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brain tumours
May. 11th, 2006 11:09 pmI was going to say something about Dewey and that, if i had a time machine, i should make sure to tell my past self under all costs, do not attempt to catalogue three separate fiction items, but then i got an email from the school: the 17th floor (the school's offices) will be closed for the next week for "building work."
And then another email, with this information: Brain tumour cases prompt uni building closure, from the ABC.
Wow. I'm in there four times a week, usually, every day this week so far. Not up on the top floors, though, unless i've got an assignment in. The email says "five cases are benign," rather than the news report's more optimistic "at least five cases are benign."
A friend from high school had one; when it's in your brain, it hardly matters how benign it might be. It's in your brain.
The other disparity was that according to the ABC, all the staff involved were there for 10 years. In the email, one of the staff members has only been there four years.
I was reading something about "sick building syndrome" usually not having to do with buildings, but with the amount of time people have to spend in them. That is, it won't be a specific building that is at fault; the people who get sick would get sick under those conditions in any building. But seven separate brain tumours!
And then another email, with this information: Brain tumour cases prompt uni building closure, from the ABC.
Wow. I'm in there four times a week, usually, every day this week so far. Not up on the top floors, though, unless i've got an assignment in. The email says "five cases are benign," rather than the news report's more optimistic "at least five cases are benign."
A friend from high school had one; when it's in your brain, it hardly matters how benign it might be. It's in your brain.
The other disparity was that according to the ABC, all the staff involved were there for 10 years. In the email, one of the staff members has only been there four years.
I was reading something about "sick building syndrome" usually not having to do with buildings, but with the amount of time people have to spend in them. That is, it won't be a specific building that is at fault; the people who get sick would get sick under those conditions in any building. But seven separate brain tumours!
