What am I doing this weekend? BEGINNING A WEEK OF VACATION!
I'm not going anywhere, but it's a week of not doing work. However, I have to get my car inspected and put in my name, so joy.
Hands! Hands in new places!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Oct 23, 2009 6:33:37 am PDT #14940 of 30001
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Dana - Oct 23, 2009 6:33:58 am PDT #14941 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I never get a flu shot. Does that make me a bad person, or bad citizen or something?
msbelle - Oct 23, 2009 6:35:42 am PDT #14942 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am looking at paint colors online. In coming to terms with moving, I know I need to do some things to my place to make it more sellable and to get the most $$, painting is one of the things I think I should do and I'd rather do it where I get some enjoyment out of it. Guess I should talk to the painter guy downstairs pretty soon.
At soem point I should do some real work today, but I am tempted to just look at house listings. too early!
amych - Oct 23, 2009 6:39:12 am PDT #14943 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I never get a flu shot. Does that make me a bad person, or bad citizen or something?
Nah. You're not in any high-risk groups, and you don't do work that involves contact with gasquillions of strangers. In a lot of places, you wouldn't even be able to get it, because the available supplies are only enough to cover kids/pregnant women/health care workers/immunosuppressed/group xyz that needs it more than others do anyway.
This flu spreads like WHOA, and it's really, really fucking everywhere already -- controlling the spread as much as they can is the really big thing, from what I understand. But in your position, it's not a crazy choice not to.
Jessica - Oct 23, 2009 6:43:12 am PDT #14944 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Word on the street is that the seasonal flu shot is pretty much pointless this year anyway, since the VAST majority of cases being seen are H1N1, which had the good sense to attack before that vaccine had been distributed.
We still have no idea when the H1N1 vaccine will be available in our pediatrician's office - nobody seems to have it yet.
sumi - Oct 23, 2009 6:43:40 am PDT #14945 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Last year was the first year I ever got a flu shot - and it was mostly because I happened to be in the building when they were giving them out.
Sparky1 - Oct 23, 2009 6:47:15 am PDT #14946 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
A friend in Las Vegas was able to get an H1N1 vaccine for her son (who has a heart condition that puts him at the top of the list) but only after spending 3 hours in a line that she could have lived without. She was especially pissed because, apparently, when first responders were scheduled to get their shots, only 300 showed up.
Amy - Oct 23, 2009 6:48:17 am PDT #14947 of 30001
Because books.
My mom always gets the flu shot because she has lupus, but I never have. I've never gotten them for the kids, either. Up here, I haven't heard of anywhere that even has the H1N1 vaccine yet, though.
Jesse - Oct 23, 2009 6:52:43 am PDT #14948 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I've never gotten a flu shot, either, and I think I've gotten the flu once. I think I should maybe get it going forward, since I'll be spending more time with my 90 year old grandmother.
Vortex - Oct 23, 2009 6:55:49 am PDT #14949 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
The only time I got a flu shot (they were giving them out in the Law School) I swear, I got sicker that year than ever before, so never again. Of course, people keep telling me that sometimes happens, and the next one will be better, but no thanks!