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Written on February 7, 2005, and categorized as Secret and Invisible.
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About now the daylight starts the long creep back.

I wake up at 6.30am (YES!) and I have to be out of bed dressed and active by 6.45am to make sense of the morning. Today it was light before 7am for the first time in 2 months. The mist was freezing cold and the sun came up pink and orange, making London look like a chocolate box. Tiny yellow crocuses have just opened, their heads startlingly bright against the dogshit citypark earth.

This is why they pick Feb 14th as V-Day.

Bright Light Increases Testosterone

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have found that the levels of a pituitary hormone that increases testosterone are enhanced after exposure to bright light in the early morning. The findings suggest that light exposure might serve some of the same functions for which people take testosterone and other androgens.

One of the study’s authors, Daniel Kripke, M.D. UCSD professor of psychiatry, added “the study also supports data that bright light can trigger ovulation in women, which is also controlled by luteinizing hormone (LH), the pituitary hormone we studied.”

The capitalists who own Cupid know all about this surge in Northern sexual interest and they capitalise on it. The question remains: can we wrest control of LOVE back from the tawdry commercial exploitative world? Can we restore some wisdom to the process of mating? Is romance dead, or does it just reek of that gakky cheap scent best left in the end-of-aisle baskets that produces unstoppable sneezing fits as it assails unsuspecting adenoids?

With only a week to go, I intend to find out.

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  1. transience
    Posted 7 February, 2005 at 9:47 am | Permalink

    ovulation. everywhere i turn, the ghastly process proceeds to bite me in the ass. i burn with shame. i will move your link up and out. watch for it tomorrow.

  2. Laurie
    Posted 7 February, 2005 at 6:17 pm | Permalink

    Romance isn’t dead. It just seems that way because it is so quickly replaced with other less desirable and less pleasant relationship stages that it all too soon feels as though it never existed at all.

  3. Blog ho
    Posted 7 February, 2005 at 6:34 pm | Permalink

    I’m off to buy a sun lamp.

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