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asakiyumebest pasta
My favorite shape of pasta is long fusilli.
One supermarket I go to has it (the one with the Lenten ideas, actually), but the near supermarket doesn't. I bought lots of packages last time I was at the one supermarket, and last night we had some. I love-love-love the feel in my mouth.
Do you have a favorite shape of pasta?
Knife throwee or lion's mouth?
A cafe in a nearby town has old board games for patrons to play. We didn't play any, but one that I noticed was called something like "Which would you rather?" where I guess you must have to choose between various alternatives. The one featured on the box was, "Which would you rather be, the person in the circus that the knife thrower throws knives at, or the one who puts their head in the lion's mouth?"
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wakanomori and I chose opposite, but we both had good reasons. How about you?Owl in Love
I'm reading this fun YA book that was first published in 1993. It's told by 14-year-old Owl, who is a girl by day and an owl by night. Her narrative voice is fabulous, like when she describes her human parents, who are hedge witches.
My parents are very, very honest. The would never sell a charm, no, not even the merest good-luck piece, if they did not believe it gave good value for money. On the other hand, they are both blessed with an optimistic and uncritical nature, so they are able to offer quite a large line of goods with a clear conscience.
Letter L
My keyboard isn't responding well to my attempt to press the L key. I keep on having to go back and type it harder.
Balance
Did you know it's harder to balance on one foot if you have your eyes closed? It is.
... I think that'll do for now.... I'll be back; I have to go pick up a pizza.
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Date: 2016-02-29 01:45 am (UTC)P.
no icons of pasta, but here is a bowl of strawberries
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Date: 2016-02-29 02:22 am (UTC)I think I would prefer to have knives thrown at me. I would prefer not to be wounded on the head, and the knifethrower wouldn't likely be liquidated for a mistake, and the lion likely would be.
It's amazing how important vision is for proprioception.
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Date: 2016-02-29 03:38 am (UTC)Ah, I hadn't thought of the question in terms of consequences! I like your heart, your caring for the lion and the knife thrower! Wakanomori chose the knife throwee, too, because he had more trust in human skill than in animal training. I chose the lion because what if the knife thrower had it in for you? Whereas--and this shows you how very far from concern for the other party my thinking was--the lion might be sedated so as to be less likely to bite.
I want to try to get so I can balance well with my eyes closed, but I don't know if it will be possible.
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Date: 2016-02-29 03:46 am (UTC)Don't forget the part where I just don't want my head chomped. I am not all magnanimity.
Awake your spider senses. :D
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Date: 2016-02-29 03:53 am (UTC)I shall do my best to awake my spider senses!
Drugging the lion
Date: 2016-02-29 05:25 pm (UTC)Re: Drugging the lion
Date: 2016-02-29 05:27 pm (UTC)I will never mistake you for a supervillain--and that's a good thing.
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Date: 2016-02-29 05:58 pm (UTC)Yes.
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Date: 2016-02-29 02:54 am (UTC)However, if you have no inner ear function at all, you will quickly find that all the vision and proprioception/muscle relationships in the world will not compensate fully. Ask me how I know.
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Date: 2016-02-29 04:26 am (UTC)I have had some inner ear function restored with intensive physical therapy, so I'm at something like 5-25% of a normal person depending on whether it's a good day or a bad day, but that's all they expect I'll ever get back.
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Date: 2016-02-29 05:31 pm (UTC)How do you do physical therapy for an internal thing? I associate physical therapy with things like frozen shoulders, etc. (Answer at your leisure and as time and energy permit--I'm curious, but I don't mean to drag you into a whole long discussion unless you're up for it.)
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Date: 2016-03-02 12:07 am (UTC)It only sort of worked. But it did work some. With most people it works much more, but most people don't have multiple causes of vestibular system nonfunction combining simultaneously, so...lucky most people.
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Date: 2016-03-02 03:09 pm (UTC)It's terrible to be in the unlucky percentage for which a usual course of treatment isn't much help :\
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Date: 2016-02-29 03:25 am (UTC)I have a copy of Owl in Love! I've met maybe one other person who's read it. Enjoy!
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Date: 2016-02-29 04:22 am (UTC)Spaghettini, as thin as possible. Yum.
Sometimes in yoga they ask us to do tree with eyes closed. As if! I can get dizzy lying down with my eyes closed. I have terrible balance.
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Date: 2016-02-29 05:28 pm (UTC)hardimpossible it is to balance with eyes closed.Glad you liked Owl in Love too. The dynamic between Owl and her parents reminds me of the Hilary McKay books.
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Date: 2016-02-29 06:43 am (UTC)I do not have a favorite pasta shape. I feel this may reveal something about me. Perhaps I should dream on it.
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Date: 2016-03-01 06:27 am (UTC)We need to express the need to Vi Hart for an analysis of the topology of fusilli and a fusilli song.
Somewhere there must be a 3D printer for making complex pasta shapes for dinner.
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Date: 2016-03-02 08:28 am (UTC)This is something that suddenly became very important once humans began to fly. Our sense of balance is optimized for moving around on solid surfaces and it's quite poor at coping with constant random acceleration as you might experience if you were flying a plane. Many early pilots were astonished to find that they might enter a cloud upright, but then exit upside down (or more likely in an inverted spiral), once they had lost their visual cues. This led to the development of instrument flying and training pilots to trust their instruments over what their bodies were telling them.
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Date: 2016-03-02 02:52 pm (UTC)I literally thought you were spinning off into Story here--it was only at the next sentence that I realized you were talking about Real Life. That's fascinating! I had no idea.