bouncing, stuck together in a room full of smoke

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/31/dalai-lama-osel-hita-torres

I like this guy. I'd like to shake his hand...

"They took me away from my family and stuck me in a medieval situation in which I suffered a great deal," said Torres, 24, describing how he was whisked from obscurity in Granada to a monastery in southern India. "It was like living a lie," he told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo. Despite his rebelliousness, he is still known as Lama Tenzin Osel Rinpoche and revered by the Buddhist community.

He got picked at 14 months old to be a reincarnated guru... then he went to college. Sounds like he decided it was "problematic".

Then he went to Burning Man.

Hot Goths!!!

http://gothsinhotweather.blogspot.com/

Genius!!!

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Vertigo and Mammoths

I'm still having serious vertigo, a nasty headache and neck ache, and am on vicodin and meclizine. I have tried to position myself in all the Epley Maneuver positions. Wondering if it could be my tonsil problems messing up something... uhhh... no idea really! I think the stiff neck part is because i've been trying so hard all day not to move my head. I managed to work a full day anyway.

Meanwhile I'm reading Centuries Ago and Very Fast. Mammoths. Sex. Sex inside dead mammoths. Stonewall Riots. Interesting complexity in talking about race and gender and sexuality. But I'm still at the very beginning. It's not boring.

http://www.dizziness-and-balance.com/disorders/bppv/epley/first.html

"You may be dizzy". DUH... that's why i'm fucking doing it... I may be dizzy. FUCKING DUH!!!