And suddenly it’s 2009
I have a lot of music. Because of this (and because Apple’s shuffle is not truly random), there are a lot of songs that I haven’t actually heard in a long time.
One of which is this song, which came up for the first time in YEARS when I shuffled my music:
And I was immediately transported back to 2009 when I’d downloaded this song. I was at UBC, still in the office in the psych building (instead of that god-awful botany annex) and spent a lot of time listening to this song loudly over my headphones.
It just…ugh, it just sent me back there so easily. And the whole song just aches of despair because that’s the emotion I most strongly associate with the time I’d downloaded it.
I often wonder if my memories that are tied to music are actually stronger than most peoples’ music-based memories since I am missing the most “memory-connected” sense and thus I have to compensate.
Now I have to go cry in a corner and convince my brain that UBC didn’t really happen, because OH MY GOD I had the worst time there.
Well, hell.
(Have I posted this article before? I don’t think I have, but if I have, apologies for posting it again.)
So there’s still a lot of debate and research going on about this, but it looks like there may be evidence to suggest that repeated cold exposure may do more harm than good – that is, it does not promote acclimation to the cold but rather damage to the extremities.
In this article, a study is discussed in which individuals who tend to have more cold exposure in their histories tend to also have colder extremities (toes, specifically) than people with less cold exposure in their histories. There are a lot of confounding variables to this, as you may suspect, but the author of the article cites several other studies that suggest repeated cold exposure may worsen blood circulation in the fingers and toes in the long run.
Such a thing would certainly explain why I seem so much more sensitive to cold now than I ever used to be. It doesn’t take long for my fingers to feel like absolute death if I’m out even in, say, 40 degree weather.
It’s an issue.
It’s a painful issue.
Anyway.
Edit from mid-2023: HAHAHA it’s so much worse now!
OUTSIDE
It’s FINALLY warming up here, which means I can FINALLY run outside again.
You don’t know how much you’ll miss something until it’s gone.
Which has been the theme of basically the past year.
Anyway. Sorry for a short blog. I am worthless.
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