Once a year I try to get my bloodwork done. I check for vitamin or mineral deficiencies, what with being a vegan and all. At one point in my life I’d like to do a Michael Jackson test \u2013 a battery of doctors and shrinks prodding and pushing and asking me about everything. The impulse to get to know oneself through the eyes of others, and also through a material analysis, makes this very tempting.<\/p>\n
The criminally insane (or those suspected of being such) often get a large or small psych test<\/a>, to determine if they’re actually loco or merely pretending. If I ever get a chance, I’m going for the big<\/em> test. Until then, I’ll settle with having two vials of blood drawn and a doctor knocking on my back with a small hammer.<\/p>\n [flv:http:\/\/www.monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_video\/mateusz-spruta.flv http:\/\/www.monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_video\/mateusz-spruta.png 640 380]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once a year I try to get my bloodwork done. I check for vitamin or mineral deficiencies, what with being a vegan and all. At one point in my life I’d like to do a Michael Jackson test \u2013 a battery of doctors and shrinks prodding and pushing and asking me about everything. The impulse … Continue reading Hi mom!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[448,449,451,450,397],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video","tag-blood","tag-health","tag-testing-station","tag-vampire-support-group","tag-vegan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}