alex made me do this post so dont blame me if it sucks
i was actually just thinking about how i wish i had a more detailed account of my year written somewhere. like, i wish someone wrote down my thoughts as I went through the day and then i could review at the end of the week. I bet i'd be like, what?! i thought that! no way! and i bet thered be long periods of time where i didnt think anything at all, and i'd be so ashamed of myself.
Do you ever think about how your mind is always working, and always thinking? I would like to contest that point. Because if your mind is not working and you aren't thinking, how would you know that it wasn't thinking? you cant create a memory out of nothing, because if you DID have a memory it would at least be "i wasn't thinking anything" as opposed to " ........... " which is not a memory. Thus, nobody knows if your mind is always working.
that is my little philosophical point. additionally, i dont care what an fMRI says. Just because it lights up all the time doesnt mean anything, its just a measure of blood flow, and your brain has to constantly be receiving oxygen. besides nobody even knows if fMRI is legit. (I happen to be on the side that believes its a bunch of bologna. a giant metallic magnetic piece of bologna. the only thing its good for is detecting massive brain abnormalities and tumors). I just read that over and it realized it makes no sense if you dont work with fMRI -- MRI lights up a region of the brain that is supposedly responsible for whatever it is you're thinking. Like, the hippocampus lights up for spatial memory, the amygdala lights up for fear, sex, pleasure, visual cortex lights up for vision, etc. so if you take an MRI of someone at rest who is supposedly "not thinking" there are always regions of the brains that light up. BUT mri is measured via strength of blood flow, so its not actually measuring thinking, its measuring the amount of blood directed to a particular area of the brain. it IS a rough estimate of brain areas that are working the hardest but it doesnt really mean anything beyond that.
that was just a little mental tangent. it doesnt make any sense. dont worry about it.
our tire went flat. there was a nail in it. now we're waiting to get it fixed. lame.
ummmm what else. i still havent decided on a camera. i'm turning 23 in a few days! yay! 23!!! thats, like, a 1- 2 punch. this blog probably doesnt make any sense to anyone but me.
