You gotta take several welding courses prior to becomming a pipe welder, and most pipe welding is industrial, hanging off the side of a mill, wearing safety harnesses.
Most pipe welders I know are also scuba divers. Underwater welding courses are in the $30,000 ballpark.
I listen to sountrack scores and am ashamed of it.
I’m very comfortable eating alone in restraurants and don’t understand why most people (especially women) aren’t.
My favorite shape is a spiral. It explains everything in the universe- large and small.
The band TooL saved my life at a very young age.
My big brother was my hero, but after a betrayal of biblical proportions he is my anti-hero and everything in between.
I had somewhat of a nervous breakdown ten years ago, spontaneously flew to Iceland, drove 4 hours near Vik where I reached a lighthouse that overlooked a pitch black beach and screamed at the top of my lungs till I collapsed… everything was alright after that.
Natalie Portman got me through some hopeless teenage years (Thank you Natty).
I don’t appear “approachable”, but the truth is… I love talking and connecting to just about anyone.
My best friend killed himself 2 years ago.
My greatest fear is that I may be unable to truly (or fully?) love another person.
My guess would be to accept the strange about yourself, not necessarily change it because total strangers find it unacceptable.
In other words, let the person be. He or she knows, via experience, what’s good for him/her. Has anyone ever advised you to see a doctor because you prefer strawberry-flavoured yoghurt over vanilla-flavoured yoghurt? Or because you like rye bread better than white bread?
So this dude or dudette sleeps thirty hours and has a 48-hour day clock. Big deal. It does NOT make him or her into a sick person. It’s normal for him or her; abnormal for you. Why, have YOU ever gone to a doctor to cure you from your 24-hour inner day clock?
Same difference.
Next you will be organizing to burn at the stake or send to concentration camps all those who are on a 48-inner-day clock.
I say, learn to embrace differences, instead. It’s harder, much harder, than being a bigot and an exclusionist, I know. So stay a bigot. I embrace bigots, too.
Perhaps you have heard of a 48 hour body clock, but I have not… I thought it would be interesting to hear what a medical professional would think or make of it, so nothing to do with being a bigot or exclusionist… I’m probably the least bigoted or exclusionistic person I know, and you have labeled me with those tags very freely indeed. Why your reply to me so harsh man?
I myself have had to come to terms with something the opposite to Surrep’s… chronic fatigue. I pretty much have to make like a hibernating creature and hibernate, and so rest a lot while eating a little… that process spares me from total energy depletion and in turn a debilitating flatness.
One semester in college, I reprogrammed myself to be on a 48 hour cycle, 38 awake, 10 asleep. I found it to be extremely helpful, but when summer came, the combination of the heat and having too little to do, I returned to sleeping far more than necessary.