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Saturday, September 7, 2013

Tim's Marvelous Idea*

*Also scary like nothing else.

          When I texted Tim to let him know I'd made the train, he responded with something like, "Awesome.  Good luck."  A little bit later, he texted me again and said, "Just take a Tums.  An emotional Tums."  I thought the idea was pretty cool.  Like normal Tums, which you take when you forget to take regular antacid, you would take ETums if you forgot your anti-depressants.  That, or if you took in too many depressants, such as alcohol.  Sure, sounds cool.
          Now think of it as how it functions.  Tums work by neutralizing stomach acid, so ETums would work by neutralizing -- intercepting -- neurotransmitters that affect emotion.  Sure, a lot of things do that, but I think they stop being cool when you think about them.  Thanks, Tim, for the awesome and frightening idea.

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