APPARENTLY, the tutors' office got broken into and my lab report got STOLEN! I know!!! Well, it doesn't really matter in that I'll just email the tutor a PDF, but I mean, some moron out there thinks they can go through life stealing from other people. *sigh*

In other notes, I just remembered that at WCIT, the Octupus Card won the most innovative use of technology (or something, who really was listening)... but the point is... YAY Octupus Cards!! They are pretty schnazzy. Too bad I had to give up my lovely purple student one for the rainbow coloured adult one. Grr for oldness.

OMG and during the presentation, some delegate had a diabetic seizure. It was very scary, but the paramedics took a while to take care of him - I suppose to try and keep people from freaking out. But I had never seen anyone have a seizure before and it was quite interesting in that it IS quite difficult to tell unless you are experienced with it. I was wondering why they couldn't inject glucose into his systemic circuit to improve his status, but then I guess that sudden increase in glucose would cause damage to his cells no less. So I guess they took him away and infused him with sugar water for about an hour and he was fine again. So I'm guessing he has Type 1 diabetes (Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus or IDDM, as opposed to Type 2, Non-IDDM - linked to obesity). Apparently (I just read this online) diabetic seizures occur when blood sugar goes way too low and I suppose this lack of "food supply" to the brain causes erratic firing and hence seizures. But I was wondering why this important guy would put himself in such danger? I think it may be that he was doing what a lot of diabetics have to do - lower their glucose levels substantially before a meal to ensure that it doesn't go too high (glucosuria, toxicity, etc) - little did he know that the speeches would be incredibly long and his blood glucose fell too low. I bet he was taking a slow-release formulation as many people do, or maybe he took some extra faster-onset tablets as well *just in case* and ended up making it worse. I wonder if you can feel nausea before an attack so you can increase your glucose intake?