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May. 3rd, 2011 02:57 pmYou know in The Sentinel with the supersenses and the dials and the hypersensitive days?
It's really annoying when I get wound up, cause I get all twitchy, and smell gets turned up to 11.
There are not many contexts where it is socially acceptable to comment on people smells. The general stinkiness of humans, especially high school and college age humans, may be proverbial, but it is a social faux pas to comment on it in the specific.
But there's other smells that really bug me. Like burning smells. There are many and varied burning smells. The vast majority of them are cooking related. Some of them smell more plastic or electric. Rarely someone has set the garbage on fire. Quite often someone is smoking in the hall or the garage under the floor. Sometimes they're smoking something that smells like that one shop in Norwich. But mostly there's just a smell a tiny bit like November bonfires, and it's there for a breath, and then its gone again. And I don't know, was it ever there? Was it someone lighting a candle or putting one out? Was it some really distant backyard that I just happened to smell very briefly? I have no idea, and there's no way to know. I just smell SMOKE SMOKE SMOKE and then nothing.
So the rule becomes there is no smoke without the smoke alarm going off. Except I know for a fact I'm more sensitive than the smoke alarm and the times the flats were on fire and I was awake I noticed before the alarm did. I try not to think about that. It makes life a bit more stressful.
I only have one season of The Sentinel. Did they not make them all be on DVD? Is annoying when that happens.
Sensory twitchiness is annoying. If my ears are dialled up I don't always notice. I have to make a noise of known size so I can check against my other perceptions. Noises from almost everywhere in the building can bug me elsewise. There are a lot of power tools and vacuum cleaners in the world.
I have to stay awake ready to undeliver this Argos thing until 6pm, which is another three hours. I have already been awake since 0000. This is going to be the kind of fun that is not.
It's really annoying when I get wound up, cause I get all twitchy, and smell gets turned up to 11.
There are not many contexts where it is socially acceptable to comment on people smells. The general stinkiness of humans, especially high school and college age humans, may be proverbial, but it is a social faux pas to comment on it in the specific.
But there's other smells that really bug me. Like burning smells. There are many and varied burning smells. The vast majority of them are cooking related. Some of them smell more plastic or electric. Rarely someone has set the garbage on fire. Quite often someone is smoking in the hall or the garage under the floor. Sometimes they're smoking something that smells like that one shop in Norwich. But mostly there's just a smell a tiny bit like November bonfires, and it's there for a breath, and then its gone again. And I don't know, was it ever there? Was it someone lighting a candle or putting one out? Was it some really distant backyard that I just happened to smell very briefly? I have no idea, and there's no way to know. I just smell SMOKE SMOKE SMOKE and then nothing.
So the rule becomes there is no smoke without the smoke alarm going off. Except I know for a fact I'm more sensitive than the smoke alarm and the times the flats were on fire and I was awake I noticed before the alarm did. I try not to think about that. It makes life a bit more stressful.
I only have one season of The Sentinel. Did they not make them all be on DVD? Is annoying when that happens.
Sensory twitchiness is annoying. If my ears are dialled up I don't always notice. I have to make a noise of known size so I can check against my other perceptions. Noises from almost everywhere in the building can bug me elsewise. There are a lot of power tools and vacuum cleaners in the world.
I have to stay awake ready to undeliver this Argos thing until 6pm, which is another three hours. I have already been awake since 0000. This is going to be the kind of fun that is not.