Lime’s just finished her last tests today. I messaged her about it, congratulating her and all, and the response, very brief, was a thankee and that she was sleeping, which if you ask me is good as it is well-earned rest. I’m quite proud of her, it’s been a rather intense set of exams. Unfortunately, my holiday schedule and hers do not coincide: I have a week more at camp before I am free free free! That’s okay, she’s recovering and visiting her mom in the meantime. Happily, she has a month off, starting today. I simply must have my …
Month: January 2005
The Office
Some of the best TV I’ve seen in a while, that. I just finished the end of Season 1 (having watched three episodes tonight), and a little anecdote came to me about crap jobs and the interviews we go through (and lies we tell) to get them. The chain of associations is kind of complex, actually. Read on if you dare to step into my history…
Gord Saves The Earth… Sort of
Marvin asked the F5ers this week: The Pan-Galactic Olympic Committee has drafted you to represent Earth. The rub is that we don’t know anything about the games played in the galaxy-at-large, and they don’t know anything about ours. Because you’re a newbie you’re allowed to pick the events — five, as it happens — in which you’ll compete. You’ll have to win at least three of the five in order to save Earth from being turned into a new MacSapients franchise. What do you pick and why? Well, first of all, this question is a few months late. I finished …
Women Doctors’ Effect on the Health Care Industry
Last post of the day, a link to a post by Drezner on what happens when women become doctors?Okay, he’s just linking too, but here’s a chunk of a quote from the original: With women becoming doctors in ever-increasing numbers, medicine is generally becoming more patient friendly, treatment is improving and malpractice suits may become less common, experts say. But, they add, the feminization of medicine is helping to lower physician salaries, encourage part-time doctoring and exacerbate a looming shortage of physicians. Interesting stuff, but as comments note, it’s not the whole story.
Quiz
Via Dogstew, Gary Leupp’s A Pop Quiz on Korea, which I’ll try next week when I can print it out and circle the answers.