Last night during my usual tedious thoughts that serve to maintain my insomnia, I suddenly wondered why the big toe is generally referred to as a toe, whereas the thumb - the finger equivalent - is not referred to as a finger. Then I wondered whether I would recognise the non-toe name of the big toe. Today, I open my text book, and within ten minutes, I read the sentence... the hallux is the big toe. Never heard of it before. If I'd done the studying that I was supposed to have done yesterday I might have gained half an hour of sleep.
I hope the other things I was thinking about don't come up in the text book. That could get weird.
Really struggling to sit still today. I'm getting quite a bit of work done, but my focus is way off the mark. I keep jumping up to look at different books. At least everything seems interesting today - I've been waiting for some time for this feeling to return to me. If only it was the right book that I was interested in. Ah well, you can't have it all.
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rosie
Things that are the same but different. Thumb is easy: every finger moves towards the thumb; not the same with the big toe.
neil