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delirium1995

First day back at school...

Jan 02, 2006 22:27

The weather gods have been unkind to Northern California. There is flooding, flooding everywhere, including my car which refuses to start because of the humidity in the air and because it has been idle for two weeks. Guess not just idle hands, but idle cars are also the work of the devil ( Read more... )

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Excellent picture. wwolfe January 3 2006, 17:52:38 UTC

I was lucky enough to be able to do exactly what you wished to do: stay home, curled up on the couch. In my case, I was with a good football game, rather than a good book, but it was very enjoyable nonetheless.

Good luck at school!

madcap_allie January 5 2006, 03:21:23 UTC

Sweet photo, Del!

Overcast, windy and wet -- that describes my entire winter break. Of course, that's normal weather here. Sorry to hear you've had to experience it. And, uh, what's sputum?

ps - I've never called you "Del" before, but I will now. Nonetheless I feel I must inform you that it makes me think of Sandman, vector calculus and you all at the same time.

Sputum.. delirium1995 January 5 2006, 22:49:25 UTC

also known as that stuff that comes out of your throat when you cough.

I was going to use the word "loogie" but couldn't really think of the appropriate spelling.

In a less lazy mood today, I had to Google it and found this site:
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19980113
which defines it 'an expectorated bit of phlegm'

My Stedman's medical dictionary defines it as:
"expectorated matter, especially mucus or mucopurulent matter expectorated in diseases of the air passages."

There are ciliated cells in our trachea that are constantly pushing this stuff up and your two options for it, it either comes out as sputum...or you SWALLOW IT (which is how many a parasite can have a circuit from the lungs into the GI tract).

Fun, fun stuff.

-Del