h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*s B4*

[S&T- saw the movie]

my condolences, B4

{[J'au, also saw the movie]}

[GDZ-Made it through week #1]

What's been said about physic classes just goes to show how important a good teacher is to awakening interest, let alone competence, in a subject.

B4, condolences for the loss of your father. As for the career stall, while it's an ego-biter you have to ask yourself whether the stress and responsibility would have been worth it. Really, it's something I have been thinking about lately, because 1. I have friends who have dropped out of career jobs to find something more personally rewarding or something that gives them more time to relax. One friend was the general manager of a factory floor. He gave it up to help out at a gas station.

In fact, one of my clients is a group of clinical psychologists, Ph.D.'s all, who specialise in counselling people who are considering major life changes or are having the change thrust upon them. That includes people like me who gave up the programming career to scrape happily along the way I do now.

In short, there are more ways to better oneself than by growing straight up a ladder.

Lil, I think it's easier to chuck it all over when you don't have kids you have to worry about. My mom went from security to her own business, but only after I was out of the house. There's something about a steady paycheck and health insurance when kids are younger!

That said, I completely ignored all that, and chucked a high-stress career with unlimited transferability for an equally high-stress possible career with extremely limited possibilities, and I've never been happier. I don't care if I end up as adjunct faculty at some rinky dink community college. I really don't. (Not all community colleges are rinky dink...please don't hurt me).

B4, consider yourself well hugged.

[MTG]

Comerisations for B4.

I shouldn't be here.

In fact I'm not here.

*hides behind sofa*


I've made Ben, Icecoldalex and Hoo go out so I can get on with some revison.

I have now completed 'viral infections in children with rashes'.

It just occurred to me that I am part of one of the first generation of to learn about Measles from a book instead of from personal experience of having it as a child.

Kat and Rosemary - you have no idea who the responsiblity of having my own psychiatric patients scares me! I have to say that one of the flaws with psychiatric training is that if you are interested in psychological illnesses when you are 18 you do a degree in psychology so don't become a psychiatrist. To be honest, even if I'd fallen in love with psychiatry in my first or second year, I'd have dropped out and studied psychology.

People who go into medicine are generally people who want to cure phyisical disease, and like hospitals, not psychiatry.

SSo there's a shortage of people who want to train to be psychiatrists, so the standard, *ahem* may not be very high.

I think we'd get far better psychiatrists if you could do a degree in pscyhiatry, rather than in medicine. Or if you could convert a pscyhology degree into psychiatry, by some means other than doing a five year training course.

Right. Back to 'bacterial illnesses of of childhood'

My BF is interested in a DClinPsych-training to be a clinical psycologist, but he would only be able to do case histories and some diagnosis, not prescribe drugs for people.
Mental health care's very much the NHS Cinderella anyway.

I am making ice-cream. Apricot and orange-flower, with goat's cream substituted for the cow cream. S and I are in severe danger of eating the lot before it even hits the ice-cream maker. And tomorrow I shall be making fresh pasta from scratch. And S has promised to work out how to make capuccino with the new coffee machine (I'm frightened of it). It's like Christmas! With sunbathing! Hurrah!

I had measles. I had mumps, chicken pox, whooping cough and scarlet fever (not all at the same time). Measles, I was stuck in bed for two weeks, my eyes were too sore to have the shutters opened and I was bored nearly to death, developed bronchitis straight afterwards, back to bed for another two weeks. My sister caught measles off me and was ill for about two-and-a-half minutes. Mumps, unspeakably painful, looked like well-stuffed hamster, sister again deigned to be unwell only as long as she thought she could get ice cream. Chicken pox, I was thirteen and really ill and had eight zillion spots, even spots where no thirteen-year-old would dare confess to having spots. Sis had three spots. Whooping cough made me throw up. Sis threw up too, and then coughed so hard she developed a hernia in her groin. I cannot bring myself to be entirely anti-vaccinations at this point.

A couple of questions I meant to ask earlier and forgot. SC, how is your husband now? And Ag, what the heck is a pudding basin?

Beeblefish, is your group multicultural? If so you might try something similar to an immigrant narrative exercise we did here last year. The focus was on the clash between the traditional culture of our participants and the American culture. We asked things like:
How has living in the US changed the way you celebrate holidays?
Can you find examples of how your culture is represented or misrepresented? Did your culture influence American culture in any way? Do you feel the beginnings of a disconnect to your traditional culture? What things are better about your traditional culture than American culture? Worse? Have any aspects of your traditional culture made assimilation into US society difficult?

Sorry.

{Courtesy}
*sorry B4*

B4 least it was fairly fast not to much suffering (well for him)
Z don’t you mean viral infections from children ,since they are the main culprits for spreading most of them .psychiatry and psychiatrist elitists egotistical group in my humble opinion , rosemary thing the NHS and the DHSS along with most of the other government departments create far more problems than they solve

Hype pudding basin used to be template for home hair cuts when I was growing up space cadette ,lots of by products from oil one happens to be plastic so no doubt bag for stuffing vegitable that is edible must be available of course wont say on packaging ,

School chemistry I to can recall the phosphorus igniting on contact with air often wonder if spontaneous combustion is not related to body leeching out some of these in n effort to rid itself of excess .,my era used to make canons in metal work and fuel them with weed killer and sugar mixture,
Of course it meant the barrel needed cleaning often since left sticky substance behind , good fun though ,females shooting ping pong balls no need to make a devise female have a really neat body part for doing that guaranteed to keep all the year sevens engrossed amy. The only down side to chemistry was the bunson burner tube was used for punishment Ouch very painfull .

*Clears throat and ventures forth*

Hello all. Am new to the Atelier, although I have lurked occasionally in the past.

Have read the last two pages of backlog, I hope that's OK.

My overriding memory of Science at school was the deputy head telling my parents I couldn't choose Physics for GCSE because I asked too many questions in lessons and annoyed the teacher!

B4 - we haven't met but my heart goes out to you at this time. Don't let anyone tell you how to behave or when you should 'feel better'.

Jules

Welcome JulesK! I see that you have been to the foyer, good thing that, make sure you have read the 1st post there, it's rather important.

Welcome to the Atelier, JulesK. Yep, you found the foyer. What GDZ said about the first post also holds true about the first post of any conversation at the atelier, including this one. It's that little touch of role-playing. Sets the scene.

Any newcomer is automatically exempt from responsibility for all but the latest backlog, so don't beat on your conscience.

B4, I am so sorry.... And I sympathize on the job reversal; recently went through a demotion of sorts myself.

Hypatia, I regret to inform you... Michael had a severe stroke at 38, and died 4 months after his 41st birthday, almost 16 years ago. He started having mild TIAs at 36, but who at that age would suspect they were warning signs -- big, honking, glaring red warning flares? It turned out to be from scar tissue growth at the site of the cobalt therapy treatment he received when a teenager -- without which he would never have lived long enough for me to meet him.

In an effort to bring the thread back "up", I must also mention that this is a most glorious day, here in So. California! Sunny and warm, with enough birds flying around to make my cats go crazy.

SC

I'm sorry to hear that, SC. My mother had TIAs frequently until her doctor prescribed plavix for her. That was over 4 years ago and she hasn't had one since.

Welcome to the Salon, Jules. Another lurker brought into the fold.

Courtesy, I am ready to sign on board for the class action suit. Today a couple came in and looked around and then asked B, my circ supervisor, if the new library was open yet. And not 5 minutes later a man called. B: Library, may we help you? M: Is this the Post Office? B: No, this is the library. M: Do you sell stamps?

*waves to JulesK*

A pudding basin is a china bowl. They come in various sizes, but the usual one is just about right to put over a child's head. People used to then use the edges of the bowl as a guide to cutting the child's hair, resulting in the infamous 'pudding-bowl haircut'. But what they are REALLY for is for making steamed puddings in - savory ones tend to have a heavy crust of suet pastry and be filled with meat stew (steak and kidney being the most famous) or especially for Z, mushrooms and cream. Sweet ones are a sort of dough absolutely filled with dried fruit, like Christmas pudding. The pudding then has a lid put on or a cloth tied round it and in lowered into a pan with a little water in it and the result steamed for HOURS. Guaranteed to soften the toughest steak. Traditional British cookery at it's finest - if in doubt, boil it for another half hour. That said, a well-made one is fantastic.

s for all people mourning.

Must rescue S from the housework (he's washing paintwork in the bedroom) and feed him.

Hi!

You guys move fast! Has anyone seen the HHGTTG? I went to see it yesterday, and enjoyed it, esp. the song at the beginning! I'm waiting for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and of course Star Wars.

I'm going to be a film tomorrow! I don't have a speaking part, but I do have a name [Jamie]. It's a guys university project, so is nothing special. You'll see my name in lights yet