When mental health clinic staff persons have made up their mind about you, it’s unlikely their perceptions of you will change, even if you act differently. If you’re pleading with them to let you go “I am not insane!” they may reply “you exhibit all signs associated with (insert condition). Even your retaliation at being…
Over the course of the next 10 years I’d like to learn how to think about 2 unrelated things simultaneously and with equal concentration. The catch is the equal concentration bit. It isn’t too hard to wonder lightly about subject ‘a’ while focusing more on subject ‘b’ at the same time. Focusing equally and simultaneously…
When I wake up I’m usually lucky enough to remember at least some of the scenes from my nightly, epic, random, morphing dreams. And every now and then it turns out that I have a dream that is influenced by something I had been thinking about the day before. What’s interesting to me is that…
I know it can be difficult, but try to visualize a person’s face that doesn’t belong to anyone you know or have seen. And make the features reasonable, the nose not too long for example, so that such a face is feasible. Given that the world’s population is estimated to be just over 6.4 billion…
There are plenty of ways to make some money on the side. How about this one: send unsolicited COD packages to random strangers. Charge approx. $20, not so much that the receivers will refuse to accept but not so little that it isn’t worth your while. Of course, there will always be some who will…
I’m turning into the main character of the book I’m writing. It’s actually quite frightening. He’s sixty-something years old and senile. I’ll have to be careful writing future chapters.
What’s with the people who allow themselves to pick up the phone only during mid-ring? They crack me up. It will always have a place near the top of my list of funny social behaviors.
It’s very close-minded of scientists to think that all life in the (as far as we know) infinite universe is as water dependent as life on earth. Yet this is exactly what the scientists who get excited with evidence of water having been on mars are saying. Yes, all life on earth needs water to…
1st mirror: There are some main roads with turning lanes in their middle. When I’m approaching these lanes from the lane which must be crossed by the people in the turning lanes, I experience a kind of relationship with the turning drivers. As I’m speeding down my lane, they have to decide whether to wait…
It has been some time since I last wrote, but for good reason. I got in an accident while taking the [screening for license] driving test with a DMV evaluator as my passenger. I didn’t yield to an oncoming Alaska Salmon Bake bus, but the jaws of life did a smashing job of providing paramedics…