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[quesarah]

1. My cell phone is on the way! They're Fed Exing it to me and it should arrive tomorrow. Taking that fact into consideration as well as the fact that the hold up was due to my old cellular provider, I'm happy that I'm switching. Whee!

2. My zip drive at work is now a fancy paperweight. Yippee.

3. Scooter the Marketing Queen is driving me up a wall. "Can you summarize this" "Can you summarize this another way?" "You know that data you summarized for me? Can you write it up this way?" Shuddup Scooter.

4. The San Diego Zoo is hosting a lecture by Dr. Biruté Galdikas on BABY ORANGS IN BORNEO. I wanna go!

5. Yesterday afternoon I broke down and purchased some Claritin. Today I feel like me, instead of Zurga the Nasal Sewage Beast, which is pleasant. This morning as I drove past the Carlsbad Flower Fields in bloom, I was able to appreciate the brilliant colors instead of cursing the pollen. Behold the power of pharmaceuticals.

6. Work is already annoying me. I so need a new job.

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[virginmartyr1.livejournal.com]

starting backwards...

6. it's a real good thing that you're interviewing for other jobs then, eh? hang in there...something will happen soon.

5. pharmaceuticals (or as i call them, drugs) are won-der-ful. i am on allegra, and while it doesn't cure all allergy yuckiness, i'm slightly worried what i'd be like without it. eep. glad you're feeling better today!

4. are they going to be showing any baby orangs? cause then i'd want to go...if not, maybe not quite as much.

3. gotta love scooter (or want to kick scooter repeatedly in the shins).

2. um, ok. good for you. happy fancy little paperweights.

1. thank good god they are finally getting that out to you. yay! and, even though you don't really care, i'm holding out hope that the phone will be fun and cute and gadgety like that.

*smile*

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I found myself sneezing my head off yesterday too. Joy, spring time hath arrived, behold the glee that is Simon With Hayfever.

Blah.

Bring back winter.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

*passes Simon some antihistamines*

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

I use Zirtek, which I get 30 of on a prescription. But it still costs me, uhm, what's a prescription now... something in the region of £7.

So yeah, if you're giving away antihistimenes, gimme! :)

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I have a degree in pharmacology. I can hook you up. ;)

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

:)

Okay then, can you answer me this - is there any truth to the old wives tale that taking a couple of teaspoons of a locally produced honey each day, is by far and away the best treatment for hayfever that there is?

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Maybe.

Raw locally-made honey can have small amounts of pollen in it. Taken orally, this could over time help your body build up a tolerance to it, thereby diminishing the severity of your allergic reaction.

It won't be immediate, and it likely won't eliminate your hay fever. It may help make it more manageable.

In the meantime, you can also cut back on dairy products, sugar, and starches. Many allergy sufferers (me included) find this reduces the severity of allergy symptoms.

YMMV.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

4. are they going to be showing any baby orangs? cause then i'd want to go...if not, maybe not quite as much.

No, she'll be talking about her orphan orang program, progress they've made, plans for the future, etc.
But, but... it's Birute Galdikas! To quote: "Unique among scientific disciplines in that it's dominated by women, primatology has, in the public's mind, taken on a female face thanks to the celebrity of Jane Goodall, the late Dian Fossey and Birut� Galdikas. These three women -- the "trimates," as they are called -- are the most famous female proteges of the late anthropologist Louis Leakey."

I'd just love to hear her speak.

[virginmartyr1.livejournal.com]

you should go hear her speak then! is it feasible to do so? because you're obviously excited about it. she's a trimate! go!

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Barring other events, I probably will go. She's speaking on May 19 and 20 at the Zoo. What a wonderful opportunity to hear a researcher of her stature speak. Wow!

[joebanks.livejournal.com]

4.Got a thing for orangs?

5.Pharmaceuticals, good; evil insurance companies that used to cover them bad, then the evil companies charging almost a dollar a pill-bad.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

4.Got a thing for orangs?

Got a thing for cool world-reknown biologists.

[joebanks.livejournal.com]

cool