Under the Skin

This Tuesday, I was asked to help with a late St. Patrick's Day Irish dance show at a nursing home called "Overlake Terrace" in Redmond. I said that I would be able to help, and it was a fun experience, but there were several mishaps and disasters. I went to work and knew that if I was able to get to Overlake Terrace by 6:00, which I had thought to be the call time, I would need to be sure to leave work by 4:45 or so. I did so, and I went onto my email to get the address for the venue. When I got home, I learned that the call time had been changed to 5:45, but I had been at school or work all day and I did not know this. So, after the due panic, I managed to say, okay, if I leave by 5:20 or 5:25, I'll still be okay, as I knew that Overlake Terrace is approximately 20 minutes away. I typed Mapquest into the browser, but doesn't it always turn out that the browser goes slowest when you need it to go fastest? Why is that? So, as I bounced up and down saying, ...

The IB Chemistry kids spent all of today in the Chem lab, building Rube-Goldberg machines, and I made a documentary about it. Note: the upload of the video failed. We'll see what I can do. :-) Update: 3/15/09- I've tried again, but it didn't work again. I'm going to try to see if it's a format problem. I don't understand, I've done this before.

Throughout our school-days and even after that, I would assume, we are informed of the perfect stupidity of old-fashioned medicine. We are informed of the complete idiocy of doctors through their beliefs in bleeding and the four humors and all that good stuff. When we're in elementary school, we're just told about them, then when we get to middle school and high school, the teachers, in an attempt to "further inform" their students of the idiocy of past doctors, blame it all on Galen. Galen was the guy who came up with the four humors, for sure, and he was quite the advocate of bleeding. But was the idiocy really all his fault? True, throughout the Middle Ages, Medieval Era and Renaissance, Galen was followed, but in many ways, the beliefs of Galen, with the exception of bleeding, were fairly harmless. True, they helped no one, but does it really hurt you to eat flour and water when you have the flu? It's moronic, but it's not really harmful. I would argue...

I had forgotten to tell everyone: I'm officially a BYU Cougar. Class of 2013!