warrior-poet's blog

Introverted/extroverted (or ambiverted, I GUESS): Everybody falls under one of those categories, right? So what causes the ease of social interaction and general friendliness associated with extroversion, or the social discomfort and shyness associated with introversion?  Read More »

Congrats, blackout. A few months ago you inadvertently (or maybe intentionally) showed me that the foundation of my faith could use some work.  Read More »

The word "psychotropic" is defined as "affecting mental activity, behavior, or perception, as a mood-altering drug." Basically, this isn't just taking an Tylenol if you've got a headache or Zyrtec for allergies. It's way more complex than that.  Read More »

A few comments on my previous blog on this subject inspired me to write a new one. That blog was more about the problem--this one will focus on the solution.  Read More »

I should probably get this out of the way immediately--I'm a Linguistics major at the moment, French minor, studying Hindi possibly for a double major, and seriously considering pre-pharmacy. I'm keenly interested in medicinal herbs, foreign languages, conserving the environment and helping people. I also love to write.  Read More »

There are a few things I don't understand very well about people. And one of them is how you can, in good conscience, try your best to totally destroy someone you don't even know and try to drive them to suicide.

But this seems to be a disturbingly common thing here on the Internet.  Read More »

You may have noticed that this blog is tagged "shared responsibility". A lot of my posts are tagged this way. What I'm going to do here is tell you a pretty short story about something that happened to me very recently, and you can decide for yourself if this tag is appropriate.  Read More »

This is purely a linguistic question here. I definitely don't want to open a can of slimy earth-dwelling invertebrates here by bringing up the abortion debate. I just thought I'd share this observation on the terminology.  Read More »