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Posted on Dec 10th, 2007
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jikishin
jikishin
This time I've been tagged by Laura.
Seven (additional) weird or random things about me:
1. I died. Sort of. Twice. Both times were after swimming in too cold water for too long. I'd pass out, stop breathing, and come to after several minutes. It seemed that these episodes were more traumatic for bystanders than for myself. I hear that I've stopped breathing for somewhere between ten and twenty (thankfully not consecutive) minutes.
2. I dislocated my left shoulder eleven times in the course of a year and a half. The first two times, in the same football game, most of the rest were while swimming.
3. I didn't get a driver's license until in my mid twenties. I didn't own a car until my mid thirties.
However, I did most of my traveling before having a license.
4. About two years ago, for the first time, I bought a television set.
5. Last year, for the first time, I bought a computer and got online.
6. This year, for the first time, I bought a CD and a DVD player.
7. I was surprised to hear (in my mid twenties) of a study which concluded that the vast majority of adults do most of their waking thinking in language, forming sentences and phrases... This was not so in my case.
I remember mentioning this to a friend who had known me for a few years (who had recommended me for the librarian position at the biomedical ethics center where she was the only MD on staff). She said that I was one of the few people for which she could believe that to be true. Thinking in language seemed an inefficiant, indirect way to process experience. My surprise was that we would mediate most of our conceptualizing by description and discursive explanation. For me language seemed to be convenient conventions for the social layers of relating. Thinking seemed more like perceiving and an arranging of perceptions than a sequencing of signifiers.
My tagger's still busted. Can't get behind it. Can't pick it up. Don't know what it is. 3for5 is par for me.
THE RULES:
1. Link to the person's blog who tagged you.
2. Post these rules on your blog.
3. List seven random and/or weird facts about yourself.
4. Tag seven random [?] people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
5. Let each person know that they have been tagged by posting a comment on their blog.
1. Link to the person's blog who tagged you.
2. Post these rules on your blog.
3. List seven random and/or weird facts about yourself.
4. Tag seven random [?] people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
5. Let each person know that they have been tagged by posting a comment on their blog.
Seven (additional) weird or random things about me:
1. I died. Sort of. Twice. Both times were after swimming in too cold water for too long. I'd pass out, stop breathing, and come to after several minutes. It seemed that these episodes were more traumatic for bystanders than for myself. I hear that I've stopped breathing for somewhere between ten and twenty (thankfully not consecutive) minutes.
2. I dislocated my left shoulder eleven times in the course of a year and a half. The first two times, in the same football game, most of the rest were while swimming.
3. I didn't get a driver's license until in my mid twenties. I didn't own a car until my mid thirties.
However, I did most of my traveling before having a license.
4. About two years ago, for the first time, I bought a television set.
5. Last year, for the first time, I bought a computer and got online.
6. This year, for the first time, I bought a CD and a DVD player.
7. I was surprised to hear (in my mid twenties) of a study which concluded that the vast majority of adults do most of their waking thinking in language, forming sentences and phrases... This was not so in my case.
I remember mentioning this to a friend who had known me for a few years (who had recommended me for the librarian position at the biomedical ethics center where she was the only MD on staff). She said that I was one of the few people for which she could believe that to be true. Thinking in language seemed an inefficiant, indirect way to process experience. My surprise was that we would mediate most of our conceptualizing by description and discursive explanation. For me language seemed to be convenient conventions for the social layers of relating. Thinking seemed more like perceiving and an arranging of perceptions than a sequencing of signifiers.
My tagger's still busted. Can't get behind it. Can't pick it up. Don't know what it is. 3for5 is par for me.
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Thanks for briefly indulging your (likely well-nigh atrophied) narcissism, Kerry – it's a delight to have these glimpses of your life.
I agree with your MD friend – I too find it fairly easy to believe you when you say you think in this other way. It comes through your language, in my opinion, which has a layered, meaning-dense quality – not unlike images themselves, which often bear more within them than we can ever parse out into words.
ditto to Bruce's comment.
general ditto to number 4. Don't have one now, haven't for 8 years and when I did I hardly watched it.
ditto to number 3 only I never had my own car and don't drive inspite of having a license. Maybe I'm just waiting for a Telsa.
And ouch! that poor shoulder.
Waking thinking in language? I guess if I have to think about this it means I do it too.
Thanks!
Sandra