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Friday, December 17, 2004
songs playing on a loop: howie day- sorry so sorry, bunnies hedwig and the angry inch soundtrack - mostly "origin of love", "wig in a box", "wicked little town" and a couple of the tommy songs that i dont remember the names of
mor·bid (m?bd) adj. 1. Of, relating to, or caused by disease; pathological or diseased.
2. Psychologically unhealthy or unwholesome: “He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses” (Edgar Allan Poe).
3. Characterized by preoccupation with unwholesome thoughts or feelings: read the account of the murder with a morbid interest. 4. Gruesome; grisly.
kiss of death so it's totally been a long time. anyways. i reading some journal articles about shrimp allergies and apparently, for about 80% of people with shrimp allergies, it's due to a protein, tropomyosin... i think i need to read up on this more, because i think all animals with muscles contain tropomysin. perhaps there is something weird about shellfish proteins in particular that triggers the allergies.
anyways, i thought this would make for a few very interesting experiments-- for example, a friend has mentioned that another friend develped a rash from the water at the bottom of a bowl of shrimp cocktail. another mentioned that the smell/steam of cooking shrimp can cause an allergic reaction. yet another suggested that it would be interesting to see what would happen if an allergic person put his face in a bowl of cold shrimp.
and then i found this article: The kiss of death: a severe allergic reaction to a shellfish induced by a good-night kiss. if you're lazy and don't want to click the link, it's a journal abstract about how some girl has a shrimp allergy. her boyfriend had eaten some shrimp and then kissed her and she had an allergic episode and couldn't breathe and went to the emergency room and all that good stuff. point of the article is that she had a reaction even though she didn't touch the shrimp first hand! CRAZY.
so. i would like to conduct my own experiment. i dont have the shrimp allergy, but i would be willing to eat some shrimp and kiss someone that does. any volunteers? you will be handsomely rewarded.