{"id":3789,"date":"2013-10-22T19:43:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T00:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=3789"},"modified":"2013-10-22T19:43:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T00:43:18","slug":"of-mice-and-maladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2013\/10\/22\/of-mice-and-maladies\/","title":{"rendered":"Of mice and maladies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"leemousetrap201310\"<\/a>I\u2019m currently engaged in a rivalry with a mouse\u2013a number of them actually. I\u2019ve actually only seen one, but Jake says there\u2019s three. He always sees them, but they never show themselves when I\u2019m around. They know he doesn\u2019t have what it takes to do anything about it. I, on the other hand, am looking for the opportunity. I actually just picked up the trap; I was going to try some alternative methods but they never come around when I\u2019m home. Hopefully I\u2019ll get them.<\/p>\n

On top of this, I\u2019m coming down with a cold, which is really just a good excuse to drink a bunch of hot caffeinated beverages, which I was already doing anyway. Come on, it\u2019s England! These people really do know how to enjoy a cup of tea; in fact, they know how to enjoy a lot of things. One thing I\u2019ve noticed is the difference in indulgences between English people and Americans. When English people have a cup of tea, they have a cup of tea<\/em>. They sit down with a person, fill up a little cup and spend time talking and just experiencing the simple pleasure that is tea. Same with drinks\u2013people go out after work at five, get a pint, and catch up with friends or work associates. They\u2019re not grabbing a mega tea to go as they rush from store to store or slamming beers to get smashed quickly and get home in time to sleep before work the following day.<\/p>\n

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This may also provide some insight into the differences you notice walking in the streets. The people here are much thinner, in general, than Wisconsin folks. This is true even though there\u2019s plenty of McDonald\u2019s, Starbucks and the like, and even a greater deal of access to pastries and cakes. They seem less stressed, too. It seems to me that it\u2019s due mostly to the difference in culture. A lot of people seem to take their time a little bit more and truly enjoy the activity in which they\u2019re engaged. Lunches are social, the workplace is less frantic, and there\u2019s more time to enjoy the company of others and take place in recreation. Well, there\u2019s not really<\/em> more time, of course. I guess it\u2019s just a matter of priorities. Maybe a lot of our social and health problems are really a matter of societal values. What are we doing with our time? Why? Maybe it\u2019s time we rethink some conceptions and focus in on what we\u2019re doing right now.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading my blog post. I really do appreciate it.
\n-Lee<\/p>\n

Lee Bartnik, a senior\u00a0at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point majoring in dietetics, is blogging about his study abroad experience in London<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I\u2019m currently engaged in a rivalry with a mouse\u2013a number of them actually. I\u2019ve actually only seen one, but Jake says there\u2019s three. He always sees them, but they never show themselves when I\u2019m around. They know he doesn\u2019t have what it takes to do anything about it. I, on the other hand, am looking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,44,23,24],"tags":[305,312,343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}