#149 — Glandular Problems
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According to Mr. Tovey, my high school biology teacher, the human body is controlled by a complex set of interconnected organs called glands. For example, you have the adrenal glands; small, timid, and easily frightened organs that panic at the first sign of trouble. Imagine that you’re sitting quietly, letting your mind wander and maybe dozing a bit. Ever vigilant, your adrenal glands are scanning the environment for potential threats like someone else in the meeting asking for your opinion on the Colossus Project. You, personally, would like to handle this calmly and professionally, by raising a single eyebrow as if to say, What do you think I think?
No such luck. Your adrenal glands are squirting adrenaline on all of your other organs like a fireman hosing down a burning factory. Those other organs — which had been dozing right along with you — jump up and start freaking out. Your heart, lungs and sweat glands all race out of control and the best you can manage is a shouted, “WHAT DO YOU THINK I THINK?”
This gives everyone in the room the impression that you are a paranoid, raving lunatic and your adrenal gland can rest easy knowing that it has once again saved you from the danger of earning a promotion.
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Notes:
- Thanks to Tairy for including one of my essays in episode #170 of Little Red’s Writing Hood. You can find out more at: http://www.lrwh.us/lrwh.us/LRWH-Podcast.html
- Thanks, also, to Jeffrey Hite at Great Hites for the bumper. You can follow Jeffrey’s great podcast at: http://greathites.blogspot.com
- Finally, my continued gratitude to the good folks at Slice of SciFi for promoting my show. Find them (and listen in) at: http://www.sliceofscifi.com
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I think everyone has cool science teachers. Mine was Mr. Hackwell, who encouraged us to eat snails. I never agreed to eat them, but I took the leftovers home as pets… in fact, I think I blogged about that a little while back.
Yup, I did. http://chas.willowrise.com/?p=337
Anyway, thanks for the great show. I love every episode! They are hilarious!
- Chas
Thanks for the kind comment, Chas. And, also, for the link back to your blog post. Great stuff!