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I have a very good reason for being worn out and therefore not vigilant on the blog and writing front: School is wearing me out more than normal. There’s now 24 people in our class of pharmacy techs. That’s not a lot by my highschool/university terms, but by vocational school terms, it’s a bad thing. That means the teacher only has time to teach the new students the things that we already know, while we veterans have to do the learning of our new drugs on our own, as well as filling prescriptions. This is tiring work, and stressful. I’ve been looking at drug lists so long that I hear them echoeing in my head. (that’s partially my own fault. I use rhymes to remember generic/brand name. It works, but the resulting memory fixation depresses me.)

The result of all the previous blather is that Pharmacy school is eating my soul. there’s not enough left when I get free time to do any writing. I would blog while at school, because we get computer lab time, but blog sites are blocked. Something about not wanting us to waste our study time on non-study related activities. Nonsense! I get more out of blogging anyway! :)

Now that I’m done poorly excusing myself, I want to talk about Vampire folklore. Kind of. Yesterday I was visiting my mom’s book club. She requested my presence because she was having them read Dracula, in light of the upcoming spooky day. She doesn’t have a lot of time on her hands, and has the same soul death problem that I do. Which meant she relied heavilly on my random knowledge of vampire folklore to answer the questions that popped up. I tried not to turn it into a lecture, but at times I felt like a know-it-all, and no one likes a Hermione. 

Anyways, at the end of the night, I got a question from one of the women there, and it was a very interesting question. She wanted to know why I thought superstitions of vampires ever came about.

Prompt:

Why do you think myths of the undead ever surfaced?

Some believe there has to be a basis in reality. Lots of books are obbsessed with debunking the supposed ‘proof’ that the dead came back to haunt the living, like the appearance of finger nail and hair growth is explained by skin receeding. There’s probably some psychological aspects of being afraid of death and therefore the dead. That’s a very summarized version of my answer- a mixture of lack of knowledge about decay, some basis in reality, and the need to blame someone. I could go on and on. Maybe in another post.