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Mar. 21st, 2005 06:12 pmJust for the record... I guess other than that random, unexpected (relatively) very cheap fare on British Airways, I did actually by my plane ticket at the right time. Because it looks like that price only lasted for about 24 hours, and then a few days later, the price on the ticket I bought actually went up by $40. So even if the airline ticket pricing system outsmarted me by a little bit, I guess I did have the right idea with buying it when I did...
So also, I've been reading stuff for my seminar presentation tomorrow on the hormonal basis of love and monogamy. It's really cool stuff... And apparently, pair bonding, at least in rodents, activates the same dopaminergic pleasure systems as cocaine and heroin. Mother-infant bonding seems to be by the same process, which leads to one amusing study, where they tested whether mother rats preferred time with their pups or cocaine to test the strength of the bond. At day 8, they preferred the pups, but at day 16, they preferred cocaine. (Adult rats generally don't like to be around pups, but after birth they clearly do...but that desire lessens over time.) So basically, all of the times last semester that I said cuddling is addictive, and love in general is addictive...I guess this shows that it really is. :)
And on the topic of withdrawal... Well, I think spring break really helped me with feeling lonely from missing![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gerbilicious85. Even though there's definitely things that annoy me about being home in St. Louis, and I still don't want to be there for longer than a few weeks at a time, it is definitely comforting. I guess that says even more that I really should have gone home for at least a few days after I saw Susan in January, instead of going straight to my externship in Boston. Of course, I thought that to begin with, and still arranged my break the way I did anyway...
But yeah, even though I do still miss her (it's sort of more or less at different times), at least lately, I think I've adjusted more. I have also been pretty busy since spring break, which I think helps with that. (So we'll see how I feel when/if I get a little bit less busy...) But I guess that's a healthy change, even though on the other hand, I start to get worried if I feel like I've adjusted too much. But I guess adjusting really is healthy... And that doesn't mean that I won't enjoy it when we do see each other in June...
So also, I've been reading stuff for my seminar presentation tomorrow on the hormonal basis of love and monogamy. It's really cool stuff... And apparently, pair bonding, at least in rodents, activates the same dopaminergic pleasure systems as cocaine and heroin. Mother-infant bonding seems to be by the same process, which leads to one amusing study, where they tested whether mother rats preferred time with their pups or cocaine to test the strength of the bond. At day 8, they preferred the pups, but at day 16, they preferred cocaine. (Adult rats generally don't like to be around pups, but after birth they clearly do...but that desire lessens over time.) So basically, all of the times last semester that I said cuddling is addictive, and love in general is addictive...I guess this shows that it really is. :)
And on the topic of withdrawal... Well, I think spring break really helped me with feeling lonely from missing
gerbilicious85. Even though there's definitely things that annoy me about being home in St. Louis, and I still don't want to be there for longer than a few weeks at a time, it is definitely comforting. I guess that says even more that I really should have gone home for at least a few days after I saw Susan in January, instead of going straight to my externship in Boston. Of course, I thought that to begin with, and still arranged my break the way I did anyway...But yeah, even though I do still miss her (it's sort of more or less at different times), at least lately, I think I've adjusted more. I have also been pretty busy since spring break, which I think helps with that. (So we'll see how I feel when/if I get a little bit less busy...) But I guess that's a healthy change, even though on the other hand, I start to get worried if I feel like I've adjusted too much. But I guess adjusting really is healthy... And that doesn't mean that I won't enjoy it when we do see each other in June...
