ear worm
I have a song going through my head all the time. Right now it’s Hall & Oats “Rich Girl” (don’t ask!) It keeps swirling around with “You Make my Dreams”. I hate Hall and Oats. I don’t want these songs in my brain! I have felt quite powerless over the tunes until I read this little revelation. The portion of your brain that keeps the mental jukebox playing is the same that does math. Do math and the song stops. I tried it last night. I was going out of my mind with the preamble of the constitution from Schoolhouse Rocks.
“We the people, in order to form a more perf…..” MAKE IT STOP!!!
OK 857 x 75 ……And sure enough, while I was calculating it in my mind I noticed that I couldn’t hear the song! When I finished the sum the song came back but I finally knew how i could at least get a minute of relief. And After I worked on a few more problems it had dislodged itself and I fell asleep.
Bliss!
Sad and Thankful
I can’t believe how sad I was when I heard this this morning. Of course I too have a daughter from China the exact same age (5) and we were there just a few weeks apart. I guess it’s probably from the realization that had the papers been shuffled a little differently on the desk in the China Center for Adoption Affairs…. Maybe it’s just me but there is some sense of connection with every daughter and their parents because of the knowledge that any one of them could have been yours and yours might have been theirs had the mail been delayed one day or had your INS agent not taken those two days off. Any little random thing could have shuffled the deck and seemingly shuffled the kids.
