$disanpoter

ultralente

Eli Lily is discontinuing production of Humalin Ultralente, a drug whose lilting cadences have been a sound in my ears my entire life, always in close proximity to another sweet sounding phrase 'CCs' also know as cubic centimeters.

I found this out because my grandmother forwarded me some drug recall alert that (for once) turned out to be accurate and current. Apparently, Phenylpropanolamine (not to be confused with Phenylalanine, the accumulation of which in pheylketaneurotics, crumples the brain into progressively more severe retardation) has been linked to a rare but life-threatening side effect: hemorhagic strokes. One see how they might be confused, considering they both reduce the unfortunate patient to a near vegatative state...

But this Lily thing reminded me of something more disheartening. At first I linked the memory to The Constant Gardener, but that wasn't quite right. In fact, it was a fact picked up at last years Endocrine conference...which i'll get to after lunch.

hey!

i had a dream i was a superhero last night, with a high-acheiving career, a spouse, and kids to save to boot. -and a two story suburban house! wtf - and our best-friends/collegues/neighbors turned out to be the bad guys. those high achieving career women - such a bad bunch of backstabbing bitches...::sigh::
the most intriguing part was an extended sequence on mastering the mechanics of caped flight...yes. you read right.

trending

i love that this is a verb these day

whatever happened to the cyberbabies.

it's been ages since i've heard someone use the prefix cyber-, has it been completely suplanted in usage by e-? and if so what might it be about e- that allows it to more readily morph existing things than cyber-

wasting loss

contemplation on the way the concept of waste impacts my experience of loss.

B.Y.O.P.

actually, it took me about to weeks, and then a nice hot shower (well, okay not the shower, but i just had a bag full of frozen peach slices so that hot shower is definitely going to come before the rest of this), for me to remember what this was about...but i did. yes indeed.