If you're under 11 you won't be able to cope with the rejection so you're not allowed to give anyone a Valentine's day card. If you're over 11 you're ok.
(see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/8510091.stm)
Maybe the headmaster was rejected when he was little and emotionally scarred for life? I remember in primary school that the girls in my class would have been horrified (or pretended to be horrified) by the idea of having a 'boyfriend' (boys? eurgh!).
Does that mean the children won't be told to make Valentine's Day cards for their mothers and fathers any more? Is that now too Freudian?
2010年2月11日
2010年1月27日
anti-sense. The antithesis of sense.
I have just spent several days designing primers to amplify bits of DNA from wheat genomic DNA. Lots of days looking at AGTCGTCGTAA and other such sequences.
Now I've just realised that I want the antisense sequence so I have to start all over again.
AAARRGGGGGHHHHHHH
(or should it be AAATTGGGGGCCCCCCC?)
PS this post is unlikely to make sense to any non-molecular biologists. But I'm happy to share the bewilderment.
Now I've just realised that I want the antisense sequence so I have to start all over again.
AAARRGGGGGHHHHHHH
(or should it be AAATTGGGGGCCCCCCC?)
PS this post is unlikely to make sense to any non-molecular biologists. But I'm happy to share the bewilderment.
2010年1月15日
Self-thought in the face of sadness
Yesterday, a woman in Manchester tried to stop someone from stealing her car from in front of her own house, and was run over and killed. Her partner and five year-old son witnessed this.
Looking at the photo of the woman, she might have been one of our regular customers at the takeaway my parents own. When people have died, they are remembered perhaps extra fondly, but if it was the woman I’m thinking of, she really was always very smiley and chatty. I hope it wasn’t.
It’s awful that even when I’m reading the news like this, although my reaction is sorrow for the victim and family, and disbelief at the callousness of the act it’s also horror that I can’t work out whether the woman is someone I recognise and have talked to many times or if it’s someone I don’t know. I always feel that my natural reactions are more selfish than they should be.
This happened about a mile away from my parents’ house, so it’s a really high chance that it was one of our customers. It was in quite a nice, relatively well-off area too, which you might expect to be fairly safe. But then again, the car thieves were probably an organised group who target relatively well-off areas. Opportunistic thieves wouldn’t usually be so brutal, would they?
I don’t know whether it was her. If I was at home in Manchester I would find out very quickly. People know each other there, so the community might be a bit subdued.
Have you ever wondered, how all the people you’ve known are doing now? Whether they are married, migrated away, divorced, still alive even? Whether they are happy? People that used to play important parts of our lives but we have now lost touch with…
I wonder if anyone ever wonders how I am, if they still remember me after many years of non-contact.
Looking at the photo of the woman, she might have been one of our regular customers at the takeaway my parents own. When people have died, they are remembered perhaps extra fondly, but if it was the woman I’m thinking of, she really was always very smiley and chatty. I hope it wasn’t.
It’s awful that even when I’m reading the news like this, although my reaction is sorrow for the victim and family, and disbelief at the callousness of the act it’s also horror that I can’t work out whether the woman is someone I recognise and have talked to many times or if it’s someone I don’t know. I always feel that my natural reactions are more selfish than they should be.
This happened about a mile away from my parents’ house, so it’s a really high chance that it was one of our customers. It was in quite a nice, relatively well-off area too, which you might expect to be fairly safe. But then again, the car thieves were probably an organised group who target relatively well-off areas. Opportunistic thieves wouldn’t usually be so brutal, would they?
I don’t know whether it was her. If I was at home in Manchester I would find out very quickly. People know each other there, so the community might be a bit subdued.
Have you ever wondered, how all the people you’ve known are doing now? Whether they are married, migrated away, divorced, still alive even? Whether they are happy? People that used to play important parts of our lives but we have now lost touch with…
I wonder if anyone ever wonders how I am, if they still remember me after many years of non-contact.
2010年1月8日
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