Good morning! I am running very late!
Classes start tomorrow for me, yikes!
My dear stomach has perhaps predisposed me for crankiness this morning. (Yes, it’s at it again.) :rolleyes:
So, let me complain for a moment about married people who have one facebook profile that they share between them. Is this really necessary? Are you really that joined at the hip, that you can’t even have your own page? No individual thoughts? That kind of life sounds boring to me.
Ok, so on with my day… I guess I’d better try to make my way to the kitchen as I have to make some lasagna this morning.
Bye!
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’.
Nava Lay Readers are supposed to be “licensed” in the Whiskypal Church but truth be told, if you say you want to read and appear to be able to read, you will be snagged for Lector duties.
Hazzie I’m always up for a Bloody Mary recipe. I’ve tweaked my recipe many, many times over the years. The latest tweak is Tom Collins mix, of all things! Gives a nice little hint of sweet in the background along with the large overtones of spicy, which I consider to be the most important part of a Bloody Mary. Well, after the Vodka of course. 
Special1 you sizzlin’ hunk of Israeli manflesh, I knew it was you right away. 
picu makes ya wonder how the makers of staples stay in bidness doesn’t it. Then again, I don’t think I’ll ever use the three boxes of paper clips I also own. I did, however, get rid of the little jar thingy of pens that didn’t write. Go Me!
Feel better spaz and CutiePie!
Time for more caffiene and rumbly tummy demands to be fed.
Dude, I am sooo not sizzlin’ today… We’re having a veritable cold snap – why the daytime high in Tel Aviv today isn’t even going to reach 60F! 
It’s been raining off-and-on, too. Which is a Good Thing, as far as we’re concerned.
**Pie **-- hope you feel better!
**Ivory **-- I done said it last MMP and I’ll say it again: “I’m late, I’m late” is a phrase reserved for a particular Pale Bunny!
Blurf. I do not like Mondays. I can haz Bloody Mary? 
Nice OP, Swampus. Try this bloody Mary mixsometime. It’s very, very good!
Blrf. Again.
Have a great day, everyone.
Nava–I never heard of a such a thing. I was never confirmed, yet I have read many times, taught Sunday school and chaired several committees at church. Jeez!
Off to start my very busy week. Bye, all.
You can’t tell me what to do. (Stamps foot and pouts).
How about “I’m rather tardy”?
Swampy: don’t you want to be my friend? (more pouting).
:has Rage Against the Machine moment:
I am filling up a spreadsheet with exam marks for our med students. They are worryingly bad.
What do you teach?
Nothing, I don’t have the patience for it! The exam marks are for epidemiology which most of the students don’t seem to regard as in any way important for their course.
We give them evaluation forms at the end of the course, almost invariably they complain that the sessions are on Friday afternoon, the book is too big, the sessions are too long (2hrs) and they’ve already done it all in years 1 and 2. Obviously they didn’t retain much from the first two years because the results are never particularly high!
Hey- my sister is an epidemiologist and teachers med students and public health students. They all complain, too. Hah!
Soapy I’ll friend ya! I’m still learnin’ up on all this here facebook stuff.
I’m all brekkied and cleaned up. Now for a day of… ummmm… wastin’ time betwixt here and facebook with a break for a nap.
Special1 we have the same weather today! Well, 'cept the rain was late yesterday afternoon through the night and is gone now.
These are 3rd year med students studying public health modules. What amuses me is that at the beginning of the year, my academic colleague does an introductory lecture telling them what the epidemiology course is about and how it is very relevant to the project module they will do immediately afterwards.
The course is only five taught sessions and if they worked through it, they could actually have a fair shot of passing the course just by doing all the stuff in the course book. Naturally, the student who I know has already failed and only turned up to two out of five sessions, will not blame himself for not working hard enough, he’ll say it’s our fault for making the exam too hard.
My sister-in-law is an epidemiologist. I have no idea what the hell that means, but it sure sounds impressive, and people call her “Doctor.”
Thanks to Rosie and her Facebook blitz, I have remembered that the Dope exists. I can’t seem to keep up with the MMP from Tuesday-Sunday, but I’ve still got a four-day work week and Mondays off for the foreseeable future, so I can at least get in on the ground floor. Maybe e-mail notifications are the way to go. 
Swampy, I am always in need of a stapler. And yet I do not have one. I will take one of your staplers and one box of staples. In exchange, I will send you a bottle of apple schnapps somebody gave to me years ago and I have never opened. I’m sure you can find something to do with it.
It’s rainy and ick here today. I’m supposed to go out to the eye doctor in a little while–not because there’s anything wrong with my eyes, but just because I think I’d look cute with new glasses. And maybe it’s time to see how much contacts will cost with my mostly-fixed eyes. I had lasik surgery about ten years ago, at a time when my near-blindness was right about at the outside edge of what they could fix. They told me that my eyes might deteriorate again and they were right–but eight years of waking up and being able to see the numbers on the clock was totally worth it. I could probably get a free “touch-up” if I went back to the same place because I have a vague recollection of them telling me something like that … but now I’m older and chickener and I don’t want that laser anywhere near my eyes.
Aaaaaand, that’s about all I have. I’ma go start my launderin’. And HI EVERYBODY!!!
Hi, stranger!
Epidemiologists are the people who, when three patients turn up in two different countries with the same weird symptoms, figure out that they all got food poisoning in the same restaurant, which happens to be in a third country.
Of course, before they can be in a novel doing that, they need to spend TONS of time learning about past epidemics, disease vectors, statistics and suchlike. SiL dreaded epi just for the stats, she has problems with anything more complicated than division by two.
Hi Drae!!! We’ve missed you!
Our weekend project was hanging a pot rack in the kitchen. I’ve struggled for two years to find curtains that I could put over that window so instead we finally decided that a curtain of pots and pans would be the way to go. 
We, too, have the giant box of staples with only a handful used up. Why do they only sell boxes of 500 or 100 or 2000 staples??
I’m coming off 3 crummy weeks at work and feeling very unmotivated to work today. I think it’s going to be the kind of day when only the minimum necessary gets done. Hopefully my attitude will improve as the week goes on.
Although that might be unlikely because I just found out that I’m getting a new computer. Which should be a good thing, but there’s just so much set up time that I don’t have time for and some software that I’m worried that I won’t get on the new computer. (Our team really isn’t supposed to have our own pgp software, we’re supposed to go through IT for encryption, but I have the one copy of it, which is really useful so I don’t want to lose it.) So instead of being helpful it’s going to be a major hassle. And I’ll probably lose Firefox and will have to use IE. Ugh.
Top a’ the marnin’ to yas. It has been a good weekend if I may say so myself. I think we hit record temperature highs by Sunday, reaching 7°C ('bout 45°F) which is pretty damn unusual for southern Ontario at what is supposed to be the coldest time of the year. Not that I’m complaining. I love it! (Sorry LiLi, I know you’re probably missing the snow.)
But even more awesome (for me anyway) is that I hunkered down and started doing some serious work on my first iPhone game. Did some purdy graphics and started digging into some really, really basic code just to make something move across the screen at my command. Ah, I missed those days of making machines do my bidding. But the thing is, this is the first step that I’ve been hesitant to take for way too long because it’s been the hardest. Now that I’ve actually taken it – though it’s more like a brief foot shuffle than a step – and have produced some results, however simplistic, it will start to get more interesting and less intimidating. Woo! I’m kind of excited now.
Swampus - So if you change your pew you become invisible? Maybe they track you by scent. [rimshot/groan]
MinDude I love it! Da bear’s not in his pew! Send in the bloodhounds!
taxi I approve of the pot rack. You now have the gay seal of approval.
Look! It’s Drae! Howdy!
Morning all. Bad weekend for me. Got laid off on Friday. Y’all know I’ve been worrying about it. Anyhoo, 20 years with the place so they offered a fairly decent severence package as long as I never never divulge how much and don’t disparage the company. :rolleyes: So, anybody got any tried and true job hunt suggestions?
I just did the facebook thing myself but I’m still a total tyro about the thing.
Howdy, drae!
Luuuuuurved, the OP, swampy.
Tupug
I got sent home from work sick today. Good thing, there was a weird vibe in the air. The COO, She Who Must Be Obeyed, was there. That’s rarely a good sign.
In the Lutheran church, you just have to be confirmed and literate to be a lector. At least that’s how it works at my dad’s church.
{{{{hugs for pugs}}}}