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Monday I had an appointment with an accupuncturist.

I've had accupuncture treatments before, 4 treatments did wonders for my carpal tunnel. I also took a class on chinese holistic medicine, and during the accupuncture portion of the class, the teacher treated my three-week-long sinus infection with just 4 needles in my left ear. They were there for about 15 minutes. Over the next two days the infection cleared up & went away.

Suffice to say I'm not afraid of accupuncture at all: I've had excellent results from it. I also know that my experience has been an American accupuncture experience. I went in with a definite problem, and I received very specific treatments for those problems. I guess that happens in the chinese model too, but I also know from my class that there is "The Full Treatment".

Until Monday I'd never gone in for The Full Treatment.

I didn't really plan to have The Full Treatment on Monday. I went in under the guise of Stress(TM). This wasn't total bullshit… When your stress level gets high enough to require a trip to the emergency room, you need to do something. So the next day I made an appointment with the accupuncturist my mother's been raving about.

My prior experiences with accupuncture have all left me feeling a little odd. Sometimes I feel stoned. Sometimes, lightly buzzed. The feeling always fades, leaving me tired & ready for bed. This last time varied in 2 ways: 1) I came away feeling emotionally detatched & 2) even after I slept, I still sort of felt that way. Specifically, I felt that way about *food*.

Those of you who know me know how bloody unfathomable that is for me. It's persisted all day.

My accupuncturist seems to think he can make that be the norm for me.

I don't know how to express how inconcievable that concept is. It's the kind of thing I dream about, the kind of thing I want so badly, I'd start sacrificing pets & small children if I thought it would help. It's the kind of thing that I almost can't hope for because if it's not true it will be devastating.

I feel these ephemeral wings of hope in my heart. I'm so scared if I say something I'll kill it, yet the anticipation of the idea that there could be another way is keeping me up at night.

I hope I don't destroy this by blogging.

I hope this is real.

Lunch for 7/1/08
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It seems like all I photograph these days is food. But I can’t help it. I love food, and I love making beautiful meals. And summer is an absolute delight because the vegetation is so amazing. Plus I got a secret joy out of eating this in front of other people and being called a gourmet.. I’m not really, I’m just trying to learn a new way of eating, and learning more about the food I eat. It’s fun, it’s pretty damn good for me, and holy shit, does it taste good.

Ironically, I never cared this much about produce until the fast prevented me from having any.

I only ate the bottom tier at lunch (the left side), and saved the salad for a late afternoon snack. Except for the flower. The people I had lunch with had never eaten nasturtiums before, so we passed it around and people plucked petals off to try them. I really enjoyed it.

I have taken to posting pictures not just of my lunches, but of the new ingredients I try. I’m trying to remember to put what I thought of each item after I try it. I’ve eaten many kinds of food I’ve never had before in the last couple of weeks, and I want some sort of record of them.

6/27/08 Breakfast, lunch, snack
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I’m adapting well to eating food again. I still eat too much, and need to reign it in more, but I eat a hell of a lot more produce these days. GOOD produce. In season produce. Organic produce.

Next on the list: Local produce.

I heart my job
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After all this shit at work this week, I should have made one of these for myself. The little skull and cross bones fits my opinion of it perfectly.

Atoms for Peace
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The word “atoms” is a tad bit messed up because the card began to tear by the time I reached that point. (Atoms was the last thing I embroidered on the card.)

Based off an ad found in the September 1958 issue of National Geographic.

The image the ad came from can be found on the Modern Mechanix website. (link will be added when I’m not at work with a bunch of website-restricting neo-nazis.)

On the plus side, my first really cool completed project!

Mr Morton eats a worm.
Originally uploaded by Valued Sony Customer

So my very expensive trip to the Vivarium played out nicely when they told me Mr. Morton wasn’t too tiny to eat worms, I just had to cut them in half. So yesterday, Mr. Morton basically ate his own body weight’s worth of earth worm. The reason it’s sticking out of his mouth like that is because his stomach is totally full. It took him about 10 minutes to finish it. Honest to god, Morton the Hutt is *such* an apt nickname. I freakin love this thing.

Because, in the words of Lewis Black, ‘why the fuck not?’

And for your gaming amusement, may I heartily recommend Overlord? And Kingdom of Loathing?

You know, I just realized if I’m not angsty, I don’t really have much to say.

That’s sort of sad.

But don’t worry, the angst is about to begin again. I have my next doctor’s appt on Tuesday, and those are usually traumatic enough that I feel the need to whine.

Oh, and go see Sicko. No, seriously, go see it. Everyone in this country needs to see it. Really.

And now that I’m done lecturing you, I think I’m going to go back to being evil. Really evil. You’ve got to try Overlord. This game kicks ASS.