Does pork count as red meat? (I'm supposed to not have red meat for three days for a stool sample....)
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tommyrot - Mar 19, 2008 4:57:56 am PDT #5846 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
msbelle - Mar 19, 2008 4:58:44 am PDT #5847 of 10001
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pork is the OTHER white meat.
Dana - Mar 19, 2008 4:59:25 am PDT #5848 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh, and I hate my hair this morning too.
Emily - Mar 19, 2008 4:59:26 am PDT #5849 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Hi all! This is my strident-teaching-related post of the day, so skip at will:
Okay, so Education Week is reporting on a study that shows that the more days a teacher is absent, the poorer the students do (well, at least on test). Okay, that makes sense. I hate that it's used to make teachers feel guilty about needed days off (I may have mentioned that we have one guy who's responsible for calling substitutes and we're constantly getting "this day is closed for subs because we already have too many teachers absent" emails), but it makes sense. This is my favorite part.
That study also linked "schools with high proportions of poor children" to a greater number of teacher absences. "In addition, the Harvard study found that teachers in schools with larger enrollments tended to take more sick and personal days than those in smaller schools."
Uh-huh. I can't come up with a more erudite reaction than DUH. Who could imagine that a) higher-stress jobs result in less healthy employees or b) larger populations result in more illnesses? By this point last year, I'd taken at least one sick day a month (sometimes because I was about to break down at work and possibly jump out the window). This year, I've taken two sick days all year.
tommyrot - Mar 19, 2008 5:02:54 am PDT #5850 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
pork is the OTHER white meat.
That's what I thought.
What is red meat, then? Besides cow, I mean. Dark meat on a chicken or other fowl? I suppose buffalo would be red meat. Goat? Or is it just the cow-ish animals?
(Just curious - I don't suppose I'll be considering goat in the next three days.)
Hil R. - Mar 19, 2008 5:04:13 am PDT #5851 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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Just played half a game of Scrabble against my mom. Then we both got bored with it. Now we're sitting in the den trying to think of something else to do on a rainy day in New Jersey. (I can think of a bunch of things to do, but they all require going into the city, which my mom doesn't want to do.)
msbelle - Mar 19, 2008 5:06:30 am PDT #5852 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
bison and ostrich are both red meat.
lisah - Mar 19, 2008 5:07:22 am PDT #5853 of 10001
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Is lamb red meat?
tommyrot - Mar 19, 2008 5:07:40 am PDT #5854 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Huh. I would have lumped ostrich with other fowl.
How about deer? Squirrel?
amych - Mar 19, 2008 5:08:25 am PDT #5855 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
It's for a medical test. Eat fish. Or get clarification from the doctor's office.