Hi Eska,

Sorry to hear that you're having issues with your friend...perhaps you could try telling her frankly and firmly (but politely) how you feel about her interfering in your affairs or you can just state that you appreciate her advice but that you'd rather not discuss your family affairs/issues with her as it isn't helping and that you'd really appreciate it if she would be more supportive as you are going through a stressful and difficult phase. I guess sometimes we just have to be blunt and straightforward much as we dislike it for fear of hurting other's feelings. However, the last thing you need is a row with your friend while on vacation, so you can try speaking to her about this right at the beginning and let her know that you want to enjoy your vacation and not discuss any family matters at all. Hopefully, she'll have the sense to understand and give you your space and this way a confrontation/row/argument with her can be avoided. Good luck!

The rabbit's main goal currently is to oust the Professor as it is his ardent desire to obtain the post of VC and deal with the PhD students as he wishes...

Thanks for the advice, Goodboy.

Jojo, I am really alarmed after reading your post regarding the prestigious University that has caused so much frustration and headache to PhD students. For some reason, I am getting paranoid that perhaps it’s the very same Uni that is offering me a place for PhD. Would you mind very much if I request you to PM me the name of the Uni so that you can retain your anonymity?

@Pepipox - sorry for hijacking your post, but I simply couldn’t resist asking Jojo about this issue!

Sorry, I tried but I have access only from 2000 onward

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I too am going to pay no heed to the ''men only'' request...

You might want to try zinc supplementation as zinc is very essential for men's health and its deficiency can cause such problems. High stress levels can also contribute to zinc depletion.

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OMG, I am so excited on receiving a star 8-)! Thanks a lot, Wally(up)!
Just recalled another two incidents (not for the sake of another star ;-),  I actually just remembered it) where a nurse had injected me in the rear and she did it so harshly that I ended up with severe pain for almost a whole year and although this sounds absurd, it's true. I even went to the GP for this and the only plausible explanation she could come up with was that, the injection might have hit my bone as I am so slim and hence the pain. The second incident was not only really traumatic but also life threatening; I was being given glucose IV once and the nurse adjusted it in such a way that the rate was twice as fast. My mom who was with me at the time expressed her concern that the rate seemed to be quite rapid but the nurse dismissed her concerns and left. Well the IV finished in 30 minutes and around that time, my chest started constricting really badly and it was hurting like crazy and I started shivering, choking, coughing and gasping for breath. My mom just ran out of the room yelling for some doctor to come and a few doctors and nurses came rushing in and demanding what was happening and on seeing my condition, I was immediately put on oxygen for around half an hour after which I was taken for a chest x-ray to determine whether I had developed pneumonia because of all this. Thankfully I hadn't, but I was so drained and exhausted after this life threatening experience, both physically as well as mentally that I had to leave the hospital on a wheelchair. Ironically, I had entered the hospital walking but left it on a wheelchair!
Oh and by the way, the doctors confirmed my mom's suspicion; the IV infusion rate was indeed quite rapid which caused this reaction.

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For me, it was one of the ophthalmologists while in my teens. Not my regular one, he’s pretty cool and sensible, but I was assigned to this other guy because my case was a different and a very rare one in youngsters and apparently this guy was supposed to be specialized in it. Yeah right! Initially, he kept refusing to enter the room to examine me because he claimed he had a cold and didn’t want to pass it on to me then after insisting that cold or not, I wanted to be examined; he came in grumpily with my regular ophthalmologist and thrust some cards with numbers on it at me to read. He asked me to bring it as close as I possibly could to my eyes while being able to read it and  at that point ,he exclaimed at me to stop and jumping up measured the distance between the card and my eye with his hand(!!!) and then turned around to my ophthalmologist yelling “bring the ruler quick to measure the distance” and he was so agitated while shouting out these instructions and looking around that to my horror I saw that he had moved quite farther and had not even kept his hand stationary so that by the time, he measured the distance with the ruler, he’d moved so much that the distance he measured was totally wrong and I was asked to wear some ridiculously high number! Despite my protests, the guy made me try on that number and when I complained that I couldn’t see a thing and was getting a headache and everything was looking four times as large and not able to focus at all, he declared that I had to wear them no matter what whether I could see or not (!) and that I‘d eventually get used to it!!! I always made sure that guy wasn’t around whenever I went to my ophthalmologist after that. That was like one of the most traumatic experiences I’ve ever had and although I am a health care professional myself, I always shudder when I have to go to one. There was this other one, a cardiologist but I am not going to go into that because the way he examined me would also constitute as assault and it was just plain disgusting. I really hate going for check-ups now and always try to avoid going at all costs although it’s not always possible because I suffer from a wide range of medical problems.

"Down with the Government!" yelled the Professor/VC in rage and leapt on top of the rabbit, grabbing him and bashing him on the head repeatedly while the cabbages seized their chance and fled...

Just then the Professor/new VC stepped out of his office to investigate the source of all the hullabaloo...

and then discovered that the PhD students had got rid of it when they figured out through various experiments that the hare had the ability to transform into cabbage now and then. The Professor was happy that he had one less hassle (a.k.a PhD student) to deal with...

for instance they fired the VC from his post and appointed the Professor as the new VC and they made sure to officially declare the rhubarb crumble as the National sweet dish of England...

Hi Chrisrolinski,

I tried but unfortunately don't have access to the article :-(. Sorry.

that the Parliament was taken over by the PhD students!!!

Suddenly they were struck with an inspiration. ''Let's get rid of these identical hats by presenting one to the VC and the other to the Professor and get ourselves the trendy ones that is currently being advertised by the Prince at the Parliament; apparently the latest fashion is to have rhubarb crumble all over the hats!" they discussed excitedly. So they started off for the Parliament as well...