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Died and Gone to Hell!

Okay, maybe I’m not dead yet, but I don’t feel so great. For the last few days there have been some rather drastic rumblings in the interior that have restricted my wandering range to “within 30 seconds of a bathroom” which isn’t really that far. I’ve also been scaring some of the kids when they catch me with a strange, often twisted, expression on my face as I try and reinstate the brain over bowel directive.

This has not been a fun week, on top of all this its stinking hot, my air-conditioner barely cools one room (and does sweet FA for the bedroom), its been too humid for my cloths to dry, and I have to pack up a flat without any actual deadline. Pack up too much and I’m a bored munchkin, too little and its a last minute pack before they get in the door.

I’d post a babe picture….. in fact i still will

In a nutshell

http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/direct-more-obese-people-lying-about-food-intake/

No good deed goes unpunished

Another warning for those who forget that here in Korea they are the ‘outsider’…. have a look here

Home again, home again

Now I have to return to the land of expensive food and water restrictions….. how will I ever survive? Paying rent and having to talk to people…. yuk.

I was going to have a few peaceful months kicking back, reading, writing, and watching movies. That was my plan, but now they’re kicking my arse to the curb to make way for what appear to be a gay couple (girls) who want to start before my contract even ends. I’m not sure my boss is ready for this, good little Korean Christian that he is……

Of course the upside is that my poor ears, nose, and eyes might get a rest from the cars, kimchi, and neon respectively. Oh well, could do with seeing blue sky, breathing fresh air, and being able to walk around at 4am without bumping into people.

Be nice to be back for a holiday, see you all (well some of you) soon, and for those left behind I’ll see you in a few months….

Magic or Moronic

I’ve only had a short time in the mental health industry, but that time has completely changed how I view the world, a change that I think is for the better, certainly one that makes me more tolerant of those that a different from the accepted norm. So before I begin this article let me just say that I’ve never been anti-drug, if people want to risk their sanity and their health by engaging in destructive behaviours let them. Now having said that I realise that not all drug taking behaviour is destructive, and many ‘casual users’ can take it or leave it.

I’ve never been pro-drug either, I hate that idiots proclaim that their drug of choice is safe. When addiction sets in, or the usage interferes with the individuals ability to fit in with society, or the body begins to suffer then the user has only themselves to blame. But what if a pharmaceutical company can take the ‘high’ from the shrooms and manufacture it into a life altering drug? What happens now?

So this study on the effects of the active ingredient of ‘Magic Mushrooms’ raises my interest. The preliminary results look very interesting, but even with the largely positive results we reach a philosophical conundrum. If a substance drastically and permanently changes my outlook on life, even if it is for the better, then is this a good thing? The self is the sum of my experiences and thoughts, so an artificial shift in how I perceive the world could be seen as an attack on the self.