I've watched this like 4 or 5 times now.

Nov 05, 2007 23:46

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Found via my mind hacks LJ feed. Post is here.

Reminds me of Maddie, Sarah's 3-legged cat, scooting across the floor with her hind leg anchored and occasionally kicking, in the sense that this cat and Maddie both have some difficulty in getting around... and that they are so gawdamned cute. Also, it's been very interesting to me to find that Maddie most likely suffers from phantom limb syndrome, meaning that when I scratch her face on a certain side-- the side she usually wants scratched-- I'm stimulating an area in the brain that is close to the nerves that formerly received sensory stimuli from that leg. Thus, her leg is still virtually in her brain, in spite of its physical absence. Apparently phantom limb syndrome can be quite menacing for some people, just as I imagine that it may be menacing for Maddie... as evidenced by her oft-upturned head... to the side she wants scratched-- a sort of tick.

Otherwise, I'm thinking I may go to grad school for social psychology... or something more research-oriented. Clinical psychology isn't so much for me, unless I stick to research. Or maybe I should teach? It's all up in the air lately, even though I need to be making decisions very soon.
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