I had intended to write a book review as my last post of the year, but I'm feeling rebellious and I wondered why not write about the things I'd rather do tonight.
I don't know why, but tonight I don't feel festive or anything you're supposed to feel, I don't know it's just like any other day but someone decided that today was the last day of the year and that at midnight we start a new year. I think the new year should be on midday, you can do many more things on midday. Well anyways as I said this is a post of things I'd rather do today, like I'd rather be somewhere no one knew me and party like hell getting shitfaced before midnight or I'd rather be somewhere alone with no one else going to sleep whenever I wanted to not knowing if there was a new year or there wasn't, I'd rather go to some obscure pub where no one would be celebrating anything or to somewhere where people partied hard everyday no matter the day of the week.
But of course, I won't be able to do all those things because of family dinner and blablabla, instead I'll be dressing down and I've decided that the year will start whenever I want to, so maybe since the major change in my life was in October when I started my PhD my year shall start then and it won't be 2012 it'll be something else I need to count since my years will only start when something important has happened, so maybe I'll be in year 10 or 12 or else.
If you celebrate this new year then Happy New Year, if you want to join my idea you can do it freely.
For both...
Happy New Year (Frank Turner & Jon Snodgrass) by fthc
12/14/2011
"La Marató" much more than it looks like
Today I want to write about something that I doubt you've heard of before (unless you live in Spain). Each year TV3 (which is the Catalan TV) airs "La Marató" which is a TV program with the aim to raise money for research.
You may think that you've already heard of something like it, but I doubt you have. This edition, which will raise money for research on transplants and tissue regeneration, will be the 20th. Last year they raised almost 9 million €. This year they're hoping for more, and I can tell you all this money does go to research and since research is global all the world is getting benefits from "La Marató". Incidentally, everyone can donate too via internet, and in Catalunya also you can also buy a special CD and a book.
As I said this year the money will go to transplants and tissue regeneration research. Catalunya is one of the places where more transplants are performed and our hospitals are also pioneers in new transplant techniques, but all this progress is endangered because of the cuts in health budget that are being done by the government, so getting fundings is vital and I'm not saying it to you as a scientist but as someone who sees transplants as something really important.
I have the impression that I haven't explained myself, but I can tell you that thanks to the money that has been raised in previous editions lots of research has been done. So if you feel like and you want to help you can donate on the link in the start of the post.
You may think that you've already heard of something like it, but I doubt you have. This edition, which will raise money for research on transplants and tissue regeneration, will be the 20th. Last year they raised almost 9 million €. This year they're hoping for more, and I can tell you all this money does go to research and since research is global all the world is getting benefits from "La Marató". Incidentally, everyone can donate too via internet, and in Catalunya also you can also buy a special CD and a book.
As I said this year the money will go to transplants and tissue regeneration research. Catalunya is one of the places where more transplants are performed and our hospitals are also pioneers in new transplant techniques, but all this progress is endangered because of the cuts in health budget that are being done by the government, so getting fundings is vital and I'm not saying it to you as a scientist but as someone who sees transplants as something really important.
I have the impression that I haven't explained myself, but I can tell you that thanks to the money that has been raised in previous editions lots of research has been done. So if you feel like and you want to help you can donate on the link in the start of the post.
12/12/2011
Music That I Got Lately
This is a quick update for two reasons: 1) It's late 2) I need to post the links really fast or you might miss some of the free music there is! So here we are.
Free downloads I got lately
Rin Tin Tiger is one of the discoveries I made lately somehow bizarrely, one of the bands I follow on twitter posted something like "Help our friends hit 1,000 likes and they'll upload a free EP" so I decided to give it a try and they hit the 1,000 mark yesterday, so if you want to listen to this amazing EP, go to their website FAST.
bauer this band is really new for me, I think the story is something like Mutineers started following me then Michael Reed started following me, and finally bauer started following me so I just followed them back, and then bauer posted this bunch of songs that, actually, I still haven't been able to listen properly, but they sound really good.
So that was it for today!
Free downloads I got lately
Rin Tin Tiger is one of the discoveries I made lately somehow bizarrely, one of the bands I follow on twitter posted something like "Help our friends hit 1,000 likes and they'll upload a free EP" so I decided to give it a try and they hit the 1,000 mark yesterday, so if you want to listen to this amazing EP, go to their website FAST.
bauer this band is really new for me, I think the story is something like Mutineers started following me then Michael Reed started following me, and finally bauer started following me so I just followed them back, and then bauer posted this bunch of songs that, actually, I still haven't been able to listen properly, but they sound really good.
So that was it for today!
12/10/2011
Hypochondria, flashbacks and other things that happen to me.
I've always been a bit of a hypochondriac and the fact that I'm a biologist doesn't improve things, it's not that I'm usually ill or even sick, but as soon as I start feeling something weird on my body I completely freak out (when I say freak out it means start looking on Pubmed, once I even checked OMIM to see if there was a genetic basis for some of the illnesses in my family). And I know this is not healthy but in the end, there's nothing wrong with me. So why am I telling all this to you? Not only to point out that I've a medical condition for which I should actually seek help (ok, it's not that bad), it's because lately I've been having flashbacks and it feels really weird.
Have you ever had a flashback? I mean a real one, when you are doing something completely unrelated and suddenly you see something that happened some time ago. This is been happening to me, maybe I'm reading a paper or just talking to some friends and BAM I can see at some kind of detail something of my past, the funny thing it's that these flashbacks are always about places I've been, a street in Berlin, a church in Montréal, another street in Montréal. I don't know it's really strange, it's kinda like something that happened to me some time ago, but then I was doing something and then a story would come to my mind so I had to stop doing whatever I was doing and write. I know it's different but I guess that since now I've got so many things to think about when my brain need to relax instead of inventing some plot it just fires these pictures, but still it feels weird because they have special feelings linked to them. Luckily they are happy feelings, although I really miss Montréal and each time I get a flashback I want to go back, but I hope this kinda stops in here because I don't think I'll be able to handle it.
Another thing that happened to me the other day was that I was trying to sleep and I realized that I was singing two songs at the same time (of course not out loud, just in my mind), this made me think that maybe I'm getting to much brain stimulation and that I need some holidays. Still I know that I will never be able to stop thinking, I think I've never been able to stop thinking, you know like when they tell you to relax and stop thinking about anything, I just can't I start thinking about why I'm doing that and then I jump to another thing and finally I'm just so focused on whatever I am thinking that I'm actually more stressed out than I was before. Ok, back to what I was saying... two songs at the same time? I think that was way weirder than flashbacks.
Have you ever had a flashback? I mean a real one, when you are doing something completely unrelated and suddenly you see something that happened some time ago. This is been happening to me, maybe I'm reading a paper or just talking to some friends and BAM I can see at some kind of detail something of my past, the funny thing it's that these flashbacks are always about places I've been, a street in Berlin, a church in Montréal, another street in Montréal. I don't know it's really strange, it's kinda like something that happened to me some time ago, but then I was doing something and then a story would come to my mind so I had to stop doing whatever I was doing and write. I know it's different but I guess that since now I've got so many things to think about when my brain need to relax instead of inventing some plot it just fires these pictures, but still it feels weird because they have special feelings linked to them. Luckily they are happy feelings, although I really miss Montréal and each time I get a flashback I want to go back, but I hope this kinda stops in here because I don't think I'll be able to handle it.
Another thing that happened to me the other day was that I was trying to sleep and I realized that I was singing two songs at the same time (of course not out loud, just in my mind), this made me think that maybe I'm getting to much brain stimulation and that I need some holidays. Still I know that I will never be able to stop thinking, I think I've never been able to stop thinking, you know like when they tell you to relax and stop thinking about anything, I just can't I start thinking about why I'm doing that and then I jump to another thing and finally I'm just so focused on whatever I am thinking that I'm actually more stressed out than I was before. Ok, back to what I was saying... two songs at the same time? I think that was way weirder than flashbacks.
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