A) Piles of dead and ravening children? Upsetting.
B) Mmm, blueberries
C) What is up with all the nightmares? I've been having them too, mostly tied into or using characters from the old videos I've been burning off to dvd. Betrayal by long lost family members, rescue by long lost mentors. Lots of violence. Very unsettling.

t waves at tommyrot

It's a holiday

I've been teaching for 6 hours (um, not the same students!), and before that I had a lecture. So I left the room here on around 10:30am. When I came back inside, on around 6pm, after running and standing constantly on my feet and never sitting and waving my hands around and talking loudly all day, this other student who sits in this room, who wasn't even here when I left in the morning (or in the two hours I was there beforehand), mocked my time of arrival with "Good Morning!" (="It's dark outside, and now you remember to show up?"). I couldn't help it. I just sat down and burst out laughing.

ita, I'm throwing cookies at the screen. Gently, because I don't want to damage either it or the cookies. You shouldn't get crumbs, right? Also, since we have no blueberries here, I'm afraid I can't throw them at the screen. They would probably stick to it more than the cookies, maybe even make spluch noises, but I'm afraid that can't be helped.

And with that, I have to run out. Sigh. Um, I mean, "Bye"! It rhymes. Does that count?

[Edit: Hi, Jesse! Bye, Jesse! At least I got the "bye" part right this time!]

Hi, Nilly! Bye, Nilly!

Happy Birthday, msbelle!!

It's cold and snowy and wet here, and I'm just bummed that I have to work. I might try and talk my boss into letting me go home early; I did end up losing 1 1/2 days of PTO at the end of the year, so maybe she'll go for it.

Happy birthday, msbelle!

Happy Birthday msbelle.

It's snowing here. Winter has finally arrived in Atlantic Canada.

Happy Birthday, msbelle!! Hope work is behaving better.

Good luck with the notice giving stuff, Consuela!

This morning, I woke uo at 7:00, shot up Ozzie, then got back in bed just for a few minutes.

Oops.

Off to breakfast and TJs,

Eww! Eww! Eww!

Rare brain worms spread by unsanitary cooks

"It was a mild headache, but it wouldn't go away," he said. "It was just there and it wouldn't go away with Tylenol."

Doctors at a clinic gave him medicine for high blood pressure. A few days later he passed out and didn't wake up for eight days.

Dr. Aaron Mohanty found a cyst of tapeworm larvae living in Ramirez's brain. If it hadn't been found, the doctor said, Ramirez could have been dead within hours from the disease called cysticercosis. The disease is usually found in rural parts of developing countries with poor hygiene habits. However, Ramirez was the fourth patient Mohanty treated within a few months.

Rare brain worms spread by unsanitary cooks

I think I remember that House episode...

I prefer to focus on the Futurama episode. Those were some good worms.

Christ. I'm just glad the word is "cooks" and not what I originally read (and typed).

Question: Is the paleness of skin on palms and soles because of a relative lack of melanin? This has been my understanding for a while, but googling for cites confused me, since I found explanations that involved the relative thickness of the skin in both places instead. And many of the "no melanin" pages seemed informal and didn't infuse me with trusty feelings.