Hypochondria
May. 26th, 2004 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarigwaemirAd Mundo Exteriore,
Annenberg likes serving its meat undercooked (i.e., I poke my fork into it and I see pink juices oozing out), and now I have the perfect excuse to be paranoid about it.
Sheesh, I thought the only diseases to worry about were Mad Cow's and perhaps E. coli poisoning. But now I get to paranoically fear the prospect of tapeworms as well.
Uh...yeah, don't click on the link if you're a hypochondriac or if you're the squeamish sort. >_< I'm notoriously not squeamish about these kinds of things, and I was still grossed out. Yuck, yuck, yuck. I hate parasites. I know we shouldn't place moral tags on the natural world, but parasitism seems, to my anthropocentric standpoint, a betrayal of symbiosis. Yuck.
I've also found myself sucked into observing a debate with creationists over at Pharyngula. Someone, please, extricate me. It's a horrendous train wreck! Why these people spend all their time making up pseudoscientific theories when they could be, I don't know, doing works of public service is beyond me. (Insert snarky comment about Protestants and the Calvinist line between faith and good works here.)
In other news...I've bought myself Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men as an indulgence after finishing my Korean final today. Yay! Now, if I can get my hands on Monstrous Regiment and A Hat Full of Sky, I'll be all caught up. (Hey, I spent a year placing dusty old copies of Pratchett's British edition paperbacks in the NYPL system on hold so I could read all the Discworld books--of course, once I finished, Harper Collins finally started reissuing the old ones. >_<)
Also flipped through the first volume of CLAMP's XXXHolic...oh dear. I think I like it better than all the CLAMP I've read so far: Yuuko is hilarious and Watanuki is adorable. Must resist urge to write Yuuko introspectives. >_< Actually, must resist urge to buy manga. I suppose I should be grateful that Sasuga Books has moved to some unreachable Boston suburb and that I'm officially exiled from any Japanese manga stores (other than Tokyo Kid) for the summer. ;_;
Am going to finish The Wee Free Men (heh, Ireland references!) and go to bed.
(You know, there's a fine line between blog culture and LJ culture. Or at least there is in my experience of the two. Maybe it's because LJ culture has overlapped so well with fandom culture. Potential rambling topic for the future.)
...Tari
Annenberg likes serving its meat undercooked (i.e., I poke my fork into it and I see pink juices oozing out), and now I have the perfect excuse to be paranoid about it.
Sheesh, I thought the only diseases to worry about were Mad Cow's and perhaps E. coli poisoning. But now I get to paranoically fear the prospect of tapeworms as well.
Uh...yeah, don't click on the link if you're a hypochondriac or if you're the squeamish sort. >_< I'm notoriously not squeamish about these kinds of things, and I was still grossed out. Yuck, yuck, yuck. I hate parasites. I know we shouldn't place moral tags on the natural world, but parasitism seems, to my anthropocentric standpoint, a betrayal of symbiosis. Yuck.
I've also found myself sucked into observing a debate with creationists over at Pharyngula. Someone, please, extricate me. It's a horrendous train wreck! Why these people spend all their time making up pseudoscientific theories when they could be, I don't know, doing works of public service is beyond me. (Insert snarky comment about Protestants and the Calvinist line between faith and good works here.)
In other news...I've bought myself Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men as an indulgence after finishing my Korean final today. Yay! Now, if I can get my hands on Monstrous Regiment and A Hat Full of Sky, I'll be all caught up. (Hey, I spent a year placing dusty old copies of Pratchett's British edition paperbacks in the NYPL system on hold so I could read all the Discworld books--of course, once I finished, Harper Collins finally started reissuing the old ones. >_<)
Also flipped through the first volume of CLAMP's XXXHolic...oh dear. I think I like it better than all the CLAMP I've read so far: Yuuko is hilarious and Watanuki is adorable. Must resist urge to write Yuuko introspectives. >_< Actually, must resist urge to buy manga. I suppose I should be grateful that Sasuga Books has moved to some unreachable Boston suburb and that I'm officially exiled from any Japanese manga stores (other than Tokyo Kid) for the summer. ;_;
Am going to finish The Wee Free Men (heh, Ireland references!) and go to bed.
(You know, there's a fine line between blog culture and LJ culture. Or at least there is in my experience of the two. Maybe it's because LJ culture has overlapped so well with fandom culture. Potential rambling topic for the future.)
...Tari
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Date: 2004-05-27 01:22 am (UTC)Seeing as how your journal posts happen to be some of the most intellectually stimulating I've ever read, I'm looking forward to this one. ^_^
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Date: 2004-05-27 07:08 am (UTC)Have lost track of the more recent CLAMP works. Missed out on both XXHolic and Tsubasa.
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Date: 2004-05-27 10:01 am (UTC)(and I know a guy who had something lay eggs in his skin during the summer field training that I'm going to be starting in a few weeks.)
OMG.
*is a hypochondriac*
*flails*
eesh.
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Date: 2004-05-27 10:48 am (UTC)(And the eggs in skin...ew, ew, ew, ew...I have a deadly fear of parasites.)
Oh yeah, are you in New York already? When will you be returning to West Point?
...Tari