bloodyrosemccoy | The Life Experience ~ Summer '11

What I Learned Since The Summer Solstice:

The favorite architect I never knew I had is the awesomely named Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser. This is what the buildings inside my head look like.
So one of the latest theories on the proliferation of autoimmune disorders is that in a sanitary ablutomaniacal society, there are not enough germs to keep our immune systems occupied, so they start attacking us. That’s right: they think we have allergies because our immune systems are fucking BORED.
Which means that a (gross) experimental treatment for everything from hayfever to goddamn Crohn’s disease is to infect the sufferer with hookworms.
There are two main types of sail plans in ships: square rig and fore-and-aft rig.
Bill Nye the Science Guy is as awesome as I have always heard.*
Team-building is a scam.
Those obnoxious self-righteous hippies are right: things do taste better straight from the garden.
Especially strawberries. I finally understand what all the damn fuss is about.
Pumpkin vines are really prickly, yo.
Gourd leaves, however, can be like velvet.
You should always check the labels on the tomatoes you buy. Or maybe not, since what I grabbed thinking it was a cherry tomato plant turned out to be the most amazingly crazy heirloom tomatoes I’ve ever seen.
That stupidly accented “Oh, hi, ___” people keep referencing is an impression of Tommy Wiseau in The Room.
The Room is worse than hyperbolic people are making out to be. AND NOT IN AN ENTERTAINING WAY.
The Crazy Pit of politics does not appear to have a bottom.
Great horned owls are surprisingly adorable.
The X-Files is a really boring show.
But its not!spinoff, Millennium, is pretty good.
I am not the only grownup in the world who still fails to see the value of homework.
Peasant blouses are a blast to make.
The constellation Aquila is right where my uncle swears it is not.
Sometimes your gallbladder can act up even if there are no gallstones anywhere near you, because your body hates you.
Apparently Science can predict whether you will shop in a clockwise or counterclockwise pattern in a store—and it seems to correlate with which side of the road your country’s traffic rules say you drive on.
The subject of "You're So Vain" is apparently a big old secret. Seriously, knowing it is apparently worth $50,000.
Dead laptop screens can actually be replaced!

*Somehow I missed the glorious age of Bill Nye, despite being smack in the middle of it. I was too busy watching Ghostwriter, and dammit with the advent of the information superhighway pretty much everything I learned on that show is now about as useful as knowing how to juggle.

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I did think their attempts to make it entertaining were inspired--the movie ruining life after life with its miserable sex scenes was a nice touch. (Also, it was fun being able to guess who was voicing each Baudio. Kevin and Mike were easy.) But in retrospect, watching it during try after try of a ridiculously impossible Mario Galaxy level probably made it that much more painful.

I want to live in places like that on the outside of my head!

The Life Experience ~ Summer '11

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