What makes you into a different person than you are?
Yesterday Kat was talking about spoiled American professionals freaking out when they are “deprived” of such life’s necessities as their favorite brew of specialized coffee. Sometimes due to rather mundane reasons one gets deprived of things that are necessary for the day to day routine. When the thing is truly necessary, you change as a person due to the deprivation. For self entertainment, if nothing else, it’s interesting to observe yourself and the changes that take place in you. So, just for laughs and giggles:
- Food – whenever I am deprived of food my usually congenial self turns into a very snappy, annoyed and annoying individual. The problem often is that there is no in between – one second sated, the next hungry, and in my case hunger needs to be satisfied on the spot or else someone’s head will be bitten off.
- Sleep – if I try to go on for several days on less than my customary 6-7 hours of sleep really strange things happen. My linguistic American veneer goes bye-bye. I assume the faux British accent that I had when I came to the states
- Clarity of mind due to alcohol – this one is related to the previous one. I first start speaking the Queen’s English (I did not say which queen). Then the really bad thing can happen – which to me happened only once, after having eaten half a doughnut all day and followed it up with six gin and tonics in close succession – I start speaking French, a language the rudiments of which I do not know. I was told that I managed to have a somewhat intelligible conversation with actually French speaking people that time. Go figure.
- Mental over exertion – when I try to cram too much information into my brain (as I am doing these days), I start oozing unnecessary information, as I am doing at this very second…
5:15:18 AM 
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