Pete

For anyone who is interested in the humoural aspects of herbal medicine check out this lecture by Simon Mills, one of the authours of my main masters textbook.

BMJ 2003;327:1459-1461 (20 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7429.1459

Hazardous journey

Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/327/7429/1459

Christmas was very nice indeed.

I managed to score 4 days off, two of which were paid without me asking for anything.

Christmas basically took place over three days, the first being a nice quiet one, the second being the big family thing and the third included a second Christmas lunch with (very) extended family followed later by a nice quiet gold class movie and a yummy dinner.

: )

in other news: *I NEED A FLAT MATE!!!!!!!11!!*

Apartment in Indooroopilly lease beginning rnd of January.

It is a really awesome location in Indooroopilly, hence the lack of desire to move.

It is *between* both shopping centers and the railway station on the corner of Coonan St and a side street. Only 1-2 minutes to any of these locations.

rent is about $130/ week, plus expenses, the bigger room is available.

DSL is already installed, we could look at adsl ii as well.

I will be lacking a fridge and a washing machine, but will try to fix that asap, although already having either or both is a definite bonus.

Yay for it is day three of my long weekend!

I've spent the past few days running around Terry White's putting in my resume and chatting to varios manager/ owners whih was quite fun as there was quite a bit of interest.

In doing this I also ran around in all sorts of new areas which was quite fun.

Gah, work tomorrow. Maybe I will take the last week of June off.

Business minded and a natural leader, you are a canidate to be embraced by the Ventrue clan. You can be rather dominant with a high stamina however, you tend to have obsessive compulsive tendencies...especially when it comes to your food. You are the clan the others look to organize groups and factions. Generally princes are among this clan. What Vampire Clan Do You Belong To?

Today was busier at work than pre-christmas! Just wave after wave of customers.

TF was quieter that usual (but busier than yesterday), so I managed to make inroads on the weigh-in entries to the database, having finished registration entries yesterday, woo hoo!

Mark (other naturopath at work) somehow managed to smash a car axle into his face, and looked surprisingly good, considering. He is going hard on herbs and homeopathy, which makes him look pretty much just normal externally, but the smashed tooth kinda gives it away. He may have fractured his right maxilla with the blow. Pretty nasty from the description.

We lost power due to a storm this evening- all computers and lights down. We all move to the entrances when that happens to prevent people looting/ nicking stuff. It is rather eerie, moving as a unit to prevent any entrance or exit from the store until the backup kicks in... literally holding down the fort.

Sam's engagement party tomorrow, so that should be awesome, and he got into the military! I am so happy for him!

Well, other stuff now. ;)

Today was interesting.

I had as interesting thing happen today, we had a lady covered in hives & scratching away come and ask us for help.

Basically she had just had an injection, and had also just eaten a fish meal.

Either way she was having a severe allergic attack, on closer inspection she has rent herself great holes in her skin and was bleeding profusely. One wound was a good two inches by 1/3 of an inch just inside her elbow.

Well, Winnie (one of the pharmacists) dosed her up with some antihistamines, and I offered just as winnie was about to ask, to bring the lady to the medical centre where her doctor resided.

She was in such bad shape that the 100m walk took 10-15mins, and we stopped a few times and I offered encouragement. Eventually we reached the centre and the staff rushed out to help her, and I wandered off back to work. She came back a while later looking much better, and with a script for some powerful antihistamines, and was very grateful.

:D

Some customers just make your day. It was awesome to be able to help a damsel in distress. ;)

I also decided to load up an old nwn2 savegame, lvl 10 as opposed to lvl 15. Basically to have crack troops at my kickarse strong hold, I needed to have done a few things earlier in the game. Much swearing later I settled on the fact that it is the journey that is the fun bit. ;) Besides, I get to rebuild my stronghold again! :D

Well today I activated my Visa debit card, huzzah! So now I can do internet and phone banking much more easily.

I also bought 'Dark Messiah' from eb. It looks semi-cool

I am about 2/3 though nwn2 & stupid gothic's main quest line seems broken.

I found out I am rostered for a long weekend, so three days at Pia's! It also means I don't have to get to the housewarming party on a weekend after work!

Today was fun. ;)

So it seems that little miss is much happier, and so long as she is, I will be. ;)

Girls are very strange.

( Rant about annoying customers )

By the way Becs, the 'customers_suck' group is very funny, even if it is filling my in box with random stuff. ;)

I am going to make something abundantly clear to all involved.

*I* will not put up with any bullshit.

The pair of you have made your bed, and now you get to sleep in it.

I will not be held accountable for your actions.

I am going to be royally pissed if I hear anything more about 'bristling at my name'.

That said, I hope we can develop a mutual understanding, if not friendship.

[EDIT]

Hrm, perhaps I am being too harsh.

As my mother used to say when my sister and I were little, if you can't play nicely, you can't play at all.

The reality is that we will be spending a fair amount of time together, so we'd best learn to get along nicely. ;)

It is a complex web that binds us together, but hopefully we can all rise above petty jealousy (myself included) and develop a decent, lasting friendship amongst ourselves.