Tuesday, August 9, 2005

...And they rhyme
When my Aunt Alice, from Atlanta, Georgia, came out this way for a quick visit she gave me a bunch of little things like a scarf and a pair of gloves ( that don’t quite fit ^^ ) and some perfume samples and some small bottles of lotion. My mom says that her older sister hasn’t got much, but she tries in the little ways that she can. So whatever she gives me is worth more than what they really are in many ways.

I notice that one of the hand lotions has a certain scent to it. It isn’t especially nice or very bad, but it’s a funny kind of scent for hand lotion. When I first used some of it I thought: Pickles?!…sweet pickles? Is that what the people who made this were going for? (I’ve never even eaten sweet pickles to know how they smell). Yet still it reminds me of something too, but I can’t think what of. Either way I like this stuff that smells like sweet pickles.

I came across this article on MSN about that book written by a physician from NYC, called “Why Do Men Have Nipples?” I think that’s one of those good titles for books of this type; not just to grab your attention, but have you investigate further. The article tells how the authors, Dr. Billy Goldberg and Mark Leyner, came up with the idea and everything; people were always asking him (Goldberg) questions so he decided to answer them in this book subtitled, “Hundreds of Questions You’d Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini.” Some people are discourteous enough to not answer the question that is the title of an article, but not with this one. I thought to myself Now there’s an interesting something I didn’t know. At the end it reads:

“While only females have mammary glands, we all start out in a similar way in the embryo, the authors explain. The embryo follows a female template until about six weeks, when the male sex chromosome kicks in.
Men, however, have already developed nipples.” (Reuters)

I see that as rather hilarious because you could say that we all start out as girls and not feel as if you had told a perfect lie. I usually don’t bother with the articles that MSN showcases because I usually don’t care to read them because they’re, I guess boring. And they seem to pick those that don’t go into very much detail; I love detail (of the right kind). A lot of them are on things that I couldn’t care less about, but every now and then there’s one that sparks my attention.

And that’s not so hard to do because of my grand curiosity about things.


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