Archive for October, 2008
I am so happy. I’ve actually managed to find some of the information I need to write my paper that’s due on Thursday. Back to work, I guess. I don’t really have time to write on here at the moment. I just wanted to share my joy. Yay for library databases and Hoover’s!
New theme! What do you think?
I broke down and actually paid money for this one because I couldn’t find a free one that I was really happy with, and I have neither the time nor inclination to mess around with trying to make one right now. I’m planning to update the About page soon because there isn’t really much on there now, so I think I’ll expand it a bit. Someday I will go back and tag and categorize all the old posts and fix all the Amazon links because they don’t work anymore with out the Quick Link widget (nevermind, got that figure out).
I need to return comments and catch up on blog reading too. I don’t know exactly when I will end up getting all of this done because I’ve got a huge project due next week and I really need to get to work.
On a CSUN journalism student’s blog (on the school newspaper’s website), I found this post criticizing a letter PETA sent to Ben & Jerry’s. I don’t like PETA. However, I am baffled as to why this future “journalist” couldn’t be bothered to check his facts before posting his opinion on the matter. I posted the following comment, which is awaiting moderation and probably won’t be approved because, unlike the other 1 comment, I criticized his post. I should have posted my URL with my comment, I don’t know why I was too chicken to do it.
I hate PETA with a passion for reasons I won’t get into, and I’m a vegetarian, not a vegan. What they were trying to do, though, in their own patently extremist way, is to make a point. Breast milk is for human babies, cow’s milk is for calves. It’s not a difficult concept to grasp.
If you’d like to find out why vegans are so vehemently against dairy products, do a little research. Google it, for crying out loud. In fact, if you knew how to check your facts, you could EASILY have found out what PETA’s point was at their own website, posted a WEEK before you posted this. Check it out: http://blog.peta.org/archives/2008/09/breast_is_best.php
OK, so, the EGD…was not as bad as I thought it would be. I was under anaesthesia, I don’t remember it, and I didn’t even end up with a sore throat! I don’t have an official diagnosis, and the doctor didn’t really say much to me or Zack (who would remember it far better than I would, because I was still coming out of the anaesthesia.) Anyway, what I do know is, they dilated my esophagus and took a biopsy to see if it is Barrett’s Esophagus. The doctor prescribed 2 months worth of Nexium and I need to set up an appointment because I am supposed to have a follow-up with him 2 weeks after the procedure.
Oh, and the test score I was worried about ended up being way better than I thought. I got 89.92%, a B+. Now, why the hell anyone grades to 89.92 and doesn’t just round it up to 90 and give me an A-, I don’t know. But that is far better than what I expected, so I guess I can’t complain. I mean, I made stuff up. I think I may have invented words. Yet, B+. So, yay!
I am so thirsty. I’m not supposed to have anything to eat or drink after midnight, I drank a whole lot of water right at midnight, but now it’s 12:25 and I feel parched. 
I have to go to bed soon too, because I have to get up and be at the hospital at 8:00 to have some really unpleasant sounding test called an EGD done because I have problems swallowing my food.
I got some good news too though - I got an 86% on the test I took for my advertising class last week. Rather unexpected, but I wasn’t expecting to do too badly…I was thinking more along the lines of a C. My Thursday class though? That’s another story. I dread getting that test back. I dread getting that test back very much. I blanked on a lot of it.
I really appreciate all the comments and I need to get to replying to them and reading & commenting on other blogs - I’m way behind on my blog reading. Been kinda busy, which is why I haven’t updated much either.
Anyway, I’ve got to get to bed so I can get up early. Sound like I’ve got a fun day ahead of me. 
