active avoidance

I should be packing for my trip and also pulling together things for my presentation. Therefore, I am surfing the web.

So I just came across this article, "Sex 'cuts public speaking stress'." Which doesn't seem particularly novel, right? I mean, haven't people know that sex produces happy physiological things? Anyways, this line makes me gag: "Professor Brody said it made sense in evolutionary terms for standard heterosexual sexual intercourse to be associated with a wide range of positive effects on behaviour." The instrumentalization of things, as if evolution was being guided by an invisible hand of reproductive productivity. How do they explain postpartum depression, then? But this other doctor's response is just awesome: He said: "You are probably better off thinking about what you are going to say, and preparing thoroughly, rather than having sex the previous night."

dishes

Am I the only one who does this? Before I go out of town, I have to wash the dishes. Usually, the dishes sit in the sink and on the counter for like a week. But if I'm leaving town, I feel this compulsion to wash them and tuck them away before I can even pack....