[Bruinrab]

Originally Posted by annie_359

Take it on the chin eventho the interviewer sounds kinda weird.. What was the interview for?

Annie

It was a surgery residency interview. He also started going on about how poor my writing was and he knew this because his wife was a novelist in their native Japan.

[annie_359]

Originally Posted by Bruinrab

It was a surgery residency interview. He also started going on about how poor my writing was and he knew this because his wife was a novelist in their native Japan.

Was he being b*tchy about it or in a nice constructive way? Most of the places I've applied for have some kinda department where you can complain if you were treated unprofessionally, something to consider??

Or you can just go to him one day and kung fu his arse..

Annie

[heba]

my heads gunna explode and im gunna die
it was nice knowin you all

[Timbit]

Originally Posted by annie_359

Errrr, I'm a doofus, what are these numbers representing and where are they on the bottle?

I'm assuming they are International Standards?

Annie

It says they're supposed to be on the bottom. But I just checked my bottles and there's nothing there. So I dunno.

I'm gonna try to not reuse the plastic water bottles then... though it's kind of a waste. It's just till I get a new Nalgene. Mine broke.

But I don't care about leaching. Everything causes cancer.

[annie_359]

Heba..

Just wind down and lissen to some Alicia Keys to relax.. I can see from your signature you're a fellow fan..

Annie

[Bruinrab]

Originally Posted by annie_359

Was he being b*tchy about it or in a nice constructive way? Most of the places I've applied for have some kinda department where you can complain if you were treated unprofessionally, something to consider??

Or you can just go to him one day and kung fu his arse..

Annie

It seemed like he was trying to be helpful, but he was really harsh about it.

But I didn't like the place overall before I even went, so I wasn't planning to rank them highly anyway. to them.

[flutterz]

"just when you think the dust has settled, there's another frog stampede."

i guess it's a part of life. so it's okay. i can deal with it. inshaAllah.

oh boy!

[annie_359]

Originally Posted by Timbit

It says they're supposed to be on the bottom. But I just checked my bottles and there's nothing there. So I dunno.

I'm gonna try to not reuse the plastic water bottles then... though it's kind of a waste. It's just till I get a new Nalgene. Mine broke.

But I don't care about leaching. Everything causes cancer.

My bottle doesn't have it either.. Might be a U.S thang
Oh well..

Hmph, I think I'm jus gonna carry on re-using my bottle.. like you said, everything causes cancer anyway.. or rather, technology has advanced to such an extent that everything can be detected enough to find a cancer-causable substance

Annie

[farah]

Originally Posted by Timbit

So basically... No. 2s, No. 5s and 7s (Nalgenes) are okay?
And if you're gonna use anything else, then don't reuse?

alas, #7 nalgenes are still evil/iffy.

But perhaps a better alternative — in terms of health and the environment — is to use the hard plastic bottles made with polycarbonate plastic, often known by the brand Nalgene. It has the numeral 7 stamped at the bottom and is the same type of material used to make some baby bottles, the lining of tin cans and other products. I have some of those around the house. They are just too big to fit into our car cup holders so I retired them to the basement.

Time to dig them out?

Not quite. Environmental groups and some scientists have raised concern that such plastic can leach bisphenol A, an endocrine-disrupting chemical.

It is a big enough issue that last year, the National Toxicology Program Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction convened a 12-member expert panel to examine studies related to the chemical.

At the same time, another government-financed group, made up of about 40 scientists with expertise in bisphenol A, reviewed more than 700 relevant studies.

Here is where it gets a little tricky. The first group concluded that most people’s exposure to the chemical was well below the Environmental Protection Agency’s standard.

Nonetheless, the panel expressed “some concern” that the chemical could cause behavioral and neurological problems in developing fetuses and young children. For more information, go to www. niehs.nih.gov.

More studies are being done on certain aspects of the chemical, said Michael D. Shelby, director of the center, and a final brief will be issued this summer.

#2 and #5 are the way to go... now i just have to find a normal bottle that is a #2 or 5.

[displaced]

Originally Posted by Bruinrab

It was a surgery residency interview. He also started going on about how poor my writing was and he knew this because his wife was a novelist in their native Japan.

you should've told him you weren't pursuing a career in literature.

[Bruinrab]

Originally Posted by displaced

you should've told him you weren't pursuing a career in literature.

Seriously...

Instead, I adopted the "smile and nod at the crazy guy" strategy.

[Ilikemyscarf]

This thread is so drama deprived.

[muslimahpower]

Originally Posted by Ilikemyscarf

This thread is so drama deprived.

*pulls scarfy's hair and runs*

[Ilikemyscarf]

Too much perfume =