I feel slightly bad - I just yelled at the delivery guy for banging on my door so hard. He says people haven't heard him, but that is why I have a door bell

most people are deficient in Vit D

Actually I was just reading a few days ago about a large scale survey which debunked this - lemme dredge up that link because I was really surprised.

Eta here it is - new vitamin D reccomendations from the IOM show most Americans and Canadians are getting enough: [link]

(Seriously? WHY DO I REMEMBER THAT.)

I recall it being COMM'd. (Not POMM'd, thankfully.)

There is a black market for pee, but it's for drug-free pee, not over-vitamined pee.

The night before an organic chemistry test, I came down with something that included a 104-degree fever. I staggered into student health the minute it opened and they prescribed a very expensive antibiotic, gave me a note for the professor and told me to go to bed. As soon as I could, I went to the professor, explained what happened and asked to drop the class, since I didn't see how I could make up the work in everything. (The evil illness went on to include an ear infection and then an eye infection.) At that time, you could drop a class before a certain point, but the professor had the option of giving you withdrawal while passing or withdrawal while failing. The first went away; the second acted like an F on your GPA. The professor said, "Well, you didn't do well on the first test, so you probably would have failed the test you missed" and gave me the latter.

This is one reason why I became a journalist instead of a doctor.

The professor said, "Well, you didn't do well on the first test, so you probably would have failed the test you missed" and gave me the latter.

Jesus, what a prick.

I have expensive pee as well. It never occurred to me that different vitamin pills could be absorbed differently. I suppose I should mess with some chewables and see if it makes a difference. I definitely need to supplement. I hate most seafood so I take fish oil capsules. And I don't get quite as many fruits and veggies as I should (or as diverse a selection as I should).

Why do I remember this? Isn't there something about ita getting pee thrown at (not ON) her in an alley? Possibly while visiting the Angel set?

Ha! I missed it by a day. There had been pee throwing the night before I showed up. Poor Tim.

quester, that is totally sucky. I'm so sorry. I hope something pops up for you later this week.

WS, how are you, and is DCJ home yet?

Smonster, stay the (*&%*&%^*& home from work until the PI clears up. Adding stress to the mix is gonna make healing even slower and more miserable. Plus cranky time=less effective teacher/leader.

Last time the steroids made me more perky than cranky, so I'm hoping that's the case again. And unless I can get this as worker's comp, I haven't earned enough sick days. I've earned two, and may have used one today. So it's back to work tomorrow, and try like hell not to scratch.

What WindSparrow said about your friend and our discussion, DJ. She really is gorgeous and I'm glad she's getting work.

About that whole "plus sizes were fashionable in the 50s," I even call bullshit on that. B/c I've tried to shop vintage, and holee shit. I wear a current 12, which is more like a 20 back then, and good fucking luck finding those. It wasn't plus-sized as much as it was "soft" and not athletic. Also? Girdles. IJS.

WS, how are you, and is DCJ home yet?

I'm home sick today, with tonsil misery for which I have been given amoxicillin. I have tomorrow off already, which is good because I want to laze around in bed for another day. I also am dreaming of being able to eat crunchy food again. Seriously, I had a dream about crispy, thin crust pizza. Sammie has been very snuggly with me - which is lovely and kind of makes me wish I didn't have to be sick to get Sammie snuggles.

Daniel got home safely yesterday evening. His car has water pump issues, so it was good that he could use my car today. He dropped me off at the clinic on his way to work. I took a cab home. He hasn't gotten back yet today, but he often does not get home until 9 or 10pm.

Eta here it is - new vitamin D reccomendations from the IOM show most Americans and Canadians are getting enough:

Science is good. But when tested my vit D level was WAAAAAY low, which is not at all surprising given that there's been about 2 hrs of sunlight in this city in the last 3 months and i'm never out in daylight anyways, except for bike rides in the summer and even then i slather in sunblock. I was taking 1000 iu a day w/ calcium (the US RDA) and my GP said to quadruple that. It's been a boon to my energy levels...but then i was super low and prob have been since my first melanoma scare in adolescence when i started actively avoiding sunlight.

eta: ye gods, just looked at the us rda on my calcium and it says onl 400 iud of vit d per day. perhaps all the over blown "americans aren't getting enuf!" is more about the rda being way low than about people actually not getting enough.

Thank you guys all for withstanding the "D"-bacle today (see what I did there?)

I've decided to move on. I was the dumbass to begin with and a lot of professors actually say if you don't take the final you fail automatically so I got that going for me.

As I am fond of telling myself when my school isn't going well for me, "If a total douche can barely pass Yale Law School and still become President (in some form or another) for 8 years, I will make it to being a teacher."