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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92074577296258586582018-05-28T22:28:04.551-05:00Mind Your MediaLindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-46626026650398282732018-04-19T20:35:00.002-05:002018-04-19T20:35:34.188-05:00MeditationsStoicism

* Training attention to remain in the present moment.
* Daily reflection on everyday problems and possible solutions.
* Emotions are destructive.
* Stoic seeks to transform emotions via natural asceticism which enables a person to develop clear judgement and inner calm.
* There is an active relationship between cosmic determinism and human freedom.
* The best indication of an individual's philosophy was not what a person said but how a person behaved.
* Everything is rooted in nature.

NOTES
Define Nature. Naturalism is the idea or belief that only natural (as opposed to supernatural or spiritual) laws and forces operate in the world.

Neostocism - combined stoicism and christianity
Modern Stoicism - 20th-21st century on ancient stoicism referring to works related to sognitive bahvioral therapy.

Virtue is in accordance with nature.
To practice Stoicism is to be free from anger, envy, and jealousy. And apparently consideration for other's "irrational" emotions. haha.

All "being" (not all things) is material (matter).

VISUALIZATION
4 categories

substance (ὑποκείμενον)
The primary matter, formless substance, (ousia) that things are made of
quality (ποιόν)
The way matter is organized to form an individual object; in Stoic physics, a physical ingredient (pneuma: air or breath), which informs the matter
somehow disposed (πως ἔχον)
Particular characteristics, not present within the object, such as size, shape, action, and posture
Somehow disposed in relation to something (πρός τί πως ἔχον)
Characteristics related to other phenomena, such as the position of an object within time and space relative to other objects

PRACTICES
Knowledge can be attained through the use of reason.

Methods of self-discipline
-Logic
-Reflection
-Concentration

Follow where reason leads.

PRINCIPLES
The four cardinal virtues (aretai) of Stoic philosophy is a classification derived from the teachings of Plato (Republic IV. 426–435):

Wisdom (σοφία "sophia")
Courage (ανδρεία "andreia")
Justice (δικαιοσύνη "dikaiosyne")
Temperance (σωφροσύνη "sophrosyne")

Understanding of reason breeds empathy.
Natural equality of all human beings. This does not follow in the thought that money is reason.

THEORIES
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems and changing unhelpful patterns
in cognitions (e.g. thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes), behaviors, and emotional regulation.

Govt 315 : Founding the Just Regime
Can a corrupt people create a just regime? What role must violence, deception, persuasion, and reflection play in promoting political justice?
What are the ground and scope of citizens' political obligations? This course studies the difficulties of creating and reforming political communities.

QUESTIONS
Question: Has the natural world changed due to the internet where this constant access to more unimportant material than ever before or can we still
have this awareness of nature, virtue, morals, and reason?

Question: Do Stoics even care if there is a "just" regime or not?
Ex: Cato seems to?
"All people are manifestations of the one universal spirit and should, according to the Stoics, live in brotherly love and readily help one another."
"Each human being is primarily a citizen of his own commonwealth; but he is also a member of the great city of gods and men, whereof the city political
is only a copy"

* A Stoic lives his life by the philosophy of Stoicism and this inherently influences the rest of the "community".
* A Stoic lives life by example.

Would a Stoic disagree with the following?
* Machiavelli described immoral behavior, such as dishonesty and killing innocents, as being normal and effective in politics.
Most Stoics do not necessarily rise to power upon their Stoic beliefs?
Is it normal and effective in politics only if you want to stay in power?

Statement: A Stoic believes rank and class are of no importance in social relationships --> Question: Then how can they have an effective regime?

Question: How can a Stoic regime be just? Would a Stoic community have a "government"? Can Stoics govern justly?

HYPOTHESIS
If Stoics believe and truly behave in the following manner,
1. all people should live in brotherly love and help one another
2. All people are equal
3. rank and class are of no importance in social relationships
4. each person can only control how they behave but as a member of a community can have an influence on the city political by living as an example.

Than...
1. True Stoics can never have power or control in order to govern.
2. there is no just regime where there is no Stoic community ( a group of true Stoics that live together in harmony)
3. there is no just regime where money and class are valued greater than human life.

Human Needs
1. Food
2. Shelter
3. Clothes
4. Health

Stoic Human Needs
1. Reason
2. Logic
3. Self-reflection
4. Food

How to get food
1. Plant
2. Hunt
3. Buy
4. Trade
5. Beg

Efficiency in Trade
Currency is destructive to the ethics of trade.
Currency has added an immoral value to a material that should only be valued, according to a Stoic, by the level of need associated with that material at
that particular time.
Per Stoicism, one should follow where reason leads, not currency or money.

Question: Is trade fair and just?
It can be if there is time to become creative and innovative in your craft/trade. Marketing can have a great impact on the stoic value of an item
(aka how much a thing is needed).
If this craft/trade is monetary or used to enhance the immoral and unnecessary value of any item, it is not
considered a Stoic material.

MORE THEORIES
 "Natural asceticism" consists of a lifestyle where material aspects of life are reduced to utmost simplicity and a minimum.
Where the simple is sufficient, the bliss is within, the frugal is plenty.

Ex: The 20th-century American psychological theorist David McClelland suggested worldly asceticism is specifically targeting worldly pleasures
that "distract" people from their calling and may accept worldly pleasures that are not distracting. As an example, he pointed out Quakers have
historically objected to bright-coloured clothing, but wealthy Quakers often made their drab clothing out of expensive materials. The color was
considered distracting, but the materials were not. Amish groups use similar criteria to make decisions about which modern technologies to use and
which to avoid.[136]Lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-76836678119763250402018-04-19T20:27:00.000-05:002018-04-19T20:38:24.317-05:00Emigrate
Straya...

Farewell to the West now
Welcome to the East

Farewell to the East
Welcome to Down Under

After 4 years in America, I quit a job I loved, and sold a condo I loved, and moved to Sydney Australia with my significant other. It is about time I find him.

Welcome to the next adventure.

Arrived in Melbourne, Australia in August 2017.
Drove from Melbourne to Sydney which was the best thing we have ever done, Australia has a beautiful countryside, amazing food, and kick ass wildlife.
Once in Sydney I got the apartment set up, got the dogs settled, and started looking for jobs.

Sydney is a first world city, even with it's somewhat poor construction and lack of comprehensive and helpful websites. It is still beautiful even with it's slow connection, lengthier response time, and passive social behaviors. After 6 months in with a few vacations, I am not ready to dismiss it.

The beauty will reveal itself in time.

"This earth, I never damage. I look after. Fire is nothing, just clean up. When you burn, new grass coming up. That means good animal soon, Might be goanna, possum, wallaby. Burn him off, new grass coming up, new life all over. "
-Bill Neidjie

Lindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-62163058425130150922018-04-19T20:08:00.002-05:002018-04-19T20:08:19.507-05:002016. End."It's that moment of dawning comprehension I live for". I search for it but sometimes I lose my way.
Paulo Ceolho stated "if you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it is lethal" Your everyday life will completely kill that moment of dawning comprehension. I want an "every-last-day"life and I do not want to be afraid of failure for that is the only thing that will encourage me to learn and grow even more.

Lindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-77103824516251835142016-01-17T11:28:00.002-06:002016-01-17T11:33:03.067-06:00The Sound of SilenceJim Carrey's Message

I want to find out who you are without saying a word.

Choose love~ (not the "in love" kind of love, but the universal love for one another that forces us to make a leap of faith and rely on a person)

This is the message I try to communicate with whoever I meet. I am 100% open, but I am afraid it may be misunderstood due to expectations or previous encounters of a person's life. I am curious and expect more, I am never satisfied and always want to know more. This should be a flattering feeling - someone is taking the time to listen and remember and meet you. Not just for a second, or base their opinion about you upon that brief encounter, but being dependable enough to give you the opportunity to grace them with your presence. People are impatient and get distracted from what is in front of them easily. When lacking the ability to discover who a human being is, then a true connection can never be met. Only true connections take time and reliability is the facilitator of this connection.

"I'm afraid of many things, but loneliness is not among them, and it's actually quite depressing to have to witness the lengths most people are willing to go just to avoid being alone."

To be open to loneliness is to be open to others. Because it is the mindset where you do not need to chase the social life, or seek attention from it but graciously accept it when it is there and appreciate it when it is not.

"Within each of us, there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence we remember who we are" - Gunilla Norris

When that silence is explored by each individual the level of your relationship with other excels to the next level. The way a conductor leads an orchestra. Without a sound.
"The conductor does not make a sound, he depends for his power on his ability to make other people powerful" - Benjamin Zander
This is what makes a person powerful, influential, memorable, effective in what they do. What leaders need most is an unspoken understanding through trust and respect.

If I need to say it - you are not reading between the lines.
 I can understand how this can cause confusion - but there is a sense that we all have but most ignore.

 Why are these individuals:
David Bowie
Alan Rickman
Robin Williams
and many other artists able to create this universal sadness? They have appreciated that silence and gift that Jim Carrey speaks of in his message and have been able to share and deliver it to the public.

Respect comes from within.Lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-8113653863167986492016-01-16T21:48:00.001-06:002016-01-16T21:48:27.083-06:00Update 2016It is the beginning of 2016.

In April 2013 I had just returned home from abroad and started working at a local organic farm. I applied to some classes at the community college as prerequisites for the Masters program I recently finished.

Masters of Agribusiness from KSU via their Global Campus. I began the master's program while working part-time at a snack food headquarters in KC. First semester was rough, but met good friends and fun professors and decided to stick it out. Job went full-time, passing my classes and learning about the people I work with and developing these relationships.

Be an asset to your company, and if the company/organization/department is too big, find a way to do so. There is always a way.

Challenge yourself. Always.

Welcome back~Lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-23187571866933482672013-04-07T10:12:00.004-05:002016-01-16T21:38:11.030-06:00Reflections and HomeI'm back in the saddle again
Out where a friend is a friend
Where the longhorn cattle feed
On the the lowly gypsum weed
Back in the saddle again

Ridin' the range once more
Totin' my old .44
Where you sleep out every night
And the only law is right
Back in the saddle again...

Reflections
Many people tell me that it is a good thing I came home. Obviously I agree or I wouldn't have done so. But I believe their reasoning is different and for a media frenzied population I can understand why. It still amazes me that people do not look beyond their own boundaries to discover that a place not be what you are told it is or how the media says it is. No worries guys! I'm okay!...no big deal...but I can say this and yet if Kim Jun Un does blow up something, I would not know what I was talking about even if I had lived in the South and experienced the culture.

If anybody has the time and interest enough to do so, please read Daniel Tudor's book Korea: The Impossible Country. Because it is impossible to imagine, so you need to educate yourself. North and South Korea are brothers. However the alliance the South has with the US hurts its relationship with its brother.

What were North and South Korea but conquered countries dependent upon another superpower? Did they really have any say in their own history? And not long before these wars, the Japanese were their Imperialists...and they would say the same thing English teachers in the classrooms are saying... "No Korean!"

Also check out what the students think...

Today Seoul is ALIVE, but to restate the high schooler in the previous link, "I don't wish Korea to be the wealthiest country in the world. I would rather it be a country where its people's right to be happy is secured" - Love & Peace. Korea is not happy (anymore) and it shows through the distrust, shallow status flaunts, and customer service. Just because there are billions of people does not mean they cannot treat each other with respect: Review THIS!

Culture, language, respect for your own country takes a lot more effort when you are being bullied into thinking like the bigger guy. However, many Koreans are still proud of the sadness and struggle their country went to to become an economic force in the world today. But an economic force is about all they have become. Korea produces many products and provides what is most important - cheap labor. Minimum wage is $4/hour. Who in the US would work for that?! Most 20 year olds there do, and it is a 'part-time' job done while studying or supposedly doing something else. So what is the cost of this economic force? And why do English teachers, who are the same age with the same degree, get paid $27/hour, part-time as well.

How can people respect you, if you do not respect yourself? Is respecting your country the same thing as respecting it's citizens? Think about it from a Korean, Asian, social, communal, perspective. Respecting yourself above your country is selfish. In America the well-being of Americans is what makes the US respectable. That is why when you are obese, lazy, welfare-fed, the respect goes out the window.

The comparison of the two countries is almost ridiculous because of the major differences involving geography, culture, and history. But the relationship South Korea and the US have together today and in the past is unavoidable. US influences the division between the North and South. We think democratization is good for everyone. When in fact people who have been living a life of servitude of the state for most of their history think that democracy/capitalism is different and perhaps selfish, making people themselves selfish. Countries were created for a reason. Nations were built differently because of the different people who built them. We are the same as a species, meaning we are born and then we die, but not as a race, and I mean human race.

Are democracies built upon capitalism only? Lions for Lambs is a movie that restates the birth of democracy, or the American dream, when they discuss in a classroom when has a big house with high walls not been the American dream? The answers the presenters gave was "1775, 2001, etc"...so the answer I believe is no. And can Korea really be a democracy with a different kind of history? Or is the effort through capitalism just creating a bigger gap between the haves and the have-nots?

I believed in democracy to my core in college, and now I am not quite sure it is for everyone. Asia is on its own standard now. And what comes next might blow democracy out of the water. Things change, as do people, whether you like it or not. And the big footprint US left in North and South Korea is still there. Koreans are like elephants, they never forget. And when you can't forget, it is often impossible to forgive.

 Home

Full time job 7 days/week doesn't seem like such a big deal after meeting a friend's boyfriend who works the fields in western Kansas, or after meeting bankers in Korea who work 8am to 11pm then are expected to go out and drink until they puke afterwards, and do it all over again in the morning. Work can be a life, or a living. Where is the time to consider the questions asked above. Who cares about anything else besides putting food on your table and a roof over your head? Who cares?....

The value of your life is dependent upon how you see it, not how others see it.

Investment in relationships, in businesses, in hobbies, in having a social life all comes at various risk levels. But not doing them is the greatest risk of all. There is a difference between hoarding and investing, usually you are always thinking about yourself, but when you invest you are also thinking of your connection with others. It creates a financial tie (usually most important) that you want to take care of. So if you do not care, you make just enough for you and nobody else matters. When in fact everything you do involves someone else whether you like it or not. You cannot go out in the woods and expect to wing it on your own, there is not only the natural world but the obvious encounters with other unpredictable living things that will happen. Your well-being depends on the well-being of others. One job requires another job. Like taking care of the fields..is it more efficient to have a piece of equipment for tilling, planting, spraying and irrigating and YOU do all the work? When in God's name would you ever get that done?! Or should one person be assigned to working each piece of equipment separately and follow each other down the line, saving time and money.

If you do not care, you will not hold up your end of the bargain and no one will trust you to work with them. In Korea, each person has a job, creating more pointless employment for the massive amounts of people living in Seoul. However pointless each person's job depends on the job done by the next person. And even though there are many jobs, there are even more people without jobs. The unemployment rate is insane. And besides that they still spend! Like typical capitalists...you could call it greed, selfishness, but in Korea it is a necessity..socially. Korea racks up credit debt faster than the 50s 60s and 70s 80s in the US combined. "If thrift is an Asian virtue, then it is one that South Koreans are notably lacking: each adult has almost five credit cards on average, and the household debt burden exceeds that of the United States before the subprime crisis".

How is capitalism helping this situation? When the rule of law in Korea is anything but respected and the people who will suffer from this debt will be the have-nots. Trust is impossible in this country when dealing with money. There are few well-to-do people who are honest, because of the cutthroat environment South Korea has created for itself. It's dream to succeed in the international world has abandoned its domestic labor force. Forced retirement at 50 and what Daniel Tudor calls the "angry 30-40 year olds". And there is a LOT of middle class, normal people who are not creating this debt but will suffer from it because of the selfish consumerism by the rich. Wake up South Korea! You have great people in your country!

Relationships are important and how you treat the ones you work with is a major indicator in how successful you will be in the long run, which, in the end, your relationships with those people are all that matter.

Lindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-5282652827757803182012-05-08T10:30:00.001-05:002016-01-16T21:38:31.859-06:00The Excess and The Lack of Law

Barry Schwartz<o:p></o:p>

"as teachers we should strive to be the ordinary heros the moral exemplars to the people we mentor"<o:p></o:p>

Lack<o:p></o:p>

"Tunnelling is the awarding of contracts to firms owned by family members. Chaebol heads typically own only a small portion of their firms, but are able to maintain control through complex cross-holdings; tunnelling offers a means of exploiting that control to get richer, quicker. In 2007, for instance, the Fair Trade Commission, an official watchdog, fined Hyundai Motor for, among other things, giving 1.3 trillion won ($1.4 billion) of business to Glovis, a firm owned by the son of Hyundai's chairman—without any tendering." The conglomerate forces of South Korea have a similar impact on governance as the Chinese conglomerates, also running in the same (non democratic) fashion, but as all governments are business run, including the United States, we should give fair notice to the rising economies of the day and how nothings changed. <o:p></o:p>

Another similarity between China and South Korea has to do with the leader being a business man himself (Lee Myung Bak) ordering all conglomerates to do something whether it is hire more women or more youth without a degree. Glutted with Grads <o:p></o:p>

Once you go up, you must come down. South Korea is an amazing feat. Very interesting among economists and IR scholars alike. Due to its rise a mix of people have been thrown together. Those who knew life without technology or even electricity are suddenly thrown into the mix with the iPhone. Generation gap is much bigger, culture, etiquette, and tradition seemed to be melting in the face of technological development for the sake of making a buck. Well not just any buck, a lot of bucks. But can South Korea handle the natural flow of an economy's downturn? When such a spike of success leads to great wealth and overspending, just like the US is there regulation and watchdogs or moderate the natural downward flow? Can Koreans of this generation live without all the accessories if need be. Asia is pretty good at doing what is needed or the whole, however basic community values, as I have said, have been lost. Such as humility and selflessness. I think nowadays that is only found in the country side where less than 1/3 of the country's population lives. <o:p></o:p>

Excess<o:p></o:p>

We are trying so hard to protect ourselves, in the US, that we lose site of what really founded the innovative country we are so proud of. That the freedom to create something out of nothing. Nowadays with the numerous regulations everyone needs just to get an entry level job people are being squeezed into this Korean-like education system of higher is better. Whats wrong with vocational school? Does nobody want to fix cars anymore? If no one fixes, improves, sells the cars, where is our automobile industry headed?<o:p></o:p>

"His ideas are of particular importance in the context of this country's ongoing shortage of students entering the critical STEM fields: science, technology, engineering, and math. And the irony was certainly not lost on Jobs—a remarkably astute observer of social norms, cultural dynamics, and the behavior of young people—that a country with a ravenous appetite for technology must figure out some way to increase the production of it."<o:p></o:p>

If you want to get back in the game allow Americans to innovate education themselves. If making it a business is what it takes, we have the legislation to protect workers when people get too greedy.... now just implement it and let those innovators go!<o:p></o:p>

 Overall a balance between the rule of law and the slack there of is needed to improve our education system in the US and drive innovators to compete on a level playing field with the Asian conglomerates. Asia also needs a balance to protect their citizen's investments and avoid fraud and overworked citizens. <o:p></o:p>
Lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-77093783595693445502011-10-08T19:24:00.019-05:002012-05-08T10:30:06.736-05:00An Ode to Individualism
Solitary Man - Neil Diamond

An ode to individualism.

Walking can be one of those meditations that you do to contemplate. Yes it does help after a few laps around the block, people who get their heartbeat up tend to think clearer due to the rush of adrenaline.....

*kick the can
*hauch a loogy
*shoot the shit

...

Walking or running in Seoul is a huge eye opener. There are many different ways to look at things in this city. The tourist perspective, the cave of an office worker perspective, the athlete perspective, and the stressed out dodger/runner/speed walker perspective. As a tourist you see things for the first time, its foreign you are detached. As a cooped up office worker, you see a room, a computer (maybe) and a few other people who look like you, as you think about what it is like to walk. As the athlete, you take on the Han river and master each mountain view with the rest of Seoul's old man population, through fun runs, climbs, or river walks. And the dodger perspective only sees the butt of the person in front of him/her because you can never get around the unlimited amount of people packed into this city.

This goes back to a couple of other posts about communal living, doing something for one's neighbor, etc. With so many people in one place, how could anybody be alone?!

So why am I ode-ing to individualism? Individualism doesn't necessary make you independent from others or able to take on everything alone. Napoleon's great quote, "If you don't like the way something is done, do it yourself", I don't think was meant to do everything all at once.

Individualism is to distinguish yourself from others in the process of working with them. For me this isn't through better or worse, sicker or poorer, black or white, not even a woman or a man.

When a person's character has been tested, maybe even multiple times, those who are older and wiser see this. Her/His individualism shines, the shinier the more interesting. Experience, bravery/stupidity/insanity, attitude, and connections all add to the shininess.

Bravery/Stupidity/Insanity;

Connections; who you know, and how you know them will matter for the rest of your life. Connections can be deeper than an acquaintance, a job, a shared interest. Interactions between people help everyone to understand how or why a person behaves in a certain way and this understanding can lead to less unhappiness and more compassion. "Compassion can only come from understanding" DearJason

Attitude; always thinking positively really does help, dreaming and never waking up is probably not a great idea, but always getting back up after that horse threw you could help you do something like idk...- Stronger by Kelly Clarkson (will embed when can) aka smile when your down.

Experience; comes in all different shapes and sizes. For me it isn't about making the perfect resume anymore. Of course I need to keep up with promoting myself to whoever pays me a decent salary. Money is a limitation. You can only overcome it if you are smart enough. But what will matter for you and everyone else in the long run is what you contributed to society other than money. Seeing what is important to that other person is as important as seeing what is truly important to yourself.

 "Contribute more than you consume" - Ray Bachard KU Volleyball Coach. This is not said in an Asian setting where everyone should work for less and sacrifice their weekends to earn a ton of money. But to volunteer, spend those weekends improving society's environment, schools, people. Seoul is on the brink but there is not nearly enough effort put forth by its own people. American cities are also taking the fast track to money mind set, where they need to think what things can help those have-nots. "Giving the time is just as important as giving the money"<a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/16/us/penny-hardaway-memphis-school/index.html" data-ultimate-url="http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/16/us/penny-hardaway-memphis-school/index.html" href="http://t.co/CxzYVrKs" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0084b4; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/16/us/penny-hardaway-memphis-school/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/16/us/penny-hardaway-memphis-school/index.html <a class=" twitter-hashtag pretty-link" data-query-source="hashtag_click" href="https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23Penny" style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0084b4; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="#Penny"><s style="color: #66b5d2; text-decoration: none;">#</s>Penny Ex-NBA star returns to inner city, brings hoop dreams.

Just like most limitations they can be overcome. Here is just one example a media limitation enforced by government, being overcome by a perfectly legitimate media producer and entrepreneur. Yang Lan a media mind attempts to challenge the Chinese censorship of media. As China overwhelms the West, its media needs to be a little more savvy. And of course like any other - brainwashing.

Another individual initiative that contributed more is Steve Jobs' thinking about schools as market for change, educational innovation, and provided a sustained presence in power politics. Instead of just relying on 22 year olds making babies! OR the "Git R Dun" technique which I don't see, with an education system in the crapper would be such a good idea?

Why does individualism matter? For the obvious reason that one person can make a bigger change than an angry mob.

Lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-17387396717937933442011-08-27T21:31:00.039-05:002011-10-26T10:27:32.971-05:00Opportunities and Rock n Roll

Gotta grab those opportunities when they come up. However Malcolm Gladwell says in his book Outliers that opportunities find the person and not the other way around. You are who you are and you are either born in the right decade of success or not. You either experience smooth sailing or run into a few bumps either preventing or leading to your success.

 "In Outliers, he hopes to show that there are a lot more variables involved in an individual's success than society cares to admit, and he wants people to "move away from the notion that everything that happens to a person is up to that person"

 Outside forces obviously have an impact. Knowing where you stand (or fall) in a particular generation should help you determine what you are....supposed to be. Or does this sound too pessimistic -

Maybe this will help~

"When asked what message he wanted people to take away after reading Outliers, Gladwell responded, "What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think."

Shout out to the individual to build his/her society.

What to build in South Korea? Can Rock n Roll do to Korea what it did for America? Maybe a little bit more "freedom" might do it some good, or not.

So far their culture and community are so demanding of the individual which in my perspective can be respected. Or maybe the active role of women in the economic history of the continent has helped it tremendously long term. Experts remark on how women are better with money due to their long term outlook, such as kids, household, and grandchildren. These perspectives prove to provide the whole community with more, because of its long term effects.

Seems to be the wave of the financial world these days with Christine Lagarde at the helm.

However, America has its opinions on how much time working as an impact on the economy...but certain things like working late every night are not considered. Americans may have their nights while Asians have their vacations.....Fareed Zakaria on Americans working

 Apprenticeships, opportunities, private businesses give us this start. I do not know it all. "profit on the one hand, and wages on the other" is how capitalism works and that only works if you are giving and taking. Failure is not a bad option but consistently making the same mistake is.

I preferred it when people had the time, ....no, MADE the time to think before they act.

If you think about how your business can help the community as a whole either in the long term or every, month, year, etc. The actual term used when Old Choson was founded by Tangun Wanggum in 2333 BC was Hongik Ingan meaning "to live and work for the benefit of all mankind". This old traditional mindset and culture leads to what superpowers we will see in the near future. Even old stories about famous historical figures such as Yi Yulgok praise this virtue to work for the whole and give away what you have rather than hoard it for yourself. Was there self interest in Yi Yulgok's actions?

American ideals have changed as well. We are not in the economy to compete - ultimately we are here to cooperate and negotiate. So Why should everything be a game of winning? Adam Smith at first write The Theory of Moral Sentiments where he emphasizes the importance of relationships:

In the work, Smith critically examines the moral thinking of his time, and suggests that conscience arises from social relationships.[56] His goal in writing the work was to explain the source of mankind's ability to form moral judgements, in spite of man's natural inclinations towards self-interest. Smith proposes a theory of sympathy, in which the act of observing others makes people aware of themselves and the morality of their own behavior

but in his Wealth of Nations he emphasizes the dangers of the invisible hand contradicting a the sympathy expressed in TOMS, the invisible hand is the gluttony of humanity and how it takes over:

"As every individual, therefore, endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestick industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value; every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestiek to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other eases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the publick good. [emphasis added]."

 The One Minute Entrepreneur - by Ken Blanchard and Don Hutson gives a great example of how a business can help everyone - their community and their family. "When you give to others, it comes back to you in spades".

When you give you are still thinking of yourself. There is a balance to maintain. Overall personal relationships should be highest priority. BUT I am getting ahead of myself.

 Maybe Fareed Zakaria's opinion on an economic platform as a government outline should be considered.

Korean culture demands a lot from its citizens but then again it offers a lot too. Things may be getting more expensive only because we are not in a fixed market, but they tend to come around here in bigger quantities and the people seem to appreciate the award at the end of a long run. Yearly, monthly, etc. Rather than weekly, bi-weekly. Again another example of the West's shortsightedness. BUT weekly paychecks are not bad either - people save in different ways. However take into consideration what has actually happened in reality - about how Americans did not save while Asians, Koreans saved quite a bit in recent years. The interest rate here is astonishing, ....while you may have some limitations - I guess I will find out if the wait is worth it. It limits temptation for sure but also that freedom that comes with the choice of temptation.

Now back to Rock n Roll. I just came from RENT(I know not specifically rock n roll, but influential music nonetheless), and it was in Korean. Overall I think this western influence is needed, through the arts. It does not need to be shut out or slept with just shown a seperate room perhaps~ Does this open mindedness make it better? Does the West hold a higher standard of art than Asia?

 ART is the freedom to feel comfortable or sick from what you see or hear, not to restrict it. Do the older paintings do this, yes in a very respectful and subtle way, which can be and is appreciated. But RENT is an outlet for the many emotional limitations that Korea's culture subtly imposes. Do I feel suffocated? No. it is a city where there is a basic difference between running free in a field and being surrounded by people at all times. The difference needs to be embraced as well and understood - maybe not adopted but observed.

However with so many people it IS harder to meet others on the level in which I would prefer to meet them. It seems I know my neighbors who live a mile away from me back home better than those who live 2 feet from me here, it would be the same in New York or Los Angelos (I hear). Going back to Freshman year, I feel this is a natural way of city life from what was talked about in "freshman studies" and those art history classes I thought I was going to major in - help me pull the painting Paris Street, Rainy Day - by Gustave Caillebotte out of memory:

This may be Paris but it still reflects that loneliness of even an Asian city life. Coming from the country, I feel I need to insert something into this painting. For one it bores me, makes me feel like crap, and there is no focus point - typical for city life. There needs to be a Scream, or a smile :-)

So do I become unfocused while in the city? No. I try and work harder to carve those smile or scream niches of my own for myself.

Turn inward.

Below: This picture I feel represents what I want the city to be like for me, probably not as familiar here in Korea as it was meant to be in the picture but I should become THIS comfortable with Korea, not the other way around~Richard Feynman demonstrates this when he writes about his frequent trips to Japan and how he wanted the Japanese style stay rather than the customary western style - made to make westerners feel more comfortable. This is ridiculous but totally respectful in the sense that "hey the Japanese are thinking about our comfort"

 this could be within that niche:

I think this shows maybe a little loneliness, but it only appears that way and you can fill it with observation, of the couple or the open windows, or conversation with the bartender. In Korea I was prone to people watching just because I do it back home, and tend to be more aware of people since they were not always around me.

But when I talked to locals here, "people watching, what's this?" A lot of Koreans seem to not notice the person as much as the people (great big moving bodies walking around). I am distracted and curious about the PERSON rather than the people.

"Edward Hopper's painting Nighthawks (1942) expresses the comfortable, familiar feeling of being in "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" in the midst of a dark and lonely city. " The clean well lighted place might as well be a friend as it is a place.

The root of a complaint usually comes from observing a person as people instead of seeing, or trying to see something else like the light in an unfamiliar place. Of course not all Koreans, and definitely not all Foreigners, do see the light but it becomes habit when people watching begins to hurt your eyes, because you are trying to look at everything instead of focusing on one thing.
Lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-69553845201117728882011-04-25T04:46:00.006-05:002011-06-04T22:46:39.376-05:00When You're Young, You Get Distracted

Ryan Adams had some thoughts with a couple of his first albums which I prefer. But youth has to be analyzed, why after its gone why not take your time right now....

Four blond haired fizzy drink loving brits from the 80s will never allow you to go wrong on the ridiculous side of things. When you are young silly dance moves like skirt ripping and a Capella voices seem to fit and have a lightness to it that adds relief to everyday distractions. What do I mean by everyday distractions is probably exactly what Bucks Fizz provides - note: youtube adventures deem plausible cause for such procrastination - but then again is procrastination our distraction or is it the return to self-observation?

"CHAIRMAN: ...Which brings us once again to the urgent realisation of just how much there is still left to own. Item six on the agenda: the meaning of life. Now, uh, Harry, you've had some thoughts on this.

HARRY: That's right. Yeah, I've had a team working on this over the past few weeks, and, uh, what we've come up with can be reduced to two fundamental concepts. One: people are not wearing enough hats. Two: matter is energy. In the universe, there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person's soul. However, this soul does not exist ab initio, as orthodox Christianity teaches. It has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved, owing to man's unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia." - Monty Python, The Meaning of Life

Do distractions make us lighter or heavier? Is it the thought of a distraction BEING a distraction that gives it its weight and therefore adds onto the trivial things, or is it actually what is distracting us that gives us more to think about therefore distracting us EVEN more from that thing called self-observation?

Unbearable lightness usually comes with the territory of being young and curious about the other sex, and about the whole idea of relationships. The book is okay, it explains the opposite sex at least to those who overreact when they are young and caught up in the emotion. The book explains human mistakes to those who think that being perfect makes you pure and therefore the foundation of a relationship must be completely rid of all mistakes or masked with unwanted desires. The book also explores the individual within a relationship. A lot of young people (I myself i guess) did not or do not realize that the individual in the relationship needs to be developed before any sort of true relationship can be attained.

Relationships or the opposite sex are the ULTIMATE distraction from self-observation.

Go do what you wanna do:
1. Build a dream house
2. Trek the South Pole
3. Get Distracted

bucks fizz - when we were young

Lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-14970657749870480972011-04-23T10:22:00.010-05:002012-09-16T20:12:41.227-05:00Youtube AdventuresSymmetry

160 Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

Field

"From the Heart of Afghanistan"

Words

Till the World Ends

16: Moments

Every year on our birthday my friend and I would receive a balloon from the school secretary at lunchtime. After lunch we would have time before class, and my friend and I spent that time on the soccer field, with the balloon. Let it go. So an intentional moment? no i do not think it is the same thing.....

Sometimes I think I never really did say goodbye, I just left for a little while.

Listen to Your Heart

radiolab

Gangnam Style Gone Viral!!!

copyleftLindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-90642053935999743982011-03-04T09:29:00.009-06:002016-01-16T20:33:36.093-06:00What to do. What to do.So far,.....I <3 the bizarre fashion, the ridiculous obsessions, and the absolutely incognito facial expressions. Korean is easy - it just takes time for a foreigner like me.
See anything familiar? ~

South Korea is known for its nationalism and pride. Don't ever offend a Korean by having an opinion opposite that of Korean culture without being ready to put up with an irrational reason for why their food, their women, and maybe even their soccer players are better (although I think I am ready for that argument).

The LOVE <3 around here is... not contagious, but rather obsessed over. "Couples Korea", everyone seems to have a significant other especially anyone who is remotely good-looking. Forget about independence. People rarely do things alone - however I have to run alone, there is no one within 500kilometers of me that will run (who is my age, and not some creepys old guy).

Seoul's Fashion Week, featuring a designer I found to like, ChoiBoko, was this week. Of course when I was doing the research for it all I could find were walking male models, which for me is a huge turnOFF because it is a bunch of guys prancing around in very awkward looking, feminine outfits. It isn't what you expect which makes Seoul fashion very good for fashion internationally. A lot of things I liked, but still it is almost surreal, that these people are in the same town I am in and there are hundreds of these people walking around like this everyday (not like runway but fashion). No wonder Koreans are so very aware of their appearance. Image is everything here - good thing I am importing my Kansas jean jacket which will be my license plate and excuse for not keeping up with the Korean Times. :-P

Work has kept me busy most of the time. 나 는 한 국 을 공 부 에 요. Since my keyboard does not have Hangeul on it this takes forever, so I will occasionally write it.

Weekends are open. I discovered hiking, an old people's sport, nonetheless still a beautiful mountain with a beautiful view and the most delicious cappuccino on the way down~ Want to meet people, this has proved the most difficult, but I guess good things just take time.
What to do. So far internet without Hangeul in Korea is hopeless all the more reason to improve the fluency.

And play da Kpop - which always cheers anybody up :-D

Lindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-61425354915135053042010-10-19T17:16:00.016-05:002012-10-01T20:21:41.563-05:00"We Will See"

"Resist the temptation to hurry the process simply because the uncertainty of not knowing is uncomfortable. "
-Dr. Mini Kaur
Foreign Affairs article by Hilary Clinton

What better place to be than where the action is right?!

The obvious result will be that North Korea will fall just because it has zero resources, and still decreasing if that is even possible.

North Korea

Although I was contemplating talking about 'black swans' before I was introduced to the TV series FlashForward, which has now been canceled (not the most brilliant choice), now that it was mentioned in a very good TV series and has something to do with this entry I need to write about how it is relevant to the Koreas.

This Black Swan related to this entry is not necessarily as unlikely and massive as the disproportionate, high impact, unexpected event in FlashForward, but it is important to where I will be for at least the next year and of interest to the world. South Korea is a major economic, geographic, and political ally to the United States where is draws a lot of military support from, even if the South Korean youth think otherwise. Americans I hear are not too popular due to our reckless military youth stationed there. However, the relevance of South Korea in the political world and its future dealings with North Korea when, and I do mean when, it falls, will be a major concern for international trade in the future.

North Korea's new leadership will take on an even more militaristic character that threatens democracy and does not necessarily give the United States a choice, when it attacks South Korea. China claims that it does not support North Korea in the recent attacks on Yeonpyeong Island off the coast of the South Korean peninsula, but from my observations of "China's word", we better not rely on that. No matter how much I hope that China will stop the trade and destructive economic activity in Africa, and its self-inflicting poverty among Chinese individuals/citizens, I still think a better access point for China is through South Korea.

North Korea, due to common language (sometimes), culture, tradition, and history, will seek more help from South Korea because, first of all, they already do, and secondly it will make the peninsula more powerful in Confucian ideals and in 'fitting in' with the westernization of the rest of world. This combination can be achieved with hard (very hard) work, but it can also act as a bomb, when mixing two chemicals/(politicals), causing an explosion.

In Hilary Clinton's article she mentions, "Today's world is a crucible of challenges testing American leadership. Global problems, from violent extremism to worldwide recession to climate change to poverty, demand collective solutions, even as power in the world becomes more diffuse. They require effective international cooperation, even as that becomes harder to achieve. And they cannot be solved unless a nation is willing to accept the responsibility of mobilizing action." America's main motivation will need to be to reclaim or 'share' the leadership role.

President Obama frequently mentioned South Korea as a role model for the United States in his State of the Union address. He mentioned South Korean teachers to be "nation builders", as opposed to our 'tenure-hungry'-unionizing-blame-the-government teachers, and how when Americans are struggling to get internet all over the country, South Koreans have better quality and faster service, all over their country. This is a significant sign of America's lack of leadership. Are we already 'old timers' that we can't even implement a functioning wireless service to our entire country? Our country is quite larger than South Korea's but is it to large to manage efficiently, I mean we have done it for 200 yrs plus! Our ability to evolve as become slow, and this lack of creativity and curiosity in the world has hindered us. Generations before, well... mine, have been more focused on money. Money was what they built and created, rather than new economic methods for new technology etc. Was capitalism taken for granted?

The world is definitely getting smaller, and like in the previous post, America is becoming more vulnerable, therefore more worried and defensive because of the lack of knowledge about the 'outside' world. Although we have spent many years, since Nixon, developing foreign affairs for the better. Good things always take time, and to rush the process, like North Korea is doing, will ruin what it could possibly become. China needs to put a muzzle on their dog as a symbolic action that proves to the US they are serious about peace and security in OUR (as in everyone's) world.

I should be off to South Korea soon enough to teach English for at least a year. Once I start there, I am guessing this blog will take on yet another form, from Art to Politics/Governance (IR) to traveling and cultural anthropological observations - maybe it will just be more personal. I hope to learn more Korean, maybe an instrument?, who knows. Maybe I can find something on here that will lead me.

I was also told South Korea is not a place to 'find yourself', haha, well we will see. Having been to South Korea before I know to 'watch' myself in certain situations - pay attention to detail and emotions more so than I do in the stix of Kansas. This is probably for the best because I do care about certain people, and it will make me a better judge for those who care (or say they care) for me. Of course finding that medium between the two culture will result in some not so easy sacrifices, patience, and an extensive understanding by both parties involved.

Paul Kennedy emphasizes the strategy of "Wait and See"

Try Harder, Be Better, and Never forget to Smile :-D.Lindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-55167003572824383392010-10-14T15:31:00.007-05:002011-01-07T16:24:51.327-06:00Digital SecurityNew media technology advancements are threatening our security or are the expanding our freedom?

Defending America in the digital age. Flow of Terror

"Nothing is Free", I have been told by my parents many, many...MANY, times. Obviously, because I am our households most expensive child...or maybe even human? Private schools all the way will certainly blast a hole through somebody's portfolio.

But other than education, which should be available to every American/human being BTW, Is the easily accessible new medium; internet, iPhone, cell phones, skype, a substitute to education? None of this is free. However, people have been able to watch FULL movies online for FREE even before that movie comes out in theaters. Of course there are your cyber-police out there who shut these sites down, but just as fast as someone else is creating them.

I guess the cost in ripping Hollywood off is in the morals, ethics..and ..the guilt?...right?

But I would have to say ripping off Hollywood does not make me feel as guilty as ripping off the music industry. Music, to me, is a whole lot more meaningful when it comes to managing things in life. I have overheard, and ripped off the idea that managing things is what life is filled with.

Movies may help some people manage things - they certainly inspire ideas, and feelings, and substitute as a "How-to"..'How to date a girl?'..'How to feel when your significant other walks off with..another'..and maybe even a "how to"..'act when you get a job', but my argument for music being more valuable than movies, is that when you are listening to something you are applying your OWN visual to the music, and in a way practicing your own creativity. Music inspires thinkers, and Multitaskers, and athletes. Movies require ones full attention - as do books (but this is a new media conversation) And ripped off ibooks are only in the future (at least mine).

Therefore I feel more guilty ripping musicians off than Hollywood as a whole. The individual in the music industry is hurt more than any actor or actress in Hollywood when you rip off a film.

Will Natalie Portman lose any jobs because somebody ripped off a movie that she was in? Will she lose money? No, because the director already paid her, probably before the movie was even finished.

But a musician relies on album sales, and radio as a main contribution to their continence in the industry because rating are based on having the public actually hear the music, Academy Awards are not based on Box Office sales.

The expansion of new mass media opening our access to the world ..let's say ..outside of America can substitute as education but - such as is said in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - "people only believe what they want to believe" - even if you smack them, hit them, scream, and shout - people will not succumb to the truth (whatever it might be at the time), especially Shakespearean characters, who are so stubbornly written down, sometimes, that there may be no reason at all for them not to listen, other than for Shakespeare himself to produce a more exciting, deadly, and/or laughable ending.

So apply this idea to new media and you have people who only search for things the believe in and/or consider relevant to them. Individualism, especially in the US, is first and foremost when making a search in www.google.com or www.wikipedia.com. Can it be possible that people in Africa research and hear more about America and Europe than they do their own continent/country? Is this due to new media expansion? Why are they not as self absorbed as Americans?

CNN first went international when "the network, in large part a result of Ted Turner's Globalization ideals, began transmissions in 1, January 1984 at first primarily broadcasting to American business travelers in hotels." - wikipedia.com This expanded to local newsstands, boutiques, etc around third world countries and Canada and Europe. American culture blasted out of CNN. For awhile America was only giving and never receiving, now with the capitalization of new gadgets in the US, that Asia probably made popular, globalization continues its trend to bring each culture to another via invisible semes or strings. However, a natural American reaction to imports (including information) is "Are we secure?".

Is freedom something that restricts things that are from an 'unfree' world? Is freedom defined by how secure one is playing with ones own toys and no one else's toys?

Since the US does not have complete control over the world, instead of the US govenrment mistaking new mass media as a form of peacemaking, they are considering it a threat and a tool that portrays the US as vulnerable. We are only vulnerable because we think we cannot/do not understand the mediums involved, nor do we have control over them. Does our freedom offend other culture? groups? traditions? religions? Yeup. Which makes the US even more defensive.

Lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-75404241892304327902010-10-07T22:25:00.004-05:002010-10-07T23:20:34.708-05:00Have a Nice Day >:-)
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Lindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-62491544506567322052010-10-05T20:20:00.005-05:002010-10-05T21:05:14.917-05:00Watching WastelandJumanji, a game that tests your character. I always wished this was real.

Discovering one's character is easier when you stand on the outside and watch then when you are participating in the conversation or interaction itself. If you are interested in another individual that you are...'participating' with, and you want to find out more, do you a) act like an asshole b) play dumb c) interrogate?

What do each of these methods produce?
a) -a conflicted person who does not know how to react because they are interested in you too, but you're being an asshole...
-a violent person (physically or verbally)
-a confused and offended person

b) -a frustrated person who does not want to take the time to explain to an ignorant what he/she knows because you are not cooperating based on your intelligence level....not on the fact that you may just NOT know....
-a patient person who teaches you like a child while also feeling empowered by his/her knowledge and therefore feels superior
-someone who enjoys showing you and tolerates your mistakes....

c)-a scared bewildered person who does not understand why your questions are so direct and rude because they fire like bullets....
-an excited person who wants to play the game of 20 Questions..so he/she fires right back just as quick
-a person who cannot handle the pressure, so crumbles under the insecurity of his/her answers to your pointed questions.

So you get a reaction...
what is a good reaction to play acting? Is what you see is what you get good enough? For anything, job, housing, family, friends, etc.

Can you really twist something out of someone and should it be based on that particular moment where their true character shows? Who knows, but its fun.

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Could not resist...

<object width="400" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/k8LKt_zSm8E?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/k8LKt_zSm8E?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="250"></embed></object>Lindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-45381715190823933082010-10-01T09:00:00.005-05:002010-10-03T09:47:54.084-05:00Byrd-WatchingWhile watching the live quorum Monday Night, I made a joke to the Kansan sitting next to me that it was kind of like birdwatching. Trying to pick out the senators and match them to a visual. Being all old men with gray hair it is always more difficult. This was nothing like Monday night football, where numbers would have helped.

What is hard and very disappointing is that most interns on the hill do not recognize the Congressperson that they share an elevator with, pass by in the hallway, or run an errand for. Some interns however did memorize the "Bird-Almanac".

How does Capitol Hill work so differently than other...'institutions'? Connections are key, Information is fluid, especially the myths about the physical Capitol itself. Even experts say that rumors spread through these walls like butter. This reaches Congress at many different levels of Congress.

Tours are my personal favorite. 1. you get to watch a movie 2. you look like you know everything 3. you are not condemned to a stinky old office. When not in session, life can get a bit dull. So fixing constituent lists by adding the Mr. and Ms. is usually all there is to do in a days work. And you ask how is this going to help me on my way to being Secretary of State?......

Well the answer to that one is not completely obvious to me yet either. So for the time being I can say I am happy to be here to meet new people. One thing is for sure I need to maintain those contacts. And coming from Kansas we tend to know how to do this in the friendliest ways. Gift baskets, fruit cakes, Christmas cards, frequent facebooking. Skype is new (my mom's fav).

The connections I make however, might be Congresspeoples and they might not be, those connections are important to maintain as well. But the most important people are those who you believe could support you in the future career-wise, and maybe you could do the same for them.

Some birds just go unnoticed sometimes.

What will this get me? Great pen pals. ;-)Lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-16136414556959912692010-09-26T20:46:00.021-05:002010-11-13T17:37:22.473-06:00Acronyming the Latino RoutesAlthough I live in the NE, lots of interesting things have happened in the NW, SW, SE of the DC.

Acronyms haven't been common for me in the past. Now I live in a place where everyone comes from everywhere and MIK (more in the kitchen), and ITB (in the barn) no longer are used but rather PTFO, LMFAO, FML, JB....etc. IGO, UN, UNDP and the list goes on. I feel left out because I was not given a dictionary for these 'short-speak' terms.

Above is a picture of (L-R) JB friend, me, Ambassador to Costa Rica(former president's daughter), and my Ukrainian/Chicagoan roommate. This adventure to the Costa Rican Embassy was for their Independence Day Parade Celebration. (Technically I was in Costa Rica for a couple of hours.)

My connection was through soccer of course. Having been recruited to the Kick Tease team by a guy in a law program at Georgetown University with a majority of international lawyers in it. One of the lawyers was Costa Rican and invited us to this event.

Food, dancing, meeting people, learning about a culture, I have never been to, completely excited my roommate and me to the point where we needed to check out other embassy events. However it seemed that the non-'third-world', non-'south', tended to be more expensive than we were willing to pay. And our research still needs to extend to the Senegalese, Sierra Leonean, Argentine, and other embassies.

Weekend adventures have proved promising. Karaoke in Alexandria, Festival on H Street in the NE, exploring, and meeting new people all falls into what I wanted to discover about a big city.Lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-85891967982606472302010-08-29T20:21:00.009-05:002010-10-11T21:24:16.749-05:00Country RoadsAlmost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains
Shenandoah River -
Life is old there
Older than the trees
Younger than the mountains
Growin' like the breeze

Country roads, take me home
To a place I belong
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads.......

Having planted new routes in the town of Washington DC, I am energized, focused, and developing new opportunities. Refreshing is hard, changing routes was never my thing and I try to establish a routine everywhere I go.

Leaving the past two years behind is so relieving and liberating. College is a bubble, 2 years may be enough to get what you need and get out, 4 years will be enough to make an impact while you're there.

During the summer of no destination, a.k.a job searching, I discovered;

how working hard for something doesn't necessarily mean you should.

Taking things with stride tend to leave you with better results.

Being open to things you weren't before can change you for the better.

Surprise is a feeling that guarantees you're alive.

*Don't ever settle.Lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-84595790783026803622010-04-16T21:04:00.004-05:002011-01-28T10:32:38.892-06:00"What We've Got Here is..a Failure to Communicate"Do not let the conflict between men and women stop you. Let your light shine and do not let the other sex define you. Let you and your gender be there, no need to impress or fear being a woman or a man.

No race should interpret your culture or heritage. No socio-economic forces should determine who YOU are when you strip yourselves of clothes, money, food, and just BE.

Let the women glow like the sun and shift like the crazy wind. Sometimes what one needs to get on is an exasperation, an exhalation, a scream, a yell, a holler. More so an act of powerful force done. Hopefully positively.

Insanity is not as insane as it looks because there is even something more insane, unexplainable, irrational, and unstoppable.

Let her go free.
Let him be simple.

Let them collide and separate.

Let things be - do not force and you will always be free.

Control is not the answer. But love, trust, honesty, understanding, and personal touch is key.Lindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-68196157859538784492010-03-23T18:16:00.004-05:002010-09-26T22:19:04.056-05:00Roots Sweet RootsAlthough it is the season for potato planting, these are not the roots I am referring to. I am referring to coming home for Spring Break after a long, annoying winter. It did snow, however, which was not very nice but the fish were, and are, still biting. And now that it has melted and my bogs are going crazy I took a lovely 8 mile run/walk around, took the Evening Star route - gorgeous! Might have to do this every other day, because this afternoon my knees are throbbing!

Bourriaud commented on how modernism is a return to your routes..oh I mean roots, and how altermodernism is the picking up of those roots and planting them somewhere elsewhere, while having the option of continual connection to the original root. Well, as I am applying for jobs and connecting to all of these networking improvements, such as LinkedIn and Twitter, I question whether I want a job here, in Kansas, or there, wherever there is. I would take anywhere, in fact I'd prefer it, being so young and all, but getting there would hopefully be paid for.

But if I would get a job in my hometown, where I would love to eventually settle, I would have numerous set connections and I would no longer be a stranger (having gone to a high school and elementary school out of town and all I really have 'displaced roots')

Another question is whether I even have the original roots at all or are they loosely placed and ready to fly away? Adventures always seem a logical solution to this dilemma, but how much credibility to they actually have in the job market? Probably none, dealing with people and not escaping them is an asset one needs to build on. Creating roots seems to be another solution that may be harder, but perhaps more beneficial. Wherever these roots are created, Wisconsin, Texas, Kansas, abroad...I plan to always keep them planted because if you burn one of those bridges sometimes you end up not being able to go back.

One week isn't enough to build a root system, but can be a good start. So I guess we should go plant those potatoes.

Lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-60098234106955331932010-03-16T14:50:00.002-05:002010-03-19T08:35:58.977-05:00The Missing LinkLawrentian look into media and the society where they live or have visited or are visiting. Americans having visited, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Uganda comment on their first impressions, their realizations, and describe the profound change they have undergone after having been there.

Africans from Ghana and the Sudan comment on their first impressions of America and Americans, and how the media plays a very important role with the expectations they had before they came.

These comments and opinions about media within the two VERY DIFFERENT societies puts our generation on a level playing field with media but the perspective of the media creates an uneven playing field yet again. If media were to "show the good side of life" in Africa as well as what it has been showing, and then also show the hard side of life in America as well as what else it has been showing, then it would be a level playing field.

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Final Project is complete.Lindseyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-40279170261821177062010-03-09T16:59:00.006-06:002011-04-01T23:21:31.662-05:00A Social-lite
"The person is intelligent, people are stupid" - K, MIB

As technology has increased the awareness of other cultures in far far away places, people have been either less and less or more and more informed about that culture. Controlling or ...informing, excuse me...a large amount of people tends to create social culture in a media-lead world. Although information may be available to everyone on the net, people still need to be told where to look.

Usually people associated with some type of social group, through church, museums, sports, opera houses what have you, hear about whats new, good, or better through word of mouth. I heard about Drudge Report from a friend for example, not from Google-ing "best political blogs", although if I had it still would not have been on the front page, yet it is still a popular social source for political news among conservatives. Now depending on where you stand, you either choose to like the link because of its stance (that's being partisan) or because of the variety of links provided (this is being qualitative), or because of the number of links provided, and therefore by some logic declaring it diverse? (that is being quantitative)

The one thing about the internet is its power to destruct the idea of nationalism and within that a pure claim to cultural identity. If there are no segregated nations or cultures on the web, then does this mean differences can be solved, nations can find common ground through this technological void, and there would/should be no more war? It is a possibility, but we are not there yet. The reason I bring up Matt Drudge's political blog page is because he almost started a war by taking what he thought was true and posting it as truth. It is because of the social network online which has taken his blog for granted and the unreliability of certain media that these mistakes occur. However, people also have the responsibility of not taking his blog for granted, but this just supports the idea that people are stupid. But by people taking a blog's legitimacy and truth for granted because it is referred to them through an online (or not) social network, everything played at the opera is good, or everything in a museum is art.

It tends to be a "location material" that people are attracted too and when transferred to the net it takes the same form and function of a social structure, but in this case social has become a form on indirect social. These people do not know each other but they know what each and every other one of them likes, therefore creating a detached social network where you can remove yourself without...harm, because that person doesn't actually know you.

Public Interest or Public Opinion are what now drives the good and bad levels of art, books, and perhaps academics. But what is it that has been declared a 'good video' on youtube, or an 'amazing' song on the radio? Something that someone else has told you about, and because of that person's attraction to it, it is, by popular choice, good. But what is quality? Does public opinion know quality over quantity? Can we really classify people in qualitative groups? Is this global capitalism*, even though what we are consuming is virtually free? How long will this freedom last? Youtube videos' embedded ability is becoming restricted, and without a social network telling one where to find videos or music, it is hard to utilize the web efficiently. Can the collective whole become intelligent enough to out maneuver web restrictions? Some have, however those are anti-social individuals. Is the internet educating the people as a whole?

3rd Rock from the Sun provides a good look at how what someone from the outer space would think of our social customs, and preferences. Deciding whether humor is quality or what is primitive, through looking at your lifestyle as if you've never lived it, or as if you never were trained to live like others, can be a good way to evaluate how we do things here on Planet Earth. The movie Brazil where the audience is introduced to a new world, rather than viewing those being introduced to your world, also can carry the question what is quality? or the message that although you are human that does not mean you cannot be alien or vice versa. Although you are a piece of readymade that does not mean you cannot be art - Marcel Duchamp.*

*Reference Nicolas Bourriaud and his book The Radicant

Lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-6081708339042581022010-03-07T16:08:00.005-06:002010-03-07T17:20:46.823-06:00Where da Party?Paper or Plastic? Consuming or producing? Post-modern or Altermodern?

Today with global capitalism each sector of the world has been introduced into a digital world at the same time, rather than going through an agricultural, industrial, and then technological process that has lead to this digital new media era. Now the 20 yr old generation has grown up with a sense of the same technology and ability of that new media.

In the next few generations students around the world will hopefully be experiencing the same amount of access to the new technologies. Due to this spread of materialism and products and the consumption of these products, our world has interconnected itself through the trading of those products - creating (of course) a circle.

However, capitalism has seemed to have taken a hit from "dematerialization" the new technology seems to enforce. Without a product to sell there is no consumption of that product unless of course one has changed the essence of that product to what was materialistic to a new conceptual and 'altermodern' product, but the question is can these still be sold? or is everything up for grabs? Ideas, beliefs, time, ..or knowledge.

The amount of information on the net void is infinite, the amount of credible information of the net is questionable. But Nicolas Bourriaud explains in the ending pages of his book The Radicant, that locations seem to take a huge toll in validity or legitimacy of art and knowledge. As a 'semionaut' in order to lead your audience down a path of progressiveness concepts and ideas you need art to embody the signs and visual, or audio, representations that will direct the world to understand what will be. The signs do not necessarily have an end, and obviously the journey is the art or the answer, rather than the destination, but Bourriaud is trying to express that these projects are merely "dots upon a moving line" where our contribution is shared with everyone in the world simultaneously and access is infinite, therefore making it never-ending.

"The quality of an artist's work depends on the richness of his or her relations with the world and these are determined by the economic structure that more or less powerfully shapes them -- even if, fortunately every artist theoretically has the means to evade or escape that structure."

A good artist is a "net citizen" for the media void which serves us and is there for us to spit anything into it. Although, the responsibility a net citizen has is to guide those within to sincere intellectual place of knowledge or interest. But there will always be citizens who are irresponsible.

This is NOT the Altermodern stage yet because everyone does NOT have equal access to technological void of knowledge in which everyone must be apart of to have an altermodern society, but are we close?

Sometimes people choose not to be apart of that society does this make impossible to be the altermodern society?No as long as the option is there, people NOT choosing it cannot prevent from societal changes to occur. One can chose to be ignorant and sometimes some people cannot handle the truth, so it is a practical precaution to choose not to participate as a 'net citizen' in this void where knowledge can be infinite (at least for the human's finite brain).

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<object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qrO4YZeyl0I&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qrO4YZeyl0I&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object>Lindseyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9207457729625858658.post-39877169223340701622010-03-07T11:58:00.002-06:002010-03-07T13:10:19.462-06:00Co-MixThe recreations of ancient works of art in the medium of comics as defined by James Danky as Comix, seemed to be a product of the drug induced late Sixties era. Where sex, drugs, and alcohol seemed to be the inspirations for these old artists it seems to show in the horror and sexual representations that the Comix portray.
Danky focused a lot of his presentation on female sexuality which also seemed to be key in art history. Sometimes things never change but what does seems to be the amount of criticism and tolerance directed at what never changes therefore allowing it to become either offensive, degraded, more expressive, or more interesting.

Forbidden things always seem to be more addictive to look at than what is allowed by the mainstream media. Porn, monsters, political criticism, hallucinations, drugs, etc.

The co-mixture that Comix in Danky's world provides is a the mixture between then art and "now/then" art and then the tolerable and intolerable media images that have been criticized before but now that they can be represented in this art form are more tolerated..?

What other mediums can we "indirectly" represent what is forbidden in mainstream media? And then once its represented that way is it still forbidden?

Evolution of this medium has seemed to be exclusive to certain subcultures who tend to keep up with the storyline and imagery depicted. It is which subcultures impact the Comix that is interesting and seems to be a way to predict where the Comix are going and what they will continue to raise up from the underground.Lindseyhttp://email@example.com


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CMS Homecoming Flash Mob
For teacher and staff eyes only!
On 9/18 YOU are invited to wow our students with a surprise flash mob!
We will meet several times as a group to rehearse our wicked moves. I strongly suggest a virtual trip to youtube so that you may become familiar with the "whip nae nae" dance moves. Here are several links for your viewing pleasure:
And if you're still not sure what a flash mob is, here is an example:
It's such a great day to be a cardinal!!
****If you are interested in participating (you know you are!) then pretty please fill out the google form attached to the bottom of this page OR fill out the sign up sheet in the lounge so that we can anticipate how large our group will be/send only the appropriate people emails.
CMS Flash Mob
Friday, Sep. 18th, 3pm
CMS Gym
9/17 (Thursday)- Final meeting for 15-20 mins before school in gym @7:10 (2 run throughs)
9/15 (Tuesday) - Craft night for making tutus. Bring your own tulle and beverage/snack. Location TBA.
**Dates are subject to change, emails will be sent out.

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What is Throwback Thursday: Historical Romance Edition?
Traditionally, Throwback Thursday celebrates nostalgia, asking participants to post a personal photo or an image from their past -- usually from 5 to 10 years ago. There are a lot of book blogs that also do a book-related Throwback Thursday. Since Tin and Mary C. are unapologetic lovers of historical romances, they've decided to focus on this beloved genre.
Here are the rules:
1. It must be posted on a Thursday.
2. It must be a historical romance novel published before October 2008.
Let Sleeping Rogues Lie by Sabrina Jeffries
Originally Published in February 2008
When Madeline Prescott took a teaching position at Mrs. Harris's School for Young Ladies, it was to help restore her father's reputation. Instead, she's in danger of ruining her own. The devilishly handsome Anthony Dalton, Viscount Norcourt, has agreed to provide "rake lessons" to Mrs. Harris's pupils so they can learn how to avoid unscrupulous gentlemen, and Madeline is to oversee his classes. She has always believed that attraction is a scientific matter, easily classified and controlled — until she's swept into the passionate desire that fiercely burns between her and Anthony. Nothing could be more illogical than risking everything for a dalliance with a rake — even one who's trying to behave himself. Yet nothing could be more tempting.
This is part of Jeffries's fabulous School for Heiresses series and is easily by favorite of hers. I love the fact that the heroine is a science teacher and that she is not afraid to show how intelligent she really is. The hero seems like a stereotypical rake at first, but the reader learns that there is always more underneath and that some people act a certain way for a reason. I think historical lovers could easily jump into the series with this installment.


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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
New Photos
After two weeks of I am back to busy days and will be posting bookings again starting this weekend . Sorry this blog has been slow but with my husband being gone to Europe it has been hard keeping up . I have some great new photo shots booked for the weeks to come as well as some that I did last month that I am eager to post .
Time stopped by Kari-Anne at 7:21 PM
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Yaaaay!! Cant wait!!!
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Last term Police came to St Kilda Primary and spoke with a number of students and families to find out what was important to them in regard to our community. Other consultation sessions were held within the City of Port Phillip and the City of Stonnington. The police heard from children and families about a few key themes related to safety and would now like to hear from any children or parents who would like to join Phase 2 of the Social Cohesion Project:
Social Cohesion Project aims to strengthen safe and inclusive communities across Port Phillip-Stonnington, with a particular focus on children, youth and families from vulnerable communities.
The main themes identified by the children and families were around safety in the community (due to violence/anti-social behaviour/ aggressive beggars) and certain neighbours who were bullying/violent or engaged in crime that made use of community space unsafe.
The two key arms of the project will be to develop a Community Arts Project under the 'Learning Stones' sites across public housing in Stonnington. The second arm being to have children develop child and family focused resources to strengthen resilience and safety in the community.
The children will be drawn from a number of schools and develop pamphlets/and Youtube resources that can be shared across the community.
Are you interested? If so, please see Mary at the Office or contact Sue Higgins.
On behalf of Senior Sergeant Dagmar Andersen and Paul Kelly – Prahran Police


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TSX: PSD CALGARY, Aug. 13 /CNW/ - Pulse Data Inc. (the "Corporation") announced today that its Board of Directors has adopted a Shareholder Rights Plan (the "Plan"), similar to existing shareholder rights plans adopted by other Canadian public companies. The Plan was under consideration by the Board of Directors prior to the announcement of the unsolicited take-over bid by Seitel, Inc. on August 10, 2007 (the "Seitel Offer"). The Board of Directors did not adopt the Plan to prevent a takeover of the Corporation, to secure the continuance of management or the directors in their respective offices, or to deter fair offers for the Common Shares of the Corporation. The objectives of the Plan are, to the extent possible, to prevent a creeping takeover of the Corporation by requiring that any offer to acquire shares of the Corporation is made to all shareholders for all of their shares and cannot be completed unless shareholders holding at least 50% of the outstanding shares (other than the offeror and related parties) are tendered in favour of the offer and to ensure that all shareholders of the Corporation are treated equally and fairly in connection with any takeover bid for the Corporation. The Plan discourages discriminatory, coercive or unfair takeovers of the Corporation and gives the Board of Directors time if, in the circumstances, the Board of Directors determines it is appropriate to take such time, to pursue alternatives to maximize shareholder value in the event an unsolicited takeover bid (such as the Seitel Offer) is made for all or a portion of the outstanding shares of the Corporation. In order to implement the adoption of the Plan, the Board of Directors of the Corporation authorized the issuance of one right in respect of each Common Share of the Corporation outstanding at the close of business on August 13, 2007 (the "Record Time"). In addition, the Board authorized the issuance of one Right in respect of each additional Common Share issued after the Record Time. The rights initially trade with and are represented by the Corporation's common share certificates, including certificates issued prior to the Record Time. Accordingly, until such time as the rights separate from the Common Shares and become exercisable, rights certificates will not be distributed to shareholders. With respect to the Seitel Offer, the Board of Directors has deferred the separation time of the Rights until August 28, 2007. If a person, or a group acting in concert, acquires (other than pursuant to an exemption available under the Plan) beneficial ownership of 20% or more of the outstanding shares of the Corporation, the rights (other than those held by such acquiring person which will become void) will permit the holder thereof to purchase Common Shares at a substantial discount to their then prevailing market price. At any time prior to the rights becoming exercisable, the Board of Directors may waive the operation of the Plan with respect to certain events before they occur. The issuance of the rights is not dilutive and will not affect reported earnings or funds from operations per share until the rights separate from the underlying Common Shares and become exercisable or until the exercise of the rights. The issuance of the rights will not change the manner in which shareholders currently trade their Common Shares. The Plan is subject to approval of the Toronto Stock Exchange, and requires confirmation by the Corporation's shareholders at a special meeting of shareholders to be held before the end of 2007. If the Plan is not confirmed by shareholders by that time, the Plan and all outstanding rights will terminate and be void and of no further force and effect. Pulse is a Calgary-based company specializing in seismic data acquisition, licensing and marketing. Pulse's seismic library consists of approximately 11,400 net square kilometres of 3D seismic data and 257,300 net kilometres of 2D seismic data. Pulse trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol PSD. Certain information contained herein may constitute forward-looking statements under applicable securities laws. Such statements are subject to known or unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements. Investors are encouraged to review the "Risk Factors" section of the Management's Discussion and Analysis in the Company's most recent Annual Report and interim reports for a discussion of risks that could affect the Company's operations and financial results. Forward-looking statements are based upon management's assumptions, expectations and estimates at the time that such statements are made. Pulse does not update forward-looking statements should circumstances change or management's assumptions, expectations or estimates change, except as required by law.
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As this blog was only started a few weeks ago it's taken a while to get the Recipe page up and running. It takes 3 or 4 attempts to adapt an existing recipe to make it low in histamine, consequently it will take some time to add new recipes to the site. Recent additions include Leek & Potato Soup, Carrot & Sweet Potato Casserole, Veggie Mac 'N Cheese & the easiest Rhubarb Jam known to man.
I've also added a Shopping List page. In an ideal world everything on a low histamine diet would be fresh and home-made, but when you're very ill making every single item from scratch is impossible and I personally need to be able to buy at least some items of processed food. It's taken months for me to learn what I can and can't buy, so I thought I'd save you the trouble and produce a shopping list of low histamine items (with ingredients listed where applicable). Not all the processed food is brilliant in terms of ingredients and of course it would be better to make your own wraps, ice-cream, dips and crisps, but most of the time I personally don't have the energy (or, if I'm honest, the inclination). I hope you find the shopping list useful and if you have any great items I've missed do let me know!
I've now been on a low histamine diet for 3 months. It's been a rollercoaster: initially feeling dreadful and exhausted beyond words; progressing to sleeping well and having more 'normal' levels of energy; to currently feeling fairly much rubbish again, with dreadful insomnia, heartburn and a huge increase in nerve pain.
The positives have been:
- I've not had a single reaction after eating for an entire month. No palpitations, no feeling 'wired' or anxious, no muscle spasms, no pins & needles in my bum, no flushing.
- Nausea is reduced by about 80%. Today I'm feeling sick to my stomach, but I think that's because my EDS bowel is playing up, rather than anything to do with histamine production. I'd forgotten what it's like to go through an entire day and not feel nauseous – it's fab :-).
- I've only had one migraine in the last 7 weeks, and even that didn't really develop but just lingered as a tension-type one-sided headache. I even had my period this month with no associated migraine, which is unheard of.
The negatives are:
- My heartburn has gone off the Richter Scale and I have no idea why.
- My sleep disturbance is the worst it's been in years.
- My bowel pain is the worst it's ever been.
- I've had hives (admittedly they only lasted a week, but are the first hives I've had in 8 months).
- I currently feel more exhausted, poorly and M.E.ish than I have in some considerable time.
- My mood is persistently very low, which isn't like me (but I suppose is understandable considering how unwell I'm feeling).
I really am at a loss to know why some of my symptoms have actually increased in intensity. I haven't introduced any new foods to my diet, simply adapted existing food groups, eg. Ricotta cheese instead of Cheddar, rhubarb instead of strawberries, carrot/beetroot sauce instead of a tin of tomatoes, yeast-free bread instead of bread with yeast, carob instead of chocolate etc.
It may be that I'm reacting to a large food group such as Dairy or Gluten. I'd be surprised if it's Gluten, as I've had both a blood test and a stomach biopsy for gluten intolerance/Coeliac Disease and have neither. I won't know if I'm reacting to Dairy unless I have some proper skin-prick allergy tests done – I'll see what the Immunologist suggests when I see him in a few weeks time. Of course, I could just be having an M.E. flare-up, or an EDS flare-up, which I often do when the seasons change – when you have several health issues it's difficult to know which symptoms to attribute to which disease. It's scary when you suddenly get worse for no obvious reason though, and quite soul-destroying when I'm putting in so much effort and energy into my low histamine diet and seeing some symptoms actually get worse.