garlic, lsd, and gricean maxims
i think garlic is magic...
or science.
i started feeling better the very next day. the white patch was still there but no more sore throat and no green snot and i've felt fine since beside a migraine, but i always have migraines.
and i still smell like garlic three days later. :)
i'm sure the other stuff helped too, but i think the bulb and a half of nearly raw garlic was the primary actor.
i've been watching house md a lot. it's actually a really good show, i'm surprised. i just watched an episode where he self-induced a migraine to test a migraine preventative and prove that it didn't work. so then he took lsd to abort the migraine and anti-depressants to shorten the duration of the lsd trip! this means that at least part of the medical community is aware of the migraine-relieving potential of psychedelics. i mean all current migraine drugs on the market are either derivatives or mimics of ergot so it makes sense but i've yet to have a real doctor advise i take some lsd or shrooms for my migraines. :)
i have a phonology midterm in like 4 1/2 hours. i also have to find an advertisement for semantics that follows, flouts, or violates gricean maxims and explain how. any ideas?
p.s.
i got my first gray hair today. also, i've been feeling kind of old. not in a bad way though. i mean ever since i was a teenager, my friends have always been at least a couple years older, but i've begun to realize that now at 23 i am finding myself unable to relate to most people my age and the people i seem to get along with best are in their late 20's or early 30's. i think there is some link here to my anxiety. because when i am at parties or social gatherings with older people, i don't really feel that uncomfortable and am fine with carrying on conversations. it seems that the majority of people my age, especially in college, are primarily concerned with getting as drunk as they possibly can in order to give themselves an excuse to act like fools and do things they normally don't have the courage to admit they want to do sober. they also seem more interested in just being generally loud and obnoxious and incapable/unwilling to have any sort of intelligent conversation that lasts longer than 5 minutes. i go to parties and try to talk to people and then they just get bored with me rambling on about the food industry, pharmacology, linguistics, the intricacies of fermentation, or biological determinism vs. social constructivism etc. i don't mean to sound so self-righteous, i just think that i've wasted too much time trying to dumb myself down in order to relate to people that just really don't give a damn about the same things i do.
or science.
i started feeling better the very next day. the white patch was still there but no more sore throat and no green snot and i've felt fine since beside a migraine, but i always have migraines.
and i still smell like garlic three days later. :)
i'm sure the other stuff helped too, but i think the bulb and a half of nearly raw garlic was the primary actor.
i've been watching house md a lot. it's actually a really good show, i'm surprised. i just watched an episode where he self-induced a migraine to test a migraine preventative and prove that it didn't work. so then he took lsd to abort the migraine and anti-depressants to shorten the duration of the lsd trip! this means that at least part of the medical community is aware of the migraine-relieving potential of psychedelics. i mean all current migraine drugs on the market are either derivatives or mimics of ergot so it makes sense but i've yet to have a real doctor advise i take some lsd or shrooms for my migraines. :)
i have a phonology midterm in like 4 1/2 hours. i also have to find an advertisement for semantics that follows, flouts, or violates gricean maxims and explain how. any ideas?
p.s.
i got my first gray hair today. also, i've been feeling kind of old. not in a bad way though. i mean ever since i was a teenager, my friends have always been at least a couple years older, but i've begun to realize that now at 23 i am finding myself unable to relate to most people my age and the people i seem to get along with best are in their late 20's or early 30's. i think there is some link here to my anxiety. because when i am at parties or social gatherings with older people, i don't really feel that uncomfortable and am fine with carrying on conversations. it seems that the majority of people my age, especially in college, are primarily concerned with getting as drunk as they possibly can in order to give themselves an excuse to act like fools and do things they normally don't have the courage to admit they want to do sober. they also seem more interested in just being generally loud and obnoxious and incapable/unwilling to have any sort of intelligent conversation that lasts longer than 5 minutes. i go to parties and try to talk to people and then they just get bored with me rambling on about the food industry, pharmacology, linguistics, the intricacies of fermentation, or biological determinism vs. social constructivism etc. i don't mean to sound so self-righteous, i just think that i've wasted too much time trying to dumb myself down in order to relate to people that just really don't give a damn about the same things i do.