A collection of odds and ends

[annwfyn]

I remember last night talking to someone (unless I was hallucinating) about Typhoid Mary.

Well, I've found the wikipedia entry about her, which also has quite a good explanation on disease carriers - those who can be infected with a disease without showing any symptoms.

I'm also pondering something I've read in various places, which is that most people in the UK are only two pay cheques away from being homeless. I've discussed this with pierot and ksirafai in the past, and they've disagreed with me. Jez, in particular, feels that you'd have to be quite uninformed about your rights for that to happen to you. While I can see the truth in this, going through my own current financial situation I think I can see that losing two pay cheques might not cause outright homelessness straight out, but it must make it so much easier in the long run to wind up homeless or in trouble, as you delay paying bills, maybe fall into arrears with your rent which you then can't afford to pay back even if you do get a new job/salary, mess about with your credit rating, which then makes it harder to get any loans or anything which could get you back on track.

I'm nowhere near that state - I'm just realising that in putting off bills, having to use my credit card due to lack of income etc, for the time period where pierot was starting a new job, I've now got a slighly uncomfortable backlog of bills that I didn't have before. Considering how comfortable I was at the start of July of this year, that's slightly scary, and it's made me feel rather more sympathetic to those who do get themselves into a real state.

Comments

[castorlion.livejournal.com]

You mean you didn't see a pathway of gleaming custard?

Guess you must have been hallucinating then!

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

You're saying I hallucinated an ordinary paved road and pavement?

Christ, my feverish subconscious is dull!

[castorlion.livejournal.com]

Well, my theory is that with most people their conscious is normal and their unconscious is wierd. Your conscious mind is totally bizarre and random, so therefore...