Tuesday, November 07, 2006
So this is my day today....
Wake up at 7am. Wake Dutchman up at same time. Just for kicks. He gets to sleep in, I have to go to class. Do my homework, have cereal until 9:45 or so. Get coffee from coffee kiosk. Take motorcycle taxi to school. Print assignment. 10:00am class starts, write quiz in class. 11:30am break, buy a new book at bookstore. 12:30 Thai's decide to play huge stereo outside class, get out early due to noise disruption. Take motorcycle taxi home. 1:00 hang out with Dutchman. 2:30pm suntanning by the pool. Burn my stomach, read my book. 3:40pm get ready to go to yoga, take skytrain two stops. 4:00pm yoga. 5:30 have a Starbucks. walk home. 6:15pm have shower. read book. 7:30pm nap. 10:30pm go to 7-11. wide awake. 1am wide awake.....
That is just your normal day in the land of the Bangkok. Strange life here, I love it.
Michelle and I looked at some pictures of our friends, like Aaron and Jieppe's wedding styles. We missed all you guys. Especially since Chloe mentioned she saw the Erik, Nick, and Jeff at the bowling lanes(?).... We were bragging about our friends to Julia. I told Julia that Erik was German and we showed her pictures. She thinks he is definitely hot. Julia is from Germany and loves the tall boys. Did you know that Holland has the tallest people in the world? Maybe Germany is #2 or something.
I am reading the best book right now. It is called The Female Brain. Seriosuly a great read. Who knew that there were that many biological-brain-chemical-something something differences between men and women. I was blown away. It seriously explained a vast majority of the fights, discussions, and ill feelings I have encountered in my past dating lives. And helps me to chill out a little bit more. Scary stuff all these neurotransmitters and whatnot. Leads me to believe that life is a heck more complicated (and less complicated) then I once thought. Did you know that men say, on average, 7000 words a day? Yes, women say 20000 a day. Women speak on average twice as fast a men. Women have a lot larger communication and hearing areas of the brain, but men have twice as large an area devoted to sex. (This is due to the fact that women, being smaller, had to develop different ways to anticipate and read our environment in order to protect ourselves and our young. We developed our ability to read our environemnet, and our ability to communicate with others to develop groups to help protect us, due to our smaller sizes. Instead of straight-out aggression that men demonstrate, we are more likely to use communication-based aggression, such as manipulation to encourage sharing.) Men's brains are 9% larger, on average, then women's, but we have the same amount of neurons and whatnot, meaning that our brains are more densely packed. Due to our focus on communication in order to survive, we utilize eye contact, reading others faces and whatnot. This means that when we are faced with a blank face we get extremely upset and will do anything to get a reaction. Baby girls, when placed next to a mime, get extremely upset, as expressionless faces cause distress. This is why women get so upset when men do not maintain eye contact, or do not demostrate facial expressions. I have learned so much, and I am only 1/2 done. It is crazy the things that happen with hormones in our bodies throughout the month. In comparision to men, who do not have any major hormone switches (other than due to aggression situations), this is crazy. I have lived in mystery about men.
Case in point, I get all pouty and upset about something, but am not ready to start talking about it. It is beyond obvious that I am upset, though a certain boy does not ask me. He is completely shocked when I burst into tears and explain why I have been so upset for hours, maybe even days. Apologizing that I had not explained earlier, he laugh and said he had no idea I was even upset. I thought this was so incredibly obvious that I was beyond upset. I mean, I did not smile that much and I barely laughed and whatnot. Isn't it obvious? Apparently not. And now it kind of makes more sense.
Yep.... men and women are ridiculously different, though very similar in a lot of ways. There is study after study in this book, explained in non-crazy-medical-terms, that anyone can understand, describing these differences and the similarities. Written be a neurologist, with a bucket of credentials, utilizing numerous studies done in the past years from all over the world, it was written last year, so ridiculously up to date. I love it. It makes life make sense. And makes me think that everyone should be more aware of the differences, which can really help to remove conflict in a relationship, I think.
And fun was reading about what happens when women get pregnant. Our brains shrink, haha, for a few months, before returning to normal size. They are not really sure why, maybe to make room in certain parts of the brain, to help the baby. Heh that is why pregnant women get so forgetful and ditzy, but it returns to normal within a few months after birth of baby. And breastfeeding gives you a stronger neurological response than doing cocaine. Similar effects, just stronger. And your brain is permantly changed after having a baby, which allows linkage with the baby. Truly, things are not the same, you are always attached to wee baby.
And, of course, it talks about sex and orgasm and whatnot. Helps to describe, biologically, the differences between women and men in this area and how it plays out.
Annnnnyways, yes, a good and easy read for anyone. Helps to describe, also (this stuff is so interesting) about the different homrones in our cycle, and when we are more prone to have a greater memory (beginning of the cycle) and whatnot. I love it. We are more social in the two weeks before ovulation (right after your period) and more relaxed, etc...
I love stuff like this.
Anyways, maybe it will help me to chill out. I struggle in relationships sometimes, but I want to be in relationship, therefore it is a good thing to learn how to chill out so I can have relationships for the future. Learning to ask for exactly what I want, and how to just relax.
Only 3 more weeks of school. Done exams November 29. And then home, Vancouver, Dec 23. Life goes so quickly, best to just enjoy it. ¶ 1:01 AM
Wake up at 7am. Wake Dutchman up at same time. Just for kicks. He gets to sleep in, I have to go to class. Do my homework, have cereal until 9:45 or so. Get coffee from coffee kiosk. Take motorcycle taxi to school. Print assignment. 10:00am class starts, write quiz in class. 11:30am break, buy a new book at bookstore. 12:30 Thai's decide to play huge stereo outside class, get out early due to noise disruption. Take motorcycle taxi home. 1:00 hang out with Dutchman. 2:30pm suntanning by the pool. Burn my stomach, read my book. 3:40pm get ready to go to yoga, take skytrain two stops. 4:00pm yoga. 5:30 have a Starbucks. walk home. 6:15pm have shower. read book. 7:30pm nap. 10:30pm go to 7-11. wide awake. 1am wide awake.....
That is just your normal day in the land of the Bangkok. Strange life here, I love it.
Michelle and I looked at some pictures of our friends, like Aaron and Jieppe's wedding styles. We missed all you guys. Especially since Chloe mentioned she saw the Erik, Nick, and Jeff at the bowling lanes(?).... We were bragging about our friends to Julia. I told Julia that Erik was German and we showed her pictures. She thinks he is definitely hot. Julia is from Germany and loves the tall boys. Did you know that Holland has the tallest people in the world? Maybe Germany is #2 or something.
I am reading the best book right now. It is called The Female Brain. Seriosuly a great read. Who knew that there were that many biological-brain-chemical-something something differences between men and women. I was blown away. It seriously explained a vast majority of the fights, discussions, and ill feelings I have encountered in my past dating lives. And helps me to chill out a little bit more. Scary stuff all these neurotransmitters and whatnot. Leads me to believe that life is a heck more complicated (and less complicated) then I once thought. Did you know that men say, on average, 7000 words a day? Yes, women say 20000 a day. Women speak on average twice as fast a men. Women have a lot larger communication and hearing areas of the brain, but men have twice as large an area devoted to sex. (This is due to the fact that women, being smaller, had to develop different ways to anticipate and read our environment in order to protect ourselves and our young. We developed our ability to read our environemnet, and our ability to communicate with others to develop groups to help protect us, due to our smaller sizes. Instead of straight-out aggression that men demonstrate, we are more likely to use communication-based aggression, such as manipulation to encourage sharing.) Men's brains are 9% larger, on average, then women's, but we have the same amount of neurons and whatnot, meaning that our brains are more densely packed. Due to our focus on communication in order to survive, we utilize eye contact, reading others faces and whatnot. This means that when we are faced with a blank face we get extremely upset and will do anything to get a reaction. Baby girls, when placed next to a mime, get extremely upset, as expressionless faces cause distress. This is why women get so upset when men do not maintain eye contact, or do not demostrate facial expressions. I have learned so much, and I am only 1/2 done. It is crazy the things that happen with hormones in our bodies throughout the month. In comparision to men, who do not have any major hormone switches (other than due to aggression situations), this is crazy. I have lived in mystery about men.
Case in point, I get all pouty and upset about something, but am not ready to start talking about it. It is beyond obvious that I am upset, though a certain boy does not ask me. He is completely shocked when I burst into tears and explain why I have been so upset for hours, maybe even days. Apologizing that I had not explained earlier, he laugh and said he had no idea I was even upset. I thought this was so incredibly obvious that I was beyond upset. I mean, I did not smile that much and I barely laughed and whatnot. Isn't it obvious? Apparently not. And now it kind of makes more sense.
Yep.... men and women are ridiculously different, though very similar in a lot of ways. There is study after study in this book, explained in non-crazy-medical-terms, that anyone can understand, describing these differences and the similarities. Written be a neurologist, with a bucket of credentials, utilizing numerous studies done in the past years from all over the world, it was written last year, so ridiculously up to date. I love it. It makes life make sense. And makes me think that everyone should be more aware of the differences, which can really help to remove conflict in a relationship, I think.
And fun was reading about what happens when women get pregnant. Our brains shrink, haha, for a few months, before returning to normal size. They are not really sure why, maybe to make room in certain parts of the brain, to help the baby. Heh that is why pregnant women get so forgetful and ditzy, but it returns to normal within a few months after birth of baby. And breastfeeding gives you a stronger neurological response than doing cocaine. Similar effects, just stronger. And your brain is permantly changed after having a baby, which allows linkage with the baby. Truly, things are not the same, you are always attached to wee baby.
And, of course, it talks about sex and orgasm and whatnot. Helps to describe, biologically, the differences between women and men in this area and how it plays out.
Annnnnyways, yes, a good and easy read for anyone. Helps to describe, also (this stuff is so interesting) about the different homrones in our cycle, and when we are more prone to have a greater memory (beginning of the cycle) and whatnot. I love it. We are more social in the two weeks before ovulation (right after your period) and more relaxed, etc...
I love stuff like this.
Anyways, maybe it will help me to chill out. I struggle in relationships sometimes, but I want to be in relationship, therefore it is a good thing to learn how to chill out so I can have relationships for the future. Learning to ask for exactly what I want, and how to just relax.
Only 3 more weeks of school. Done exams November 29. And then home, Vancouver, Dec 23. Life goes so quickly, best to just enjoy it. ¶ 1:01 AM
