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April 2020, France
Lockdown was announced. Sarah worked alone in her laboratory, coming to work early.
Her boyfriend did not mind that she spent all the time mostly with her molds then with him: he had his own research.
There was a bit less work these days because all the lectures with students and other meetings were canceled.
In lockdown time she found it funny to make her own movies with the mold Ahmed — the new strain which was so fast and smart.
“Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight #blob of goo…”- she posted on Safebook the video of Ahmed fighting C-3PO from Star Wars (it was a toy) and eating the metal head of the robot.
Ahmed-warrier in the video looked very belligerent due to the pulsation of the Plasmodium. People joked back: “Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease!”, “Que le Blob soit avec toi !!!”, “Le c;t; Blob de la force !”, “;tant philosophe, j'ai un probl;me pour chaque solution.”
Those days Sarah found the new name for Ahmed – Blobi Wan Kenobi due to the fact that she had a grandiose plan for him.

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© Susan J. Vincent, 2018
This woman in her very clever book showed the answer for the problem question I had, why appearance IS important. I love this woman, her mind.
She says that all that one is doing with hair is a cultural act, but these  cultural norms are invisible for contemporaries, and the norms and practices that are pertaining to hair are wider than lives of particular people in whom they are embodied. She says that hair is important in how we understand ourselves. Also hair-relating-habits have a very long history. I would expand her thoughts to an appearance of people in whole and the understanding of beauty, and taste by human beings. Current state of culture is so involved in the everyday life of each person that each small act that we do reflects the culture: when we are eating, shaving, walking, taking photos, going to a gym, speaking or keeping silent.
I am not always so strict toward my appearance. I love my eyes and legs, and stomach...When I am in a good mood I feel my lips are so rose, have proper, ideal thickness, that I would like to kiss myself. I see my long lashes, they are waved in the edges of eyes that makes them attractive, doll-like. My chin is tenderly pointed, cheeks a bit rose, neck long, ears have nice form, hair thin but in a big amount, eyes change its color from gray to blue and green. Nose is thin and sharp, and small. I am not a gorgeous woman but sometimes I feel like that. The matter is I usually share something that is unusual for me, that comes in a bad period of time, and is not a typical feeling of myself. Almost always, I like myself.
Last several training sessions in the gym were fine due to the feeling of lightness in my body. I can run faster, jump longer and higher, make wu-shu postures longer, and straighten myself deeper. But I had been feeling a pain in my spine for two months and today it is bothering me. Two months ago I did several sets of exercises lying with my back on the floor. My underwear had a zipper on the back that damaged my spine. After that I bought another bra with front closure but it didn't help. Don't know what to do. I have to force myself to go to a doctor.