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November 2009 
I want to know everything, weigh nothing and live forever
Posted on Jun 5th, 2009
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tinkonthebrink
tinkonthebrink
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for June 05, 2009:
It's a little daunting to want to know everything, but I don't let that cause me to have some kind of seizure of common sense.
Currently I'm reading Mirrors by Eduardo Galeano, a kind of history of the world and especially the Americas but not like any history you've ever read before. It's very magical and next I want to read it in Spanish because I want my Spanish to get back to being fluent. Then I want to read alI his other books too.
And I want to learn to knit so I can make clothes that doen't look so...normal. Orderly. Ordinary. I actually know how to knit but have never made anything larger than a flute case or a tiny stuffed animal.
I want to figure out how to build the first of the three playhouses we want to put up in our yard, out of salvaged, recycled things if possible.
I always want to know more about food and nutrition and agriculture and how what we eat affects the world around us. I am Michael Pollen's biggest fan. I want to learn which native plants would be a good choice to put in a living hedge around our yard - and which ones turn out to be pests (I've been unwittingly protecting a couple of multiflora roses in the yard even though I now know they're invasive and terrible, but I kept them because they're pretty. I'm sorry!). I want to learn which native plants we can eat (do you know, dandelion greens are $4/lb at the store?? That's crazy.)
I'm always reading more than one book, actually, more than three minimum, I'm always trying to revive the languages I knew and learn at least a few words in other ones, I periodically only cook Indian food for a month or so, Japanese food went on for several years, French food was a several year experiment, Vietnamese food when I lived in San Diego, Vegan for a while, raw foods for a while - I'm cooking my way around the world. Currently I'm boycotting cooking almost all together and just eating mostly raw again unless we go out. Plus eggs - I have some kind of egg obsession. Either raw quail eggs or runny yolked poached eggs, mmmm. And, inexplicably, sardines.
I've joked that I have adult ADHD and someone sent me to an online quiz on which I scored 81, which is over the top, go-seek-help-immediately kind of score (and I thought I was answering a little conservatively...) so that was pretty amusing. I don't have any complaints about the way my brain works though. It's helpful if the goal is to know everything about everything.
And Internet, you and me, we're BFF's.
Now I have to go do some yoga and take the dogs for a run. Just as soon as I look this one thing up...
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I love the 'cooking your way around the world' practice; that's brilliant. (Because I'd want to amend your title to read “I want to eat everything…” ;)
Yes, actually, I DO want to eat everything…and weigh nothing. Difficult to reconcile those two at times, but I'm working it out. I've eaten bugs and snakes and grubs and wild greens and things that I didn't know what they were and didn't really want to ask. If someone else makes it and it's part of their culture, I'm game. I've eaten the hottest appetizer at the Indian restaurant, the one they warn you about “no, it's REALLY hot”, and caused all the cooks and wait staff to stand around staring at our table to see, is she really going to do it????? Yes, really. Lots of nose blowing involved, but yes. At that point it had become the pepper of honor. Yes, I think I do want to eat everything, at least once.
Yes, I think I do want to eat everything, at least once.
Me too. Perhaps it's some pathological desire to make the whole world a part of myself.. ;)
Oh, I don't think that desire counts as pathological. I think that's just sensible human experiencing.
My computer is now set up so that I don't have to sit down to use it, I can run by and type things and keep running. There is a stool for perching if I feel compelled to do so. This is the most perfect computer set up EVER.
That sounds excellent. Especially the perch.
I realized I posted my 800th Q&R a few days ago. Phew.
the running by computer method, love it! :)
Adult ADHD is just another way to say that you are fabulously diverse and wonderfully spontaneous. There is no cure, you know. Living in every direction at once is not such a bad thing. It keeps things interesting. If you are any measure of adult ADHD, then where can I sign up?
<big grin>I can only say yes, yes and yes. and yes. and me too of course. yes.