{"id":61,"date":"2005-05-28T14:59:10","date_gmt":"2005-05-28T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/05\/28\/strep-for-me-babe\/"},"modified":"2005-05-28T14:59:10","modified_gmt":"2005-05-28T18:59:10","slug":"strep-for-me-babe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/05\/28\/strep-for-me-babe\/","title":{"rendered":"Strep for Me, Babe"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

The year after my parent’s divorced, I had a full-blown psoriasis break
\nout.  It was everywhere, back, torso, all four limbs, and on my
\nface.  The doctors tried to explain the potential triggers to the
\nseven-year-old me. Strep throat <\/span>(I
\nhad a bout of this the year before), something that my mother ate while
\nI was in the womb, or simple genetics.  Since then, I’ve always
\nassociated it with stress (my only recent serious outbreak was during
\nthe Bar exam last summer).<\/p>\n

Around the same time as this first psoriasis break out, I began to
\nexperience mild bouts of OCD that lasted for one or two weeks at most,
\nand jumped from theme to theme.  I distinctly remember being
\nmortified by salt on my skin for a short period…then of ants…then
\nof ink on the skin.  Once I was in college, I attributed this to
\nnormal childhood development.  As one grew up, the chemical
\nprocesses changed, bringing on sudden bouts of OCD depending upon one’s
\nbrain chemistry.  But there’s a new hypothesis regarding the
\ntriggers of these mysterious childhoold phases: Strep<\/a>.  <\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

This is my second day off of May.  I’ve been dealing with this
\nlike a trooper, but I’ve become snippier with each late night, and each
\nSaturday or Sunday that I spend in the office.  Friends who map
\nout strategies for a glorious return to legal academia via the
\nclerkship route, rock.  Friends who point out, “Leaving at 10 or
\n11 pm on a Friday or Saturday still leaves you with the night
\noff,”  have been working around bankers way too long.<\/p>\n

And now, for a Blackberry-free day…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The year after my parent’s divorced, I had a full-blown psoriasis break out.  It was everywhere, back, torso, all four limbs, and on my face.  The doctors tried to explain the potential triggers to the seven-year-old me. Strep throat (I had a bout of this the year before), something that my mother ate while I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}