I have a suppressed disdain for door-to-door salesmen. They visit your home expecting a welcome inside so they could demonstrate their product on some of your things. I don't so much hate the visit nor the long-winded, auctioneer-fast, cue card spiel, but the time they decide to drop in. By fate, they solicit while you're half-clothed about to ( Read more... )

My boss and I had a discussion on "gaydar" and assessing our respective levels of gay-sensing intuition. I've expressed that my skill is very poor when it comes to assessing beyond voice markers and mannerisms. There's just something more that I can't perceive that some of my friends and apparently my boss can see. The discussion turned into a game ( Read more... )

I haven't pooped in 2 days. The physical urge is usually just a false-alarm-fart. Probably the strangest smelling farts that I've ever expelled. Like wet cardboard and a piece of meat that was stuck between your teeth for several days. This somewhat pleasant constipation makes me wish I never pooped at all. Instead, everything I ate would be ( Read more... )

There is a high prevalence of illicit drug use amongst mental health patients. I often wonder which came first; the mental illness or the drug use. Excessive drug use may destroy neurons and mental illness results, or mentally ill patients take drugs to elude mental illness. I've been told many crazies take illicit drugs to stop the voices in there ( Read more... )

Can you eat at a restaurant by yourself, with only minimal effort in appearing busy or occupied? Restaurants are places of social interaction and eating. To desire only to eat, one would usually get take-out, however the experience of the restaurant is deprived. You can experience social settings in solitary because nothing else is required in the ( Read more... )

The curse that is the persistent cough has come again. It's inconvenient that I waived my medical this year. The unfortunate change of insurance agencies by PVH to a self-funded program screws part-time employees with a ridiculous premium (while FT pays zero). I am now one of 50 million Americans employed and uninsured. But I'm young - if an acute ( Read more... )

"Loosen bonds of emotion to gain your independence and an enlightened perspective. The day you leave should be like any other day."

Probably something one would hear from a Vulcan (google if that reference is unclear), and maybe even leaning towards a cryptic suicide note, but I think it's something that I'll include in my personal Noble X-Fold

Just recovering from a cold, severely out of physical shape, and today I'll be participating in three rounds of laser tag. Is this how I die?

Last night I witnessed a dude ask a bunch of ladies to rate him on his attractiveness. In my head I gave him a high score for appearance alone, but to be so vain to ask such a thing seriously compromised any points for his character. I usually don't find many things distasteful, but his genuine lack of humility put him in my book of douchebags. I ( Read more... )

I told my optometrist about my strange visual episodes where if I look at a person long enough the space behind them moves forward, or some visual distortion to that extent. This has happened before in the past, most memorable when I was younger and sick. Bedridden, I would see that the ceiling and walls would zoom in. I imagine it was a phenomenon ( Read more... )