You're gonna work night and day to make a time machine? Excellent avatar by the way. I want one of those medals.
I might buy/make (easier to make than a time machine) A Memento Mori coin myself. It is a good reminder to live your life and stop wasting it. and if I could make a time machine I would clap my then self sillyand tell him to get his butt in gear and well you can guess the rest, blah blah blah.
I was on a train once... inwardly smiled at the words woven over two lines around the cuff of a sock that a fellow (tall) passenger had unwittingly exposed for the rising of his trouser hems upon seating. They read: "Carpe the Fuckin' Diem Out of the Day" — Class There was a thread on here (might need time machine to view it now (then)), it was about what you'd say to your past self... I think I replied to that one with the something along the lines of geeing me up to overcome laziness. Geeing leant towards being physically violent of course. Better pitch in my my not happy, given I'll be otherwise intruding on the title of this thread: I'm super-miffed that I've (over the last year) lost a shed load of my hearing on one side. I was listening to 'Sitting in the Dock of the Bay' on a bench in a park, minding my own a day or two back, single bud in one ear and absorbing the ambience with the other. The song arrived at it's whistle crescendo... I couldn't pick it out at all. :-( the moment was taken from me.
I have to say, that looks rather depressing. I have a cold. I also had a rehearsal for our school production yesterday. Since it's School of Rock, there was a lot of head-banging. There was also a lot of kneeling down. So now my knees are bruised and my neck aches. I think I stuck it to the Man a bit too hard.
Apparently , according to a Doctor I once car pooled with, the stronger your immune system is, the worse the symptoms of influenza are. However there is a tipping point where a persons immune system is so low the virus will kill them anyway, if not treated. Between the ages of 45 and 60 - 70 people suffer far less from flu symptoms, but have the same mortality rates of any other age range because of age related complications. One of the most dangerous and common was emphysema, which has seen a massive decline over the last 20 years. Spanish Flu "Most influenza outbreaks disproportionately kill juvenile, elderly, or already weakened patients. However the 1918 flu predominantly killed healthy young adults. Individuals between the ages of 20-40 accounted for nearly half of the fatalities. This abnormal result is believed to have been caused due to ‘cytokine storm’ in which the immune system over responds to the threat of infection. Thus the strong immune system of young adults ravaged their bodies while the population with a weaker immune system was able to recover."
Last night I went to the shop with the explicit intent of buying milk. I forgot to buy milk. I don't like coffee with out milk. I don't like breakfast cereal without milk. I like milk. I'm going to the shop.. again. Why did I forget to buy milk?
I remember a friend , it may have been made up, telling a story about when post-it-notes first came out. His wife became obsessed with leaving them around the house to remind him to do or buy certain things. One day his wife went to the toilet, did the business only to realise there was no toilet roll, however on the wall was a post-it-note, with "Buy Toilet rolls" written on it. Apparently when he returned from work his wife was furious, not that he had forgotten to buy toilet roll, but because written on the reverse of the post-it-note was "In case I forget to buy the toilet rolls , use this".
My internet went down on sunday and I just got it back this afternoon. I've lost out on extra hours at work because I couldn't check my email, and also some of my pay for this month will be delayed until next month because I couldn't get online to update my time sheets. Not happy.
I love James Breakwell. "You're not famous for making good content. You're famous for having cute kids." "To be fair, I made them too."
Yeah I could definitely see that going over so well in the UK. Lol. We Americans love grand gestures.
With influenza infection, the severity of disease is the result of the interplay between viral virulence and host resistance. Just to clarify a few things: Symptoms of viral infections are not all due to one's immune response. Just look at the HIV virus, it causes disease by damaging the immune system. Some viruses produce syncytia, a protein that helps the virus enter a cell. Left behind on the cell surface it causes, (among other things), cells to fuse together. Viruses like influenza are synergistic with some bacterial pathogens: Cooperation between Viral and Bacterial Pathogens in Causing Human Respiratory Disease Those are but a few examples. The point is, it is a gross oversimplification to think all the damage influenza does is due to the body's immune response. From the above link: It's not that a cytokine storm is not an issue, it's still a viable hypothesis. But it does not explain all flu deaths, nor all severe cases of influenza. It's important to keep in mind when reading medical articles that a statement such as the following doesn't mean said cytokine storm is the only mechanism of severe disease: From: The cytokine storm of severe influenza and development of immunomodulatory therapy. If interested in the basic mechanisms of how pathogens make us ill, I recommend people skim the links I cited to get an idea just how complex the situation is. One need not understand what all these factors do to recognize oversimplified explanations are inadequate and misleading. As for believing influenza vaccinations cause symptoms of illness, I repeat from the CDC's website: Just saying what the scientific research found. Beyond that, meh.
For some reason I am imagining Ginger Coffee in a sequel to a Fantastic Voyage, wielding a mace and conquering cancer. (I mean the book, not the movie.)
Set the students an assignment last week for a debate to take place today. Told them the topic, verbally and in writing on an assignment sheet. Told them which side of the topic to argue verbally and in writing on the assignment sheet. Came in today, began the activity, and discovered that they had all prepared for the opposite side of the debate. See, some little... student (Alan Rickman as Snape voice) wasn't sure which side I meant when I gave the assignment, so (s)he went into their little LINE group and asked. And some other little student, who had managed to perfectly misunderstand things, managed to convince the entire class that (s)he was right and hir* misinterpretation of my directions (verbal and in writing) were probably correct. So that was ninety wasted minutes. Next week, we're going to do it again. This time, I gave the assignment verbally and in the form of a cartoon drawn on the blackboard that I made them all photograph with their phones. Everyone clear?
Washing machine broke so I had to blow my coffee budget on clean clothes. Now I have to wait until the first of the month for my next double-double.
At least they actually turned up for the class. The student I'm currently supporting is off sick. At least I assume they're still sick. They aren't replying to any of my attempts to communicate with them and didn't turn up for their morning lecture. When it became apparent that they weren't going to show up, I came home. No way I'm spending my day traipsing round campus after a student who isn't even there.
And now they've decided my student is too unreliable and cancelled the support. I'm now officially between students. Great. Just great. Also, the chocolate is gone. Why is the chocolate always gone?
Whelp, I found out I was totally duped. Acting boss had been lying to assistant and to me to turn is against each other and shifts and her sick leave meant we hardly saw from each other since we came in. My usual mental defences were down due to fatigue from overtime the fact I'm on probation means I have to take periodic feedback, which he had monopolised. Assistant and I have been talking at length this week and the more we did the more it became clear. I've given a letter to be handed to the area manager which says 'Disregard anything cited as my words by [acting manager]' about the state I was in and how I have since learned that he had lied to my face. I get pretty productive and resourceful when I'm upset, and right now, I'm furious.
Looks like you need a new job. In the meantime, here's a hug and a plate/bowl of [insert favourite comfort food here].