listening to: 'polyethylene' by radiohead
reading: A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone. actually reading 35% of it for the second time, because i'm reading one of the 3 main characters' chapters and skipping the others. interesting to see just a part of the picture.
i bet there are a hell of a lot of alcoholics in france, and no one's talking because it's so routine. how can this not happen in a country where beer is the same price as cocacola and a cheap lunch means only one glass of wine instead of 500ml. yeah, sure, there's that illusion of european sophistication, they don't drink like US frat boys, but what do you say when it's 2 pm and you're half-cut, but there's still 6 hours till dinner?
less than 3 weeks till i come home. my mom wrote an email and said i should get a japanese health-mask so i don't get SARS on the plane. i am not sure if she was joking. i feel a lot better now that i know only3 or 4 percent of those who get it actually die. those are sure to be people in high-risk groups i.e. over 70 years old, or with immune deficiencies like lupus or HIV or something. so if i get it i will just have an awful cold. well, i did have mild bronchitis ten years ago...what fucking ever. just another trick to get us more paranoid. wouldn't be such an issue if we weren't eating antibiotics for breakfast.
i read that it's unhealthy for your small child to NOT be around pathogens a.k.a. the scary stuff in dirt and livestock, because they will grow up with an immature immune system, and be slayed by the first nasty bug out of the gate, probably be asthmatic etc.
so let little kids play with dirt or they will grow up to be wimps. far from hurting, a little dirt could save your life. not that i'm going to go step on a turd today.
reading: A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone. actually reading 35% of it for the second time, because i'm reading one of the 3 main characters' chapters and skipping the others. interesting to see just a part of the picture.
i bet there are a hell of a lot of alcoholics in france, and no one's talking because it's so routine. how can this not happen in a country where beer is the same price as cocacola and a cheap lunch means only one glass of wine instead of 500ml. yeah, sure, there's that illusion of european sophistication, they don't drink like US frat boys, but what do you say when it's 2 pm and you're half-cut, but there's still 6 hours till dinner?
less than 3 weeks till i come home. my mom wrote an email and said i should get a japanese health-mask so i don't get SARS on the plane. i am not sure if she was joking. i feel a lot better now that i know only3 or 4 percent of those who get it actually die. those are sure to be people in high-risk groups i.e. over 70 years old, or with immune deficiencies like lupus or HIV or something. so if i get it i will just have an awful cold. well, i did have mild bronchitis ten years ago...what fucking ever. just another trick to get us more paranoid. wouldn't be such an issue if we weren't eating antibiotics for breakfast.
i read that it's unhealthy for your small child to NOT be around pathogens a.k.a. the scary stuff in dirt and livestock, because they will grow up with an immature immune system, and be slayed by the first nasty bug out of the gate, probably be asthmatic etc.
so let little kids play with dirt or they will grow up to be wimps. far from hurting, a little dirt could save your life. not that i'm going to go step on a turd today.VIEW 21 of 21 COMMENTS
Yes; It is amazing how introspective and thoughtfull some people are, here...it's a very nice change of pace from people who have all the answers, or who are too busy living for the moment to give thought to anything (not that there's anyting wrong with either type of person...it's just that most of my friends are either know-it-alls or more more interested in the visceral than thoughtfull).
I feel quite lucky to have met the people I have here.
And defintely cheaper than therapy!
[Edited on Apr 10, 2003]