maintenance pt. 3

Posting for me will be rather sparse for the next few days due to an upcoming midterm that's so large that its penis makes the Great Wall of China look like a ruler. I'm not making good progress with it either, because our prof is making us memorize every single DSM-IV classification that accompanies a mood disorder (major depressive, dysthymia, bipolar I, bipolar II, cyclothymia) including modifiers, specifiers, epidemiology, treatments, and exclusion criteria. I don't like mood disorders to begin with, so this makes me actually want to have a major depressive episode myself.

I have new linkage as I promised every Monday. I think it's decent, but I suppose it's up to you to decide whether you agree. I'm trying to make medical conditions a recurring theme (I think I try to do that throughout all my posts, whether it's effective or not, I don't know), so let's check them out:

Asia's poem The Waiting Hour was something I came across when I was in my Def Poetry Jam phase. I still kind of am (remind me to show you guys The Beach next week) actually. It's about testicular cancer, and my favourite part of the poem "playing Russian roulette with α-feto protein levels and tumor markers" really defines what the human body is like fighting pathology. Continuing with medical themes, Man in the Box (which is actually one of my favourite YouTube subscriptions) features Greg with paruresis. Actually Woody halfway mentions about a kid who couldn't take a shit just anywhere - I knew a kid somewhere I used to work with that actually had to leave being on shift (leaving me alone by myself to fend for customers for 15 minutes) so that he could drive home and do a deuce. Weird.

The next has nothing to do with biology, but is just a mind-blowing cover I came across of Outkast's Hey Ya. The ONN clip is just really funny.

I think my favorite this week is Bobby Hundred's Pat vs. Oranges I. I had mentioned in an earlier post about disorders that we can get earlier in our years - 13% of people will get a specific phobia in their lifetime, most people around 7 years. The general case is fear of: situational > natural disaster > blood injection > animal > other. I'm not really sure what category Pat's falls under...maybe just plain bizarre?