Knowing how sloppy docors can be about information to female patients....do they tell you this nowadays when they prescribe the pill?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1802943.stm
Abstract of study is here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14663455

In the middle of work overload, house to renovate, and friends in crisis all over the place, I have to run into someone who does the 'equality has gone too far' thing. In honour of my total neural overload at this point, I shall now bang my head on the wall, metaphorically, for fear of soon doing so literally. Rant ahead.

Firstly, equality cannot ' ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas everyone!

After scraping the ceiling labouriously for days, I bought a new scraper. graylionhas now done most of what was left with casual scraping, none of this lean-your-whole-body-into-it stuff. From this we learn that a)life remains deeply unfair and b)expensive tools are worth it. Which I knew already.

Today I get to correct exams, oh joy. My cold is finally, ( Read more... )

Last week we painted the walls, repeatedly. The living room will be a warm apricot, with red sponge decoration if that turns out to look good, and the kitchen a colder yellow. Then comes the turn of the library ceiling, which needs new hardboard and paint, and then the wallpaper, which will probably cause a number of temper tantrums going up. There ( Read more... )

Today as the dreaded visit to the dentist to deal with my painfully cracked tooth. I warmly recommend people not to have an emergency root canal - the local anaesthesia doesn't quite work. The tooth, however, now has a temporary over-the-summer filling and will perhaps not hurt anymore. I might even be off painkillers in the foreseeable future ( Read more... )

I have returned from Midsummer Coronation, which contained some more surreal moments (like the double entendres about the meat slicer that marcusstendahl  indulged in in the kitchen, damnit I'll miss him) and some less so, elevations, stepping down, stepping up, (sounds like aerobics) and plenty of mosquitoes. I showed up half an hour before the elevation court ( Read more... )

SCA meme from ( Read more... )

You Are a Black Panther
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Lately, I have been having very bizarre dreams - including one in which I peeled limes in preparation for a religious ceremony which involved marmalade-making, I think. For some reason, my nights involve the most unexpected people doing very weird things, and even though my love life when awake has had its surreal moments, it's nothing like my love ( Read more... )