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Jul. 2nd, 2002 04:39 pmMy job is kind of scary. They haven't really had time to train me to do anything, so I've been stuffing envelopes and applying labels most of the time. It's kind of depressing. Even when I am trained, this is definitely the entry level position. Makes me feel like I didn't accomplish anything jobwise. It doesn't help that I want to lay down and go to sleep all the time.
I think most folks think that the changes that take place in a woman's body when she's pregnant are kind of like a bird preparing a nest to cradle its offspring, but a closer analogy from nature might be tarantulas mating. The fetus mucks up your system up towards its own ends as far as it can without getting into dimishing returns, and our bodies have not evolved to combat its activities (too much) for obvious reasons. That's why sub-par fetuses are often miscarried. It's not because the body senses something abnormal, but because the fetus is not adequately up to the task of deceiving and impairing its mother's immune system and so there is a normal response to foreign tissue. It's a tricky little critter. It renders you mildly diabetic, for example, so that there is plenty of fuel floating around in your bloodstream for it to skim.
I think most folks think that the changes that take place in a woman's body when she's pregnant are kind of like a bird preparing a nest to cradle its offspring, but a closer analogy from nature might be tarantulas mating. The fetus mucks up your system up towards its own ends as far as it can without getting into dimishing returns, and our bodies have not evolved to combat its activities (too much) for obvious reasons. That's why sub-par fetuses are often miscarried. It's not because the body senses something abnormal, but because the fetus is not adequately up to the task of deceiving and impairing its mother's immune system and so there is a normal response to foreign tissue. It's a tricky little critter. It renders you mildly diabetic, for example, so that there is plenty of fuel floating around in your bloodstream for it to skim.
