some weird and unrelated thoughts.
Nov. 5th, 2009 01:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynSometimes when I go to the grocery store I have a clear picture of what kinds of food I want to eat. Today that was crisp salad with lots of veg like carrots and tomatoes and avocado and cucumber. Of course, today was when lettuce went over $3 per (miniature compared to last month) head. I don't understand how my body could be off season so badly. I usually crave thick soups in July, apples and plums in Spring, salads in Winter. I just can't quite manage to want to eat what's usually on the menu.
I've discovered that one of those face-wrinkling yawns (not big in the jaw, but where it involves your whole face) unsticks the head goo and actually wakes me up when I'm feeling logy. Not as good as a Sudafed, but significantly less irksome to obtain.
I want to know why dandruff treatments never mention washing your combs and brushes. My head has unattractive white motes if I shampoo too frequently. I'm not sure whether that's actual dandruff or just dry scalp, but anti-dandruff shampoos didn't stop it. A week of no shampooing followed by every other day shampooing with anti-dandruff helped a lot, but it didn't stay fixed until I put my hair brushes and combs in near boiling water with soap and bleach for 10 minutes. (Rinse carefully and completely afterward.) Dandruff is a fungal infection, which obviously contaminates brushes and combs. No matter what you put on your head to solve the dandruff, your head will get reinfected if you use a contagious comb.
I've been wanting Japanese food, but I've just been to the grocery store... seems like I'd be happy with something I bought.
Recently there was a discussion about the laziness of the current crop of children because they can't spell, they don't do math, they don't seem to know anything about history... but I remember being 9 and absolutely convinced that there was no way thousands of fast food restaurants were wrong; "drive-thru" was spelled correctly or they wouldn't have put it on every sign. I didn't, for whatever reason, actually know about "through". And I'm still pretty convinced that "through" is a dorky spelling and it should be changed. (Also "slough" is not a word, and it should be "one-horse open slay" despite the confusion between the noun and the verb in that case.) My knowledge of geography was entirely based on personal experience. I knew where all the big rivers were, and the relative placement of the states because I'd been to most of them. But my knowledge of history was so absent because world history requires a basic knowledge of geography too and I'd never been anywhere outside the country. I also remember being the kid who had to continually reprogram the VCR so it didn't blink "12:00" over and over again, but I can't figure out how to get my phone's camera to zoom or why the calendar gets borked. At almost 40, I'm frustrated by a lot of the new-fangled things in the world. But I remember wondering why on Earth anyone would need to use a food mill, but it was something my mother knew well. I'm not sure it's laziness to discard hard-won knowledge as not worth the effort if it no longer applies. If it's laziness for children not to be learning the hands-on things my parents knew, then it's equally slothful for the people my age to abjure technical knowledge like texting and comparisons between various last-week technologies.
But that said, last week I had a girl correct my spelling of "aunt" to "ant". So there's still that element of "You kids get off my lawn!"
I've discovered that one of those face-wrinkling yawns (not big in the jaw, but where it involves your whole face) unsticks the head goo and actually wakes me up when I'm feeling logy. Not as good as a Sudafed, but significantly less irksome to obtain.
I want to know why dandruff treatments never mention washing your combs and brushes. My head has unattractive white motes if I shampoo too frequently. I'm not sure whether that's actual dandruff or just dry scalp, but anti-dandruff shampoos didn't stop it. A week of no shampooing followed by every other day shampooing with anti-dandruff helped a lot, but it didn't stay fixed until I put my hair brushes and combs in near boiling water with soap and bleach for 10 minutes. (Rinse carefully and completely afterward.) Dandruff is a fungal infection, which obviously contaminates brushes and combs. No matter what you put on your head to solve the dandruff, your head will get reinfected if you use a contagious comb.
I've been wanting Japanese food, but I've just been to the grocery store... seems like I'd be happy with something I bought.
Recently there was a discussion about the laziness of the current crop of children because they can't spell, they don't do math, they don't seem to know anything about history... but I remember being 9 and absolutely convinced that there was no way thousands of fast food restaurants were wrong; "drive-thru" was spelled correctly or they wouldn't have put it on every sign. I didn't, for whatever reason, actually know about "through". And I'm still pretty convinced that "through" is a dorky spelling and it should be changed. (Also "slough" is not a word, and it should be "one-horse open slay" despite the confusion between the noun and the verb in that case.) My knowledge of geography was entirely based on personal experience. I knew where all the big rivers were, and the relative placement of the states because I'd been to most of them. But my knowledge of history was so absent because world history requires a basic knowledge of geography too and I'd never been anywhere outside the country. I also remember being the kid who had to continually reprogram the VCR so it didn't blink "12:00" over and over again, but I can't figure out how to get my phone's camera to zoom or why the calendar gets borked. At almost 40, I'm frustrated by a lot of the new-fangled things in the world. But I remember wondering why on Earth anyone would need to use a food mill, but it was something my mother knew well. I'm not sure it's laziness to discard hard-won knowledge as not worth the effort if it no longer applies. If it's laziness for children not to be learning the hands-on things my parents knew, then it's equally slothful for the people my age to abjure technical knowledge like texting and comparisons between various last-week technologies.
But that said, last week I had a girl correct my spelling of "aunt" to "ant". So there's still that element of "You kids get off my lawn!"
