re: bathrooming. I asked my doctor how often someone should go to the bathroom, and he said every couple of hours is normal. I have had to pull out the "middle-aged female bladder--look, just ask your mother, OK?" thing when young male supervisors have questioned why I couldn't go through the whole morning without taking a break. Utah law says you should give workers a ten-minute break after 5 hours of work, which to a certain class of manager means someone should be able to keep their butt in the seat for 5 hours straight--and hey, we're giving you the required half-hour lunch for eight hours works halfway through your shift, so what's the problem?

Amy, I don't even know!

tommyrot, that link made me squeal with glee. Deeper realities than them what we already got! EXCITING!

Personally, I think everyone's overhydrated and we don't need to be drinking so much. But that's just my non-doctor-y opinion. I felt better when I stopped dutifully gulping down water whether I was thirsty or not, for sure.

I gotta pee less often, too.

For Teppy:

Topological Marvel: The Klein Bottle in Art

I still need a Kein bottle.

eta:

The California-based Acme Klein Bottle Company sports quite a catalog of different glass and plastic bottles. They describe their products as "the finest closed, non-orientable, boundary-free manifolds sold anywhere in our three spatial dimensions":

Teppy, is that where yours came from?

Interesting , Zen. Living in CA where it is dryer , I need more water than I used to. Add a few chronic conditions and all the drugs that go with them - about 8 out of 10 times more water helps.

A Klein bottle would make an exquisite wine decanter.

I think everyone's overhydrated and we don't need to be drinking so much

I think the chances of most people taking "medical" advice and actually drinking too much water (Mountain Dew and/or coffee are a much different battle) are pretty slim. When have people actually paid that much heed?

Is heed for both the taking and the paying? I'm disconfused. What else can you do with heed?

I have inaccurately scoped today, and I don't know what the rest of my week looks like.

Just bought a ticket to see Audra McDonald in concert in October. Woot! I love being somewhere where things happen again.

The Klein article is all the mindfuck I think I can handle at this juncture.

someone should be able to keep their butt in the seat for 5 hours straight

Don't they know that sitting is what is killing us all?!?!?!?!?!

The 8-glasses-of-water-a-day thing was never real medical advice, FWIW. I think most people drink when they're thirsty and do just fine.