Naturally Thinking
29/11/2003
Naturally Thinking
Well, successfully made my order today. I’m very pleased with myself. Although of course it works out to be quite a lot I’m getting this time, but i figure this will last me more than 6 months. I like the magazine too. Lots of great facts about aromatherapy.
Roger’s Wedding
So the bunch of us will be attending Roger’s wedding tomorrow. Wonder how he’s feeling right now. Though I don’t necessarily believe in marriage, I do keep a fair amount of respect for those who do take the plunge. I do genuinely feel happy for my married friends. I’d just like for them to stop asking me when I’m going to do it, because I’m sick of answering it honestly and getting that “you can’t be serious” face. I’m also sick of having to answer why I’d like to avoid it if I can.
Half pregnant?
My first vacation vocation was at a dentist. My dentist, actually. The dental office regularly hires young students to be dental assistants. The dental assistant is the person holding the suction tube while the dentist scales and blasts your teeth clean. She’s also likely the one who has to clean the room in the evening when the dentists call it a day, and after each patient leaves.
Anyway. The funniest truism I heard ever heard was from a dentist working there. I think it was a Dr Lee. He said, to illustrate that something either happened or didn’t, that it was like being pregnant. You’re either pregnant, or you’re not. You can’t be half pregnant.
At 18, that seemed to be like words so true and neatly put. I promptly stole the line and used it ever since. Of course there are few occasions where you’d actually have to whip it out and use it (I like to use lines like that sparingly. It lasts so much longer that way.) but in the course of my 3 years at the current workplace I remember instances where I’ve used it.
Today my boss said that very line. We either do it or we don’t. We can’t be half pregnant. Heh.
