Thursday, March 12, 2009

You are the Perfect Cripple

Your result for The Which Cell Organelle are you? Test...

The ER

You scored 50 Industriousness, 35 Centrality, and 15 Causticity!


You're the Endoplasmic reticulum! The ER modifies proteins, makes macromolecules, and transfers substances throughout the cell. It has its own membrane, and translation of mRNA happens within it.

You tend to have two sides to you - sort of a jekyll and Hyde kind of story. One side of you tends to be rough and tumble, but also very useful. Your other side is less well-defined and slightly more mysterious.


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15 comments:

Σφιγξ said...

Remember, ribbed for comfort...and drug metabolism.

Σφιγξ said...

Insert Ichor Here.

Σφιγξ said...

POEM

I lived in the first century of world wars.
Most mornings I would be more or less insane,
The newspapers would arrive with their careless stories,
The news would pour out of various devices
Interrupted by attempts to sell products to the unseen.
I would call my friends on other devices;
They would be more or less mad for similar reasons.
Slowly I would get to pen and paper,
Make my poems for others unseen and unborn.
In the day I would be reminded of those men and women
Brave, setting up signals across vasts distances,
Considering a nameless way of living, of almost
unimagined values.
As the lights darkened, as the lights of the night brightened,
We would try to imagine them, try to find each other.
To construct peace, to make love, to reconcile
Waking with sleeping, ourselves with each other,
Ourselves with ourselves. We would try by any means
To reach the limits of ourselves, to reach beyond ourselves,
To let go the means, to wake.

I lived in the first century of these wars.

--Muriel Rukeyser

Σφιγξ said...

"The Book of the Dead"

http://murielrukeyser.emuenglish.org/writing/the-book-of-the-dead/#the-book-of-the-dead

Σφιγξ said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot_of_Marseilles#mediaviewer/File:Jean_Dodal_Tarot_trump_18.jpg

XVIII. Tirer les plans sur la comète

Searching the ticket vendor's clubbed fingers in the petty cash—Toward a matinee that speaks
To us—Handed the stubs by the same wrenching the sound-proof curtain that instead kindles primal orders
Traversed end-to-end under the rose of explosion-proof aisle lights, as the real boat procession at Philae—
Recognizing ourselves; again, through what was, relayed through Depression cast plaster expanded from non-extant theaters—After this evening’s newscasts
Of coat-hanger turns, for an oblique landing on the outward silex of comet P67—Onward, to Kundera's Identity (1997)
Where the surest gaze isolates, writhes, draws sustenance, to endure transits of Alien (1979) and Bonnie and Clyde (1967)—

What we thought to create here, steeps again into a space where the gull wings raise, and Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Forge an acquaintance—He stoops to bypass the Dodge’s ignition lock, and she throws on something before her closet's bespoke
Residence where cotyledons germinate up to the eaves—Never mind the cocoons, the chestbusters, the identity
Decried by Mother in the letters of the gene’s coding strand; they were stashed in the unmentionables, and their far-flung order
Ruled the streets—[...]

*I am not sure if I should have configured this card; never have I run into such difficulties with the synthesis. Identity is one of my favorite novels, for sentences such as "lost [...] until the look of desire settled on it" (37). There is little here desiring, from this fraught exploration, which is why I am abandoning it.

Σφιγξ said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SXL4WOORfc

http://www.archdaily.com/574981/material-masters-le-corbusier-s-love-for-concrete/

Shigeru Ban on Wood is also great.

Σφιγξ said...

I actually like this, a bit, in retrospect. Thank you, for reminding me.

Σφιγξ said...

http://www.kundera.de/english/Bibliography/Identity/identity.html

Σφιγξ said...

http://www.gagallery.com/artists/kathleen-ryan/works

Σφιγξ said...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/17/bonnie-clyde-crime-shoot-out

Σφιγξ said...

"An infant’s myocardium has a reduced sarcoplasmic reticulum storage capacity for calcium, putting the individual at risk for conduction disturbances.10"

https://www.aacn.org/docs/cemedia/c2012.pdf

Σφιγξ said...

I was taking care of a gentleman, a UK resident living in a rather disreputable place in the area, who has been readmitted several times for infections, for pneumonias, and now, for lower extremity weakness. Having surgical incisions dermabonded all over from video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), he was at risk for reinfection. Like an untouchable, he had received no basic care, and he was an affront to my nostrils. So I gave him a bath with my trainee, while no great shakes at planning or critical thinking, at least she has the conscience not to leave someone like this.

We were having a conversation, as if man-to-man while the girl scrubbed his back, and he asked me if I ever thought while I was a teen if I would be bathing old men. With the same impertinence, I countered, if what's-his-face loved him, he would not be lying in a hospital bed alone...It is only in such times does one know if we have been loved by another person?

Without any residual bitterness for each other, and I will probably take care of him until he dies, no matter how many exorbitant bottles of human sera, IVIG, I hang. He likely has PJP pneumonia. The neurologist consulted for his recent myasthenia with therapy suggested that he was HIV seropositive, and that it is one of the first signs, a Guillain-Barré syndrome from autoimmunity reactive to the virus.

*The patient's significant other was not staying away because he was afraid of social judgment. He stayed away because he fucked someone outside of their relationship was was seropositive, and it was soon to be revealed.


https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmmcr/10.1099/jmmcr.0.005107

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2811867/#__sec3title

Σφιγξ said...

https://youtu.be/NhSxMBgT3qU

*who was seropositive

What I know about myself is that I am not exactly conventionally woman-seeking in my desire...I remember a buxom partner who did not match my physique, and it made me feel prurient.

I often think that life will require more commitment from my work that I wouldn't have time to be unfaithful as an older adult. The senior intentivists for critical care who consult with surgery are constantly called. The chronic vents we are required to take have relatives States away requiring that all be done, as they are not burdened by the cost and effort of their relatives, now.

Σφιγξ said...

Physical attraction is the basis of all romantic unions. I am physically attracted to you, well-defended woman that you are, like me. Someone has to make the next move.

Σφιγξ said...

I say woman as an oversimplification. I am worn out by the baggage of labels.