Personal Log: Dr. Galen Foster

I recently finished my second inastallment of medicines. It is restricted to site members only so if you aren't a member...sorry. I'm going to begin a new medical database soon, it's titled, 'Technology & Instruments'.

This blog has been so helpful to me, when writing posts, I can just click over here (I have it pagemarked!) and scan through the list of medicines I can use. Any other doctors in FF are welcome to use it too, just remember you have to create a blog in order to access it.

I recently finished the first list of medicines and added it to my Medicine & Drugs blog. If you play a doctor or medical character this page may interest you. To get to it you have to have a blog on this page though. Sorry, this is only available to Frontier Fleet members. If you want to join our pbem then you will have access to this blog. New members are always welcome!

The reason I researched this list was because I found quite a few more drugs than were mentioned in the lcars. Also the lcars lists a lot of procedures and medicines for the ENT & TOS series and this provides a comprehensive but out-dated list. The drugs that I listed are from the newer series (TNG, DS9, VYG) so we can be almost certain that they are still in use in 2392 (our current timeline). There are drugs from the TOS series but many have comments such as: 'replaced by ...' next to them to provide the newer version of the medicine.

I have decided to resign my commission. I will always be a doctor even though I no longer wish to practice medicine. But I will no longer have the responsibility of being a Starfleet officer. Now the only alliegances I will have is to myself. Even Tea'a does not understand why I want to give up my position. We are ending our relationship. Eventually everything must end, even love.

I am going to ask the captain if I can leave while we are docked at Pandora Station. It is a crossroads of sorts and perhaps there I can finally put everything that happened on the unknown planet behind me. I want to start over, let bygones be bygones.

-Galen Foster

Hi Everyone,

I recently read Rob's post and felt really good that he had gotten an internship in his career. At the same time though I had some misgivings because I am a teacher too, albeit on a different level than Rob. After teaching at a university for three years as an adjunct; I have come to the conclusion that teaching is a dead-end career. Don't misread my statement, I love teaching, my subject and I like my students too but careerwise it is not much of a choice. Teachers are paid less than any other professional occupation and in most cases they have more responsibilities than any other profession (except maybe doctors).

Often times, especially in the US, people will say that the importance of a project or program is denoted by the amount of money spent on that thing. In my experience I've found that this is not true for education. Sure there are cases where universities are given a tremendous amount of funds, but more often than not, the administration throws the money down the toilet and gives it to the atheletics program.

What I am trying to say is that teachers are expected to deal with a load of responsibilities and to do it for less pay simply because we love teaching. This system takes advantage of teachers and 'burns them out' in the process. I guess what I want to say to Rob is: "Congratulations on your prospective job, but if they can pay you to work there, you should demand it. Don't ever let anyone talk you into teaching for free (unless you have another job with which to support yourself) because then you will be burnt-out and broke."

Congrats Again, Neil

Yesterday, well the day before yesterday actually, I bought some Ethiopian coffee from the local Starbucks. OMG it is so good. The aroma of the coffee is exhilirating but the taste is exquisite. It is a bolder flavour of coffee but it does not have the strong acrid aftertaste that most bold coffees have. It was ten bucks a bag but it is worth it. If you love coffee and would like to try a good blend, I highly recommend Ethiopian. I think I may be addicted.

Cheers, Neil

Hey Rick,

I read your blog and I can relate. About three years ago I returned home from work one day to find that the front door had been kicked in and a lot of our stuff had been taken out in broad daylight! I was enraged, especially when the neighbors claimed not have seen anything. My wife and I were renters then but we didn't have any insurance since we were both poor grad students. (We're still poor, just no longer grad students)

Our TV/VHS was taken with the rental video still inside! I had to cough up eighty bucks to replace that video and I have never rented from Hollywood Videos since then (If the owners of Hollywood Video ever read this I have something to tell them: You suck Hollywood!) The CD player and almost all of my wife's jewelry was stolen, most of it was personal momentos, like a ring her great-grandmother had given her.

I was really, really angry at the time. And I felt like our home had been violated by some thugs. Plus everything that was taken, besides the jewelry, had been wedding presents. The police here (Arkansas) are incompetent, they lost our case file twice and still have no leads even though several other duplexes were robbed the same week as ours. I thought about purchasing a gun and going 'Chuck Norris' but I'm not a killer and loud noises scare me.

I hope that the thieves will eventually be brought to justice. Perhaps they will steal in another town with more competent police and get caught. But as Jay-Z says, "I'm feelin' ya."

~Neil

Personal Log: Dr. Galen Foster

05/05/06

19:26:34 Database

02/20/06

18:01:06 Chart of Medicines

02/10/06

20:02:17 Resignation: A Fistful of Endings

01/28/06

20:32:34 Teaching: Is it worth it??

01/26/06

06:47:26 Ethiopian coffee

01/25/06

00:26:49 Thick as Thieves