As both a psychologist and regular person, I'm sick of seeing companies use bad research to sell products. I can stomach hearing about "double-blind university studies" about weight loss pills. And if you're stupid enough to believe that wearing a piece of metal around your wrist or pulling a wet paper towel off your feet is going to "cleanse ( Read more... )

[[Backdated: June 27th 2008 ( Read more... )

I'm going to miss Fredonia. I was at the jazz concert tonight and it was all the same, but I know it's not going to be soon. The people, the music; these things are going to change soon so I'm glad I'm going away, but I'm sad I won't get to make any more memories. I will even miss just driving around and going places; I'll miss Fredonia in the ( Read more... )

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Stolen from peachboy. An interesting way of looking at it!

This is for all you consumer whores.

As taken from Excursions in Modern Mathematics by Peter Tannenbaum -

Exercises 47-50 refer to the following story ( Read more... )

September 28th, 2007. The first day real day of autumn. I know this, because there are fragrant yellow leaves stuck to the pavement, glazed over by students' footsteps through the wet spots. And I'm okay with it being sixty degrees. Until the temperatures freeze my face, I will be content with nature ( Read more... )

I tried to get a rise out of smelling my shampoo yesterday. I used to be trained like a salivating dog to get excited and anxious and feel alive by just washing my hair. Conditioned by my conditioner. Because showers meant seeing Dave Guilford, and seeing Dave Guilford was the nightly event that propelled me forward ( Read more... )

After awhile, he left me in the same spot he found me. That stupid spot on the carpet where our feet are now burned through from so many hello and goodbye kisses. I spent a lot of time there not being able to move; and now I have to walk away.

I don't usually write about things that are so boring (or maybe I do), but I did my laundry today. I've fallen into the habit of jamming everything into one washer and scattering my clothes around my apartment to dry to avoid spending more quarters ( Read more... )