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Oh, is it Stalling Time™ again?
Feb. 20th, 2013 05:01 pmWednesdays are long days. Even the short days, like today, are long. Not bad, mind, but long.
Good thing 1: Got Page out the door in time to meet the bus, rather than delay the bus.
Good thing 2: I made waffles for breakfast and snacks. And Page liked the unflavored waffle topped with melted cheese.
Good thing 3: I am officially the treasurer of this college's chapter of Phi Theta Kappa. (It's the easiest, least time-consuming leadership position available. I figure if I'm going to be a member of an honors (leadership-oriented) organization, I might as well actually participate.)
Good thing 4: Lab was all about the microscopes! I was reminded why I hated using a microscope in 7th grade, but once I adjusted my eyes accordingly, it was fun. I saw two and a half of my cheek cells (one looked like it was just about to divide as there were clearly two nuclei, but they were adjoined. That could have been a depth issue, though...) I admired the beauty of the soaked tea leaf fragment. Really. It was something I would paint. I saw a poor squished sea monkey wiggling its thingy (not tentacle or flagella... pilli? Do animals have pilli?). And I saw ink sparkle.
(Definitely going to have to get a microscope. Too bad ones of that quality will be WAY out of reach. But even an affordable one should be fun for Page and me. And maybe even Geoff.)
Good thing 5: I have tea with a friend tomorrow morning to look forward to.
ETA Good thing 6: OMG I WANT THIS!
The not so good are also there (35 pages of accounting to read, and 60 pages of biology to review (and preferably understand) for the test on Friday (hence the stalling); left lunch at home; etc.), but overall, I think it's been a good day.And seeing as I haven't received a phone call from Page telling me to pick him up, I think the evening might be okay as well. It has potential, anyway. Oops, spoke too soon. Page is in fine-persecuted-form thanks to a communication mix-up. He wanted to be picked up, the after-school teacher didn't call. Ach well. Too bad for the kid.
Good thing 1: Got Page out the door in time to meet the bus, rather than delay the bus.
Good thing 2: I made waffles for breakfast and snacks. And Page liked the unflavored waffle topped with melted cheese.
Good thing 3: I am officially the treasurer of this college's chapter of Phi Theta Kappa. (It's the easiest, least time-consuming leadership position available. I figure if I'm going to be a member of an honors (leadership-oriented) organization, I might as well actually participate.)
Good thing 4: Lab was all about the microscopes! I was reminded why I hated using a microscope in 7th grade, but once I adjusted my eyes accordingly, it was fun. I saw two and a half of my cheek cells (one looked like it was just about to divide as there were clearly two nuclei, but they were adjoined. That could have been a depth issue, though...) I admired the beauty of the soaked tea leaf fragment. Really. It was something I would paint. I saw a poor squished sea monkey wiggling its thingy (not tentacle or flagella... pilli? Do animals have pilli?). And I saw ink sparkle.
(Definitely going to have to get a microscope. Too bad ones of that quality will be WAY out of reach. But even an affordable one should be fun for Page and me. And maybe even Geoff.)
Good thing 5: I have tea with a friend tomorrow morning to look forward to.
ETA Good thing 6: OMG I WANT THIS!
The not so good are also there (35 pages of accounting to read, and 60 pages of biology to review (and preferably understand) for the test on Friday (hence the stalling); left lunch at home; etc.), but overall, I think it's been a good day.
While I've spent most of the evening on the computer researching negotiating start prices for cars (I spent the daytime hours doing homework (I want a day off)), I decided to look up the validity of my rant the other day about fenugreek. It occurred to me that it's possible that fenugreek is a polysaccharide in structure, thereby making it very difficult for the impaired GI to digest, even when it's been pulverized.
So I looked up it's chemical structure, and, ya know, it looks more like a steroid than a carbohydrate to my ignorant eyes. I mean, compare it to cholesterol or vitamin D. In essence, it has the same core structure. Yeah, fenugreek expands on it rather a lot through branching, but at the heart it's four fused hydrocarbon rings like the other steroids. (Here's amylose, a starch molecule, for comparison.)
Granted, I am a novice (who is still trying to wrap her mind around atomic orbitals and bonding), so I could be WAY off base.
So that makes me wonder if Mrs. Gottschall saw steroids as indigestible along with starches. She had little problem with the other lipids, though...
So I looked up it's chemical structure, and, ya know, it looks more like a steroid than a carbohydrate to my ignorant eyes. I mean, compare it to cholesterol or vitamin D. In essence, it has the same core structure. Yeah, fenugreek expands on it rather a lot through branching, but at the heart it's four fused hydrocarbon rings like the other steroids. (Here's amylose, a starch molecule, for comparison.)
Granted, I am a novice (who is still trying to wrap her mind around atomic orbitals and bonding), so I could be WAY off base.
So that makes me wonder if Mrs. Gottschall saw steroids as indigestible along with starches. She had little problem with the other lipids, though...
The appendix isn't useless
http://topics.info.com/Meningitis_4026 "Although not as common, the same viruses that cause herpes, chicken pox, shingles, mumps or HIV can also result in viral meningitis. Typically, viral meningitis is most common late in the summer and early in the fall."
I didn't have viral meningitis. I had Streptococcus pneumoniae, probably caused by the walking pneumonia I had the previous year (and never really got over). BUT, I wonder if the shingles I had four years prior to the meningitis broke down some protective barrier, allowing the lingering bacteria into my spinal fluid? *shrugs*
http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/37/11/1527.full (parking here for future reading; not lay-person friendly)
Also something to be looked into a bit further is Vitamin D receptors (i.e. the calcitriol receptor), and how they regulate the body's vitamin D use/absorption.
http://topics.info.com/Meningitis_4026 "Although not as common, the same viruses that cause herpes, chicken pox, shingles, mumps or HIV can also result in viral meningitis. Typically, viral meningitis is most common late in the summer and early in the fall."
I didn't have viral meningitis. I had Streptococcus pneumoniae, probably caused by the walking pneumonia I had the previous year (and never really got over). BUT, I wonder if the shingles I had four years prior to the meningitis broke down some protective barrier, allowing the lingering bacteria into my spinal fluid? *shrugs*
http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/37/11/1527.full (parking here for future reading; not lay-person friendly)
Also something to be looked into a bit further is Vitamin D receptors (i.e. the calcitriol receptor), and how they regulate the body's vitamin D use/absorption.
