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I've been reading up on the whole empath/HSP thing, and a lot of that stuff is definitely ringing a bell. I'd heard about empaths before, and I'd heard people saying they were empaths (never heard the term HSP, though), but I'm ridiculously cynical about all this kind of stuff, so I pretty much equated it with "New Age Garbage", and forgot about it. I think all this cynicism comes from years of the scientific method being drilled into my head - hypothesis, method, data, results, conclusion, over and over for twelve years - and I haven't really seen anything particularly science-y in relation to this, and that makes me feel very uncomfortable. I need concrete proof that this is a real personality trait, with proper studies and IRB forms and statistical analyses and references (especially references, I love references, they're the best part!) and everything, because, even though a lot of the characteristics defining HSPs sounded familiar, they sounded familiar elsewhere too, in things that have been proven to exist (with the exception of the sensory issue). It's one of those things where I really, really want to believe, but I can't quite manage it.
Completely unrelated, but I've come to realize that it's kind of nice living in a place where the weather is the equivalent of hell on Earth during the summer, every summer. I mean, I'd much rather live way up north where it's super cold all the time (or way down south where it's also super cold all the time), but since I can't manage that, this is a good second choice. Why? We have central air conditioning that doesn't go out! We're always prepared for the heat! Everyone up north who's been complaining about the 100 degree weather and all - y'all just aren't used to it, and then when it does happen, y'all have power outages and stuff. But since Texas has this sort of heat ever summer, we're prepared for the fact that everyone cranks their air-conditioner to high in May, and leaves it that way until September (or October, if it's a bad year). It's never newsworthy that Dallas made to 100; that's pretty much the norm. It's funny, though, to see Charles Gibson on ABC World News specifically mention this, as if it were some strange phenomenon.
I was reminded of all of this mostly because I was out this afternoon looking for tennis shoes, and it was terribly hot. But only for those brief minutes when I was walking from my car to the store and back, and when I was waiting for the air-conditioner in my car to cool things down. I'm very glad, by the way, that I got that fixed, or I would be a very unhappy leila, right now. I don't know how people lived before air-conditioners were invented; it must not have been a very comfortable existence. Actually, now that I think about it, life without electricity in general would not have been very pleasant. (I am so very spoiled, I know.)
Anyway, I probably should get going, I'm about to pass out. Julie Andrews Audrey Hepburn Eliza Dolittle might have been able to dance all night, but I certainly can't - I'm such an old lady these days! Going to bed before 11 p.m., so sad.
Completely unrelated, but I've come to realize that it's kind of nice living in a place where the weather is the equivalent of hell on Earth during the summer, every summer. I mean, I'd much rather live way up north where it's super cold all the time (or way down south where it's also super cold all the time), but since I can't manage that, this is a good second choice. Why? We have central air conditioning that doesn't go out! We're always prepared for the heat! Everyone up north who's been complaining about the 100 degree weather and all - y'all just aren't used to it, and then when it does happen, y'all have power outages and stuff. But since Texas has this sort of heat ever summer, we're prepared for the fact that everyone cranks their air-conditioner to high in May, and leaves it that way until September (or October, if it's a bad year). It's never newsworthy that Dallas made to 100; that's pretty much the norm. It's funny, though, to see Charles Gibson on ABC World News specifically mention this, as if it were some strange phenomenon.
I was reminded of all of this mostly because I was out this afternoon looking for tennis shoes, and it was terribly hot. But only for those brief minutes when I was walking from my car to the store and back, and when I was waiting for the air-conditioner in my car to cool things down. I'm very glad, by the way, that I got that fixed, or I would be a very unhappy leila, right now. I don't know how people lived before air-conditioners were invented; it must not have been a very comfortable existence. Actually, now that I think about it, life without electricity in general would not have been very pleasant. (I am so very spoiled, I know.)
Anyway, I probably should get going, I'm about to pass out. Julie Andrews Audrey Hepburn Eliza Dolittle might have been able to dance all night, but I certainly can't - I'm such an old lady these days! Going to bed before 11 p.m., so sad.