Happy new uterine lining!
Today, in class, we did everyone’s favourite: what does a base mean? and how can you convert from base 10 into those other bases? It was fun the first time I did it (in some special class in elementary school), and not too bad the second time but this is now at least the fourth time I have seen base conversions. Honestly, I do not care what the base-13 equivalent of 24716 is. I left halfway through, swearing to myself that I would never ever show up to this class without checking to make sure we’re doing something new. I will have to die if I am forced to deal with propositional logic again. Oooh! If the antecedent of a conditional is false, the statement is always true! Then perhaps we can argue about how this doesn’t accurately represent the semantics of if, or maybe si, since it’s in French, and we can discuss if the word or/ou has the same semantics as inclusive or exclusive or, or if it is ambiguous, and I can cry.
I went to get a coffee, then realised that hey, I have cramps (too). I decided to skip the rest of the day — gee, a lab on converting from base 17 to base 5? No; and I have not the mental energy for the class on “AI”, I’ll just read the handouts which I’d forgotten at home anyways — so I dragged myself to the pharmacy where I bought Midol and stayed at the counter, fumbling as I desperately opened the bottle and swallowed some. I do not yet have relief, but it hurts a lot less.
With luck this will mean that I can skip tonight’s dinner at my aunt’s. This also means that I didn’t get terribly depressed with PMS this month, just a little and also a bit irritable (not that it’s a huge difference for me, being irritable by nature, though I often think it’s just because I enjoy complaining so).
September 16th, 2004 at 4:27 pm
It’s funny how a number of us on the net seem to cycle at the same time. Obviously, it can’t be pheromones at work! I wonder, perhaps, it’s that one’s moods shift over the course of the cycle, and when you find someone whose moods match yours, you feel more of a connection to them than you might otherwise?
Where are the ethno-biologists when you need them?
Rana
September 16th, 2004 at 4:41 pm
Hmph. So the distance from California to Quebec means I can’t blame your pheromones for changing my nice 6 week cycle into a 4 week one? Maybe I should just take a leaf from Harrison and blame Michelle; she is a little closer, anyhow.
I wonder — I mean, just the law of averages would say that a bunch of women you know would have their periods at the same time, but who knows. If you give me time, I could make up a just-so story about why, too.
September 16th, 2004 at 5:18 pm
Joining the club and not commenting on how much chocolate I’ve snarfed down in the last 36 hours.
September 16th, 2004 at 5:27 pm
Me too, and I’m on the other side of the Atlantic!… except I miss out on the pre-menstrual hormones bit for some reason (for which I’m eternally grateful) and I forget the calendar and it takes me by surprise every month when suddenly OW OW OW in the archives or the office or some other totally inconvenient place and I pray that I’ll have some ibuprofen in my bag… which fortunately I did this afternoon.
September 16th, 2004 at 5:40 pm
It’s very funny how the most commented (and most quickly responded to) posts are my menstrual ones. Maybe I should make a new category for it — go with the flow?
I was actually sort of anticipating it, because I got it a day or two before we left Hawaii (early ! No fucking fair!) and that was a month ago, and my cycle got shorter. It’s — I think — the first time I’ve EVER anticipated it, so I am all about the proud right now.
Of course, I didn’t anticipate it THAT much: I had neither pills-of-joy nor tampons on me, or even in the car. But I take what I can get.
September 18th, 2004 at 3:51 pm
Just back from the sticks (les paysages? ). Can you convert from base 17 to base 5 easily? Without going through base 10? If so, have any clever way other than “duh, of course this is how it works” because my students are having the worst time with converting between bases.