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Returned book

“Early on in our life here, when I casually remarked on the way Italians become excited by a pasta dish they have been eating forever, James suggested that it means something to them that we will never completely understand since we didn't grow up with it.“

—-variations between seasons, couldn't even major seasonality be an appropriate response to the environment? If the day length shifts by 6 hours, as in Chicago..., what's more reasonable: adjusting behaviors by the seasons or expecting people to have the same sleeping, eating, and socializing patterns year round?

Chapter 2: ...the very nature of [the SPAC] items suggests there's something wrong with too much seasonality. If you significantly shift your eating habits, how much you socialize, and how much you sleep in the winter the SPAC highlights this as problematic. But the measure contains no assessment of what the seasons are like where the respondents live. If someone lives in a place with tremendous—-

“Then I’ll be licking the walls. Yay.”
Enjoying the “journal entries” method of writing

“Not exactly Beyoncé. More like Susan Boyle.” 😂