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February 01, 2005
Down wit' BBD--Yeah you know me
Popular American culture often refers to a "Bad Hair Day." I remember these from my K-12 years. There just seemed to be days when, for no apparent reason, one's hair would not act in the normal manner. Of course, no one else in the world is sensitive enough to your hair style to notice the difference.
Since I don't have any hair to speak of anymore, I think Loki felt it necessary to derive a variation on the Bad Hair Day (BHD) concept that would be applicable to someone like me. He invented a "Bad Brain Day." Like the BHD, a person experiencing a Bad Brain Day (BBD) seems to have a brain that is not behaving in any way that feels normal. No matter what sort of stimulus the brain receives, the brain doesn't respond correctly.
I had a BBD today. I spent 3 hours listening to what probably would have been an interesting and enlightening lecture, had it not been in some combination of Yiddish and Cuneiform. Instead of learning anything new, I spent the whole time in a depressive downward spiral wondering what exactly it is that I've been doing for the past five years.
As with a bad hair experience, some part of you knows that it's probably just the humidity or something, but I found myself in mortal fear, today, that unlike Bad Hair Days, BBD's would be dreadfully obvious to everyone around.
In the end I didn't feel bad though. Some poor chaps have both on the same day...
Posted by james at February 1, 2005 12:00 AM