Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

zagubov

LydiaJ wrote: »

I agree. No matter whose fault it was - and even if it had been yours, which clearly it wasn't - there was no call for her to be so rude.



Got to the end.

Thanks for the medal. Not quite sure whether reading it all was medal-worthy or insane.



A watt is a joule per second, so a joule is the energy you get if a 1watt device is running for one second.
A kilowatt-hour is 1000W for 3600s so that makes 3,600,000 J.



Lovely. Thanks PN. I'm too tired to read them now - it's getting late, even for me - but I'll have a good look when the kids are at school tomorrow.

For some reason I ended up having to explain to a Chemistry colleague who's got to teach some Biology what the rewards and penalties were for being warm-blooded. Stamina, indifference to climate and time of day, peerpetual peak performance, and speed greed and incipient starvation!

I loved the idea it evolved in mammals before the dinosaurs that became birds developed it independently.

It's when you get to the energy aspects of biology that it gets really intersting (my first college job was lecturer in Biology and Physics, a combination I loved).

neverdespairgirl

zagubov wrote: »

I need to find out why you can only ever mong fish or iron.:o

Doom monger? Costermonger? Cheesemonger? Warmonger? Scandalmonger? Scaremonger? Rumour monger?

There are "fable-mongering ears" in Moby !!!!!!, too.

Fleshmonger is probably a bit old-fashioned, now, but could still be used for a butcher (or a pimp, I suppose).

GDB2222

LIR, it strikes me that you have a practical difficulty with getting the drugs you need, and sorting that out is probably more important than getting complaints dealt with. With my GP, I made a list of what I need, and I fax it to the GP once a month, with a request that they give the prescription to the pharmacy. That works very well, as I am driving the system to get stuff issued when I need it.

If you are not up to doing that at the moment, get DH to do it for you. It will take him (or his secretary!) a couple of minutes every month, and it is something that he can easily do to help you. I am sure that he will want to do this for you, if you give him the opportunity.

I also put my order in whilst I have 2 weeks' medicines in reserve. The system is bound to foul up from time to time, and this gives me a chance to check that the prescription has been issued before I run out.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

LIR, it strikes me that you have a practical difficulty with getting the drugs you need, and sorting that out is probably more important than getting complaints dealt with. With my GP, I made a list of what I need, and I fax it to the GP once a month, with a request that they give the prescription to the pharmacy. That works very well, as I am driving the system to get stuff issued when I need it.

If you are not up to doing that at the moment, get DH to do it for you. It will take him (or his secretary!) a couple of minutes every month, and it is something that he can easily do to help you. I am sure that he will want to do this for you, if you give him the opportunity.

I also put my order in whilst I have 2 weeks' medicines in reserve. The system is bound to foul up from time to time, and this gives me a chance to check that the prescription has been issued before I run out.

DH also has problems getting his prescriptions . The prescriptions clerk or whatever is just inept.

But this is different. My prescriptions are already 'managed'. Essentially the pharmacy do the same a you do, but then deliver them. ( although that doesn't always work. ). The idea behind setting it up like that was it meant I could get them If I feel house bound.

This I could not order two weeks in advance ( our surgery asks seven days). Because of the weekly increasing dose and the strong likelihood I would not be able to tolerate them I was given five weeks supply at the hosital and told to see how I was at the end of week four/ beginning of week five, ( week five, started Tuesday, maximum dose) . I went in to the surgery week five day 1 am because I felt ok, and because that was the week ( though I have eight days because of pills I have forgotten ).

The surgery do allow appointed representatives, but are adamant they deal with me and always lose the detail that I have asked DH be allowed to be an appointed representative.


I feel ok this morning. . I slept like a log. .




I'll find out what's going on with communication this morning from neurologist and that will probably determine how i feel. e.g. they mentioned that the last letter they had was fro. The other hospital last week, where as i know one got to them on wednesday, because I got my copy, but I wouldn't expect that to be on the system yet. ( that also has another referral request and another prescription issue request from consultant :rotfl: we'll see how THAT pans out, huh?). But it might be the neurologist has written and its on a desk in the surgery somewhere just not uploaded. Which has happened before.



Anyway. In truth I am more worried about my shower valves and tiles today. They'll be around longer than whatever pills I do or don't take.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

We're OK, thanks. I am much much better since about the day before yesterday. It took a whole week of doing nothing to recover from the end of term, but now I am beginning to have some motivation for some things. DD is mostly OK, but finding the heat makes it hard to get to sleep, and then getting sad and lonely and wanting to be with me instead of staying in her own room however long it takes to get to sleep. She's still struggling with some dad-related stuff. DS has had a better year than expected in some respects - he's joining in with things instead of isolating himself as he did at primary school - but the dyslexia thing is still getting him down. He's just had a special (ie non-NHS) dyslexia-related eye test and is due to get new glasses which may help a little.

On the name front I think the school should call you dr j primarily to remind them selves and their pupils that its aspiration they can expect of women/ anyone. Especially in your field. I am relaxed about in generally, and wouldn't prickle, but when a great successful role model walks in...you use it, right?

Just like when you are with little kids you spell out every word on signs, or even littler ones point at the colours of every thing.

Why waste an opportunity to drive this message of possibility home and make it a normal 'possibility' or 'maybe I' d like to do that too' for the kids in the class when they learn through repetition and the teachers avpcceptants that a mother can be a dr j?

Wow, that's pretty feminist for me.

Poor dd. something's just have to be gone through I guess.

Hope the new glasses help. Are they colours or something else?

Please give them both my love.

vivatifosi

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Doom monger? Costermonger? Cheesemonger? Warmonger? Scandalmonger? Scaremonger? Rumour monger?

There are "fable-mongering ears" in Moby !!!!!!, too.

Fleshmonger is probably a bit old-fashioned, now, but could still be used for a butcher (or a pimp, I suppose).

I've only seen it quoted once, but I liked money monger, which I presume would be a banker.

zagubov

This Virtual Choir cheered me up today. Hope it cheers up any NPs that need it
http://ericwhitacre.com/the-virtual-choir
:beer:

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

This Virtual Choir cheered me up today. Hope it cheers up any NPs that need it
http://ericwhitacre.com/the-virtual-choir
:beer:

Funnily enough I made a resolution yesterday while buzzing about to make sure I get back in the habit of singing everyday.

My chops are rusty

Spirit_2

zagubov wrote: »

This Virtual Choir cheered me up today. Hope it cheers up any NPs that need it
http://ericwhitacre.com/the-virtual-choir
:beer:

That is so uplifting. I cannot thank you enough.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

On the name front I think the school should call you dr j primarily to remind them selves and their pupils that its aspiration they can expect of women/ anyone. Especially in your field. I am relaxed about in generally, and wouldn't prickle, but when a great successful role model walks in...you use it, right?

Just like when you are with little kids you spell out every word on signs, or even littler ones point at the colours of every thing.

Why waste an opportunity to drive this message of possibility home and make it a normal 'possibility' or 'maybe I' d like to do that too' for the kids in the class when they learn through repetition and the teachers avpcceptants that a mother can be a dr j?

Wow, that's pretty feminist for me.

I hadn't thought of it that way. The school is generally pretty good at encouraging aspiration. I went to view the school before making his secondary application choices, and I remember how keen they were to tell us about their successes - the tech department had several kids who'd won prizes in national competitions, and one whose product had been patented and was being manufactured, and elsewhere in the school was a noticeboard celebrating several Oxbridge places, for example. And it's not as though teachers who know that I'm Dr are calling me Mrs. It's just that the system doesn't tell them what I am, so they guess Mrs. My gripe isn't that they guess wrong, it's that they shouldn't have to guess, particularly at a parents' evening.

lostinrates wrote: »

Poor dd. something's just have to be gone through I guess.

Hope the new glasses help. Are they colours or something else?

Please give them both my love.

Not coloured, no, but with a prism element to help him get the vertical alignment of his eyes to match. They tested him for whether a colour would help him, but the evidence was inconclusive - he said it made it easier, but his performance didn't improve. They've given him a coloured overlay to try for next term, though, so we'll see what happens with that. Tinted glasses are recommended for children who are still bothering to use the overlay after 6-8 weeks, because it's when the novelty has worn off that the placebo effect dies down.