I think that I have heard enough of all that complaining about how the time change has “screwed” you up in some manner or another. Get over it, its not like you just got off the plane from some distant location like Australia or something. If we shifted the time ten hours, then fine, but thats clearly not the way it is.
It look like I might just have to actually complete some of the section of my page that were, shall we say – “under construction”. Empty is another way to put it. Now that people actually seem to be reading what I write here, and I no longer can feel like this page is merely a conversation with myself, I might have to add/enhance the content. I also might want to use my gooder English once in a while?
I actually spend much of Saturday in the library at SFU doing research. Unfortunately this was for my own interest, which does not seem indicative of my having much of a life. Oh well. I was mainly concerned with adverse health affects of the British Columbian government dumping a bacterial insecticide on us from the sky. The aerial spraying of Bacillus thuringiensis (kurstaki) or BTK is aimed at eradicating the gypsy moth problem that seems to be developing in the area. I have heard mumblings in the Biology department that this might actually help control the spread of the gypsy moth (which eats the timber that the foresters want to cut down) but will also be of consequence to bird populations in the area. I was also concerned that all the acetone that we dump down the drain in my Organic Chemistry lab is really a good thing, and if this is not a contributing factor to either health problems on me and my classmates parts, or to the environment that this stuff is released into. Thirdly I was asked the other day by a fellow student from another school whether it would be good to pack a dead halibut in Formulin (Formaldehyde solution) if it would be undergoing a toxicology test later on. The question was whether this Formalin would interact with any chlorophenols (used in, among other things wood preservatives) that were being tested for. All this work on Saturday, and all I got was more questions, although acetone is probably responsive for my dizziness, headaches etc. that I get during lab. All of this research, and I didn’t even get a lousy T-shirt!