Posted by alexandra_k on November 7, 2018, at 23:58:00
In reply to Re: one of my favorite FDOTM » alexandra_k, posted by beckett2 on November 7, 2018, at 18:43:09
hey.
sigh.
i just get... upset about things, sometimes.
advertising in supermarkets. sometimes it rolls off my back. whatever. other times it really upsets me, a lot. how dare they blast advertising at me when i'm doing something hard like trying to compare ingredient lists... or do a price comparison.
lane sharing in swimming. i understand that lanes fill up and you have to share lanes. okay. but i don't understand why people share your lane when there are free lanes. i similarly don't understand why people use the elliptical (or bike or whatever) right next to me when there are a good 6 or 9 other ones with nobody on them. it's a personal space thing.
it annoyed me, yesterday that someone wanted to share my lane with me when there were free lanes and when i was doing breaststroke (where you simply can't kick properly if you are forced up against a wall or forced between two people in a lane sharing situatio.
i think...
people are used to freestyle, mostly, and don't understand a wide breastroke kick (to think that that is an issue at all). i also think... that people swim by pace (e.g., aim to swim for 30 minutes or whatever at a steady pace) and that probably the person thought my pace would be constant and by swimming with me we would both encourage each other to keep up our pace throughout the time (when one or the other would intermittently get the urge to slack off). but i swim different. i prefer to swim bursts / intervals. and i prefer to swim breastroke, mostly. and i prefer to try and be a torpedo through the water following the centre line precisely and i prefer to focus on what i'm doing instead of focusing on kicking narrow and swimming to the side of the lane (which means i'm kicking under the lane and into the next one, too, often)...
it's just a pain the *ss. it's... overcrowding. that's all.
i just get... an aversion / hypersensitivity to things, sometimes, is all. i'm okay...
i'm waiting to hear whether i have an interview or not (should hear over the next few days). they really leave it until last minute (flight prices will be well up).
and (of course) i haven't heard anything about my thesis...
I found some journal stuff last night that was nice. Partly about sexual abuse in our hospitals. as in... senior surgical staff telling people to do intimate (vaginal, anal, genital) on people anesthetised for surgery (without their consent). apparently... med students actually write they are uncomfortable about this... ethical dilemma stuff... most people do the exams because they are afraid they will be flunked if they don't... most people... feel bad about / write about these as ethical dilemmas... anyway... the thing was that this article was written by a senior person in the hospital system / a senior research person... they didn't say whether there was evidence that teh (few) students who did not comply were punished or flunked... but... well... milgrim experiment irl... anyway... there was a clear statement that such activity does in fact constitute sexual misconduct / abuse. so... that's good. i was worried that things were that bad, here, that nobody would see it as abusive / inappropriate, at all. i can write to the author and ask them about evidence of punishing the ones who didn't comply... ask for help knowing how to handle myself appropriately in such contexts... sounds like that isn't formally part of the curriculum at present... i am concerned i'll be flunked for such a thing. i believe i was flunked out before because i said things like 'maaori need control of their food supply chain' and so on... stuff that was different from what their political elites wanted me to spout...
anyway...
i'm ok.
you okay about election stuff? I am reading along... but i don't really understand... it's... space weather to me...
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