For once, I would love being a pig...

I was mentioning about a friend who developed a prodrome after being in contact with a patient of Leptospirosis. Thankfully, the tests have returned negative. He has returned home after being clinical diagnosed as having Infective Hepatitis.

I've been slugging it out with my HTML lessons. Although I'm improving considerably, I'm sleep-deprived and beginning to develop neurotic tendencies. When I was watching the TV other day, I almost thought I had turned psychotic. I had, what I thought, a hallucination. I was eating breakfast with CNN on the telly. There was this promotional about its sports show 'World Sport'. And when I took my eyes of the TV for a split second I heard this "... you can't miss this show!" I know you are not getting it. What I meant by can't is that it was said in the British way. It was no hallucination. Some effort the CNN guys are putting in to woo the viewers in the the post-colonial nations!

One strange feeling that is seeping over me is a desire to become a pig. Not any darned pig, of course. I would give up all of the rest of my life; rest meaning the part I haven't been talking about, for becoming a piglet like the one in the picture below. For those still not getting the point, I love Cats - specifically Tigers and a certain breeds of Lions! The only disgusting part of the photo is it's source; NewsIsCrappy.com. It's a pity that these people find such cute stories unattractive.

Too many things to do

I know people who have a hard time finding hobbies. I find it hard to understand why because I think that there are so many things to be interested in. For the same reason, I always get my hands full of things which I want to do, but find it hard to manage allotting the time I’m going to spend doing them.

Life is busy being a doctor all by itself. It gets harder if you are doing your residency somewhere. Thankfully, I still have a lot of free time before I start doing that. And right now I’m finding it hard to find enough time to do all the things that I want.

I’m currently doing these activities round the clock - reading two books, watching movies regularly, posting in couple of blogs, learning a programming language, designing web pages, maintaining the ones I already have, watching sport on TV, spending time with friends, posting in a couple of help forums for fellow PG (read resident) exam aspirants, solving crosswords, writing new music, chatting with friends online.

I would love to start working in a hospital to gain some experience and earn some money along with that. The list is getting bigger and the hours are appearing even shorter. I have a big problem developing here. I hope I can restrict myself to some sane limits. But I how I wish I could find time for all of these and many more to come.

Here is a very ‘new’ looking word that I came to know thanks to my YourDictionary.com word of the day.

Rumint(Noun)

Pronunciation: ['ru-mint]
Definition 1: (Nonce word) Intelligence based on rumor or false information.

Usage 1: Today's word is part of the intellibabble emerging from the ever-expanding business of spying. "Human intelligence," spy information from human sources, is clipped to "humint," information from electronic surveillance is "elint," while wiretaps produce "sigint," signal intelligence. In gathering "int" about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, President Bush and the CIA apparently fell victims to rumint, human information from a highly unreliable sources close to informant Ahmad Chalabi.

Suggested usage: The US intelligence agencies are often unwitting victims of émigrés who wish to please them by giving them the information they want, whether accurate or not: "The CIA reported an outbreak of anthrax in the Caucasus based on rumint from a disgruntled émigré." Clearly today's word is a nonce word concocted on the spur of the moment for a specific purpose and will probably soon vanish, but why not have fun with it while it is here: "Mom, where did you get your rumint that I was smoking behind the school today?"