"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote:
>
> At 10:54 AM 12/22/03, Julia Thompson wrote:
> >Sonja van Baardwijk wrote:
> >
> > > Personally I have noticed that my sensitivity to smoke has been heavily
> > > increased the less I'm exposed to it. Nothing psychosomatic about it.
> >
> >There was one year that I managed to increase my tolerance for smoke,
> >and that was done by longer and longer exposures to people smoking. My
> >body just got used to it. I wasn't happy about it, but I could stand
> >it.
> >
> >(This led to weird things like the time I washed my hair in a sink at
> >2AM and to dry it before I went to sleep, spent awhile combing it out
> >right next to a radiator....)
>
> Hadn't blow dryers been invented then?
Yes. And given the damage my hair took when I was about 7-10 years old
from using one on a regular basis, I wasn't interested in using one.
Plus which, I didn't have one, and at 2AM I didn't feel like going to
someone else's room to wake them up and ask if they'd brought one. :)
Julia
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