pfff.... stuff this Blue Monday crap!

Yesterday could have been more productive: borrowed ski stuff was rifled through with hilarious consequences, didn't win the Stranglethorn Vale Fishing Competition, didn't do the housework, didn't finish the Figure Legends (although I made a fair bash).... blah blah blah

On the other hand, I've rebuilt the Mac (well, done the tedious Mac OS install bit), done the weekly shop, crocheted some more squares and given Dave a huge laugh by trying on his Mother's 1980's-vintage hideous turquoise salopettes, ski-jacket, mittens, snood and goggles combo. Can't decide whether to take it skiing or not. I guess everyone could do with a laugh.

Today I need to try and find myself a dentist. HA HA HA HA. No really, have an interesting abscess type thing trying to erupt out of the gum under one of my poor remaining molars.

pfff.... stuff this Blue Monday crap!

Yesterday could have been more productive: borrowed ski stuff was rifled through with hilarious consequences, didn't win the Stranglethorn Vale Fishing Competition, didn't do the housework, didn't finish the Figure Legends (although I made a fair bash).... blah blah blah

On the other hand, I've rebuilt the Mac (well, done the tedious Mac OS install bit), done the weekly shop, crocheted some more squares and given Dave a huge laugh by trying on his Mother's 1980's-vintage hideous turquoise salopettes, ski-jacket, mittens, snood and goggles combo. Can't decide whether to take it skiing or not. I guess everyone could do with a laugh.

Today I need to try and find myself a dentist. HA HA HA HA. No really, have an interesting abscess type thing trying to erupt out of the gum under one of my poor remaining molars.

WHAT!?

So. I spend weeks working on the crappy paper. I get up early this morning to finish it off. I finish writing the figure legends after sweating blood on them and I get ready to submit the paper online. ONLY TO FIND THAT ALL MY Y-AXIS LABELS HAVE DISAPPEARED from every figure! WTF?! The only way to get them back will be to RECONSTRUCT ALL OF MY FIGURES FROM SCRATCH. The figures that took me WEEKS to get the right resolution and to iron out all of the kinks from FUCKING EXCEL. I GIVE UP.

WHAT!?

So. I spend weeks working on the crappy paper. I get up early this morning to finish it off. I finish writing the figure legends after sweating blood on them and I get ready to submit the paper online. ONLY TO FIND THAT ALL MY Y-AXIS LABELS HAVE DISAPPEARED from every figure! WTF?! The only way to get them back will be to RECONSTRUCT ALL OF MY FIGURES FROM SCRATCH. The figures that took me WEEKS to get the right resolution and to iron out all of the kinks from FUCKING EXCEL. I GIVE UP.

Good Golly How Gravid!

Watering of Maregnac (c. 1880) speaks of the simultaneous birth of 8 children at one time. When several months pregnant the woman was seized with colicky pains and thought them a call of nature. She went into a vineyard to answer it, and there, to her great astonishment, gave birth to 8 fetuses. Watering found them enclosed in a sac, and thought they probably had died from mutual pressure during growth. The mother made a good recovery.

In 1755 Seignette of Dijon reports the simultaneous birth of nine children. Franciscus Picus Mirandulæ, quoted by Paré, says that one Dorothea, an Italian, bore 20 children at 2 confinements, the first time bearing 9 and the second time eleven. He gives a picture of this marvel of prolificity, in which her belly is represented as hanging down to her knees, and supported by a girdle from the neck (Fig. 23, above!). In the Annals, History, and Guide to Leeds and York, according to Walford, there is mention of Ann Birch, who in 1781 was delivered of 10 children. One daughter, the sole survivor of the 10, married a market gardener named Platt, who was well known in Leeds.


Do YOU believe them? These sorts of things I thought only happened with modern IVF techniques... I do, however, rather feel like the poor woman above at the moment... Gah, bloat. Hopefully I shall not be answering a call of nature in a field and give birth to 8 dead foetuses in a sac, however. If I do, I shall be sure to bloggit.

The above and a million more bizarre medical anomalies can be found online here. (I have a hard copy that was sensibly released in a plain white binding!). That'll give you something to browse through on a rainy day.

Good Golly How Gravid!

Watering of Maregnac (c. 1880) speaks of the simultaneous birth of 8 children at one time. When several months pregnant the woman was seized with colicky pains and thought them a call of nature. She went into a vineyard to answer it, and there, to her great astonishment, gave birth to 8 fetuses. Watering found them enclosed in a sac, and thought they probably had died from mutual pressure during growth. The mother made a good recovery.

In 1755 Seignette of Dijon reports the simultaneous birth of nine children. Franciscus Picus Mirandulæ, quoted by Paré, says that one Dorothea, an Italian, bore 20 children at 2 confinements, the first time bearing 9 and the second time eleven. He gives a picture of this marvel of prolificity, in which her belly is represented as hanging down to her knees, and supported by a girdle from the neck (Fig. 23, above!). In the Annals, History, and Guide to Leeds and York, according to Walford, there is mention of Ann Birch, who in 1781 was delivered of 10 children. One daughter, the sole survivor of the 10, married a market gardener named Platt, who was well known in Leeds.


Do YOU believe them? These sorts of things I thought only happened with modern IVF techniques... I do, however, rather feel like the poor woman above at the moment... Gah, bloat. Hopefully I shall not be answering a call of nature in a field and give birth to 8 dead foetuses in a sac, however. If I do, I shall be sure to bloggit.

The above and a million more bizarre medical anomalies can be found online here. (I have a hard copy that was sensibly released in a plain white binding!). That'll give you something to browse through on a rainy day.