Steps at HI tube are very small. 2 steps at a time and one can run with ease. Difficult to walk (quickly) up small steps. Is this because they are child friendly. Are there regulations on step size?
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What percentage of time is spent writing a blog and what percentage of time spell checking?
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Research posted today, suggest the following association: More moles = longer telomeres = 'better health'. Perhaps this explains in part the differences in physical robustness of mater and pater
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Too many 20yr olds on the train - really making my hormonal thermostat at the wrong tempearture and too many anterior abdominal walls on display - reminds me of Anaconda.
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11 Jul 2007
10 Jul 2007
July 2007 Diary
10.07.07
Met with P at HG hospital. Not sure how professional they are - but they are willing. Not clear they have a real PR strategy - but I guess word of mouth is what will help my potential practice. Given a 3-5pm slot. Not very child friendly. Looks like phlebotomy will be difficult. Wonder whet he that will be a turn off for the mums.
Spent most of the day writing first blog entry. Really very difficult. Hope I won't regret it!
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11.07.07
Seats on the treadmill express - presumably it's because of the school holidays. We all stand there as sardines, usually avoiding gazing at each other's armpits. A woman with a beautiful face really looked at me - before placing her armpit 2 inches from my nose. Stature would help.
A PP has telphone N in H St - wanting to know whether I see pps. I saw them in March. I think word of mouth will work - though am not sure if they will be OK with N London.
Lecture from some self appointed fluid guru for manchseter - I suppose I will be barking up the wrong alley way as usual.
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12.07.07
Yesterdays' lecture was some one I knew - and he didn't like being challenged. This is not the response of a real intellectual. Still that is the way medicine is going.
Spoke with dad - mum fell again in the bathroom. Hence the need to go next week to the OTs. Not sure how he will cope with having builders in to redo the bathroom But i guess he is coming round to it.
K asked me to see the child of a friend. Although s/he should be seen in GP clinic - D is doing - and she turned her nose up. I wonder where I sit in the pecking order - as far as our staff are concerned.
A HS PP rang - asking to see me again!. I will probably have to ask JS re using his HS practice -a s not signed up with AXA etc.
APC Overnight - left a delivery card - asking me to telephone their depot to order a new drop off - but no number on card (Dumb Britain!). No in fact the chap on the end of the telephone said delivered to 148 VR - so why wasn't that written on my card. I guess we are all getting more illiterate
Had a 17 yaer old, who is thinking of doing medicine. Her father is a psychiatrist at Barts. I told her not to do medicine - was that the correct thing to do? Told her to go to Harvard.
Just got an email - the Canadians are asking for 5 more nights in the house. Should be fun - wonder whether we can go further! Dream on...
New business cards picked up from 148 VR. She's a bit odd - seems to lock herself in the house. Still - cards look pretty good. Nice feel with a mat laminate. Font looks wonderfully understated.
Picked up book from 171 - they will be moving next week. Young family moving in - i wonder what they do!
Met with P at HG hospital. Not sure how professional they are - but they are willing. Not clear they have a real PR strategy - but I guess word of mouth is what will help my potential practice. Given a 3-5pm slot. Not very child friendly. Looks like phlebotomy will be difficult. Wonder whet he that will be a turn off for the mums.
Spent most of the day writing first blog entry. Really very difficult. Hope I won't regret it!
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11.07.07
Seats on the treadmill express - presumably it's because of the school holidays. We all stand there as sardines, usually avoiding gazing at each other's armpits. A woman with a beautiful face really looked at me - before placing her armpit 2 inches from my nose. Stature would help.
A PP has telphone N in H St - wanting to know whether I see pps. I saw them in March. I think word of mouth will work - though am not sure if they will be OK with N London.
Lecture from some self appointed fluid guru for manchseter - I suppose I will be barking up the wrong alley way as usual.
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12.07.07
Yesterdays' lecture was some one I knew - and he didn't like being challenged. This is not the response of a real intellectual. Still that is the way medicine is going.
Spoke with dad - mum fell again in the bathroom. Hence the need to go next week to the OTs. Not sure how he will cope with having builders in to redo the bathroom But i guess he is coming round to it.
K asked me to see the child of a friend. Although s/he should be seen in GP clinic - D is doing - and she turned her nose up. I wonder where I sit in the pecking order - as far as our staff are concerned.
A HS PP rang - asking to see me again!. I will probably have to ask JS re using his HS practice -a s not signed up with AXA etc.
APC Overnight - left a delivery card - asking me to telephone their depot to order a new drop off - but no number on card (Dumb Britain!). No in fact the chap on the end of the telephone said delivered to 148 VR - so why wasn't that written on my card. I guess we are all getting more illiterate
Had a 17 yaer old, who is thinking of doing medicine. Her father is a psychiatrist at Barts. I told her not to do medicine - was that the correct thing to do? Told her to go to Harvard.
Just got an email - the Canadians are asking for 5 more nights in the house. Should be fun - wonder whether we can go further! Dream on...
New business cards picked up from 148 VR. She's a bit odd - seems to lock herself in the house. Still - cards look pretty good. Nice feel with a mat laminate. Font looks wonderfully understated.
Picked up book from 171 - they will be moving next week. Young family moving in - i wonder what they do!
The power of blogs
- Why be surprised that it is not possible to hide oneself on a blog?
- If someone means a lot to you, is it right to go looking for them on the web?
- How does one undo the consequences of a cached blog?
Let me start with two confessions - first - I had never read a blog until a month ago - and second - this is my first post. Like any technology - blogging can't be uninvented, but perhaps some aspects of life were better when it was more difficult to broadcast oneself.
The stimulus to explore the blogosphere was an attempted call on Skype from the ex of my life. The call came when I was in the middle of using Skype to talk with my father, so I was not able to reply.
After 2 years of near silence the call was a real surprise. JP had made it clear uptil then that I was (r)ejected from her life - and that she did not welcome contact from me. I experienced a welter of strong emotions - surprise and happiness - as well as confusion and, I admit, a vague feeling that I might be being played with - but I waited for a further Skype.
Whilst waiting - for a call that never materialized - I spent my time Googling. I discovered that she had moved from London to Tel Aviv - in fact she had made Aliya (emigrated). She was writing a blog - using a pseudonym - which contained one (incidental) comment about a particularly "virulent boyfriend"*. I learned a lot from the blog - and it certainly filled some gaps, though of course it gave me sleepless nights. It helped me understand the new reality but not why she had decided to contact her (ex) virulent boyfriend.
The next day I responded with a brief email**. It was promptly returned using a spoof programme that pretends an email account no longer exists, and the blog was shut down (though of course it remains viewable - as it was cached). I sent two further emails - one explaining how I felt (at the time very upset) and the other, a week latter, with news about my family (who still care and miss her). I've heard nothing since - so you might assume that it is back to the previous status quo - especially as yesterday was also the day that JP removed me from her list of contacts on Skype (thus she can no longer watch when I am online).
But no - instead I read JP's subsequent comments posted on other people's blogs, where there is a repeated inference that it was wrong of me to read her blog - and that in some way to do so violates her privacy. Now, why one (incidental) phrase is so meaningful to me and her is something that I may explore latter. However if blogs are to be cached (in essence for posterity) then it seems that the quid prop quo is an increased chance of people not being able to develop a new phase in their relationships (in the broadest of sense of the term).
Yesterday a mutual friend (who had unknown to me met JP in Tel Aviv cafe a few weeks ago) told me that she felt JP was suffering more than transient unhappiness. Perhaps this is why she tried to reach out - and why I flunked. Although one can run away from one's past for a while, by denying a parent, rejecting a lover, moving country, changing ethnicity, learning to think and count in a new language, change email and invent new pseudonyms - it would seem that this is a process that will eventually unravel. When this happens one reaches out, but the blogosphere may not be the best way to do so. It would be a shame if the blogosphere makes us remain unnecessarily hurt.
PS Although I have found a new way to record how I feel - I'm not sure if it makes sense to you dear reader. JP - I hope you are well.
* "virulent.boyfriend" has some features of a Googlewhack - 2 hits - at the time of writing
Yesterday you tried to contact me on Skype.
So I got looking - and found your comment about me.
I still miss you - and wish you the best in your new life.
A*******
- If someone means a lot to you, is it right to go looking for them on the web?
- How does one undo the consequences of a cached blog?
Let me start with two confessions - first - I had never read a blog until a month ago - and second - this is my first post. Like any technology - blogging can't be uninvented, but perhaps some aspects of life were better when it was more difficult to broadcast oneself.
The stimulus to explore the blogosphere was an attempted call on Skype from the ex of my life. The call came when I was in the middle of using Skype to talk with my father, so I was not able to reply.
After 2 years of near silence the call was a real surprise. JP had made it clear uptil then that I was (r)ejected from her life - and that she did not welcome contact from me. I experienced a welter of strong emotions - surprise and happiness - as well as confusion and, I admit, a vague feeling that I might be being played with - but I waited for a further Skype.
Whilst waiting - for a call that never materialized - I spent my time Googling. I discovered that she had moved from London to Tel Aviv - in fact she had made Aliya (emigrated). She was writing a blog - using a pseudonym - which contained one (incidental) comment about a particularly "virulent boyfriend"*. I learned a lot from the blog - and it certainly filled some gaps, though of course it gave me sleepless nights. It helped me understand the new reality but not why she had decided to contact her (ex) virulent boyfriend.
The next day I responded with a brief email**. It was promptly returned using a spoof programme that pretends an email account no longer exists, and the blog was shut down (though of course it remains viewable - as it was cached). I sent two further emails - one explaining how I felt (at the time very upset) and the other, a week latter, with news about my family (who still care and miss her). I've heard nothing since - so you might assume that it is back to the previous status quo - especially as yesterday was also the day that JP removed me from her list of contacts on Skype (thus she can no longer watch when I am online).
But no - instead I read JP's subsequent comments posted on other people's blogs, where there is a repeated inference that it was wrong of me to read her blog - and that in some way to do so violates her privacy. Now, why one (incidental) phrase is so meaningful to me and her is something that I may explore latter. However if blogs are to be cached (in essence for posterity) then it seems that the quid prop quo is an increased chance of people not being able to develop a new phase in their relationships (in the broadest of sense of the term).
Yesterday a mutual friend (who had unknown to me met JP in Tel Aviv cafe a few weeks ago) told me that she felt JP was suffering more than transient unhappiness. Perhaps this is why she tried to reach out - and why I flunked. Although one can run away from one's past for a while, by denying a parent, rejecting a lover, moving country, changing ethnicity, learning to think and count in a new language, change email and invent new pseudonyms - it would seem that this is a process that will eventually unravel. When this happens one reaches out, but the blogosphere may not be the best way to do so. It would be a shame if the blogosphere makes us remain unnecessarily hurt.
PS Although I have found a new way to record how I feel - I'm not sure if it makes sense to you dear reader. JP - I hope you are well.
* "virulent.boyfriend" has some features of a Googlewhack - 2 hits - at the time of writing
** My email:
J*******Yesterday you tried to contact me on Skype.
So I got looking - and found your comment about me.
I still miss you - and wish you the best in your new life.
A*******
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