Fear and Lothing on the Road to Chicago
Not an ACEN report... a repost from the USSR Forums when I had posted under the influence of Inarizushi (May 23rd - very late at night... well morning... er whatever)... I thought I should post it here to for reference:
Sixguns wrote:
Except he's not drunk, he's chewing some Asian vegetation I think, elaborate Pax.
Ok... This is going to take a while to explane...
My body is kinda odd in that it reacts weirdly to some things...
One of them (and my drug of choice =P) is Inarizushi Koage Peices:
I umm... first discovered it's effects on me earlier this year while trying to make Inarizushi, a type of Sushi that uses the small seasoned fried tofu pouches to wrap the Sushi in (the vinegared rice) in place of say the more common raw fish (sashimi).
When I eat the Inarizushi tofu pieces... something weird happens... I am overcome with a euphoric sensation and enter a weird state... Of which you witnessed part of it... I feel very happy and stumble around giggling and gitty... My memory is kind of hazy when I am on it and most of the time when I decide to have a taste, I do it when no one is around. The effects tend to last about two hours until they start wearing off.
Although, I violated this rule on the road to ACEN... and really got on my friend's nerve who was driving.
Ok, it was round midnight and me and a friend were heading up to ACEN in Chicago, Illinois from Columbus, Ohio. It was a lonely car ride and we were somewhere just over the Indiana boarder I think when I decided to umm... try a taste from a can packed along with other things for snacks and in room meals (there are no restaurants anywhere close to the Hyatt Regency O'Hare... except a McDonald's).
So I ate some and offered a part of a piece to my friend who thought it was horrible... After that my memory gets hazy so I'll have to go on his word of what he said I did.
So soon after this we stop at a Convenience store, as he needs a bathroom break. After he got out of the bathroom he walked around the store and I followed him giggling and stumbling. He bought some pop and I went over and bought a fist sized toy ball... for some unknown reason while giggling.
Back in the car... I apparently started playing around with the toy ball, muttering to myself, giggling and "Singing along with songs that had NO words". Then I discovered that this particular toy ball lighted up and blinked when it hit something...
Yeah, my friend got very annoyed... Then again I tend to screw up all car trips somehow... One year I got very sick from something coming back from ACEN (three other people were in the car) and the light and motion was making me all the more sicker... So I wrapped myself up and wrapped a towel over my head... My friends were concerned when they stopped at a restaurant to eat that someone would think they had a corpse in the car or something... so umm... I got covered with stuff (I was kinda responsive, but very ill and didn't move much). Not one of my best moments there.
So anyway, before I got off on that sickness tangent, I apparently continued annoying the fark out of my very patient friend for the next couple of hours until I started coming to my senses. I looked down and saw the ball in my hand, I had a hazy memory of playing with it but had to ask him where on earth I got it... He then told me what I had been doing... and I agreed never to eat Inarizushi in his presence again...
I then put the second can I had brought along separately in his trunk so it would be away from me for the weekend. Like I said my memory is hazy so I didn't really know what I was really like on it... In my dorm I usually collapse onto my bed giggling and find something to amuse myself with such as a mechanical pencil.
I'm not sure what in it causes the effects... A friend thinks it might be MSG but I eat many things with MSG in it without such effects... But I enjoy the sensation and the state... =P
I keep some cans in my room on a high shelf behind my lock box, to keep it away from impulse grabbing. The effects and cost make such measures a necessity (If anyone is interested in bribing me for some reason, I prefer Hime brand =P)...
There are other things I react weirdly to...
There is this 'smell' that seems only I can smell (depending on conditions) between the rear of the Library and Mirror Lake on OSU's campus. On several occasions including several instances with friends passing through the area, I have caught a whiff of the smell and nearly collapsed. The best way to describe it is a very powerful dusty smell, after I start smelling it my eyes water and I start coughing, deep coughing... It's almost as if I cannot breathe. On one occasion I almost collapsed... Long story short I avoid that area of campus like the plague. I am overcome with this smell and my friends report that they don't smell anything odd... I think I might be allergic to something coming from some nearby construction in the area... But it seems to be the worst at night in the area from my experences until I determined that something in the area was making be react that way...
On another front, I must admit that I have tried Marijuana once last year with several people including my roomate in a neighbour's room... It didn't really have any effects on me strangely, and as they sat smoking and stuff I went back to the room to study and look at NS stuff.
That and many other odd things.
On another note anyone ever experience what I term 'disconnect'? It is a very odd state I have experienced on a couple of occasions... It feels almost like the body is a puppet.
Let me describe one experience: after a few exhausting days of being up round the clock working on things my body was very tired... yet my mind was alert and active... I went to an English class (introduction to fiction) and did a quiz through a lot effort to move my body which was lagging behind my mind. It was a very strange state, it took effort to write but I could work out problems quickly and my memory was very good. I spent the rest of class with my body in kind of a collapsed state while my mind worked... After getting back to my dorm after class I went and tried to sleep which was kind of hard, my mind was not tired at all...
Yes, I am strange and my body is stranger... Now back to your regularly scheduled thread...
Sixguns wrote:
So I go hunting for more info on this strange veg and I found this:
If your name is like mine, you will have a special affinity for inarizushi. Deep-fried tofu is the favorite dish of the foxes who are the traditional messengers of Princess Ugatama, the Japanese rice goddess. As the story goes, a white male and a brown female fox made their den near the first Inari shrine and were considered the messengers of the rice goddess. The name "Inari" comes from the words for "rice growth" because it was said that rice grew in the stomach of Princess Ugatama. Gale Fox.
Which is kinda freaky given Pax's obsession with foxes.
Google says you are unique, nobody else in the world has mentioned any drunken effects from eating the stuff, this is undoubtably a bad thing, I'd get yourself to the Doc's and find out how toxic the stuff is to you, or if that's out of the question offer yourself to some science graduates as a project.
inarizushi contains a natural oestrogen like chemical, which apparently works quite well as an alternative HRT therapy, the only effect it should be having on you though is stronger bones, reduced risk of cancer and if you are very lucky, bigger breasts. :P
Lindusvarn wrote:
Hmm, i see :?
Umm, just a question...
Can you smoke it? ;)
Yeah, it is freaky, and somewhat freaks people out if they know that (which is why I left it out of a discussion of Asian fox mythology on the trip back... I'm considering hosting a panel on Japanese (and Korean & Chinese) fox mythology at Anime Punch II due to the popularity of such series as Naruto (not really a fan of that series though))...
The whole reason I tried it in the first place was that I had seen it referred to a lot in my studies of Japanese mythology. The fox thing and most of my eccentricities have their origin with my late grandfather (well, for the fox thing that and a weird series of dreams), a fairly odd jack-of-all-trades (mechanic, taxoderminist, hunter, soldier, storyteller, cook, carpenter, plumber, electricion, businessman, folklorist, farmer, etc.) and my role model (I am not half the person he was however)... In fact looking at Patoxian culture a lot of the things in it was inspired by him (not everything but a good deal, and things are taken to an extreme).
I don't normally go to doctors unless I am sure that I need to, right now I am better off on my own anyway. The 'student health center' the only place where I can go is crewed by Pre-Med and Med students (of dubious quality). The last time I went there it took over six days to get in there and be given a quick examination for an eye infection... I did better diagnosing and treating the thing on my own. My mother is in the medical field and between that and anthropology I have picked up a good deal of information to reasonably take care of and treat myself.
The 'student health center' is a particular joke around the Anthropology department where we sometimes need them. One grad student (who shall remain nameless) returned from Latin America with parasitical worms in her digestive tract, the crappy med staff did not find anything wrong during their cursory inspection despite obvious symptoms and her own diagnosis. So she ended up taking her own stool sample and making another appointment to the center with evidence in hand in order to get the drugs she needed to help kill off the critters.
I think I'll keep it as my only vice (well that and caffeine), from what I've seen it is reasonablly safe (it is probably bad but then most things are).
No, Lindusvarn, I don't think you can smoke it... My grandfather smoked some odd plants though.
Looking back at this with a more sweeping eye... I have noticed that Gale Fox is wrong. It was a black fox (genko) male by the name of Osusuki and a female white fox (byako) by the name of Akomachi along with their pups... Osusuki was put in charge of the upper level of Inari's temple while Akomachi was given the lower level.
Sixguns wrote:
Except he's not drunk, he's chewing some Asian vegetation I think, elaborate Pax.
Ok... This is going to take a while to explane...
My body is kinda odd in that it reacts weirdly to some things...
One of them (and my drug of choice =P) is Inarizushi Koage Peices:
I umm... first discovered it's effects on me earlier this year while trying to make Inarizushi, a type of Sushi that uses the small seasoned fried tofu pouches to wrap the Sushi in (the vinegared rice) in place of say the more common raw fish (sashimi).
When I eat the Inarizushi tofu pieces... something weird happens... I am overcome with a euphoric sensation and enter a weird state... Of which you witnessed part of it... I feel very happy and stumble around giggling and gitty... My memory is kind of hazy when I am on it and most of the time when I decide to have a taste, I do it when no one is around. The effects tend to last about two hours until they start wearing off.
Although, I violated this rule on the road to ACEN... and really got on my friend's nerve who was driving.
Ok, it was round midnight and me and a friend were heading up to ACEN in Chicago, Illinois from Columbus, Ohio. It was a lonely car ride and we were somewhere just over the Indiana boarder I think when I decided to umm... try a taste from a can packed along with other things for snacks and in room meals (there are no restaurants anywhere close to the Hyatt Regency O'Hare... except a McDonald's).
So I ate some and offered a part of a piece to my friend who thought it was horrible... After that my memory gets hazy so I'll have to go on his word of what he said I did.
So soon after this we stop at a Convenience store, as he needs a bathroom break. After he got out of the bathroom he walked around the store and I followed him giggling and stumbling. He bought some pop and I went over and bought a fist sized toy ball... for some unknown reason while giggling.
Back in the car... I apparently started playing around with the toy ball, muttering to myself, giggling and "Singing along with songs that had NO words". Then I discovered that this particular toy ball lighted up and blinked when it hit something...
Yeah, my friend got very annoyed... Then again I tend to screw up all car trips somehow... One year I got very sick from something coming back from ACEN (three other people were in the car) and the light and motion was making me all the more sicker... So I wrapped myself up and wrapped a towel over my head... My friends were concerned when they stopped at a restaurant to eat that someone would think they had a corpse in the car or something... so umm... I got covered with stuff (I was kinda responsive, but very ill and didn't move much). Not one of my best moments there.
So anyway, before I got off on that sickness tangent, I apparently continued annoying the fark out of my very patient friend for the next couple of hours until I started coming to my senses. I looked down and saw the ball in my hand, I had a hazy memory of playing with it but had to ask him where on earth I got it... He then told me what I had been doing... and I agreed never to eat Inarizushi in his presence again...
I then put the second can I had brought along separately in his trunk so it would be away from me for the weekend. Like I said my memory is hazy so I didn't really know what I was really like on it... In my dorm I usually collapse onto my bed giggling and find something to amuse myself with such as a mechanical pencil.
I'm not sure what in it causes the effects... A friend thinks it might be MSG but I eat many things with MSG in it without such effects... But I enjoy the sensation and the state... =P
I keep some cans in my room on a high shelf behind my lock box, to keep it away from impulse grabbing. The effects and cost make such measures a necessity (If anyone is interested in bribing me for some reason, I prefer Hime brand =P)...
There are other things I react weirdly to...
There is this 'smell' that seems only I can smell (depending on conditions) between the rear of the Library and Mirror Lake on OSU's campus. On several occasions including several instances with friends passing through the area, I have caught a whiff of the smell and nearly collapsed. The best way to describe it is a very powerful dusty smell, after I start smelling it my eyes water and I start coughing, deep coughing... It's almost as if I cannot breathe. On one occasion I almost collapsed... Long story short I avoid that area of campus like the plague. I am overcome with this smell and my friends report that they don't smell anything odd... I think I might be allergic to something coming from some nearby construction in the area... But it seems to be the worst at night in the area from my experences until I determined that something in the area was making be react that way...
On another front, I must admit that I have tried Marijuana once last year with several people including my roomate in a neighbour's room... It didn't really have any effects on me strangely, and as they sat smoking and stuff I went back to the room to study and look at NS stuff.
That and many other odd things.
On another note anyone ever experience what I term 'disconnect'? It is a very odd state I have experienced on a couple of occasions... It feels almost like the body is a puppet.
Let me describe one experience: after a few exhausting days of being up round the clock working on things my body was very tired... yet my mind was alert and active... I went to an English class (introduction to fiction) and did a quiz through a lot effort to move my body which was lagging behind my mind. It was a very strange state, it took effort to write but I could work out problems quickly and my memory was very good. I spent the rest of class with my body in kind of a collapsed state while my mind worked... After getting back to my dorm after class I went and tried to sleep which was kind of hard, my mind was not tired at all...
Yes, I am strange and my body is stranger... Now back to your regularly scheduled thread...
Sixguns wrote:
So I go hunting for more info on this strange veg and I found this:
If your name is like mine, you will have a special affinity for inarizushi. Deep-fried tofu is the favorite dish of the foxes who are the traditional messengers of Princess Ugatama, the Japanese rice goddess. As the story goes, a white male and a brown female fox made their den near the first Inari shrine and were considered the messengers of the rice goddess. The name "Inari" comes from the words for "rice growth" because it was said that rice grew in the stomach of Princess Ugatama. Gale Fox.
Which is kinda freaky given Pax's obsession with foxes.
Google says you are unique, nobody else in the world has mentioned any drunken effects from eating the stuff, this is undoubtably a bad thing, I'd get yourself to the Doc's and find out how toxic the stuff is to you, or if that's out of the question offer yourself to some science graduates as a project.
inarizushi contains a natural oestrogen like chemical, which apparently works quite well as an alternative HRT therapy, the only effect it should be having on you though is stronger bones, reduced risk of cancer and if you are very lucky, bigger breasts. :P
Lindusvarn wrote:
Hmm, i see :?
Umm, just a question...
Can you smoke it? ;)
Yeah, it is freaky, and somewhat freaks people out if they know that (which is why I left it out of a discussion of Asian fox mythology on the trip back... I'm considering hosting a panel on Japanese (and Korean & Chinese) fox mythology at Anime Punch II due to the popularity of such series as Naruto (not really a fan of that series though))...
The whole reason I tried it in the first place was that I had seen it referred to a lot in my studies of Japanese mythology. The fox thing and most of my eccentricities have their origin with my late grandfather (well, for the fox thing that and a weird series of dreams), a fairly odd jack-of-all-trades (mechanic, taxoderminist, hunter, soldier, storyteller, cook, carpenter, plumber, electricion, businessman, folklorist, farmer, etc.) and my role model (I am not half the person he was however)... In fact looking at Patoxian culture a lot of the things in it was inspired by him (not everything but a good deal, and things are taken to an extreme).
I don't normally go to doctors unless I am sure that I need to, right now I am better off on my own anyway. The 'student health center' the only place where I can go is crewed by Pre-Med and Med students (of dubious quality). The last time I went there it took over six days to get in there and be given a quick examination for an eye infection... I did better diagnosing and treating the thing on my own. My mother is in the medical field and between that and anthropology I have picked up a good deal of information to reasonably take care of and treat myself.
The 'student health center' is a particular joke around the Anthropology department where we sometimes need them. One grad student (who shall remain nameless) returned from Latin America with parasitical worms in her digestive tract, the crappy med staff did not find anything wrong during their cursory inspection despite obvious symptoms and her own diagnosis. So she ended up taking her own stool sample and making another appointment to the center with evidence in hand in order to get the drugs she needed to help kill off the critters.
I think I'll keep it as my only vice (well that and caffeine), from what I've seen it is reasonablly safe (it is probably bad but then most things are).
No, Lindusvarn, I don't think you can smoke it... My grandfather smoked some odd plants though.
Looking back at this with a more sweeping eye... I have noticed that Gale Fox is wrong. It was a black fox (genko) male by the name of Osusuki and a female white fox (byako) by the name of Akomachi along with their pups... Osusuki was put in charge of the upper level of Inari's temple while Akomachi was given the lower level.