In the early 19th century a disorder called neurasthenia surfaced and quickly became popular. It’s rise was shortly after the Civil War and afflicted predominantly the female population. Patients presented with fatigue, headaches, muscle aches, dizziness, and nausea. The prescription was always rest.
In the 20th century a new disorder known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome became a diagnosable [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Working Girl
September 28, 2008Grad School odds and ends
September 15, 2008Adjustments:
1.) Multiple choice quizes from hell. (apparently, no question is a good question anymore if it only has one right answer. No, all multiple choice questions must have several right answers and you must discern which answer is “more right”)
2.) Textbooks that feel the need to tell you repeatedly that there is a complex statistical [...]
Journey
September 11, 2008I dreamt last night that I was in the mountains, only not the cold snowy type but the very hot tropical type. I was working with a guy taking a lift across the mountains into the next country and smuggling kids from the slave trade back into the place I came from. The lift was [...]
The Best Theological Library in the South
September 4, 2008My entire four years at undergrad I very much wished that the Brackett library had the books that the Grad school library had. Now that I’m here however I very much wish for the books back in Searcy. How is it that our library has 2 and 1/2 rows dedicated to hymnology and only one [...]
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September 4, 2008“This is the hour of lead-
Remembered, if outlived,
As freezing persons, recollect the snow-
First-Chill-then stupor-then the letting go-”
~Emily Dickinson
I’ve had a rough couple of days. A culmination of excessive stress and very disheartening news were driving me pretty crazy. I blacked out three times to day which isn’t really a big deal except that it happens [...]
MAD
September 2, 2008It’s been a very strange week and its only Monday. Old friends have recently re-entered my life out of nowhere leaving me slightly unsettled and confused. Like I am continually on a caffeine high. On top of everything I said some very stupid things lately and have spent all day going back and forth between [...]
