[Posted to Xanga 10/11/10]
More meds.
I went to the clinic today. The doctor was like "You're only seventeen? And your parents live in Atlanta?" And I was like "I'm a college junior." And he was like "Well, I'm not used to having these conversations with seventeen-year-olds, but I'm used to having them with college juniors, so..."
Anyway, what he told me was that my heart rate is too high. Despite the fact that my psych nurse said the mirtazapine could still be affecting me, the doctor decided I needed to go to a cardiologist in Jackson and promptly put me on metoprolol. A beta-blocker. We'll see what that does.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Another one of Freed-Hardeman's oddities...
[Posted to Xanga 10-7-10]
...is room inspection. Every week on Tuesday at 2:00 PM our dorm mom, Mama Ashley, checks our rooms to ensure that they're clean. If you didn't take out the trash, even if it is confined neatly in a trash can--you fail. If you didn't make your bed--you fail. Et cetera. One of the other dorm moms once told me that she didn't know how regular schools managed to keep proper hygiene in their dorms if they never did room inspection.
Anyway, if you fail, you get this lovely slip of paper (you can click on it to make it more legible):
Three fails and you're out. (I intentionally took a fail this time because I wasn't feeling well. I left Mama Ashley a note to tell her I'd take a fail; that's why she didn't check any of the boxes.) At least Mama Ashley was nice and left me candy anyway (she leaves everybody a little piece of candy and a note when she does room inspection). I'm inclined to say she's a bit more lenient than one would think from all those checkboxes.
...is room inspection. Every week on Tuesday at 2:00 PM our dorm mom, Mama Ashley, checks our rooms to ensure that they're clean. If you didn't take out the trash, even if it is confined neatly in a trash can--you fail. If you didn't make your bed--you fail. Et cetera. One of the other dorm moms once told me that she didn't know how regular schools managed to keep proper hygiene in their dorms if they never did room inspection.
Anyway, if you fail, you get this lovely slip of paper (you can click on it to make it more legible):
Three fails and you're out. (I intentionally took a fail this time because I wasn't feeling well. I left Mama Ashley a note to tell her I'd take a fail; that's why she didn't check any of the boxes.) At least Mama Ashley was nice and left me candy anyway (she leaves everybody a little piece of candy and a note when she does room inspection). I'm inclined to say she's a bit more lenient than one would think from all those checkboxes.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Ridiculous
[Posted to Xanga 9/29/10]
So I was reading an article posted on Facebook by a CoC friend today...
"The former category finds expression in the following statement found in Humanist Manifestos I & II:
[W]e affirm that moral values derive their source from human experience. Ethics is autonomous and situational, needing no theological or ideological sanction (1973, 17).
The foregoing declaration is wholly void of reason. If man is “autonomous,” i.e., he is a self-governing creature, there could never be a situation in which he could do wrong! It is an exercise in futility to attempt to construct any sort of ethical system apart from the concept that man has a soul that ultimately will be accountable to God in eternity, that Heaven has revealed that concept, and regulated human activity, through the Scriptures."
Excuse me, but that's just...retarded. Mr. Author, are you seriously claiming that if human beings decide right and wrong for themselves, they'll never decide anything they do is wrong? If you didn't have a god looking over your shoulder would you happily go about killing babies and raping puppies and whatnot? Well let me tell you, I for one don't believe in some absolute theological moral code and I'm well aware that I do the wrong thing more than I would like. I have a conscience. If you and your ilk would decide anything you had an impulse to do was right without your religion, I want nothing to do with any of you.
For Pete's sake. So ARROGANT.
(You can read the rest of the article, which is typical of the CoC, here: http://www.christiancourier.com/articles/55-a-critical-look-at-situation-ethics)
So I was reading an article posted on Facebook by a CoC friend today...
"The former category finds expression in the following statement found in Humanist Manifestos I & II:
[W]e affirm that moral values derive their source from human experience. Ethics is autonomous and situational, needing no theological or ideological sanction (1973, 17).
The foregoing declaration is wholly void of reason. If man is “autonomous,” i.e., he is a self-governing creature, there could never be a situation in which he could do wrong! It is an exercise in futility to attempt to construct any sort of ethical system apart from the concept that man has a soul that ultimately will be accountable to God in eternity, that Heaven has revealed that concept, and regulated human activity, through the Scriptures."
Excuse me, but that's just...retarded. Mr. Author, are you seriously claiming that if human beings decide right and wrong for themselves, they'll never decide anything they do is wrong? If you didn't have a god looking over your shoulder would you happily go about killing babies and raping puppies and whatnot? Well let me tell you, I for one don't believe in some absolute theological moral code and I'm well aware that I do the wrong thing more than I would like. I have a conscience. If you and your ilk would decide anything you had an impulse to do was right without your religion, I want nothing to do with any of you.
For Pete's sake. So ARROGANT.
(You can read the rest of the article, which is typical of the CoC, here: http://www.christiancourier.com/articles/55-a-critical-look-at-situation-ethics)
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