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Psych Fact: Opiods
July 8, 2008 – 10:33 pm
My goal is to share some of the more interesting facts I’m learning in my Health Psychology class. I have a whole bunch stored up but have been crazy busy studying; I have a test tomorrow. Here’s a fun fact I’ll share for now, a fact some of you may have heard.
We are learning about pain management (something close to Longball’s heart). There are opiate receptors in our brain that are triggered by opiods. There are two types of opiods - Endogenous which naturally occur and there are Exogenous: drugs (morphhine, oxycontine, codene, etc.) Opiods help alleviate pain by reducing the transmission of pain and producing happy feelings.
The Endogenous (naturally-occuring) opiods are released in response to stress and pain. They are also released by eating certain foods like CHOCOLATE and CHILI PEPPERS!
Longball and I are lucky enough to have found “Aztec Chili Chocolate” at our food co-op. But you too can play along and increase your happy feelings! Go get some Mexican food and follow with dark chocolate. Throw in a Margarita if you please.
Speaking of - my friend Jennie loves Margaritas but she will have to abstain for awhile! Yep, “She Likes Purple” is in the pink. Jennie - too bad about the Tequila but enjoy chilis and chocolate in celebration. Congrats!
Have I Accidentally Stepped Into a Wardrobe?
July 7, 2008 – 11:03 pm
So there was that day of winter in mid-June. And then I woke up one morning and was looking for something in my office when a funny-looking dog walked down the street. “That’s a funny-looking dog,” I thought to myself. “It looks sort of like a miniature wolf.”
“Wait.”
“That IS a miniature wolf!”
A coyote was just trotting down the middle of my street like he was grabbing his morning coffee on the way to work
Permanent winter and strange animals. Where am I? I will not be surprised if I sit next to a faun on the bus tomorrow.
New Design!
June 26, 2008 – 9:00 pm
Well thanks to Tim I finally have my new theme implemented. I downloaded a free theme from Shazia Mistry and then made some of my own little CSS edits.
You will see a “photo” page which so far just has a link to my Flickr account and an Eastern Washington photo album. Also new are “About” - which is a general “about,” “contact amieable” and “About: year three.”
I have more updates to make, such as fixing some CSS bugs and adding my links. These updates will slowly trickle out. But I wanted to put it out there because the old Wordpress theme was depressing.
OH and my new address is actually www.infiniteregress.org/amieable so update your books!
So Sexy We Are, We Just Don’t Know It
June 26, 2008 – 7:45 pm
(Under construction)
I am currently working on my new design here. You may have come here in the middle of things looking goofy. I am ALMOST ready to push us live. In the meantime, check out my new favorite song and video.
This is my life’s current themesong.
Swing Time
June 13, 2008 – 5:23 pm
For those of you who were following Emma’s story, go here. It’s one of the many ways that Emma lives on.
My Schedule
June 10, 2008 – 7:03 pm
I’ve been a lame, lame blogger. Here’s why:
Daily schedule
8:00-10:00: work
10:00: run to catch the bus to campus
10:30-11:45: math class
11:45: run to catch the bus back to work
12:15: eat lunch
12:30-5: work
5:05: scarf dinner
6:00: homework
11:00pm: collapse in a heap and drool on myself
On and then there was this:
I made that face on purpose to show my exhaustion. I wish I could say that I made my forehead that shiny on purpose too.
As you can see, I was so tired that I tipped over and fell into the wall, leaving a boob patch on the wall of our dining room. It’s now an attraction - look for it when you’re here!
So yeah we finally got access to our rental house and decided to kill ourselves, and our parents, by painting it.
Then we had to do this:
Doing this activity means that one eventually needs to unpack. Longball and I took four hours to unpack our kitchen and only came to blows once. We did, however, accidentally let the cat out through the milk door.
We had a few days of no internet but Longball hooked us up and we’re now online.
Now if I can get my cosmetics to unpack themselves and schedule in a nap.
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A few weeks ago I downloaded this awesome theme for my blog and did all the CSS updates and it flat out doesn’t work. So that’s why when you navigate here it’s so ugly and boring. I’ll see if I can blackmail Tim into letting me upload another theme. In the meantime, marvel at my prose and ignore the drab surroundings.
Weather
June 10, 2008 – 6:22 pm
It snowed two inches today. It’s June 10th. I’m 32 and today I wrote to my dad, “come get me.”