Coughs coughs coughs
If anybody’s looking for me today, I’m at home. My coughs got worse, my voice hasn’t fully returned, and I’m not going to the laboratory just to spoil everybody else’s experiments with the microorganisms every cough throws out of my digestive and respiratory tracts.
By the way, do you know whether you’re catching cold or flu?
Here’s an explanation from Brock’s Biology of Microorganisms, 8th ed (Madigan, Martinko & Parker 1997):
The symptoms of a common cold and the symptoms of ‘the flu’ (influenza) often seem similar, but the two diseases are distinct and caused by quite different viruses. A typical common cold caused by a rhinovirus is associated with nasal discharges, cough, chills, and perhaps a sore throat. Influenza, caused by an orthomyxovirus, is generally associated with a different set of symptoms. Although either condition may make one feel miserable for a period, colds are usually of shorter duration and the symptoms are milder. The following can serve as a guideline for determining whether you have ‘caught a cold’ or ‘caught the flu’.
Symptoms of common cold
Fever: Rare
Headache: Rare
General malaise: Slight
Nasal discharge: Common and abundant
Sore throat: Common
Vomiting and/or diarrhea: Rare
Symptoms of influenza
Fever: Common (39-40ºC), sudden onset
Headache: Common
General malaise: Common, often quite severe; can last several weeks
Nasal discharge: Less common, usually not abundant
Sore throat: Much less common
Vomiting and/or diarrhea: Common.
girlintheband, it looks like my dad has cleared old magazines from our shelves, including the mag with the article concerning homosexuality relationships in pesantrens. I’m sorry. But I can tell you what I remember: that in single-sexed pesantrens, where many boys sleep in one same room just like in any other boarding school, the older boys would sometimes come to the beds of the younger ones to kiss and cuddle them. And perhaps more, who knows. It’s their sexual exploration, being educated in a single-sexed school that teaches mostly religious materials, including the importance of chastity and the ‘dangers’ of getting too close with people of the different sex who are not their relatives or legal spouse. It is also said that new santris sometimes bring a knife and put it under their pillows (or whatever things they lay their heads onto instead of pillows), ready to be pulled out in case they need it to whisk off any night, er, ‘attacker’. In female pesantrens there are cases of homosexuality relationships too, but I don’t know much about the issue.
Tracing the threads in Interpol official forum, I found that some people posted Interpol pics that I scanned from various magazines. I recognised my own scans of course. Oh well, that’s good, it means that people find the scans useful.
Grrrhhhh. I can’t stand this oversexed, overrated, artificial, fake pop-culture product. It’s not even ‘cool’. Poor people who think that’s what ‘cool’ means.
I won’t even tell you what it is.
I’m not promoting it.
My professor has just called me. She said my proposal’s OK and I could proceed with it. YAY. Alhamdulillah.
By the way, do you know whether you’re catching cold or flu?
Here’s an explanation from Brock’s Biology of Microorganisms, 8th ed (Madigan, Martinko & Parker 1997):
The symptoms of a common cold and the symptoms of ‘the flu’ (influenza) often seem similar, but the two diseases are distinct and caused by quite different viruses. A typical common cold caused by a rhinovirus is associated with nasal discharges, cough, chills, and perhaps a sore throat. Influenza, caused by an orthomyxovirus, is generally associated with a different set of symptoms. Although either condition may make one feel miserable for a period, colds are usually of shorter duration and the symptoms are milder. The following can serve as a guideline for determining whether you have ‘caught a cold’ or ‘caught the flu’.
Symptoms of common cold
Fever: Rare
Headache: Rare
General malaise: Slight
Nasal discharge: Common and abundant
Sore throat: Common
Vomiting and/or diarrhea: Rare
Symptoms of influenza
Fever: Common (39-40ºC), sudden onset
Headache: Common
General malaise: Common, often quite severe; can last several weeks
Nasal discharge: Less common, usually not abundant
Sore throat: Much less common
Vomiting and/or diarrhea: Common.
girlintheband, it looks like my dad has cleared old magazines from our shelves, including the mag with the article concerning homosexuality relationships in pesantrens. I’m sorry. But I can tell you what I remember: that in single-sexed pesantrens, where many boys sleep in one same room just like in any other boarding school, the older boys would sometimes come to the beds of the younger ones to kiss and cuddle them. And perhaps more, who knows. It’s their sexual exploration, being educated in a single-sexed school that teaches mostly religious materials, including the importance of chastity and the ‘dangers’ of getting too close with people of the different sex who are not their relatives or legal spouse. It is also said that new santris sometimes bring a knife and put it under their pillows (or whatever things they lay their heads onto instead of pillows), ready to be pulled out in case they need it to whisk off any night, er, ‘attacker’. In female pesantrens there are cases of homosexuality relationships too, but I don’t know much about the issue.
Tracing the threads in Interpol official forum, I found that some people posted Interpol pics that I scanned from various magazines. I recognised my own scans of course. Oh well, that’s good, it means that people find the scans useful.
Grrrhhhh. I can’t stand this oversexed, overrated, artificial, fake pop-culture product. It’s not even ‘cool’. Poor people who think that’s what ‘cool’ means.
I won’t even tell you what it is.
I’m not promoting it.
My professor has just called me. She said my proposal’s OK and I could proceed with it. YAY. Alhamdulillah.