Cure for Cancer

http://media.www.studentprintz.com/media/storage/paper974/news/2007/01/23/Opinion/Scientists.Cure.Cancer.But.No.One.Takes.Notice-2667600.shtml

This site for the actual university research group is here:
http://www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca/

Apparently DCA, dichloroacetate, is the cure for cancer. It attacks the metabolic processes that are unique to cancer cells, which use glycolysis instead of cells' normal mitochondrial energy mechanism. The University of Alberta discovered this, rather than, I dunno, Pfizer, so therefore no one's paying any attention.

Because pharmaceutical companies aren't developing DCA, as it's not patented, consumers aren't going to see it unless people do something about it. Drug companies won't profit from curing cancer, how wonderful.

This university needs help/funding/publicity to push this medicine into the forefront of the medical community and into our homes. Drug companies aren't helping them in any way since it would cost pennies to make this medicine.

DO Something about this! Read these, and, much as I hate saying it, Tell everyone you know! This is something genuinely important, and worth asking you to spread.

I'm aware of information available to the public which also states that DCA is not ready for therapeutic use at this stage, that there have been some issues in previous trials. As I see it, this information is being presented as a safety precaution and I support research which would help underline any dangers associated with this treatment. All the same, it's still a call to do the necessary research and get this product available to people who need it.

Thx.
~David~

FYI

I have the worst blueballs right now I think I may have ever had.

Choices

So I'm going to Korea next weekend, but I haven't heard back from Sinhae in a couple of weeks, even after I sent her my intinerary and everything, and that worries me a little. I know things will be fine, I know she'll write me back, but of course now I have all these thoughts going through my head of having to leave without having heard from her, and trying to find a hotel and get things done all on my own the whole time, which would be possible, admittedly, but entirely unpleasant, and would probably more or less ruin the first day of my trip.

Things will work out though, I know they will, they always do, so when it comes down to it I'm not really worried.

I seem to have slacked on planning my trip for June, so it looks like I might be cancelling my proposed trip to Vietnam, I'd be going by myself anyway, in favor of planning something else, maybe a trip to Okinawa, which would just be a matter of finding someone to go with and booking it as soon as possible. I suppose I ought to get on that now. I'm sure I could talk Ty into going, he's always down for a sunny, drunken beach adventure.

Tonight I have the option of going to Tokyo, to Ebisu, to go to Rebecca's going away party, but, much like Ty, I just can't be fucked going all the way to Tokyo for something I'm not going to stay out all night for. And I certainly don't want to stay out all night for much anything anymore, the old fart that I've become. I just seriously hate going out all night, it's a miserable experience for me every time, I rarely enjoy myself, and more often than not, I end up either being really quiet, or getting drunk and being stupid, or as stupid as I really get when I drink.

My other option is to go to Teganuma Lake in Abiko for Christian's lake party, which might be fun, but might not. At least then I can bail if I want to, but, lol, my main concern is a lack of, how should I put it, fun possibilities, i.e. cute girls. There seems to be a marked lack of them lately. But, not that that should concern, me, seeing as Monday night I'm getting to get with Saki for what will be our...5th date now? First was dinner and pool, then bowling, then here to look at pics, then here to finish Howl, so ya, 5th. We'll see how that goes, I guess.

Anyway, the problem is here that I'm just tired, and can't be bothered making the effort to do much of anything much less actually get ready and go out tonight. So, eh. I'm just being lazy. I need to go do something. More later.

Footprints

I went a little nuts today and cleaned again. This morning, before I went to work, I was brushing my teeth and I just kinda grabbed the scrubber and went to town on the sink. The whole time I was thinking, "I'm doing this, but I know it's not the end of it."

After I got off work today, I went to the grocery store and spent about 10 minutes, perusing the cleaning aisle, and eventually purchased some ridiculous cleaning spray, a steel wool scrubber/sponge, a large scrubber-on-a-stick type thing, and a new laundry rack thing for my clothes, seeing as the old one is in complete disrepair, missing several clips, and the hanger has long since broken, forcing me to use to hangers to ingeniously suspend it from the bar or wherever. Oh, and a new light bulb for the light over the kitchen sink, which has been burnt out for the last, I dunno, three months or so.

So, I got home, changed the bulb, marvelled at the brightness that filled the cooking area, and started taking apart the toilet/bathroom to give it a thorough scrub down. I busted out some hard core scrubbing, and, to my satisfaction, it turned out ok. Some of what was there was, how should I say, something akin to a stelagmite, crystaline in nature and more or less molecularly fused with the seat itself, but I did the best I could.

I think what triggered it this time around was noticing the footprint in the bathroom. There should never be a footprint in the bathroom.

Soup Is Delicious

That's about all I have to say about that.

I mean, I could go on about how filling and warm and enjoyable it is, but, we all already know that, don't we? I hardly need to explain the satisfaction of a hot bowl of soup to you, the reader, or myself: it goes without saying.

So instead I leave you with this: if given the choice between a hot bowl of the soup of your choice, at a time and place of your choosing, or its equivalent monetary value, which would you choose?

Soup I say. Soup.