USA TODAY Snapshots on Thursday ran this poll response.
If told they would be diagnosed sometime with an incurable disease, what adults say they'd do:
Study and aggressively pursue treatment at any cost: 52%
Nothing: 12%
Spend all saving to fulfill dreams of travel, luxury, pleasure: 6%
Go on an 'extreme" adventure or try something they ordinarily wouldn't: 5%
Quit job: 1%
None of the above: 22%
Interesting spread of reactions, possibly having to do with the odd wording of the question. Would be diagnosed sometime? What if I told you someday you were going to die, how would that change your outlook on life?
I have a feeling that people responded to the question based on what they thought the question was--my guess is the "study and treat at any cost" people are reading that they have been hypothetically diagnosed. I'm guessing also that you could only pick one anser because I have to believe than some of those same people might upon being diagnosed with a fatal disease, decide not to go to work the next day.
What are the "none of the above" people planning to do?
And in a country with a religious right that is starting impact our society in a myriad of ways, might not a possible answer be "pray?" Or how about "Explore alternative medicines?" These are statistics I am at least as interested in as how how many people would go to Disney World.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
One Movie
Today's project is writing an application essay for a student symposium. The question to be addressed is, if you were traveling 1000 years into the future and could take with you one movie? What would it be?
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Boring Blog
Just to let you know I'm still out here--
The semester is slowing, coming to a close. I turned in a writing portfolio for a fiction class on Friday, and took the language proficiency test yesterday, in Spanish. I pretty much just winged it--and think it went okay, we'll see. Took the rest of the day off, saw a movie, did some reading...the movie was Hot Fuzz, a parody buddy cop action flick by the team who made Shawn of the Dead. The book was Girl Talk, which is a novel by our teacher this semester, Julianna Baggott.
It's back on the horse today, to plow through a fairly long and tedious portfolio list for, of course, the evil grantwriting class! I have until Thursday, so am attempting to also to start digging out at the same time. Friday I wore old underwear inside out, yesterday I found some red mesh number in the back of a drawer, today I'm wearing a pair I hand washed on Friday, so I'm thinking laundry might be in order.The weather here is fantabulous. I'm an ingrate if I don't go out into it and start working off my winter weight as well.
The semester is slowing, coming to a close. I turned in a writing portfolio for a fiction class on Friday, and took the language proficiency test yesterday, in Spanish. I pretty much just winged it--and think it went okay, we'll see. Took the rest of the day off, saw a movie, did some reading...the movie was Hot Fuzz, a parody buddy cop action flick by the team who made Shawn of the Dead. The book was Girl Talk, which is a novel by our teacher this semester, Julianna Baggott.
It's back on the horse today, to plow through a fairly long and tedious portfolio list for, of course, the evil grantwriting class! I have until Thursday, so am attempting to also to start digging out at the same time. Friday I wore old underwear inside out, yesterday I found some red mesh number in the back of a drawer, today I'm wearing a pair I hand washed on Friday, so I'm thinking laundry might be in order.The weather here is fantabulous. I'm an ingrate if I don't go out into it and start working off my winter weight as well.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Hand Art
A friend sent me these pics...each amazing in its own way. This one looks like one of those bad ceramic figurines you can order from the Sunday newspaper supplement
The best one, though it accents one's hand wrinkles in a way I'm not entirely comfortable with:
Has this person had a portion her fingers amputated? Not solely for this project I hope.
The best one, though it accents one's hand wrinkles in a way I'm not entirely comfortable with:
Has this person had a portion her fingers amputated? Not solely for this project I hope.
I should have something to say
But what? I have a few things on my mind, but they are not so bloggy. Part of it might be this:
I love you my friends here in Tallahassee, and am happy to have you read my blog, but now that you read my blog, I don't feel the cushion of anonymity...Like when I lived in Australia I could talk about my Australian friends to my U.S. friends(sorry Australian friends, it was primarily very amusing stories, etc) without worrying that my readers would ever meet them. Now...not so much. If I write a blog it is a little like picking up the phone, or, meeting someone at the mall. So, perhaps in this case I need to take a page out of V's book, using this clever technique to talk about some things that are on my mind:
My friend blank is getting blank, I feel very blank about this.
My other friend, blank, is blanking, which is blank, but also at times blank.
And blank called in blank today, but I know he is really just blanking.
In other news, I couldn't think of any "guilty pleasures" last week, but will soon, along with this week's topic, "bullys." Excellent topic, thanks Will. As the semester comes to a close, I will be adding some links to the sidebar for new synchronized bloggers like Danielle, V, and Kara.
I love you my friends here in Tallahassee, and am happy to have you read my blog, but now that you read my blog, I don't feel the cushion of anonymity...Like when I lived in Australia I could talk about my Australian friends to my U.S. friends(sorry Australian friends, it was primarily very amusing stories, etc) without worrying that my readers would ever meet them. Now...not so much. If I write a blog it is a little like picking up the phone, or, meeting someone at the mall. So, perhaps in this case I need to take a page out of V's book, using this clever technique to talk about some things that are on my mind:
My friend blank is getting blank, I feel very blank about this.
My other friend, blank, is blanking, which is blank, but also at times blank.
And blank called in blank today, but I know he is really just blanking.
In other news, I couldn't think of any "guilty pleasures" last week, but will soon, along with this week's topic, "bullys." Excellent topic, thanks Will. As the semester comes to a close, I will be adding some links to the sidebar for new synchronized bloggers like Danielle, V, and Kara.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Things that piss me off
Mostly I am pissed off because I am too exhausted and busy lately to be very pissed off about much. When I selected the topic, I had numerous rants in mind. I wanted the following to be long and involved:
1) When you send a book "book rate"--now called media mail from the post office-- if you have a single piece of paper in there...say, a note saying "here's a book! love, me," you have to have to pay the cost of a first class stamp on top of paying to send the book. How often does anyone send a completely naked book?
2) The judicial system for grad appeals at FSU is completely skewed.
3) There is one parking spot at FSU for evey eight students. The department that issues parking tickets is a zero sum department, paid for with the money from tickets (and the late fees that accrue). If they ever created a functional system they woudl have to fire people.
4) There are late fees for everything. No one sends a bill anymore.
That's all I can muster.
B
1) When you send a book "book rate"--now called media mail from the post office-- if you have a single piece of paper in there...say, a note saying "here's a book! love, me," you have to have to pay the cost of a first class stamp on top of paying to send the book. How often does anyone send a completely naked book?
2) The judicial system for grad appeals at FSU is completely skewed.
3) There is one parking spot at FSU for evey eight students. The department that issues parking tickets is a zero sum department, paid for with the money from tickets (and the late fees that accrue). If they ever created a functional system they woudl have to fire people.
4) There are late fees for everything. No one sends a bill anymore.
That's all I can muster.
B
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