And so this is Christmas...
...and what have you done?
Sorry didn't mean to spook you there. Relax. It's not Christmas.
It might as well be though (ever noticed how that phrase makes no grammatical sense?)- the weather is cold, I'm looking at my bank statements and wondering why I don't have more money, and I'm also thinking about my New Year's Resolutions.
Now that I have been accepted to the Honorable Society of King's Inns, I'll be a busy little bunny with lots to do, whose often known to look at his watch and soliloquy about his lateness for his date. I probably won't have a date though - I'll just be late for work (assuming employment) or class.
Hmmm. My feelings about my prospective busy-ness (and business) are somewhat mixed.
So my 'new year' is going to look very different from my 'old year.' And like God, I will probably look on my creation and see that it is 'good'. And also like God, I will see that it's not entirely flawless and actually a fairly tricky business.
But I'm quite happy that my plans are beginning to come together and I'll soon be out of this place.
BTW, just because I'm having a little yuletide moment, it doesn't mean (as some people thought) that you can ask for presents.
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So I have been offered a job for the college season as it turns out. I'm researching for the National Suicide Research Foundation, looking at emergency admissions to one of Ireland's biggest hospitals and collecting data on what are known as parasuicide cases.
On that note I'd like to pass on something that Diarmuid picked from the British Journal of Psychiatry (Vol. CXIX, 1971) which is very interesting:
"A bet on the fooball pools has, of course, much remoter chances of success than a bet on a horse-race, but parasuicides showed no special preference for more or less hazardous gambling pursuits."
I'm not diminishing its seriousness. I think that fact really is interesting - but I'm pretty sure that my work will lead to knowledge that will make a slightly greater contribtion to public health.
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Oops! That last "public health" link was supposed to be THIS.
Grrr. Ok one more time: ABRAKADABRA
Ok, click on one of those links and then remove the two inexplicable and infuriating instances of the number "25" from the URL - and you now get what I was going for - not that anyone cares. Phhh. I think I'll eat some worms.
Well, what I liked about it is that you can see their wrists. Look closely - not a scratch! It's also apt that the picture is of young people as the largest demographics for parasuicide are women aged 15-19 and men aged 20-24. This crowd looks pretty healthy to me: no overdoses here. Overdoses/poison are employed with an intended lethal result 77% of the time - it's more popular with women by the way - and interestingly 23% of the time it's an overdose of anti-depression drugs! Hmmm. Something's not working there. You didn't really need to know any of that did you? So to sum up - take care of yourselves kids - you're altogether too wonderful.
Oh yeah: on the topic of links, as to where my "entirely flawless" one goes, I only know that it has something to do with flawless seemless pants - the site itself is blocked by work because it's a 'shopping' site - so I have no idea what it looks like. Hope it's offensive!
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