Lecturing about English is pretty stimulating.
For starters, you can't be tired during it. Well, I can't.
Secondly, when I have to give examples, I've gotta be really quick about them, but so far, I haven't made up anything that's ridiculous.
Got my cardiology steth today. Maybe you guys can see it sometime, if you're peachykeen.
Also bought more MTG cards, just to add to my collection I guess.
And I got a free book.
Central Station is pretty cool.
Hoping you guys have had a fun day too.
(BTW, there's an electronic stetho, RRP $600+. It's pretty amazing. But banned in my exams)
Friday, May 10, 2013
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Sorry for not writing.
I was going to write something, as usual, so I'll just make a list of things to do:
1) Finish 1Q84. It's so damn good :O
2) Play MTG again. I should be able to fit it in somehow. Maybe I'll get my mymulti and go out myself in the morning, hopping around places to teach and so forth and then go down to the shop to play later? I don't know.
3) Move over all the games I've downloaded. I've downloaded a lot from uni. I suppose I'm paying for it though. The usage of the internet. So it's all pretty fair. Plus, I hardly use any other university facilities.
4) Go over my lecture notes for today.
5) Get into the groove of playing TF2 again, I suppose.
6) Look into whether my computer can do multiple monitors. The graphics card changed so....
7) Probably stick to one hero in dota foreveeeeeeeeer.
8) Look into finding more students I suppose. Wouldn't it be cool if I could host classes, and then I could teach a whole bunch of people, and get a lot of money, and stuff?
"Money is for the living, and grounds us in reality"
Paraphrased, but I've read it twice now, and I figure it'd be nice to put it out there.
Furthermore, I realise why my style of writing is so weird. It's precisely because I have not read widely enough.
And thus, have not really be influenced that heavily by any one author and so on and so forth.
By classes means venue.
Icy, did you still want to go ahead with your idea?
9) Finish this blog post.
Hoping you guys are having a busy, fun life.
1) Finish 1Q84. It's so damn good :O
2) Play MTG again. I should be able to fit it in somehow. Maybe I'll get my mymulti and go out myself in the morning, hopping around places to teach and so forth and then go down to the shop to play later? I don't know.
3) Move over all the games I've downloaded. I've downloaded a lot from uni. I suppose I'm paying for it though. The usage of the internet. So it's all pretty fair. Plus, I hardly use any other university facilities.
4) Go over my lecture notes for today.
5) Get into the groove of playing TF2 again, I suppose.
6) Look into whether my computer can do multiple monitors. The graphics card changed so....
7) Probably stick to one hero in dota foreveeeeeeeeer.
8) Look into finding more students I suppose. Wouldn't it be cool if I could host classes, and then I could teach a whole bunch of people, and get a lot of money, and stuff?
"Money is for the living, and grounds us in reality"
Paraphrased, but I've read it twice now, and I figure it'd be nice to put it out there.
Furthermore, I realise why my style of writing is so weird. It's precisely because I have not read widely enough.
And thus, have not really be influenced that heavily by any one author and so on and so forth.
By classes means venue.
Icy, did you still want to go ahead with your idea?
9) Finish this blog post.
Hoping you guys are having a busy, fun life.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Late Term Abortions
For once, I have something to say.
Was watching that, and in the suggested videos:
I wasn't sure what to make of it.
I'm just about to start learning in detail conception to birth, and will probably have a tonne of morality classes along the way.
What do you guys make of the "sanctity of life"?
Looking at you religious folk.
That video pains me on multiple counts.
Firstly it's biased to all hell. I was expecting it to be informative, but I guess I didn't notice the title for some reason.
Especially at the end, which condemns this practice as unequivocally, and irrefutably "inhuman"
When in fact, it probably should be called "inhumane"... But that's more semantics isn't it.
Secondly, it's the apparently unprofessionalism of the doctor and the counsellor.
Moreso that the counselor is flippant and hardly consoling, and the doctor is hazy about the facts. Which would be unacceptable, but is exacerbated by her seeming specialization in women's health and natal development.
However, this could be extremely biased and they could only find these two semi-incompetent workers. Who knows.
Thirdly, it pains me to read the comments, with consequentialists arguing (more declaring) that this is wrong and that those who do this shall be smote by God, or worse, should be tried as murderers.
I respect their passion and opinion, however the sheer force of their speech (rather than the force of their argument, which is infact flimsy) makes me cringe. Why do people like this exist?
I suppose, in a word - biological diversity.
And well, it makes me angry because they could be so much better. So much more tolerant of new ideas.
Thankfully the law isn't too old-fashioned. (I hope.)
I looked up Planned Parenthood, and it was exactly what I thought it would be.
The spokeswoman doesn't have all the answers. That's inevitable. Yet people assume that the professionals will always have all the answers.
So much so, there's a word for symptoms with an unknown cause:
Idiopathic
Love wikipedia for simple, unreliable knowledge.
Coming back to people who assume moral dilemmas are cut and dry - take the reverse.
If I were to assume that issue is cut and dry, from my perspective I would legalize assisted suicide, euthanasia, and abortion at any age.
Nevermind the socio-cultuo-ideological ramifications. This is a "simple" concept - why can't you understand it?
In fact, science in isolation, medicine in isolation is so simple. You're applying sciences here and there to understand the world. But in isolation, how can medicine exist? Medicine exists because humans are fragile, humans need to be understood, and we're curious about it.
I suppose what I mean is that anything in isolation is simple. A cog. A spring. A sprocket.
And by that logic, we are all just atoms.
We are all atoms - atoms are inanimate - so are we actually alive?
What makes us 'alive'?
Is that question relevant? I don't think so.
From Murakami:
"I move, therefore I am."
Hoping I get more answers to these lonely problems.
I'm just about to start learning in detail conception to birth, and will probably have a tonne of morality classes along the way.
What do you guys make of the "sanctity of life"?
Looking at you religious folk.
That video pains me on multiple counts.
Firstly it's biased to all hell. I was expecting it to be informative, but I guess I didn't notice the title for some reason.
Especially at the end, which condemns this practice as unequivocally, and irrefutably "inhuman"
When in fact, it probably should be called "inhumane"... But that's more semantics isn't it.
Secondly, it's the apparently unprofessionalism of the doctor and the counsellor.
Moreso that the counselor is flippant and hardly consoling, and the doctor is hazy about the facts. Which would be unacceptable, but is exacerbated by her seeming specialization in women's health and natal development.
However, this could be extremely biased and they could only find these two semi-incompetent workers. Who knows.
Thirdly, it pains me to read the comments, with consequentialists arguing (more declaring) that this is wrong and that those who do this shall be smote by God, or worse, should be tried as murderers.
I respect their passion and opinion, however the sheer force of their speech (rather than the force of their argument, which is infact flimsy) makes me cringe. Why do people like this exist?
I suppose, in a word - biological diversity.
And well, it makes me angry because they could be so much better. So much more tolerant of new ideas.
Thankfully the law isn't too old-fashioned. (I hope.)
I looked up Planned Parenthood, and it was exactly what I thought it would be.
The spokeswoman doesn't have all the answers. That's inevitable. Yet people assume that the professionals will always have all the answers.
So much so, there's a word for symptoms with an unknown cause:
Idiopathic
Love wikipedia for simple, unreliable knowledge.
Coming back to people who assume moral dilemmas are cut and dry - take the reverse.
If I were to assume that issue is cut and dry, from my perspective I would legalize assisted suicide, euthanasia, and abortion at any age.
Nevermind the socio-cultuo-ideological ramifications. This is a "simple" concept - why can't you understand it?
In fact, science in isolation, medicine in isolation is so simple. You're applying sciences here and there to understand the world. But in isolation, how can medicine exist? Medicine exists because humans are fragile, humans need to be understood, and we're curious about it.
I suppose what I mean is that anything in isolation is simple. A cog. A spring. A sprocket.
And by that logic, we are all just atoms.
We are all atoms - atoms are inanimate - so are we actually alive?
What makes us 'alive'?
Is that question relevant? I don't think so.
From Murakami:
"I move, therefore I am."
Hoping I get more answers to these lonely problems.
I had a thought.
It was in the car this morning.
But then I forgot it because I missed my train, so I couldn't meet up with Kwanza at the trainstation.
Which was a bit awkward.
Still made it to my lecture on pelvic anatomy.
Lots of people were laughing and giggling all throughout a video detailing the circumstances of two pregnant, 15yo girls.
It was disturbing to say the least. I didn't find anything funny.
Apparently, an older man GP in a rural setting who touches a girl on the shoulder is scandalous.
Also scandalous: Resting your face on your right fist, and your right elbow is on the table, while talking to someone.
It's a bit rude, for sure, but...
My cohort makes me pretty angry sometimes.
Also, the partying nature of a lot of people in said cohort.
I wonder if I'm intolerant, or if they're as bad as I think they are.
Reading Haruki Murakami's 1Q84.
It's set in 1984.
It makes a few references to Orwell.
But the coolest thing is that 1Q84 is sorta like... a parallel universe.
Plus, 9 = kyu = Q.
Seems a lot of people have the book too.
I think Murakami will be remembered as a brilliant postmodern novelist and will be taught in schools alongside Shakespeare.
Well, that is if the DEC gets their act together and shakes off the John Howard, anti-pomo sentiments.
Anyway, that's enough from me. Time to revise the anatomy of the pelvis.
Ilium, Ischium, Pubis!
Hoping you guys are doing well.
But then I forgot it because I missed my train, so I couldn't meet up with Kwanza at the trainstation.
Which was a bit awkward.
Still made it to my lecture on pelvic anatomy.
Lots of people were laughing and giggling all throughout a video detailing the circumstances of two pregnant, 15yo girls.
It was disturbing to say the least. I didn't find anything funny.
Apparently, an older man GP in a rural setting who touches a girl on the shoulder is scandalous.
Also scandalous: Resting your face on your right fist, and your right elbow is on the table, while talking to someone.
It's a bit rude, for sure, but...
My cohort makes me pretty angry sometimes.
Also, the partying nature of a lot of people in said cohort.
I wonder if I'm intolerant, or if they're as bad as I think they are.
Reading Haruki Murakami's 1Q84.
It's set in 1984.
It makes a few references to Orwell.
But the coolest thing is that 1Q84 is sorta like... a parallel universe.
Plus, 9 = kyu = Q.
Seems a lot of people have the book too.
I think Murakami will be remembered as a brilliant postmodern novelist and will be taught in schools alongside Shakespeare.
Well, that is if the DEC gets their act together and shakes off the John Howard, anti-pomo sentiments.
Anyway, that's enough from me. Time to revise the anatomy of the pelvis.
Ilium, Ischium, Pubis!
Hoping you guys are doing well.
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