Claudette
14 July 2003, 4:18 PM

What a Day!
14 July 2003, 2:43 PM

It's been a don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it sort of day. Two back-to-back meetings, a lunch gathering and an exam. Oy. I don't think I did that well on my exam. :-( Still, now that I know what to expect, and how much homework is being doled out, and how much the online lab stuff helps, etc. etc. I'll probably do a lot better on the next one.

For the past couple of days I've had this niggling idea for a novel. Actually I've had this idea for years now, but I don't have time for it, and I'm not sure that my fiction writing skills are up to the task either. That means that I'll think about it for a while and then it'll fade away again. But I've now had snippets of ideas for the past two days. *sigh* One of these days, when I have a lot of time... Ha. Haha. Hahahahahahahaha. Yeah, right. I think I'll just let it bug me until I start righting down bits of it on paper napkins like the author of Harry Potter did for a while.

Heard One Too Many Times
14 July 2003, 8:47 AM

It really annoys me when I hear people dismiss a situation just because THEY never went through it. Case in point: I recently overheard a couple of women talking about the old Andrea Yates case. One of the women stated, "Well, *I* don't believe it. *I* never had post-partum depression that bad."

Yeah, and you probably weren't a paranoid schizophrenic either. And you probably never had a psychotic break due to worsening of your paranoid schizophrenic symptoms because of the hormonal changes in your body due to pregnancy and childbirth.

I've heard it in other situations too, "*I* never had headaches that bad, I think s/he's faking it." etc. etc.

I just want to slap these people silly. The illogic implied just makes my brain ache.

In the News
14 July 2003, 8:38 AM