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Those are strong assumptions of how a virus is, when you're not even 100% sure you had it in the first place.

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I've had H1N1 since Tuesday.

It's pretty crappy. High fever, constant coughing, chills, stuffy nose.

I'm missing Halloween parties, and I have not been able to focus enough to start my six page assignment that's due on Tuesday. It requires a lot of reading. A lot.

Swine flu is a smelly bitch.

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Clearly you don't have swine flu.
If Angrist has taught us anything, it's that Swine flu is no big deal.

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Yeah you guys are wussies. I hardly noticed anything! I just enjoyed the time off.

Must be the European variant which goes easy on us. Because we're not mean against Mexican immigrants, and we don't eat as much pig meat.

Here they don't check anymore whether it's H1N1 or a normal flu, so I have no idea if that was it. But from what I've read, it's as bad as normal flu, just a lot more contagious.

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Spent half my bday getting rid of yet another computer virus and the other half cleaning up after my very sick dog. Didn't receive a single "happy birthday" either aside from an automated email from realage.com. Then I bit straight through my tongue leaving a nasty purpleish wound. I think I might have bed bugs as well...and I don't even have a bed.

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Happy birthday <3

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I failed my driving test again. (2nd time)

Half of the serious mistakes I've ever made were during my tests. I just keep running into difficult situations at the wrong times.

At least I learned from it. If I would have made the same mistake under different circumstances, I might have caused an accident. (I steered left while the car behind me had just done the same, and he had accelerated. So I almost bumped into him. I saw him in the mirror, but I didn't realize he was that close/fast.... I know, that's really my bad.)

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Gotta always be shoulder checking.

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I was. All the time. I just didn't respond to what I saw. Lesson learned.

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Why no license yet? What prevented you from driving earlier in your life?

A bit personal, but between school which always keeps me busy, I've been dealing with some family drama. My two Grandpas both have cancer and are in the hospital, and both of them could die at any time as their health could easily take a turn for the worse (although they are both fighting and could conceivably hang around for a few more years, so keep those fingers crossed!). That is expected when you flirt with the mid-80s. This is not particularly surprising and is normal family drama. My mom suffers from a somewhat modern and rare psychological disorder, Schizoaffective disorder. She has Psychosis which encompasses delusional symptoms and bipolar symptoms (periods of mania and depression), and she hears auditory hallucinations. Her Psychiatrist is not 100% sure what caused the disorder....it happened after she gave birth to me, at least with my dad around. Postpartum depression (the baby blues) is common in many women after childbirth. A rare form of Postpartum depression is the extreme case that encompasses Psychosis. It is presumed that my mother has had brain damage all her life given the severity of her symptoms. She even had an MRI at one point because they assumed the severity of her disease might be the result of a brain tumor. My mom's symptoms include auditory hallucinations, periods of mania and depression, inability to sleep, detached emotions, false perceptions of reality....all pretty heavy stuff. She has been on Risperidone which is an anti-depressant I believe. It has a lot of BAD side effects, many of which were bothering my mom. So sometime before the summer this year she asked her psychiatrist if she can try weening off the medicine so she did not have to deal with the side effects. And she has not been stable since.

None of this is too jarring as my mom has been through this 3 or 4 times just in my short lifetime. What sucks is she refuses to speak or talk with her parents. So my grandpa who is in the hospital, near-death (he's better now, fortunately, he had Pneumonia, he has leukemia, and he had water in his lungs/heart, and he had a blood clot that could have been fatal had my grandma not acted quickly and got him to the hospital after his leg swelled up)...my mom won't talk to him, or visit. She won't talk to my grandma, and in fact is going on 3+ months of not seeing or talking to her parents. We're trying to get her back on the Risperidone, but if any of you have dealt with psychotic or delusional people you know they have a tendency to not want treatment/help, a tendency to NOT take their meds, and other fun stuff. She's been institutionalized in a hospital before but we're hoping it doesn't come down to that. At the same time it would be shitty if her dad died while she was mentally ill.

So yeah. That stuff is definitely a little bit stressful. That on top of looking at grad schools, the GRE, and just graduating.

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I was never into driving.

You have to understand the Dutch situation. We're all packed together. Driving across the country takes a maximum of 3 hours. I go around town by bike. I take public transport to visit places farther away. There was never any need to be able to drive. I knew I couldn't afford a car anyway.

But because I'm no longer a student, the free public (national) transport is forfeit. Being able to drive will be useful.

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While in the elevator with my mom, some guy said that we looked like we could be twins....

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I hate my job.

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Happy Birthday!

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Lol.

I once asked a colleague student if his girlfriend was his mother. Even thouh she looked a bit old, I don't know why I said that out loud. :(