NaBloPoMo - Mixed Bag
Jun. 10th, 2010 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
askygoneonfireMy seagulls are still doing well. Tonight I invited my flatmate up to my room to see them have dinner. Tried to film them through the blinds and I got about 2 mins of footage of chicks and parents but they were totally on to me filming them and weren't terribly relaxed. It's seriously windy tonight, when I last checked on them they were bedding down the other side of a ridge they normally sleep against on the flat roof so I'm hoping that's because it'll give them some shelter. I wish I could speak seagull and invite them to come inside at night.
In other news tonight I watched Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest for the first time in about 17 years as Asda were selling it for £4 and I couldn't resist. Turns out it's as good as I remember and I have concluded my generation are as concerned about the environment because of the formative influence Fern Gully exerted. I jokingly wrote this on twitter and a friend replied that she neither watched Fern Gully as a kid nor cared about the environment. CASE CLOSED.
Viaforthwritten I've come across this article; This is your brain on drugs. which makes the 'argument' that all of us with an 'artistic temperament' should stop medicating with pharmaceuticals and start self-medicating and, god damn it, our lives would then be peachy. There are a lot of problems with this stance, not least of all the angle that "You have to be who you genetically are", yeah, great, you sell that to people with genetically coded ailments, like diabetes, haemophilia, cystic fibrosis etc etc and I might start listening when you tell me to suck it up and get on with my genetic hangover.
There's also an issue, on a personal level for me, that half of what she's saying is echoing the little voice of doubt (which gets particularly loud when I'm manic) which tells me to jack in all the meds and just embrace the roller coaster of unpredictably, self violence, frantic highs, anti social behaviour and emotional collapse....because, says the article's writer and my little doubting voice, your life will be better for it.
In other news tonight I watched Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest for the first time in about 17 years as Asda were selling it for £4 and I couldn't resist. Turns out it's as good as I remember and I have concluded my generation are as concerned about the environment because of the formative influence Fern Gully exerted. I jokingly wrote this on twitter and a friend replied that she neither watched Fern Gully as a kid nor cared about the environment. CASE CLOSED.
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forthwritten I've come across this article; This is your brain on drugs. which makes the 'argument' that all of us with an 'artistic temperament' should stop medicating with pharmaceuticals and start self-medicating and, god damn it, our lives would then be peachy. There are a lot of problems with this stance, not least of all the angle that "You have to be who you genetically are", yeah, great, you sell that to people with genetically coded ailments, like diabetes, haemophilia, cystic fibrosis etc etc and I might start listening when you tell me to suck it up and get on with my genetic hangover.There's also an issue, on a personal level for me, that half of what she's saying is echoing the little voice of doubt (which gets particularly loud when I'm manic) which tells me to jack in all the meds and just embrace the roller coaster of unpredictably, self violence, frantic highs, anti social behaviour and emotional collapse....because, says the article's writer and my little doubting voice, your life will be better for it.
