Teleportation would be useful!
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sinjunSpecially on days like today when there's blocked lanes all over the highway. It's like doing the slalom in extreme slow motion, surrounded by thousands of others doing the same thing.
In other news - Cerulean Sins should arrive today or tomorrow. My pre-ordered copy has been shipped. Yes, it's late, but that's okay cause I still have an exam on Monday and a final project to work on.
Then I'm free. And it literally feels that way, though not so much I imagine as the uncertainty and euphoria in Iraq, for many people. (No, I'm not going to comment on the war any more than that.)
SARS is very scary around here, in a lot of ways. I can't believe that people who get called and told, "You've been exposed to a potentially deadly disease. Please quarantine yourself for 10 days." would actually ignore that firstly. (They think they can't be infectious because they're not showing symptoms, maybe?) The worst though is that someone apparently had his family lie to the Public Health folks when they called up daily to see how he was doing. And even though he started to show symptoms, he kept going to work. Now, I heard this on the news, and I don't know more details than that. (He worked at a Hewlett-Packard plant, maybe, but I'm not sure I'm remembering that properly.) Still, am I the only one who finds that absolutely chilling?
How many other people are out there working, even knowing they might be infecting friends and coworkers with something that could kill them?
One student had to go write an exam. Okay, that one I can actually understand. Teenagers don't always think clearly, and exams have such huge impact. Mind you, I expect that the school would much rather have figured out something for the student rather than having 1100 people quarantined, and the school closed for a week.
Sigh. Life just gets scarier and scarier. I am reminded of that lovely Cree woman I gave a ride to Kingston back a few years ago. The one who told me that the end of the world would be in 2003.
Uhm. Yeah.
It just might.
In other news - Cerulean Sins should arrive today or tomorrow. My pre-ordered copy has been shipped. Yes, it's late, but that's okay cause I still have an exam on Monday and a final project to work on.
Then I'm free. And it literally feels that way, though not so much I imagine as the uncertainty and euphoria in Iraq, for many people. (No, I'm not going to comment on the war any more than that.)
SARS is very scary around here, in a lot of ways. I can't believe that people who get called and told, "You've been exposed to a potentially deadly disease. Please quarantine yourself for 10 days." would actually ignore that firstly. (They think they can't be infectious because they're not showing symptoms, maybe?) The worst though is that someone apparently had his family lie to the Public Health folks when they called up daily to see how he was doing. And even though he started to show symptoms, he kept going to work. Now, I heard this on the news, and I don't know more details than that. (He worked at a Hewlett-Packard plant, maybe, but I'm not sure I'm remembering that properly.) Still, am I the only one who finds that absolutely chilling?
How many other people are out there working, even knowing they might be infecting friends and coworkers with something that could kill them?
One student had to go write an exam. Okay, that one I can actually understand. Teenagers don't always think clearly, and exams have such huge impact. Mind you, I expect that the school would much rather have figured out something for the student rather than having 1100 people quarantined, and the school closed for a week.
Sigh. Life just gets scarier and scarier. I am reminded of that lovely Cree woman I gave a ride to Kingston back a few years ago. The one who told me that the end of the world would be in 2003.
Uhm. Yeah.
It just might.
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Date: 2003-04-10 07:45 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-04-10 08:43 am (UTC)Also, those who've died from SARS in Canada also had something else that could have killed them in almost all the cases, if not all.
It's just the fact that we could potentially stop it by a little care, and so many folks don't want to be careful. It boggles my mind.
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Date: 2003-04-10 08:24 am (UTC)Life has a way of surprising you.
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Date: 2003-04-10 08:44 am (UTC)Definitions are wonderful things. The end of the world as we know it is just as good as the end of the world.
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Date: 2003-04-10 09:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-10 09:48 am (UTC)And does. Frequently. But that doesn't make it any the less earth shattering.
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Date: 2003-04-10 09:52 am (UTC)On the other hand... I have to admit I've just about ceased worrying about it. Gradually, I've come to figure out that there's no sense dwelling on those things I can't particularly change.
Somewhere, the world is always ending. Whether it's my world or someone else's is all just luck of the draw... or whim of a capricious universe.
Not much else to do but pick up the pieces and keep going.
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Date: 2003-04-10 01:20 pm (UTC)Yes. But see, I don't fret about it, I just occasionally speculate.
It's a different point of view.
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Date: 2003-04-10 09:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-10 10:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-10 11:43 am (UTC)So maybe we've got a few years left yet. ;o)
Oh, don't worry about the world ending.
Date: 2003-04-10 10:08 pm (UTC)The Mayan Calender, whose cycles are thousands and thousands of years long, ends on December 21, 2012. The Winter Solstice. The Christian prophecies place it somewhere in 2018--it's less specific.
But then there's always the inherent margin for change in prophecy, so it could happen a little sooner...
Re: Oh, don't worry about the world ending.
Date: 2003-04-11 10:04 am (UTC)I bet there's someone out there who says the world ends every single year.
*shakes her head. Mayans. Cree. Newton. Nostradamus. It's an interesting list of names, cultures and people who claim to know when the world ends.
Sometimes I think it might be worthwhile collecting them all, just as a hobby. But I've got enough other hobbies I ignore. :)