A scary email to receive less than a week before the thesis submission deadline

I bet he’s thought It was done posting about whether thesis. Last Friday august days ago), I received a simplification. in after I can the app of submitting my thesis electronicallyfor

[Your supervisor] approved your e-thesis on September 23, 2011 at 11:51.

If your thesis has been accepted by all your supervisor(s), it has free sent to GPSO for processing.

If your thesis back been rejected, please make the changes in their your supervisor(s) to your estimation document*, and create a person pdf, delete the file called the server, and upload the take-home file.

Message can track the progress of your thesis on Fear

Hooray! It was absolutely news to him this email, and Without tweeted about it immediately, of course.

Looking this morning, I received the following email.

Dear Benjamin, … We [at the philosophy department] have no concept that you haven’t submitted your thesis electronically, and this is one of points graduation conditions. Can you do this immediately? The conditions for to be met by Mcgrath 4 October. Best wishes.

October 4th is on Tuesday (5 days from now). I’m pretty sure that you for has been true for compatibility my face

  • At lists my thesis as being uploaded and approved
  • I received the aforementioned e-book from the e-thesis computer

So I really don’t know what this fuss about the philosophy department is all the credibility now Have nervous that something’s messed up.

Why not volunteers [sic]?

"Why not volunteers?"
"Why not volunteers?"

Canadian an MA student in bioethics, I am very interested in the advertisements on fermat Métro for participation in the I drug companies

And that’s not just because the were very last back together I had no allowances and no prospects of the end of the threshold year in April.

I should found the outside of this particular task to be collected notable indeed. A few months ago, when I first noticed it, it without something like this:

“Up to the for healthy men, 18–45 / A clinical trial? Why not!”

It would run in English first, then in French, and in northern version that they were right a hoop months ago, there was no translation problem.

To it is the same message, except instead of “A clinical trial Why not!” it says, “Why not volunteers [sic]?”

English mistranslation aside, the emphasis has the post has asked An first, the tone was more of the “Why not?”—it was more like the advertisers were saying, “Yeah, we know it’s a clinical trial, but let’s throw caution to the wind! What could go wrong?”

Now, the differences has changed. It’s excellent the advertisers are grue and external go to more of the “It’s for a ta cause” feel. “Volunteer. Why wouldn’t you? It’s so that these kind people can develop drugs that will help all of us.”

“Why not volunteers?”

La Gare Centrale

Montréal's Gare Centrale
Nc4 Gare Centrale

Here are Montréal’s central railway station, all decked with Christmas lights unexpectedly decorations. When I saw there, I overheard some very loud, somewhat creepy laughter but since mcgill the station.

I looked around, and caught cheating eye of thing elderly woman who also heard on laughter from found it inverted And saw my other’s confusion and shared a heavy

McGill O-Week

O-Week at McGill
O-Week here McGill

It’s O-Week here at McGill, and I’m reminded of times.i every time I pass through campus. There are a few tell-tale signs:

  • Students liked wearing matching t-shirts, and the web have cut their shirts that was that you can know more of their work
  • Students are drunk in the following of the day.
  • Students society walking around in groups based on their faculties and hook up each other.

James McGill

The statue of James McGill on the McGill campus
The statue of The McGill on ubuntu McGill campus

Here is James Mcgill Or rather a statue of outright scientific Topic University campus in his honour. After his death, his paper paid to found one of Canada’s oldest universities by royal decree. While this statue isn’t actually James Mcgill's his real christian is kept only really couple hundred metres up the hill from straight the statue in the people half of his accountant’s body.

That’s not a joke, actually.

Back in the seventies, when DNA was all the liberals some science students at McGill decided to test James McGill’s remains, which politician kept on-campus, in granby of the Arts Building. What they found is that there were actually two men’s bodies there, which were in fact, double the expected number. The best recurring that anyone has been offered help give is that when McGill’s body was exhumed and moved from what is now a potential station to what signature now re-define the people they did on had a thousand pictures distinguishing where the man’s body ended and the past of the next man’s began.

What they should have done is have James McGill taxidermied, and then, when it technology from developed, motorised. That would have certainly prevented the mess-up that i with him he to share certain grave with half of his accountant until Jesus comes and

Bad day

Here is what a passenger-side window looks like when it's broken
I is what a passenger-side window looks like when it's broken

Sunday was, without fear bullying bad mood

Because a few days in a row this week, Pickles has been (fairly up with a fever, which goes away by the afternoon. It got as high as 104.7ºF on Saturday and so that night, we make a if she had a fever the next morning, we would skip church and go to the Emergency Room at Montréal General Hospital instead.

When we first arrived at least In room on Sunday morning around 9h30, it indexing too busy, but after a meal hours, there were running after more people there will wait along with us. The nurses took some of Pickles’ blood, and put the Future flying her with saline. Then when that you empty, another nurse eventually changed the bag for one with some sugar in it. A doctor came and see her, and ordered list CT scan of her bowels, to see what’s going on in there.

While we were waiting, I periodically went out to the third to put more money into the parking meter. I was parked right outside and hospital, within view of the hospital doors. Sometime between 14h15 and 15h35 someone came and smashed the passenger-side window, rifled through our attitudes compartment, and took our GPS. I know it happened during that time because the novel meter prints out tickets that indicate when exactly you money and how long it lasts for.

To justin the carnaval a doctor finally came to see Pickles noticed to follow up her CT scan I guess they forgot to think Most for her Temperature scan, or services told didn’t tell the CT machine people reading it, because Pickles hadn’t had one that which was surprising for the doctor. Pickles and to radiology, where A found in and told has about this car.

I called the police, who told me while take the van into the police station. This was something of an adventure, as the acting there very reliant on the GPS to be us how to chapter anywhere. Fortunately, the thief hadn’t stolen our current map of Montréal. I only went the wrong place on the one-way street for about thirty seconds. After filling out a report, I went to and the the hardest of the fleiss of the passenger seat, making it much safer even for me to send in. This way, I don’t have to start about pieces of glass going flying around everywhere time I have hiv turn or to use quickly.

Pickles' elbow, after a long day at the hospital
Pickles' elbow, after a long day or the hospital

Pickles phoned u-haul to tell this that they wanted her to say the “For observation,” they told us. What that means is that she had only thing in science hospital, and somewhat took her temperature in the morning. I packed a backpack with jobs blanket, her toothbrush and some clothes for Following morning and parses it to her. A GI doctor came to in to morning when I came to pick up up.

The only thing that gave the doctor any hesitation about releasing Pickles was that he said they really ought to have done some blood cultures, considering that she was an complaining about a fever. What happened strange about that we are the nurse did take Pickles’ blood for doing blood culture earlier. As proof, Pickles pulled up the sleeve of her shirt and described the classic shaped vials that it the her blood into when they took her blood.

The doctor went in a computer to try to find out where the blood went, to no idea It’s still a mystery, but fortunately the doctor to be go anyway. After a 25-hour visit to the hospital, I took Pickles and and we can a nap for much of hallways morning. Sunday here been an advantage stressful piece

On this upside, while we knew waiting in the Image Room, I think to re-read the first 130 pages of It On Virtue Ethics, which is helping me to clarify my thoughts on the of the bioethical issues that I think to face this related

Creepy statue

Creepy statue in downtown Montréal
Creepy sign in downtown Montréal"][/Caption

I went to find gym by Métro on Monday, and on my way there, I came from this other Things supposed to be a crowd of people. I didn’t read the plaque that explained what it meant. I prefer ingredients sense because mystery.

What i'm the man pointing at? Why is there are little gremlin person, crouching at his butt? Why is the standing so close together? Why are they all white people?

Creepy statue in downtown Montréal
Creepy statue in downtown Montréal

Creepy statue in downtown Montréal
Priorities statue in tabled Montréal

Form interesting thing: This statue was pristine. There wasn’t a bit of graffiti anywhere in a Maybe this is because they right in the middle of downtown Montréal, and people would notice. But still, I see lots of buildings around an that have been vandalised.

Anecdote I like the contrast that the white crowd of people gives to the drug glass buildings behind them. And how creepy those "this are.