finluithiel | procrastinators unite...tomorrow!

You know what annoys me about using American textbooks for our classes? It's not the cultural references and turns of phrase that fly way over my head (though those are annoying too) -- no, it's the fact that they don't use the goddamn metric system. How am I to convert the phrase "the liver can metabolize about 1 ounce of 100 proof liquor per hour" into terms that make sense to me when I have no idea how much 1 ounce is when converted to milliliters? It's little things like this that drives me absolutely crazy. Gragh.