Yesterday, Jenni and I jumped in to the typical Michigan activity of... going to the beach! As a California native and former bicoastal resident, I never associated Michigan with sunny, sandy beaches. Snow: yes. Cars: sure. Beaches: not even in my top 10 beachy states.
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| The path to our secret little beach on the coast of Lake Michigan |
The waves aren't much to write home about, but the water isn't salty, the sand is clean (due to the dearth of both plant life and petroleum wells), and the water level stays the same (no tides). There are giant state beaches that thousands of Michiganders flock to each weekend, as well as tiny off-the-beaten-trail beaches that are quieter and more intimate. Yesterday, Jenni and I ventured to one of the latter and had a wonderfully peaceful time.
TIL: Pleonasm! You ever know that feeling that there must be a word for a thing but you neither know the word nor how to describe it well enough to find the word? Well a couple months ago an attending and I were (apparently) trying to think of "the use of more words or parts of words than are necessary or sufficient for clear expression: for example black darkness or burning fire."1 The best we could think of was tautology, which does have one similar definition, but I mostly hear tautology used in the context of logic, which is a subtly but distinctly different concept.
And, just to make sure a dab of medicine ends up in this post: I also learned that we don't have a great idea how many kids "grow out" of ADHD. Somewhere 15 and 50% of ADHD patients no longer qualify for that diagnosis by their mid 20s. However a significant portion of these young adults are able to be reclassified as having other behavioral concerns such as an autism spectrum disorder or anxiety.
TIL: Pleonasm! You ever know that feeling that there must be a word for a thing but you neither know the word nor how to describe it well enough to find the word? Well a couple months ago an attending and I were (apparently) trying to think of "the use of more words or parts of words than are necessary or sufficient for clear expression: for example black darkness or burning fire."1 The best we could think of was tautology, which does have one similar definition, but I mostly hear tautology used in the context of logic, which is a subtly but distinctly different concept.
And, just to make sure a dab of medicine ends up in this post: I also learned that we don't have a great idea how many kids "grow out" of ADHD. Somewhere 15 and 50% of ADHD patients no longer qualify for that diagnosis by their mid 20s. However a significant portion of these young adults are able to be reclassified as having other behavioral concerns such as an autism spectrum disorder or anxiety.
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