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my brain isn't subtle
Mar. 11th, 2021 05:44 am*Last night I dreamed I had whooping cough. (I also dreamed about apple tarts. And dragons. And buying meat at the grocery store. Honestly, kind of a weird night.)
*At this point in my life, I can't even count how many times I have learned, and then forgotten, that whooping cough and pertussis are the same thing.
*It did lead to an interesting wikipedia dive this morning in which I (re)learned the above fact.
*Pretty sure it was my first time learning that the 'a' in the DTaP vaccine stands for 'acellular,' not 'and,' though. Who knew? (Lots of people, I'm sure!)
*It's interesting reading vaccine statistics for things like whooping cough and comparing them to the covid vaccine stats.
*Watch me toss out the word 'statistics' like I know anything about what I'm talking about, as if I didn't fake my way through math and science courses for years using only the power of desperation-fueled short-term memorization.
*Fun fact: I almost chose a degree that would give me a BA instead of a BS solely to avoid science classes. But the BA option included a language requirement (also a challenge) and a travel requirement (no thanks). So instead I fulfilled the three science gen-ed requirements with: intro to computer science (aka 'learn the office suite'), intro to nutrition (surprisingly useful!), and -- I'm pretty sure -- some sort of lecture class? We learned about the Turing test? (In retrospect, I have no memories of that class. What in the world was it about?)
*At this point in my life, I can't even count how many times I have learned, and then forgotten, that whooping cough and pertussis are the same thing.
*It did lead to an interesting wikipedia dive this morning in which I (re)learned the above fact.
*Pretty sure it was my first time learning that the 'a' in the DTaP vaccine stands for 'acellular,' not 'and,' though. Who knew? (Lots of people, I'm sure!)
*It's interesting reading vaccine statistics for things like whooping cough and comparing them to the covid vaccine stats.
*Watch me toss out the word 'statistics' like I know anything about what I'm talking about, as if I didn't fake my way through math and science courses for years using only the power of desperation-fueled short-term memorization.
*Fun fact: I almost chose a degree that would give me a BA instead of a BS solely to avoid science classes. But the BA option included a language requirement (also a challenge) and a travel requirement (no thanks). So instead I fulfilled the three science gen-ed requirements with: intro to computer science (aka 'learn the office suite'), intro to nutrition (surprisingly useful!), and -- I'm pretty sure -- some sort of lecture class? We learned about the Turing test? (In retrospect, I have no memories of that class. What in the world was it about?)
