📅July 24th, 2016
All this time has gone by since my early years and somehow I'm still in the park catching Pokemon.
📅July 11th, 2016
Leopard slug. On the pathway by the house
Kind of gross but I don't have it in me to try and kill them. Slugs are very hard to exterminate, anyhow. This species of slug is native to Europe but was introduced during colonization times and became prolific here.
Like the other species, they have one behavior where if you touch them, the horns retract. Kind of cute tbh.
📅July 10th, 2016
Slug from my ditch out front
📅July 8th, 2016
Old garden roses from my backyard.
📅July 5th, 2016
📅June 12th, 2016
DARK SOULS III
The Dark Soul(Platinum)
Acquire all trophies.
📅May 26th, 2016
Spotted during a walk at a nearby park.
📅May 13th, 2016
List of TV shows others have strongly recommended to me, in very rough order of priority:
Game of Thrones
Firefly
Doctor Who
Breaking Bad
Walking Dead
Orange is the New Black
House of Cards
Lost
Dexter
Agents of SHIELD
Sherlock
Scandal
The Americans
Cut list:
Modern Family
Community
Big Bang Theory
Downton Abbey
Star Trek
*Does not count anime, foreign language shows, or cartoons
I tallied up the total running time of all of them, not counting commercials- it worked out to a grand total of: 42192 minutes, or 29.3 days!
Not meant to sound negative against people recommending TV shows in any way. I hope to get to some of these. A lot of them are probably really good. I was thinking about what it would entail if I actually watched everything everyone suggested and the value of a good triaging.
📅May 4th, 2016
Finished reading My Stroke of Insight.
A nonfiction story of a brain scientist who experienced an arteriovenous-malformation stroke, the rupturing of blood vessels in the brain causing (temporary) disablement of the left hemisphere and impaired motor function of one side of the body. And the recovery process.
Because of how different parts of the brain are responsible for different functions, the stroke caused a loss of the ability to speak words, read or write, plus a bunch of other stranger ones- the sense of 'boundaries between objects' and the 'boundaries between oneself and objects', sense of 3D.
The fact that it was a brain scientist who experienced this firsthand, who has background knowledge about what is happening, lent itself to a lot of really interesting anatomical descriptions and detail.
Through years of successful therapy the scientist's abilities returned one by one.
Although, the scientist still found a sense of longing for experiencing that same emptiness, that 'nirvana' feeling that went along with losing so much of your ordinary functions and the sense you have of your identity. It came as a surprise to be magically finding bliss after a devastating neurological event.
Until the last part, great. Then it descends into this weird, self-help-y, new-age mysticism... lending serious credibility to Reiki and Angel Cards without using the word 'placebo'? They lost me at 'energy dynamics' and 'transmitting energy from one human to the other'. To have this good opportunity for learning from a brain scientist only to hear a bunch of mysticism, was a bit demoralizing.
All the same it was good times. There were descriptions of this serious, worldly detachment that can happen through something as simple as physical manipulation of the brain. And how there is not really one brain, but two, halves that can exist independently, even if the connection between them is totally severed. And how we can remove parts and survive, but with different functions. While our brains and senses are our only window to the world, I find it comforting, somehow, the way this book describes how manufactured our experiences are.
📅May 1st, 2016
