School

School is SO difficult. I got an "A" from my paper in my environmental health class. And I wrote it the day it was due...Now should I try to evolve and do them a little earlier or just do what I do now?
Some of the things I've learned in this class:

• You can't give a child under the age of 2 honey. They will get sick and possibly die.

• Little children shouldn't touch small turtles. Turtles have salmonella in their shells which can make your kids really sick. Also, if somebody brings bats or other wild animals, even a wild kitten to the school room, tell your kid NOT to touch it OR kiss it! Rabies baby, rabies!

• You're Chinese food, at least here, is most likely not coked by a Chinese person but a Mexican or someone else from central-America. My Chinese place has an all Chinese personnel. How I know this? You can see right into the kitchen.

• Doctoral students are the most difficult people in the world. They ask irrelevant questions, they have NO logic and the focus on unimportant things. If a professor says he has 17 topics for a paper and he only presents 16, is that REALLY worth asking or mentioning about? If your presentation topic is riparian areas in NJ, do we REALLY need to get into Mayan culture? If the time limit for your presentation is 15 minutes, do you REALLY need to talk for an hour? My experience is that those are the people who can't cope in the real world. They stay in school and get a degree after degree because they would not do well in a real job.

• People in NJ don't recognize their wild mushrooms.I guess that's good since there are more Superfund sites in NJ than in any other states in the US. Even if you find a wild edible mushroom it could still be toxic! Speaking off...I miss mushrooms! Kanttarelli, where are thou?

• You should never cook thanksgiving turkey in parts! We just learned yesterday how a woman was having lots of people over and got a BIG turkey for thanksgiving. She thought it would be a good idea to cook it in 2 parts. Let's say it took 7 hours to cook. She cooked it for 3,5 hours on Wednesday, and another 3,5 on Thursday. The outside of the turkey was cooked on Wednesday but the stuffing inside only got warm. When she put it in the fridge overnight, the bacteria on the stuffing multiplied (in room temperature it takes about 15 min for a bacteria to multiply). The outside of the turkey cooled but the stuffing stayed room temp. When she took it out on Thursday and put it in the oven for the remaining time, the outside got warm again but the inside, the stuffing was just warm. Killed 3 people including herself!

I'm surprised I'm eating anything these days. It seems like no matter what you do, you are bound to get a food poisoning here. Or that's how my professor makes it sound. He's the health officer of a municipality in north Jersey so he has first hand knowledge of a lot of these things. The things he tells us! ALWAYS WASH YOUR HANDS! Even if you're not eating. I guess petting the cats in the middle of cooking is not a good idea, huh??

I read this yesterday and thought thank god this isn't me!
A woman in Australia is suffering from over production of trimethylamine which makes her breath, sweat and pee smell like...rotten fish! EECH!
Have a good day! I'm gonna do some work now...