whoof. it's been a while...

...mostly because my sound chambers broke down, and I've been playing electrical engineer as I try to figure out why on earth we're getting so many big surges that keep blowing fuses. I always find that mentally exhausting because it's work I feel uncertain about, so I go quiet. I hate playing electrical engineer, but I think I've solved the problem and should have four functioning sound chambers again early next week. So that's something, anyway.

I'll link some stuff on my radar soonish, or else a really big linkdump next week. Haven't decided.

I've been reading Traci Mann's Secrets From the Eating Lab for semi work-related reasons--I've been chewing on the interactions between leptin and cortisol and I wanted to know if there was some metabolism stuff in the piece--and mostly I think it's giving me some ideas on bits of the human social psychology literature that I should hunt down as I think about the kinds of things that leptin and cort might do in terms of short- and long-term stress situations.