I finally ordered Fahrenheit 451 and We (by Yevgeny Zamyatin) today 'cause I am a sucker for all things Huxley-esque. And are written well, duh. I once heard that We is believed to be the inspiration of Orwell, am I right?


Stephen Fry = love. I was watching his documentary HIV and Me yesterday and once again I realized how much I am in awe of this man. He's the kind of delightful intellectual you never come across anymore on television. He's also hilarious AND he has showed that he's capable of making powerful and honest documentaries without having sensation as the main focus. God, too bad he's gay because I want to shag him rotten.

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I just remembered something that 'happened' to me about four and a half years ago. Having just entered the HP fandom on LJ, I felt a bit overwhelmed by all the talented and lovely people around - perhaps I didn't know how to begin communicating with them online - and that's why I loved posting memes and questionnaires to my journal. Somehow it felt comfortable typing up answers to personal questions because they helped me express my feelings and how I thought about my life at that time.

Anyway, there were lots of HP memes floating around but not so many of those focused on shippiness or OTP's, I noticed. That's essentially why I wrote my own 'OTP meme' (how original!), answered the questions and posted it to my own LJ. I thought I had created it only for personal use because I just wanted to list my canon and fanon ships in a clear way. I never expected it to snowball as much as it did. In the next few weeks the meme had reached many shippy communities, het shippers and slash people alike and even a lot of BNF's and well-known fic authors. It mus've been because of seeing my own meme on other people's journals all over fandom that I gained more confidence in talking to them and I eventually made a bunch of new friends and my flist grew exponentially as a result. This silly little meme in fact had given me the much-needed boost to really dive into this wonderful fandom headfirst. <3

Ahh, the nostalgia.

THIS IS SUCH SPAM, I KNOW!

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I just watched this 1000th documentary on anorexia nervosa and they said some of the featured girls/women secretly took Neurontin. In my book Neurontin (Gabapentin) is prescribed for diseases like epilepsy and neurological pains (but it also treats partial seizures, I believe). I take it as a painkiller for my migraine attacks occasionally but it's pretty strong and I don't want to risk taking too much. One dose is often not enough and it can make me groggy so I try to avoid it as much as possible.

So how would anorexic girls think they 'benefit' (in their own distorted view, of course) from this drug? I don't know of any side effects that could, say, supress their hunger or give them some of the much-needed energy they lack when eating under 800 calories a day. Probably it's just the high that comes with it when you aren't used to it - much like addicts. Either way, it's horrible and it makes me fear what thousands of other things people can do to destroy their own systems and bodies. But I'm also curious as to why these people buy and take Neurontin illegally since I have no idea what kinds of effects it has on people without things like postherpetic neuralgia and why it would be perceived as something positive by anorexic people. Anyone know the answer to this?

Wow, I watched Dr. Phil today and what was all that about? There was this woman that had fallen in love with her brother's murderer while visiting him in jail. She is now trying to get him out and her mother (!) agrees with her. The latter even said: "He isn't a murderer." EH? Some people are capable of boggling the mind in more than a hundred ways, it seems. >.>

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