Monday, January 08, 2007

losing my senses

Thanks to a cold, I've lost my senses of smell and (for the most part) taste (coffee you can't smell is not-so-good). And then today I left a significant part of my hearing in the higher elevation at my grandparents'.

I guess it would be a good time to go to a loud, smelly place. So long as it didn't hurt to be extremely disoriented and slightly off-kilter. Hmmm.

From a semantical perspective, I have never associated this having-a-cold feeling with the phrase "losing your senses," or "have you lost your senses?" or "are you out of your senses?"

Somehow it seems like losing your senses -- at least the way I would've pictured it -- would be more fun.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

الله يبارك

Emily said...

I guess this blog censors Arabic. Wish I could figure out why...

Anonymous said...

Don’t worry; it is all in your head. Just watch out for spiral staircases.
I hope you are better soon!

Emily said...

Thanks, Sean, for the official diagnosis! :) Now I remember the last time I felt the whole disoriented, off-kilter deal. I wonder what the Greek is for "fear of spiral staircases." Scratch that -- I wonder what the German is. That probably sounds more like I feel.

jph said...

Furcht vor Spiraletreppenhäusern. Get better!

Emily said...

LOL. Danke, Herr Huber! That's exactly how I feel! ;)