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Eating Hair.
Aug 11th
* Image from Metro UK Weird News
This girl likes her hair.
She likes it so much that she eats it.
That’s right. She eats her hair, and not just a little bit, a LOTTA bit. Like 1kg of it.
Apparently this is a REAL disease, as opposed to one of those silly made-up ones. This one is called trichophagia. And yes – it’s the compulsive eating of hair.
This one is really hard to wrap my head around. Literally. I don’t have enough hair to even reach it with my mouth…that’s the benefit of having short hair – I can’t have trichophagia in the More >
Snooze.
Jul 15th
Have I mentioned lately how uninspired I am, lately?
I look to my right and there is a stack of books just waiting for my red pen to edit them. Good books too. Books that you probably want to buy some day. Books that mock me relentlessly with their mockyness.
Do you fall asleep at your computer?
And then there are the books in progress. Add another stack of those, only the stack is on a hard drive mocking me with all its mockinglyness.
And it’s not that I’m truly uninspired – why just the other morning I woke up in the middle of More >
I have Two Subcutaneous Foreign Bodies
Jul 9th
A couple years ago I burned my right hand, in what was a very foolish maneuver. Basically I grabbed for a pan that was just under 350 degrees in heat. There was a sizzle and the blistering started almost immediately causing severe injury to my hand, but this was not the first time that I injured the hand, and I’d like to tell you a little story about it.
Let us travel back in time to the early teen years when I was in 6th and 7th grade.
a very young Heath
Picture a young Heath (ok, not THAT young but I couldn’t find More >
The one where I break my toe.
May 13th
So I may or may not have broken one of my toes. The jury is still out, but judging by the gorgeous shades of blue, black, purple, and red that it’s cycling through…I have definitely done some level of damage.
Here’s what happened – and I fully own the fact that I was dumb.
There was a moth on the ceiling. I wanted to get the moth out of the house.
Instead of getting a chair or a step-stool I jumped into the air to try and grab it in a piece of toilet paper. Not once, but twice. I didn’t catch it More >
Personality Disorders
Apr 28th
I am an obsessive-compulsive-avoidant-paranoid-schizoid. Well, I was yesterday. Today I’m only obsessive-compulsive-avoidant. Tomorrow I’m hoping only to be obsessive-compulsive, however, given my daily mantra of “I don’t like people”, it’s looking like tomorrow will be an avoidance day. Thank goodness I’m telecommuting tomorrow.
Some time back I did a lot of reading about personality disorders. Specifically, obsessive-compulsive disorder. In fact, one of those insightful readings was a book called “just checking – scenes from the life of an obsessive-compulsive” by emily colas. She doesn’t use upper case, just like k.d. lang, or h.l. buckmaster, so that automatically makes her incredibly cool More >
