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feeling: laughy
listening to: Whose Line, Scenes from a Hat clips
My biology teacher brought up something in lecture today that made the little rusty gears in my brain grind for a few seconds. Something I think I knew, but had paid no attention to previously. He was talking about how pain is the body's way of saying "don't do that again" - like when you sprain your ankle, it hurts to step on it because your body's telling you NOT to step on it. Well, that led into something about how some people just don't feel any pain. So for a second, I pondered that possibilty as a metaphor for pain other than the physical kind, and I thought, hey, I wish I were one of those people. But then he went on to say that since those people don't know when they have a wound or some other nasty stuff going on, they don't realize it, so it gets worse and worse and, since they don't notice it, they die. That was all pretty well summed up into one nice little sentence: Those who feel no pain die young. Oooooh, thought-provoking. I'm pretty sure I knew that before, but I never really gave it thought. I am now though. Has some nice literary potential. :P Ponder THAT, Willard :P
We also talked today about why pregnant women get sick. The conventional explanation is hormones, right? Well, thankfully, that wasn't enough for him. So we concluded that all that sickness and such that pregnant women get is her body's way of saying "Hey, you're expecting, so shape up". That brought up some interesting discussions about food. Food I've always considered harmless and, in fact, really healthy. Plants. See, plants have spent generations and generations being eaten and they didn't like it. You wouldn't either, admit it. So they developed a few things to ward off herbivores: poison. Now, we almighty humans *koff* have developed ways to engineer our food plants so that those poisons don't develop (at least not as much), but still. Did you know too much broccoli will make you REALLY sick cause it has mustard oil in it, and all those tiny green ball thingers in it are buds, and if you eat it after the buds open, it can kill you? Fun fact. Anyway, yeah. Most plants have at least some degree of poisoning, except the really sweet fruits that grow on them that say "hey, if they eat my fruit, they'll crap out the seeds and my next generation will liiiiive". Well, anyway. So we also talked about the stuff doctors tell pregnant women not to do, namely smoking and drinking, but pretty much anything that kills cells - junk food and above-mentioned veggies included. Said that in moderate amounts, those things might kill a few of our cells, but hey - we've got billions more, so why worry. Then it was added that for some time, babies are only made up of a few hundred, a few dozen, or just a few cells. And whatever mama ingests, baby ingests (that goes right up through breast feeding as well). And if just a few of that fetus' cells are killed... byebye baby. See now why you shouldn't smoke during pregnancy, expecting moms? One more point: it was discussed that when babies are just a tiny clump of cells or tissue, they don't need extra energy from mom, so all that "eating for two" stuff is bull. And, as mentioned above, tons of foods that we normally consider healthy, in too-large amounts, are bad for baby. Soda crackers and warm water are some of the only things that are truly safe during pregnancy.
See why I never want kids? :P
Anyway... um... my Whose Line obsession has been re-re-rekindled over the past few days. It happens every few months or so - I get to where I say, ah, I've seen pretty much all the episodes, it won't hurt to miss a couple tonight. Then I find some website or see a particularly hilarious episode or something, and the obsession comes back full force. That happened over the weekend. It was a combination of this awesome Ryan and Colin website that I found plus these Scenes from a Hat mp3s that I downloaded ages ago but never listened to much before. Holy mother of cheese, these are sweet. XD Sooo, why do I mention this here? It's a warning. Likely, you will start seeing many of my favorite Whose Line quotes in my next few days' or weeks' worth of blogs. It's also a means of informing the world that I have branched into the world of Whose Line fanfiction.
Feeeeear.
Well, actually... it's a crossover. My favorite non-anime show, and my favorite anime show. The main cast of Shoujo Kakumei Utena invades a taping of Whose Line. o_O; I think I've officially reached the point of minimum sanity...
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 4/23/2002 05:08:00 PM
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