self examination

I have examined myself and found myself wanting

http://www.museumsyndicate.com/item.php?item=21771

sick

Being sick at work might be one of the worst things in the world. You try to hide your sickness behind plastic smiles and generic replies, "I'm fiiiine, how are you? Good." All the time you are watching the clock bidding it to go faster so you can get home and go to sleep.

"The miracle fruit, or sweet berries, is a very strange berry native to West Africa. What makes the fruit strange and miraculous, is miraculin (a sugar substitute), which is found in large quantities in the fruit, combined with a glycoprotein. The fruit itself does not contain a lot of sugar, and tastes only mildly sweet but when eaten, the glycoprotein binds to the tongues taste buds, which, for about an hour after eating the fruit, distorts any other taste into sweetness. With that effect you could technically eat a lemon, and it would taste like a ball of syrup. Although the definite reason for this occurrence is not fully understood, it would seem as if the miraculin distorts the shape of the sweetness receptors in the tongue so that they pick up on acid instead of sweetness. The sweetness receptors on your tongue then transmit to the brain to taste sweetness when they come in contact with any acidity. In the 70s attempts were made to commercialize and sell the fruit as a diet aid, as it has the potential to turn any meal sweet, without affecting your calorie intake. These attempts were shattered when the FDA declared it a food additive, due to pressure from sugar companies who could foresee big losses in profits. In the last two years the berries have been making a comeback, by being the guest star of many tasting parties in the states. The berries are dried and exported, and the party guests each have one and then taste all kinds of common foods to experience a new taste sensation with every bite."

http://listverse.com/2011/07/08/top-20-fruits-you-probably-dont-know/

night time ponderings

today I am pondering about flight - conquering gravity, in an ever present human desire to accomplish what seems to realistic minds as imposible. I wonder if some people see with eyes covered with math instead of eyes screened with color as mine are. Or if some people do not hear music everywhere, but hear the loudness and softness of noise instead. I think that every person views the world in a different way. Sometimes a person can be trained to see the world differently. A person who learns about art begins to see color as something that is blended instead of a solid color in its own right. Is it only a certain person that could have created a device to take humans into the air, or was it something that was inevitable? Am I making any sense today? I wonder

Ghibli

For all you Ghibli fans out there, a new movie is being released in Japan on July 16th.Here is the rather abrupt trailer for it. No word yet on if Disney is going to release an English version.

end of the day

today I:
bonded with work people
babied my cat
found a sewing class for $15 dollars
looked up a recipe for clam chowder
watched drunk people fall over on youtube
looked at clothes on modcloth (my favorite clothing site)
made a list but only got to number two
ate a hamburger
cleaned
made coffee
went on a bikeride
saw a baby snake
didn't get bit (though I should have)
watched the beginning of Hello Dolly
listened to Pandora
saw an f-18 land
answered a call and told someone that the airshow wasn't today even though an f-18 landed
and blogged about the things I did today

a busy plane day

I didn't bring anything to eat today and my stomach is grumbling uneasily. I glance through recipes looking for something easy to make tonight, and half heartedly wish for food to just appear on my desk. One of these days my wishes will come true. Disney says so.
"It's really hard to focus on anything while your hungry. It's almost like your brain switches into instinct mode and your eyes start darting around all crazy like. Drinking coffee didn't help," I muse to no one in particular.
It was too hot today. 101

22 Years later

While glancing through the various online articles in the Record Searchlight, I come across an interesting one. A month before I was born, A Mount Shasta man was accused of firing shots into a police station. He posted bail ($10,000) then took off and has been on the run for the past 22 years. That's my entire life time. He was recently found in Oregon. "It puts my life span into perspective," I muse to myself silently.

Pandora hums lightly in the background and the sunlight streaks through the windows casting light halway across my face. I twist in my chair to block it.

The summer is waning on and my life is beginning to take a clear path.