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Feb. 28th, 2006 10:56 pm
this month is too short
Work suddenly dumped itself on me. Damn. We're in audit season right now, so there's a lot of pressure. I'm kind of pissed at myself because I'm discovering mistakes I made months ago and wasn't able to correct in time. Grr..
Other than that, I had a marathon IM session right before dinner today. I haven't done that since college! Am I getting old or what? I am, because everyone around me cannot stop talking about housing, and the future. Like, retirement and stuff. I think I talked to like, what 6 different people about life, the universe and everything. It's kind of crazy, actually. I wish everyone would just move near me; then I could see them whenever I wanted to.
Things I learned today: There is a Chinese Hospital in San Francisco, that serves the Asian population there. They have Chinese food in the hospital. You know what I wonder? I wonder if they let you eat oranges and chicken soup if you have a cold. My mom would never let me touch the stuff when I was sick.
I also learned that Chinese women are at higher risk of dying from breast cancer, mostly because they do not go get mammograms, they do not do breast exams, and they generally don't allow their doctors to do breast exams, most likely for cultural reasons. There are a lot of things we don't do, that we should, for cultural reasons.
I checked out some of the new magazines in the bookstore. There's a new one called "Cookie", that is a family oriented magazine. What it makes me think of is the joke in Everybody Hates Chris, where Chris is talking about how his family only buys generic food. "We didn't have cookies, we had COOKIE." There's another one, called We Men, that's bilingual, written in Chinese and English, and about as thick as a September issue of W. I flipped through it, but I didn't get it. Even though there was a beautiful Asian male model on the front cover, the models inside were all white guys. Bleh.
Other than that, I had a marathon IM session right before dinner today. I haven't done that since college! Am I getting old or what? I am, because everyone around me cannot stop talking about housing, and the future. Like, retirement and stuff. I think I talked to like, what 6 different people about life, the universe and everything. It's kind of crazy, actually. I wish everyone would just move near me; then I could see them whenever I wanted to.
Things I learned today: There is a Chinese Hospital in San Francisco, that serves the Asian population there. They have Chinese food in the hospital. You know what I wonder? I wonder if they let you eat oranges and chicken soup if you have a cold. My mom would never let me touch the stuff when I was sick.
I also learned that Chinese women are at higher risk of dying from breast cancer, mostly because they do not go get mammograms, they do not do breast exams, and they generally don't allow their doctors to do breast exams, most likely for cultural reasons. There are a lot of things we don't do, that we should, for cultural reasons.
I checked out some of the new magazines in the bookstore. There's a new one called "Cookie", that is a family oriented magazine. What it makes me think of is the joke in Everybody Hates Chris, where Chris is talking about how his family only buys generic food. "We didn't have cookies, we had COOKIE." There's another one, called We Men, that's bilingual, written in Chinese and English, and about as thick as a September issue of W. I flipped through it, but I didn't get it. Even though there was a beautiful Asian male model on the front cover, the models inside were all white guys. Bleh.