Where I've been
Basically I've been in bed most of this week, with a nasty case of diarrhoea which suddenly appeared on Saturday evening as I was about to go to bed. I'm almost finished a post which insha Allah will appear tomorrow. Other than that I've been too weak to do pretty much anything although my strength is returning.
A couple of unrelated issues, though:
(1) This story about how men who beat their wives and then "show genuine signs of remorse" could be spared a jail term under new proposals from the Sentencing Guidelines Council. This is for the most part a very bad idea, because wife beaters are not men who slap their wives or partners during rows, but domestic bullies who do what they do for kicks. Having received many a phony apology from bullies at school, apologies are ten a penny from these people and have to be treated as such.
(2) Does anyone watch House, the medical drama? I can't stand it, but I watched it this evening because my family do and I wanted the company. At the end, having prodded a young supermodel for an unexplainable illness, they discover that she has Androdgen Insensitivity Syndrome, meaning that she has XY (male) chromosomes but her body is immune to testosterone, meaning that she develops externally as a female but retains testes and lacks a womb. When House (Hugh Laurie) diagnoses this, he walks in and begins referring to the girl as a he, causing her obvious distress. Would any doctor do this nowadays? I had always got the impression of House as a brilliant but awkward but basically good man, but this showed him to be nothing but a callous, unprofessional ass. I know it's not real, but I hope it doesn't happen in real life.
Comments
the callousness of the doctor was so infuriating that i gave up on it after the first two episides. i know it's not real, but it still makes me mad. i get my weekly fix of drama from prison break, which also shows on five on a monday. although, it's so over the top that you have to suspend your sense of disbelief to enjoy it. it is nevertheless good old fashioned drama - the little man taking on the big nasty system
i hope you get well soon. i've been missing your posts.
Posted by: zubair | April 14, 2006 12:08 AM
Hope you get well soon insha allah.
Posted by: Khan | April 14, 2006 2:03 PM
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Posted by: Rohit Verma | April 14, 2006 9:03 PM
Rohit: I call the layout "Vicksburg Almost Spring", Vicksburg being a standard Movable Type layout and Almost Spring being the Wordpress theme from which I adapted the colour scheme. I adapted it for Movable Type using the Movable Type Style Generator. The original was a Wordpress theme by Becca Wei which I used on my Wordpress blog (and had adapted for three columns). Since yours is a Wordpress blog, you could grab that theme from Becca's site if you really wanted.
Posted by: Yusuf Smith
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April 14, 2006 11:57 PM
Yusuf,
Hmm maybe this is like a British thing but no one ever talks about having diarrhoea, its like saying you have bad breathe or crabs. LOL, InshaAllah, I hope you feel better.
Posted by: Bikhair | April 15, 2006 3:15 AM
as bad as that is, and I know the feeling, I know a brother who had it on and off for ten months after eating soemthing foul in Sudan.
Posted by: Umar Lee | April 17, 2006 4:12 PM