Limbo

June 17, 2009 on 7:01 pm | In General Bits | 9 Comments

It’s been an eventful few days; this post might not make much sense. We were talking last night, as you do, about what was the ‘best hormone’ (give us a break, we were all mildly intoxicated and have spent the last 2 months studying them). One gentleman came out with prolactin, for some reason involving breasts, another testosterone (testicular atrophy? really?), but to me the clear answer is adrenaline:* for just a few seconds, it can make you more than just human. Uncanny reflexes, ridiculous strength, sprintworthy stamina, you name it: adrenaline can make it happen.

The reason I came out with this is because it happened to me a couple of days before, when I was going over the wall in the back of my garden and the top layer of concrete blocks ripped away as I was doing so. I was hanging in space for what felt like 5 or 6 seconds, contemplating the way the bricks were going to fall, how I’d end up with broken shins at the least, and then I was lying on the ground, having pushed out away from it hard enough to land a couple of metres away. I assume that’s what I did, I have no memory of it, but its the only logical explanation. Magic. I just wish I could voluntarily trigger that slowdown where the world just glides around you – badminton would become epic.

The exams were nothing special. They didn’t go fantastically, they weren’t TOO awful, I am hopeful but not sure. The world keeps turning, we’ll see how it went soon enough. Jug of Pimm’s afterwards in the sun made it all worth it.

I got to bed about half three last night, and woke up at quarter to seven this morning, as expected. I always find that the workload of revision and exams doesn’t fade after they finish for a few days, and you spend those days alternating between thinking you should be doing work and trying to forget about it. Tick tock.

adrenaline

The comedown is draining.

*it really bugs me that they are renaming adrenaline epinephrine – its just stupid. Is it produced in your epinephral gland? NO. Do you get an epinephrine rush? NO. What on earth was wrong with adrenaline? Hmmm?

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  1. Seconded. Adrenaline is awesome.

    Comment by Dickie — June 17, 2009 #

  2. I agree totally. I love the rush; it’s empowering, uplifting and motivating all in one heady surge. The human body is almost as fascinating as the human mind. (Don’t get started on neuroscience!)

    Comment by gflawrence — June 17, 2009 #

  3. I have a love/hate relationship with neuro. It’s fascinating, but the devil truly is in the details. Even basic neuroanatomy is interesting, but it’s…challenging to remember.
     
    Challenges ftw.

    Comment by Callan — June 18, 2009 #

  4. I like the way adrenaline sounds once spoken. Such A Rush – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJgF5pqaZ8Y

    Comment by Ipso Facto — June 18, 2009 #

  5. I thought it was just the americans that said ‘epinephrine’. Are they changing it in the UK too? My textbooks are by and large american so that’s what they all say but I always write adrenaline anyway, and will probably continue to do so unthinkingly. But yes, magic.
     
    And yes, it’s a fantastic hormone. And as for neuro, I simply love it. The devil is in the detail, but I don’t mind that, I can usually get my head around remembering it all if I work sensibly. And it’s worth it. It fascinates me.

    Comment by Jenny — June 18, 2009 #

  6. No, it’s being ‘unified’ under all the other unified drug names, which basically means it’s being americanised. Adrenaline is one of the few drugs which is permitted to still be dual labelled.

    Comment by Callan — June 18, 2009 #

  7. agh. Bugger.
     
    Judge from the brilliance of that comment whether or not I am still drunk. I think it’s a resounding ‘yes’, don’t you?

    Comment by Jenny — June 24, 2009 #

  8. I was going to go straight to bed and then I saw that my computer was still on and the internet still on my ‘blogs I always read’ tabs, so, yeah.

    Comment by Jenny — June 24, 2009 #

  9. I swear the above made a lot more sense when I wrote it. And had some actual point to it. Oh dear.

    Comment by Jenny — June 24, 2009 #

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