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hummingwolf) wrote2006-07-12 09:59 pm
hummingwolf) wrote2006-07-12 09:59 pm
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Hummingwolf Today
Now wearing: Button-fly blue jeans that are starting to get too broken-in, formerly-pretty floral blouse that's definitely past its prime, ancient pair of glasses, and too-tight underwear.
Yes, I did laundry today.
Now feeling: Tired. And overheated. And did I mention tired?
Miles walked: Never once left the house. I did mention being tired, right?
Book finished: Marcia Angell, M.D., The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What To Do About It. The third book about Big Pharma that I've read recently, this one goes into the most detail about the ways the industry takes advantage of the regulations it helped to write.
Now reading: Still reading that one about the Luddite tradition, and very, very slowly reading the prefatory matter in The Annotated Wizard of Oz. One day I hope to finally get to L. Frank Baum's actual words.
Last meal eaten: A combination of chicken, broccoli, cauliflower, potato, onion, and Swad brand Punjabi pickle for added flavor. Let me take this moment to say YUM. I think I need to do a search to find out what karvanda and kalonji really are, though.
Today's music: The Simon & Garfunkel fan station on Launchcast. Blame the housemate who was playing some solo Paul Simon earlier.
Yes, I did laundry today.
Now feeling: Tired. And overheated. And did I mention tired?
Miles walked: Never once left the house. I did mention being tired, right?
Book finished: Marcia Angell, M.D., The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What To Do About It. The third book about Big Pharma that I've read recently, this one goes into the most detail about the ways the industry takes advantage of the regulations it helped to write.
Now reading: Still reading that one about the Luddite tradition, and very, very slowly reading the prefatory matter in The Annotated Wizard of Oz. One day I hope to finally get to L. Frank Baum's actual words.
Last meal eaten: A combination of chicken, broccoli, cauliflower, potato, onion, and Swad brand Punjabi pickle for added flavor. Let me take this moment to say YUM. I think I need to do a search to find out what karvanda and kalonji really are, though.
Today's music: The Simon & Garfunkel fan station on Launchcast. Blame the housemate who was playing some solo Paul Simon earlier.
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The Truth About the Drug Companies, mentioned in the post;
Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients, by Ray Moynihan & Alan Cassels;
and Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies.
The books cover some of the same territory, but each has a sufficiently different focus from the others for all of them to be interesting (to me, anyway). I don't agree with the opinions of any of the authors 100% of the time, but the facts they present do kinda really piss me off.