What's the Story, Morning Glory

Here's a little something from the obvious file:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14165243/
Fat people are at a higher risk during anything. Hot, cold, emergencies, not causing an airplane to crash from being over-loaded. Of course you're at a higher risk of heat stroke if you have a thicker layer of insulating fat on your body. Common sence. Not sure why we needed some doctors to tell us about that, but whatever. Gotta keep those that didn't do so well in med school doing something. At least they aren't trying to work on people and have instead focused their energy on common-sence studies and endorsing infomercial products.

Peanut Alergy in Schools
I actually slightly changed my point of view on the topic yesterday while 'discussing' this with Hayley. I have a huge problem with our current society and its focus on making everyone happy all of the time. God forbid 1 person out of 100 is uncomfortable while growing up. It's a concept that I really hate. And nowhere is this more displayed than with public schools. Dodgeball is banned because it singles out the weak kids. Christmas is outlawed because the jewish kids might be offended. I'm surprised they don't stop offering advantaced classes for the smart kids because it'll make the dumb ones feel dumber. Guess what kids, it's a horrible world out there. The weak and dumb get punished and made fun of. And not just in grade school, for the rest of your life. You get shitty jobs, you work shitty hours, live in a shitty apartment, and are the butt of jokes for everyone else. It's not fair, but neither is real life. So why should we pamper them at a young age instead of getting them ready for real life?
So Hayley and I got into over banning nuts in schools if 1 kid at the school has an alergy. I get all pissed off at the concept and get all worked up. Hayley sees the other side and likes everyone to be happy and safe. I don't see why an entire school of children should be punished and prevented from having any nut-based product because 1 child has an alergy? What if peanut butter is their favorite food? What if that's all their parents can reasonably provide for them? What if they just don't think it's fair? I'm all for creating a peanut-free area of the lunchroom. Designate 1 table that no nuts can be eaten. Even go as far as making sure no one in their specific class eats a nut product. But if you're a 6th grader and suddenly can't eat peanuts because some 1st grader that you'll never come within 100 yards of is mildly alergic to peanuts, how is that fair?!
Hayley did make 1 point that made me think. Kids of that age aren't aware enough to be safe. They don't constantly think about what they are touching and whether or not it's safe to be around it. So the alergic child isn't going to be thinking about that when playing with the other kids. And the other kids aren't going to think about whether or not they should touch the alergic kid based on what else they've been doing. But... If you are so alergic that merely touching a peanut will send you into a potential fatal reaction, you should not be in a public school. These are schools, not hospitals. Just like being out in public at restaurants, bars, movie theaters, etc, you can't keep things 100% nut-free. Therefore it's just not safe for that kid to be there.
So it's a sticky point for me. There is a point where kids just can't comprehend what's going on and you have to account for that. But there is another point where you need to just take the alergic kids out of the school for their own safety. There is a limit to the restrictions you can reasonably place on the other kids.

Breakfast
I know it's silly, but I'm chaging up my breakfast routine now. Normally I'll eat a bowl of cereal pretty much as soon as I'm out of the shower. I wake up hungry and need to eat right away. But then I'm hungry again by like 10am, cause it's 6:30 when I eat. So now I'm going to start trying to wait til I get in to work before eating. I go to the cafe every morning with Jake, why not just push breakfast back til then. So I can get a bagel w/ peanut butter for $0.90 in the cafe, which is pretty good. Probably about the same cost as the cereal and milk I'm having now. If all goes well, I may step it up to my own bagels and PB.
Right now Hayley is laughing her ass of cause she knows how stupidly anal I get about my little routines. I get into ruts for certain things I hate changing them. I'm free and loose for most of the day, but I have some routines that I'll be damned if I'm going to break. Breakfast used to be one of them.
Speaking of which, time to eat some damn food. Where the hell is Jake?!
PEACE!!