~~~SANDBOX 77~~~

-short days

aw thanks jenny! now listen to me as I expound about the difference between the metalingual and poetic functions of language as defined in jakobson's linguistic theory

http://i.imgur.com/GdtGD.jpg

my mans

http://i.imgur.com/lJ0SO.png

google knows whats up

what is this place

the symbolic

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1SD4GPj1Ep8/Tlfe7k_DywI/AAAAAAAABT4/lUDd5msJuKk/s1600/waiting-for-godot11.jpg

l-r Z S, tom delonge

waiting for the angel in my nightmare

well it does seem obvious now that i take a step back

http://i.imgur.com/MTK5a.gif

that dog sure does know how to take a blanket and sleep on a dime

otm

the number of Chips Ahoy! Chewy Gooey Chocofudge cookies that i just ate...there are three rows of 8-10 cookies each. i have eaten 1 1/2 rows

i can't go on like this

ZS, congrats on winning life <3

that dog is my spirit guide

- my awesome unemployed gf just became by awesome gf who has a good job in the big city

nbd

Yay! Congrats to her. I wish her success beyond her wildest dreams!

well her income just doubled and it's a consultancy firm in her area of study- her wildest dream this morning was to not beg them for the job in a moment of weakness

and thanks!

yay!

congrats to her

deems does dublin huh?

possibly possibly

- Watching a dead friend spamming everybody one by one in my Facebook ticker.

lord

lol at one guy saying, "I would've believed this was really him if it was about hair gel."

- got some mail today from the IRS addressed to the previous owner of our house
- we've lived here almost 10 years now

- was asked this morning by 20+ year friend if I'd consider being a donor because they'd like a baby
- girlfriend FLIPPED THE FUCK OUT when I brought this to her for consideration
- didn't see that coming
- not inclined to donate anyway because friend & husband cut it close financially with the two kids they already have
- this morning has totally sucked from all directions

- just hanging out

i got hungry and decided to have an early midnight snack, so i headed downstairs to the kitchen. somehow i returned a minute later with a single slice of swiss cheese. after a really tough personal moment i went back downstairs and now i'm back with a pbj. it's just a pbj, but compared to that lone thin slice of cheese, i feel like a burgeoning chef

i wanted to ask you guys about something. there's this thing involving "seeing air" that's normal to my sister and me, but mystifies everyone else we've ever mentioned it to.

when we were kids, we really thought we could see air, because every once in a while we would see these tiny little shapes in the air, 25% opacity, mainly hovering in one area but occasionally sharply darting around the visual field as if magnets were turning on and off and pulling the air around. but whenever we'd tell anyone about it, they'd have no idea wtf we were talking about. nowadays, i think that what we saw as "air" must have been something on our corneas, tiny but just barely visible since it's actually on the eyeball.

i feel like i sound insane. there's just no way to describe it without sounding goofy.

were they transparent/translucent?

yes

You probably were noticing some floaters in your visual field.

whoa, holy shit, that's it! yes, that.

yeah - i see floaters semi-regularly

nice. if only they weren't called "floaters". we could have the "floaters" club or something, but then most people would wonder why we were in a club about poop

related: i can't really describe it, but if you flex a certain muscle (it seems to happen automatically sometimes when you yawn) you get a rushing sound in your ears. someone please explain what this is to me

yeah - poop or drowned women

I know what you're talking about, mookieproof. This was happening to me a lot for months after I got a concussion. It would happen when I moved my head fast, and go WOOMP WOOMP WOOMP WOOMP. The otolaryngologist said it was me hearing my pulse in my head, but he didn't explain it much more.

I was just making it happen right now. But now it only happens when I'm actively making it happen.

When I was a toddler, floaters and seeing things at night with my eyes closed drove me CRAZY. Especially the latter. I mean, you expect closing your eyes to make you stop seeing things.

yeah. it's weird to actively make it happen. at any moment, you can choose to turn it on (for me it's this little muscle near the temple) and get instantaneous NOIZEJAM2004

I can make my eyes go blurry. I've never met anyone else who could. My optometrist said I was just changing the focus length like you do w/ a magic eye image, but it's not that at all. I asked him to look at my eyes while I did it, and he didn't see anything happening.

When I say blurry, I mean going from 20/20 sharp focus to this:

http://ohdeardesign.com/dearblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/blurry-holiday-lights.jpg

without using my eyelids. I can only hold it for a while b/c my eyes get tired, so I guess I'm doing something w/ muscles.

I'd love to be able to turn that sound OFF /hatemytinnitus :(

What if the the constant roaring sounding like the MGM lion?

I think I would go into mourning if my favorite floater were to vanish someday. he's a cute tubular thing with a distinct round head, and he bunches and unbunches himself like an inchworm as he moves across my field of view. if I flex the muscles around my ears (à la mookieproof) as he passes by, it almost sounds like he's growling at me.

i'm so glad to not be insane!

what's going on sane crew? *high fives*

oh, neat:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani#Voluntary_control

Contracting muscles produce vibration and sound.[4] Slow twitch fibers produce 10 to 30 contractions per second (equivalent to 10 to 30 Hz sound frequency). Fast twitch fibers produce 30 to 70 contractions per second (equivalent to 30 to 70 Hz sound frequency).[5] The vibration can be witnessed and felt by highly tensing one's muscles, as when making a firm fist. The sound can be heard by pressing a highly tensed muscle against the ear, again a firm fist is a good example. The sound is usually described as a rumbling sound. Some individuals can voluntarily produce this rumbling sound by contracting the tensor tympani muscle of the middle ear. The rumbling sound can also be heard when the neck or jaw muscles are highly tensed as when yawning deeply.