But in the northern hemisphere, I have many dear friends I have known since I was very young. None of them are conventional people. Thank goodness.
Seb, seen below wearing a mask, once spent a whole vacation at a government centre where they do research on the common cold virus. The deal was: they infect you with the virus, then all you do is spend a week in a room watching TV and reading books, while they measure your temperature, etc.. I don't think he even got paid for it, except for free Kleenex.
Another friend once checked himself into a pharmaceutical testing centre where they paid him good money to let them test new drugs on him. After 2 weeks swallowing pills and being injected with various cocktails, he had earned enough money to buy heaps more drugs.
He had found his calling. He became a freelance drug tester, publishing the long-term findings in the form of cryptic buddhist writings.
