shifting stars

So I caught an astrology show on NPR recently and the astrologer explained in a way that I could actually follow why and how the star charts that were created in ancient greece have shifted over the last two thousand or so years.

so if we fix that for myself, for example. my sun sign is actually Aries, which puts my moon in Cancer and my rising in Pisces.

Mind BLOOOOOWWWWNNNNN.

This makes sooooooososo much more sense.

I actually have already been reading Pisces and Cancer horoscopes because those two signs always seemed to resonate with me more. The Aries thing just solidifies all my mystery around the weirdness of my Taurus traits. I have all the passion and loyalty of a Taurus, but a total lack of stubbornness or grounding.

Aaahaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

(not that I *believe* in this stuff, any more than I believe that Lunar is haunting my apartment as a kitty ghost. it's just fun to entertain the idea, yanno? what does anyone really know about anything anyway - don't get me started on epistemology, it was my specialty as a philosophy grad and i can end any argument with it.)

more dementia resaerch.

the olfaction (sense of smell) episode of the Huberman Lab podcast has a moment where Huberman mentions, just in passing, research about nose sprays and their terrifying link to dementia, due to the olfaction bulbs having an extremely close proximity to the brain compared to other sense organs such as the ears or tongue.

my mom was addicted to nose spray for about a decade, around her 50s. she constantly, constantly huffed it, many many times a day.

ugh.

(eventually enough people told her she needed to stop and was destroying the inside of her nose that she switched to saline and eventually weened herself off of the habit. it took her several months but it was such a relief when it finally happened. too late, i suppose.

the curses of having and addiction-prone physiology/psychology. so frustrating and sad.)

catastrophic willpower collapse

I did a bunch of the stuff on my list and then 6pm hit and I got totally overwhelmed and started eating cookies.

Note to self: allow breaks and rest between tasks, even if they involve poking a computer and sitting most of the day.

or else the stress eating will take over. sigh.