Mad Cow

My family went to Great Britain in 2000, and had a splendid time. We were there when all the Mad Cow, Petrol Strike, and Foot & Mouth shit went down. It made for an interesting trip, but now I have doubts about giving blood, since I was there when the Mad Cow thing went down.

I try not to worry much, and I do a decent job of it. However, I sometimes get worried that I will slowly go crazy due to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. My dad described the disease as a joke when he was in medical school; the blink tag of diseases. He also described how a person with it slowly goes crazy, driving everyone in their life away and eventually dying alone and very much in a bad state. Sometimes I wonder if that beef vindaloo I had in Keswick will come back to haunt me someday.

I think people like their memories. I sure enjoy mine. I think that’s partly why I do this, and why I take so many pictures. I love to look back from time to time and remember places, smells, tastes and feelings that you can associate with pictures. Today we had Library Inservice, which amounted to a lot of sitting around, and listening to library events that may or may not affect you.

The room we were in has a podium with a computer and an overhead projector. A couple days before I had been training students with WebCT, and had set the desktop background using one of my pictures, and for some reason, it was still set today. I was kind of embarassed, because its a faux pas to that on a work computer. I got comments on the picture, and overall, I was very glad I put it there because it gave me a wonderful image to accompany my constant day dreaming during the sessions. Why do meetings suck so much?

5 thoughts on “Mad Cow”

  1. Isn’t beef vindaloo an oxymoron? If the MadCow doesn’t get you, surely Shiva will.

    I loved that photo, and especially the know-it-alls trying to identify on what part of the Oregon coast it was taken.

    I’m very grateful my final took place during much of inservice.

  2. way off subject, but funny page: http://www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpatents.html.

    Will Ferrel as Harry Carey: If you could be the most respected scientist in your field or get Mad Cow Disease, what would you choose?

    Jeff Goldblum as an astronomer: Well… I would be the most respected scientist in my field… of course…

    Harry Carey: Oh good! I thought you were going to say “Mad Cow…”

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