Saturday, April 26, 2003

So I decided to look at my guestmap today and noticed that it doesn't work right on my computer. I can't click on the little people and get the answers to my questions to load. Not sure if it's just my computer or what since it doesn't work for me in explorer but at least when I click on the list button, it loads up properly even though clicking the little people don't work. Both don't work with Safari (apple browser I usually use). But everything works with netscape. How annoying. If it doesn't work by monday, I'm going to ditch it since if I can't use it, no one will get to use it. It's my page and I can be selfish about it if I want to. Ugh! What is happening in the online world that things seem to be falling apart around me!
~me~ at 4:11 PM

Oh and you know how horrified most americans are when they hear about other countries using their own citizens to test weapons and other chemical agents? Well, in addition to the us army giving infected blankets to kill native americans, they also did an experiment to test the effectiveness of deet on skin and some other repellant on clothes. They found a group of "volunteers" and divided them into 4 groups. 1 person didn't receive any skin repellant or repellant on the clothes. The 2nd person only received skin repellant, the 3rd person received only repellant on clothes. And the lucky 4th person received repellant on both skin and clothes. All four were taken down to hang out in the swamps among the gators and mosquitos for a few hours and then they were inspected for bites. The lucky guy (#4) had 1 bite, guy #2 had most of his bites where his clothes were covering him, guy #3 had most of his bites on the areas not protected by his clothes (extremities). And poor unfortunate soul #1 had over 2000 bites all over his body. I wonder if there's some sort of release statement armed forces recruits sign that allow the government to do these experiments on them. I mean, if there's a new vaccine for a disease that could take out the forces, the first people to try it out (after lab rats and monkeys) are the troops...which begs the question, are we then helping those countries who use bioterrorism (all they need is the threat and the hope that our government attempts to create and use a vaccine) by taking out our own troops? There's a few vaccines that because of low prevalence here but high abroad, only troops receive. And I guess there's some vaccine that the army used to give but since the drug company wasn't turning any profits, they stopped making it and that made the armed forces powers that be a little miffed. Let's see, "volunteering" for random experiments, being vaccinated with stuff that most other people won't receive, coming down with mysterious illnesses after being in combat with new weapons...now that's a nice thank you for the troops. Yep. I think I'll stay away from the military scholarships.
~me~ at 3:23 PM

I must say it's always an entertaining lecture when we have special guests...like the 5 and 7 year old kids of one of the lecturers. The lecture hall is famous for either being too hot or too cold and during one of the frigid moments, the 5 year old declared that he's cold and that his legs are cold during his mom's lecture on blood flukes. Considering the topic being covered, it sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to expose young children to the horrific world of parasitic infections. By the way, this was a lecture from earlier in the week. I don't have class on saturday but was just reading the noteset for the lecture that this amusing event took place in.
~me~ at 2:02 PM

Friday, April 25, 2003

Hmmm...well, I reposted my template exactly as it was before and at first it wasn't saving but now it looks ok.
~me~ at 11:14 PM

Okay, so I don't know what happened to my template but I can't edit it for some reason so my blog may be out of commission for a bit. First Chris and now me...what on earth is going on?!?
~me~ at 1:35 PM

Wednesday, April 23, 2003

I think I'm going to be ill...I keep reading about these various parasitic infections and the behaviors of the worms in the human body and it's really disturbing! Please, if you use "night soil" as fertilizer (your own poo as fertilizer), DO NOT make me any food EVER!!! I don't care how earth friendly you think you're being, that's just wrong. I think I may have to stop eating altogether since there's really no way of me knowing if the food I buy in the store was grown by people using night soil. Why would you do that?!? Wait, what do they put in those bags of fertilizer you buy at the garden shops? I'm glad parasitology only lasts 1 week, I don't think I can handle any more than that. I'd rather do an autopsy session. Aaaah! I don't like that this information is getting stuck in my brain because it may end up in my dreams at some point and that will make me very very upset when I dream of my body infested with these nematodes. Usually nightmares aren't bad when it's stuff that you know can realistically never happen but I'll have to interact with people who have these things and while I'll be wearing gloves and washing my hands at an almost OCD frequency, I'll always be freaking out at the subconscious level, I just know it!
~me~ at 5:14 PM

Sunday, April 20, 2003

Notice that my birthdate (listed in the right hand column) is now a link. It will take you to a picture of me as a baby. Admire and adore, and note that in a few months I'll be 26...I'm gettin old!
~me~ at 12:42 AM