Categories: just-life
Date: 04 February 2005 15:26:56
Hi, sorry I missed yesterday. I wasn't feeling top of the world (and it would have happened on the day a friend had emailed me say that she was impressed that I managed to post so consistently!!). Thankfully better than the Pope who is still in hospital (though going to do his adress on sunday). I only really mention him so I can slip in this story I read about the Vatican being able to carry on working......
"According to a favourite Curia story, Pope John XXIII was once asked how many people worked in the Vatican. "About half," he replied."
I liked it!! For those of you who don't know the Curia is the name given to the 'civil service' of the Catholic Church.
No, I was mearly feeling under the weather and very achey in my joints (still am a bit, but there we go). But if you think I'm asking for sympathy, worry not, for I'm not expecting it. For some unknown reason if I happen to be in pain I'm called a 'wuss' and made to feel even worse....... this by people who might complain about something hurting every few days. Not really fair methinks......
Of course, while perusing my dictionary I did discover; Wus or wuss (S Wales dialect) n a term used to address a companion, mate, pal. [Welsh gwas servant]
So maybe they're being nice.......... no, I didn't think so either!!!
But what I was thinking of this morning was sandwiches...... as you do. Now I'm a great fan of sandwiches (as anyone who's read that great book, the Hitchhikers Guide knows, they are an art form) and I thought it terrible when today my housemate MrG made his two sandwiches for lunch in the time that I made just half of mine. He was rushing it and they looked horrible..... I'll admit that mine, being made for packed lunch, aren't as good as I'd have liked them, but still.... I was shocked...... and highly dissapointed in MrG. You'd have thought that he'd have done better!!! Being a university student and all.
I'd like to finish today with a story that I found on BBCi about a wee baby, born in Peru, with 'sirenomelia' or 'mermaid syndrom', where she was born with fused legs that cause her to look like a mermaid. It's a very rare condition, where normally the child die a few days after birth, but she (Milagros - miracles in Spanish) is one of only three known survivors and is undergoing surgery today to split her legs (the bone structure and all that is ok, it's just the skin is fused).