It's interesting to me that the way staffing works is there is one nurse per two kids or so. Sometimes one nurse per kid. And on big days, like the day of Grace's surgery, there were two nurses just for her.

Wow. That is intensive care.

I am feeling good about my week so far. The weather is gorgeous today, and my Big Boss just came to ask me for something that I already left for her on Friday! Phew.

Bloody Fucking Hell.

The assistant principal at my school who is in charge of facilities (gates and gutters basically) has been asking K about when I'm coming back. I have 20 days before I HAVE to file a request for leave. Tomorrow is day 19, I think or day 20.

Anyhow, she released the sub I had. Seriously. Because she overheard I was coming back but never spoke to me directly. Not even when I was at school last week and saw her.

Somehow, it's not my responsibility just because SHE released the sub. Plus I don't have clearance from my doctor. It hasn't even been 4 complete weeks since I had major abdominal surgery. Sure. I'm pretty positive I could get a release if pressured. But honestly, I am not ready to go back.

I'm so annoyed.

According to the AM news this morning, the average sexual encounter lasts 24 minutes worldwide. I wonder what that means. Like penetrative sex? Very interesting and odd.

I'm wondering what they use as the starting point. Like, kissing-but-clothes-still-on?

(And, for that matter, what the end point is. Orgasm for both? Just one? Falling asleep?)

I'm wondering what they use as the starting point. Like, kissing-but-clothes-still-on?

Cause if that's the case? That's just sad.

And we haven't even gotten into the age old question of what they are using to define sex.

Will they be able to get the sub back, or is the sub already reassigned?

It's 10:30 and I've already eaten my lunch. Oops.

But honestly, I am not ready to go back.

Well yeah, because that's crazy.

According to the AM news this morning, the average sexual encounter lasts 24 minutes worldwide.

I want to know their methodology. I feel this way about most statistics reported as news, but in this case, prurience demands details.

Kat, that's bullshit about work. That's not how you want to treat an assumedly valuable resource.

I'm beyond curious on the "sex" thing too.

Interesting article on medicine in TV. All the more interesting is a cite of 24 doing it right in the end:

The show was interested in this scenario: Terrorists release a biological agent in a hotel air conditioning system, making people sick in a matter of minutes and killing roughly 2,000 people within a few hours. They concocted a genetically engineered "Cordella virus" to do it, and wanted government officials to be able to wave an electronic device that could instantly detect the virus in the air.

They consulted CDC officials, who said there are no such devices. The CDC also suggested that health officials might try to deal with such a situation by isolating the ill from the well, perhaps reducing the contagion's impact, said Dr. Mitchell Cohen, director of CDC's Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases.

The writers took the tip, and the final death toll fell to under 800.

According to the AM news this morning, the average sexual encounter lasts 24 minutes worldwide.

Do you suppose that's the average for vanilla sex, or for all sexual practices? Because it would take longer if you have to put on the gorilla suit first.

Boris Yeltsin had died.