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[enismirdal]

Work mostly gone away, yay!

Of course, the inevitable effect of stress going away is that all the stress effects catch you up. Consequently tired and headachey. Definitely a tension headache...feels tensiony. *gets paracetamol* That should work. Gimme half an hour. EDIT: kicking in already! Yay!

Day not bad. Plants supervision ended with us being set a research paper to read. One, single research paper. I will normally skimread at least 2-3 for an essay, making notes, so this is bliss!

Played with Herpes simplex virus and measles virus in Pathology. I am really hoping I haven't accidentally given myself Herpes simplex as that would be VERY annoying and generally bad. Should be OK, I think. They probably use a puny lab strain anyway, as everyone knows how incompetent second years are (I may or may not have ruined one experiment by not reading the lab sheet properly).

Discovered the dubious joys of Poisson equations. Well, they are OK. Could be worse. Just that they have Numbers^TM in them, you know?

Went to random public lecture about cochleas and stuff. Subject matter interesting, but lecturer not great public speaker and hesistated a lot (almost considered counting his ums and ers - there were many) and I was tired so kept going woozy. Probably didn't follow as well as I would have liked, which is a pity.

Riding lesson I wanted to sign up for has been cancelled. D'oh! Well, there's always next week...

Comments

[psieye.livejournal.com]

>> Discovered the dubious joys of Poisson equations. Well, they are OK. Could be worse. Just that they have NumbersTM in them, you know?

Hmm... I guess the coefficients of terms and powers have Numbers... What they really have are Vectors and Calculus. How do Bio NatSci's learn of the infamous Poisson equation? Do you need to derive general solutions to it in 2D/3D-azimuthally-symmetric?

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

We were anaylsing the probability of an E. coli cell being infected by varying numbers of phage particles...

Very exciting, heh?

[jaiden-s.livejournal.com]

*is soooooooo happy that she went into education rather than science.*
Good luck with the whole Herpes thing....Does this mean I need to use protection when I visit your LJ from now on?
*winks*

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Just don't kiss me if any cold sores do come up :D

[celathiel.livejournal.com]

*looks at the science stuff and gets a look of utter non-comprehension* Ri-ight... Well, I hope you feel better :) .

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It had virtually gone by the time I went to bed :)

[mr-ricarno.livejournal.com]

Wish we got to do experiments in Linguistics.

The sad thing is that Linguistics is partly experimental - they just won't let us anywhere near research tools until PhD level. Probably because these experments involve people, and they don't want us incompetent undergrads to damage them.

Hope headache clears alright.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It did, thankfully.

How much harm can a Linguist do to someone in an experiment anyway? :)

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

As chat-up-put-down lines go, "I work with the Herpes Virus" is pretty good. I'm more frightened of Herpes Simplex Encephalitis - brain turned to mush by the pathogen, safe and sound against antiviral drugs behind the blood-brain barrier.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Eww, sounds nasty. And persistent. *shudders*

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Not persistent: Permanent.

[girlofthemirror.livejournal.com]

You ok sweet? You sound a little onthe stressed side of things.

*hugs*

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

*huggles* I'm all right - it's more like the aftermath of stress, you know when your body suddenly stops long enough to realise what it was doing? But I don't seem to be ill *touches lots of wooden things* so I guess all is well :)