some people ( Read more... ) -
Has it really been almost two weeks?
I guess I'm really bad at keeping with the things I'd like to be doing daily. I've realized recently that I'm really bad at remembering what happened at a given time any more. I'm so easily distracted and constantly thinking about so many different things, and different sorts of things, that my mind has become very disorganized ( Read more... ) -
Hello
I am not sure what to say. I am trying out this new LiveJournal account thing. As my profile says, I am a strange person with some health problems that keep my head from working like a normal person's head. I am hoping for this journal to be a place where I can just babble about my life and put all the strange things from my head ( Read more... )