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2/3/06 16:28I am sick, sick, sick. It is not a good time for it; I hope I won't lose my voice before the interviews I have scheduled. I should, perhaps, be at home, but I skipped my evening class last week and shouldn't skip it again.
I went on a half-hour "no one will ever hire me" mope before I realized that of course I'm going to be muddle-headed and mopey when I'm sick.
I mention this mainly because I just read "Peeps," by Scott Westerfeld, a YA science fiction vampire novel that's very good indeed if you're the kind of person who watches CSI for the gross stuff, but what's most interesting about it is how it asserts that we are, after all, vulnerable to our brain chemistry. (Of course, having parasites that turn you into a vampire is a slightly extreme case). For me it's an incredibly consoling thought at times; it's not that I don't believe in free will, at least to some extent. But if I have to choose between believing that the whole world is inherently blurry and believing that my glasses are bad, I know which one I'd pick.
I went on a half-hour "no one will ever hire me" mope before I realized that of course I'm going to be muddle-headed and mopey when I'm sick.
I mention this mainly because I just read "Peeps," by Scott Westerfeld, a YA science fiction vampire novel that's very good indeed if you're the kind of person who watches CSI for the gross stuff, but what's most interesting about it is how it asserts that we are, after all, vulnerable to our brain chemistry. (Of course, having parasites that turn you into a vampire is a slightly extreme case). For me it's an incredibly consoling thought at times; it's not that I don't believe in free will, at least to some extent. But if I have to choose between believing that the whole world is inherently blurry and believing that my glasses are bad, I know which one I'd pick.