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."
"Stop taking drugs or you ain't gonna be nothin'."
"I can be mayor of Washington DC."
And Aims? Yay for keeping your GPA, and I certainly don't recommend lowering your standards...but, depressingly, many, many teachers get certified just fine and hired with truly sucktastic GPAs. Anything above a 3.0? Not sucktastic at all.
I have known many people who have had so-so GPAs and went on to be fine teachers (however, I ran into many people in teacher programs who I wanted to stab in the face, just to prevent them from going on and potentially scarring kids, because the STUPID IT BURNED. You, my dear, are never going to be one of them.)
Seekrit message to Erin:
Small chance I may be coming to KCMO for New Year's.
Dammit, poor Daniel is having to clear away a huge bank of snow left after the plows came through again - this is after their first trip through, after which I'd paid a guy to plow our driveway, taking care of the utterly enormous bank. This is ridiculous. It's bloody fucking cold out there, and I can't help him.
"Stop taking drugs or you ain't gonna be nothin'." "I can be mayor of Washington DC."
Apparently, Marion is flogging a reality show called...wait for it..."Mayor for Life."
So far, the idea is not catching on.
Talk about your major hubris. But, bless him, it's never too much to ask.
SQUEE, smonster! (If you do, I am having a NYE party!!)
