Challenge dakini

* amateur photography
* bodysurfing and surf swimming
* star-gazing and satelite spotting
* listening to music (would love to see more live stuff)
* knitting
* singing (i have a reasonably good voice, have done small community performances, taken some lessons and want to pursue this area more)
* reading while drinking good coffee in mellow cafes
* plus loads of things I enjoy, just not sure they count as hobbies - like walking barefoot - esp in the sand
and getting a bit de-urbanised, camping, travelling etc
* and... reading about science stuff (i'm a lay science-geek wannabe!! ;)

Dr Strangelove
The Princess Bride
Empire of the Sun
Touching The Void
Lantana
Monsters Inc
The Incredibles
Kiss of the Spiderwoman
Hunger
My Beautiful Laundrette
Fightclub
Lars and The Real Girl
Little Miss Sunshine
Romper Stomper
Full Metal Jacket
2001 : A Space Odyssey

Hip-hop, pop, rock, country, classical, blues, blue-grass ... even a bit of metal ; ... a variety ... i like what i like...
heres just a very small sample
Tom Waits,
Pavement
PJ Harvey
Manu Chao
Beta Band
Bach
Michael Nyman
Lyle Lovett
Johnny Cash
White Stripes

nb: i was brought up on a steady diet of Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, JJ Cale, Dire Straits, Bob Marley and others of that generation ... and i'm very grateful!!!

* Zorba The Greek - (Nikos Katsanzakis)
* The Perfect Storm - (Sebastian Junger)
* The God of Small Things - (Arundhati Roy)
* Death March on Mt Hakkoda - (Jiro Nitta)
* A Beautiful Mind - (Sylvia N____)
* The Last Temptation of Christ - (Nikos Katsanzakis)
* The Spare Room - (Helen Garner)
* Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (1st book in Red Dwarf series) - (Grant Naylor)
* Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - (Douglas Adams)
* Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - (Doglas Adams)
* Osler's Web - (Hillary Johnson)
* Pride and Predjudice - (Jane Austin)
* Nobody Nowhere

brussel sprouts - but come on... who does?

dis = M.E. or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

it is a Neurological condition which involves multi-systemic damage throughout the body, including immunological abnormalities, cardiac disfunction, mitochondrial disfuntion, endocrine imbalances....

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This version updated May 2008

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) is a debilitating acquired neurological disease which has been recognised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) since 1969 as a distinct organic neurological disorder with the code G.93.3.

M.E. can occur in both epidemic and sporadic forms, over 60 outbreaks of M.E. have been recorded worldwide since 1934.

M.E. is similar in a number of significant ways to multiple sclerosis, Lupus and poliomyelitis (polio).

M.E. can be extremely severe and disabling and in some cases the disease is fatal.



Is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis a new illness?

No. The illness has been documented as an organic (physical) neurological disease for centuries. The name M.E. was coined in 1956 in the UK.



Myalgic Encephalomyelitis has nothing to do with ‘fatigue’

M.E. is a neurological illness of extraordinarily incapacitating dimensions that affects virtually every bodily system – not a problem of ‘chronic fatigue.’ Fatigue is not a defining (or even essential) symptom of M.E. M.E. and ‘CFS’ are not at all the same thing.

http://www.ahummingbirdsguide.com/whatismesummary.htm