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juin 17, 2005
The O Chem. Master
I forgot to let ya'll know that I got a 96 on my first o chem. test!! I was quite shocked. My poor hubby and mom are bit upset at me for I have been whining quite extensively about that class. Now, I must mention that my grade is in no way reflective upon my understanding; I literally guessed at all the reactions and happend to get them all right. (I found if you approach them like little mensa style puzzles you will be able to figure out a pattern). So...next test is Monday. We'll see how that one goes, we don't have a practice test for this one so that's a serious blow already...argh, I'm not going to whine yet though...I'll wait for the grade first on this one. =)
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juin 16, 2005
Hot Baby
Well, most of you know what a challenge Maddie is from a medical standpoint. Well the lastest (sigh) is that she has had fever for about 8 weeks now. Every day we take her temp twice and it's always over 100.4 at least one of those times. It only goes as high as 101.5 though. So, she's had a bunch of tests and so far everything is normal. Now my ped. wants me to go see an infectious disease specialist. I'm kind of over it and have accepted the fact that my daughter perhaps is just hot natured in the thermal sense. God bless a new friend/acquaintance of mine who is a second year pediatric resident in Providence, RI. She's considered faculty at Brown which is pretty cool. She was kind enough to take time out of her 100 hour work week to talk to me about this. My ped. leaves a lot to be desired in the bedside manner department, and wasn't answering my questions (you'd think that asking "how are you?" and "do you have any questions?" would go standard with the pediatric visit, but apparently it doesn't, LOL. To her credit she is a good doctor, she'd be a great doctor if she'd ask the two aforementioned questions and listened to the responses, without interrupting, which she tends to do...). Well anyway, so my friend said that it is very possible that it is all normal which helped to alleviate my fears and she also informed me that it was unlikely to be any kind of cancer (hello, a mom's worst fear next to pool drownings, fatal poisonings, and car crashes). So, I guess I'm off to the ID specialist. I have to call and make an appt. I'm just so tired of the medical drama, and Mike too. I am, however, blessed that Maddie is as healthy as she is and, as with all things, it could always be much worse.
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juin 09, 2005
Joy
I can't believe that my body could create something so beautiful. When I look at this picture I think about how it's all worth it. The pumping breast milk for 8 long months, the hospitalizations, the surgeries. I have been blessed. My little girl is happy and that's all that matters right now. She is a strong and brave girl.
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Wow, it's a miracle!
The Webmaster guy rocks! I can see comments and you can post them. So, yes, I have kind of fallen off the planet for the last little while. We went to the beach for a week (pictures soon to come) and just a few days after we got back I had my first org. chem test. Ok...about that...I missed one class b/c I was at the beach, BIG mistake. Big note to self and anyone else who has to take O chem. DO NOT MISS A SINGLE CLASS OR YOU WILL FAIL. Never in my life have I experienced the phenomenon of not being able to teach yourself material missed. And I've taken accounting, statistics, calculus, etc. I am literally shocked at the mammoth that this class is, and I decided to attempt it in the short 10 week session (HA!). And I have to pass with at least a C to start nursing school in the fall. It's not that the material is inherently that hard, I think it's that those who do understand it have a hard time explaining it well. Love my prof., but bless his heart his brain is so all over the place when he's trying to teach this stuff that it's hard to follow his train of thought. I think to be a good chemist, you have to think so differently than the rest of us non-chemists that it's just hard to translate the material clearly. Even my book sucks! Usually the book is your saving grace when the prof. isn't the best, but not this one...may as well be written in Greek. So...sorry...that's really what's been going on in my life so thanks for listening. And if by chance you are one of those super humans that actually gets organic chemistry, let me know...I will pay you well to impart your knowledge unto me. Oh, in other news...I got a chunk of hip removed yesterday. It was a mild pre-cancerous mole that had been removed and grew back. Fun. I have 3 stitches to show off.
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juin 08, 2005
RE:Comment Problems
It appears that the archive files have not been generated since the "Watch Out" post. This is throwing off all of the links for comments, etc. I thought that it was because the links themselves were broken, but I'm now fairly certain that the "Individual Archive" file (which is a single page view of one blog entry) is not being created when new entries are added. I'm not sure of the reason it stopped working, but feel it is out of our control.
Looking at WEBLOG CONFIG->Archiving, I can see that "Individual" archiving is enabled using the "Individual Archive Template" as the template. Also under WEBLOG CONFIG->Preferences, "Individual" is selected as the default archiving category.
I would recommed posing a question to the webmaster with these details. That is if Lynn or Katie don't know.
Also, I found the reason that the entries droped off the front page a few minutes ago. As I suspected, there is a setting in the configs for the maximun amount of time the entries remain on the main page. It seems this number of days is related to when you do a rebuild (which I did when making changes to the site). It was set for 7 days. I changed it to 30 so your entries posted within the last 30 days would appear.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help,
mike
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