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I recently met a woman who is a therapist – she is doing some continuing ed for her license and is in the thick of a six hour set of cd’s on brain science – she writes:
…It is very interesting so far and is teaching me about how wondrous and fragile the brain is as well as how it affects behavior, thinking and personality when something goes wrong e.g. some trauma to the brain, or some area of inadequate blood flow which could be due to many factors. In looking at brain scans they have shown that women with PMS have overactive areas – causing obsessive thinking and an inability to divert attention, as well as an underactive prefrontal cortex which is an area that can inhibit the obsessions, depression and impulsivity when working properly.
As a result you have obsessing, depression and disinhibition about expressing it. This was only one small part of the training but it resonated with me as I am currently feeling hormonal fluctuations. The brain scans also show that for women who are not pre-menstrual the images go back to normal….
You ever get the feeling that there is one illness out there and we are all suffering from it – sometimes it manifests itself into mental disorder, sometimes it comes out physical, other times it is just a general overall biorhythmic inability to do jack shit.
I’m going to see Fred LeBlanc tonight at the Ogden – it’s been a spell since I’ve seen live music and I’m jonesing for it. The remainder of the tile arrived today at the LaLa – I waited all afternoon for the delivery and was miffed when the guy showed up 45 minutes past the 4 hour window – I couldn’t exercise, I was pretty much land locked until he arrived. But when I saw him all sweaty and after we carried in box after box of heavy tiles, I felt bad for him.
Here is a status report on the LaLa – Ken the carpenter is due back in this coming Monday, the 14th. He is going to be working on the rubber flooring for the terrace and then laying the composite decking. Then he will finish the cypress siding outside the porch part of the addition – we’re using concrete board on the box of the addition – there are also spots around the house that need the cypress board, then he has to install doors, and restring all the window sash chords and then cut and install trim throughout the mainhouse. The entire main house has been taped and floated except for a few spots. The insulation is staged and ready to go in the addition and then these sheet rockers will come in and finish out the addition.
Once the rocking and trim is finished, we can get the inside primed and painted and then the floors refinished. And then, we can set the cabinets in so that we can measure for the slab countertops which have a backorder of 5 months. I’m still waiting on the measurement of the three large windows in the addition so that I can fax it to the glazer to get a price on glass. Then I’m also waiting on the two wood awning windows ordered to replace the windows in the master bathroom.
It’s probably six months before LaLa is ready for inhabitants. Again, whatyagonnado? I was speaking with Holly here at the Can – she said that a lot of people are moving out because their houses are ready – I put my fingers in my ears and said lalalalalalalalalala – these are people who gutted their entire house and redid it in the space of 7 months. I think I’ve made a lot of misinformed and poor decisions about the people I have hired along the way but thankfully it got me to Dave Trahan and Steve Kohls.