meme: Five Qs from oursin

Thanks to oursin for these questions—if you’d like to continue the meme, raise your hand in a comment.

Have you read anything lately that really blew you away?

Cost of Living, an essay collection by Emily Maloney

Her precise, funny prose explores the interface between social norms and actual brains at personal and societal levels. Her neurodivergent thinking brings insight from her own experiences on both sides of the US medical complex. As a suicide survivor and psych patient, she acquired huge medical debt while getting inaccurate diagnoses and physical mistreatment. To pay down that debt, she worked as an emergency-department—based EMT tech, often in charge of doling out medications she was also taking. She translated medical studies into marketing copy for large pharmaceutical companies.

Two hundred words on the "opiate crisis" and pain prescribing:

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If you were in a murder mystery, what part would you be playing?

The clueless guest who keeps asking “What’s going on?”

Is there is a musical instrument you wish you could play?

Sighs mournfully in F minor. The acoustic guitar I played daily from age 13 until I could no longer physically handle it, ca 33.

Favourite season of Buffy?

Season 3. I like the Faith-Buffy tension.

What kind of weather do you find most congenial?

Sunny with many puffy clouds, a fresh breeze, and temperatures between 50 and 65°F (10–19°C)