Posts by r_newt

Double post, sorry.

Original Post by 130by30:

The NUMBER ONE way to get rid of the pain is to AVOID IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. and what do I mean by this?  KEEP EXERCISING AND DOING WEIGHTS REGULARLY. you will only get these 'really severe' DOMS if you slack and don't do muscle building every few days. the MORE you work out the LESS you get doms.  now that's a fact :) 

Agreed.

But also: aspirin! Works for me, although the internet does seem to be of the opinion that ibuprofen is better. Aspirin, though, is something I always have on hand.

That was... wow.

I think I have turkey shock from watching all those videos.

Original Post by watergirl:

my fave genres are death metal (insomnium, amon amath, opeth) dirty south rap (trae, z-ro, paul wall) orchestralmetal (therion, haggard) and psytrance (my fave is infected mushroom). oh and i like chill. these genres have been in high rotation for a few years.

so much music so little time...

I love Haggard. I saw them a few months ago and I'm seeing them again in december. They're my absolute favorite band along with Rammstein.

I like various types of metal. Lots of symphonic and melodic stuff, I'm not that into trash or similar. Folk metal is awesome, viking and pirate folk metal doubly so.

Also some minimal and progressive, some indie and/or folk stuff and old 60s and 80s music, especially old rock-ish stuff. Awesome and a bit hilarious.

Go to the gym! If you're at a healthy weight but there's something you don't like about your body, chances are losing weight, like some people advised, won't help. Time to start exercising, I think.

You know what was horrible? The decepticon that transforms into a human girl. It kind of ruins the whole point for me.

I don't see it. Perhaps you're surrounded my mostly white people, and thus it seems that way to you? Like, you said, the area you live in?

I'm in Mexico and it's really worrisome to see how many girls here have obvious eating disorders, and I think it's going up.

Of course, there's like this whole thing where, despite being all proud to be Mexican and yay our heritage and stuff, we (mostly subconsciously) idolize blond, blue eyes, skinny Americans and Europeans. So that may have something to do with it?

Either way, if you watch TV, commercials, look in magazines, go to the movies, the girls look the same in every country.

Thing seem to be calming down, finally. Can't wait for things to be back to normal!

That's horrible about the slaughtering. I hadn't heard about it.

Phase 5. One more to go.

Mexico City update. By now almost everyone I've talked to knows someone who got it and/or died. A classmate of my sister's apparently got sick, but he's ok now. From the description I heard, it seems pretty nasty. In the press conferences they keep changing the numbers, the updates they're supposedly giving us are becoming more and more confusing and pointless. 

I think ridiculous is a bit harsh, but of course none of us are probably informed enough to say. True, the media are going all crazy and stuff as usual, but I think there's some severity to the issue. They don't cancel school and close restaurants and concerts and mass and restaurants for the normal flu season.

At any rate, my family has decided to err on the side of precaution.

Thanks for the replies. Sorry to alarm you guys who didn't know about it. Whoops :)

safina- About the produce issue, I hadn't actually thought of it. I really don't know, you could probably ask some health organization/official? So far I think there haven't been any fatal cases in the US.

andie- The scary bit is, all the people who have died are actually young adults, not kids or elderly. Something about how if you have a stronger inmune system it backfires? I'm not sure, I think CBC had an artivle. Of course weak defenses aren't much good either. Also, there's no vaccine yet. The one administered this flu season protects against one component of the virus, but is in essence ineffective, and so far there is no vaccine here in Mexico or anywhere. What we do have are effective drugs, at least enough for one in twenty in Mexico City. 

v-avila- Good point about the air. A friend of mine always says she's never felt the need to smoke or inhale anything funny, it's the same as walking down to Xochimilco nad breathing in the fumes :) This is in a way the ideal place for something like this to break out. 

Ah, well. Lately, as in the past couple of months, I've been really into apocalyptic fiction and read all those Susan Beth Pfeffer books where a comet or something crashes into the Moon and moves it out of it's orbit a bit and there's all these climate changes and the food runs out and there are floods and stuff. (There's two books, really good actually, anyone read them?) And I just bought some new zombie movies and stuff. It's just kind of funny... coincidences O.o

Ah, well. Everyone in the house has calmed down, thus I am feeling better. At worst I'm in for a very boring week, I hope.

Original Post by plasmagirl:

Plasma Physics I and II, closely followed by Radiation Detection and Measurement Lab, Nuclear Physics, and Quantum Mechanics.

Now I'm scared. So far I've enjoyed Mechanics, Collective Phenomena and Electromagnetism, but those sound scary. The other day I saw someone grading Quantum Mechanics homework and it looked terrifying... and that one's obligatory.

This is actually a really fun thread to read.

For me, Calculus. II and III... and probably IV when I get to it. I'm actually really into Electromagnetism and I loved my intro to Thermodynamics. It's the Calculus proofs I hate, not the applied Calculus. Ugh. Then again, Differential Equations is kind of meh, too.

I just have a bowl of All-Bran and lots of water before going to bed, to make sure the unhealthy/excess food doesn't cause me problems or leave me bloated the next morning. And then just go back to plan like it never happened.

If I cut down or restrict the next day, I either just feel guilty remembering why I'm doing it or wind up hungry and craving. So the only 'making-up' I do is the extra fiber to cleanse my system.

That actually sounds really good! Sort of like hummus egg sald with spinach...

I love beans, especially mashed, but they're too calorie dense for me to eat them alone and be satisfied. So I'll grab whatever steamed/boiled veggies we have on hand, like broccoli, add it to beans, cut it up or mash into small pieces with a fork, add curry powder and mix. It's the best thing ever, but my family says it looks gross.

Oh well. Also works with cauliflower, chayote, mushrooms, green beans... yum!

Oooh, haven't been here in a while. I guess i'm feeling in need of support.

Funny, about naming your ED. I just had a breakthrough a few weeks ago, we were talking about something or other and my psychiatrist said something like "... you have to remeber, this voice in your head, this being that's always at your neck, IT DOESN'T EXIST. It's in your head, a part of your head. It's not somebody else." Man, that was liberating! Whatever works!

Beh, I'm feeling depressed and ...dare I say... fat? There. I'd feel so stupid saying that to anyone in real life. I'm 110lbs, dammit! I'm healthy! Ugh! I'm mad at myself, because I can't stop bursting into tears over anything. It's end-of-semester stress, I know it, it makes me crazy.