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09-12-2006, 02:47 AM
Lise

He's so little, Nanci!

Beta--I thought the same of you, when I saw the time of your post, "What is she doing up at this hour?"

I'm up because my hips hurt and I'm hungry. I've had a bowl of cereal, two Tylenol, and have resolved to schedule a massage once the rest of the world gets up.

I found French people behind counters (selling me a "telecarte", train ticket, cup of coffee) to be really snippy. Maybe it was my one-year-of-high-school-French that so annoyed them. :o But my cousin's married to a French guy, and all of his friends and family were lovely.

Come to think of it, there was a lady in a pharmacy in Paris who was a sweetheart. I was having a terrible period and had forgotten to bring any Motrin. I looked up some words in the dictionery and found a pharmacy. I stumbled through, "I have bad period pains". This little older lady asked me a couple of questions that I was able to understand and answer, and came back with a box of small white pills. They were wonderful, most effective. Of course I later read the box and figured out that they were codeine! Yup, OTC narcotics. Good stuff. :p
09-12-2006, 02:51 AM
betagirl

Hey Lise, good morning. Still nice and dark. Gotta love that. My office windows face east, so I get to see the sun come up. If we have sun today, which I don't think is in the cards.

I woke up because of brain-overdrive. I have a lot to do. I went through about a month or so of lack of motivation. I couldn't get myself to do more than the bare minimum, and now find myself behind schedule on things. Right now I'm writing patient progress reports. I need to keep on top of this better, otherwise I'm really going to fall behind. I have 4 patients I'm doing therapy with now, and am picking up a 5th in October. I need to just write the report immediately after I see them. Been a bad student that way. I went to bed thinking about the people I had to work on, and woke up at 4:30 with them right back in there. In between I dreamed the movie "The Fugitive" with Harrison Ford. I have no idea what that means :D All I know is it wasn't about a GI exam, so I'm happy.

About time for coffee.

Sorry to hear about your hips. Just pain from running/training I hope?
09-12-2006, 02:54 AM
betagirl

Oh yeah, a freewheel is a cog you put on the rear wheel of a fixed gear to allow you to coast. It looks a lot like a fixed cog, has 18 teeth like the one I have on now, but has this extra mechanism that will allow the wheel to spin without engaging the pedals. You can put it on the opposite side as the fixed cog so you just have to flip the tire around to switch between types. In her current setup, Sloane's pedals rotate whenever the rear tire rotates. I'm going to try that out first and see how I like it. It makes cornering a bit trickier because you can't place your turning side pedal up so you don't clip the concrete. I just plan on slowing down :D I'll put the freewheel on if I really feel the need to coast. In city traffic, it might be a necessity. We'll see.
09-12-2006, 03:40 AM
Nanci

I get up at 5:20 to leave for work at 5:55 (if I'm lucky) to be there at 6:30 to have everything organized for when my first patients arrive at 8:00.

He _is_ tiny. Last night, he went in his pool, and swam round and round at top speed, totally underwater. He also watched a couple hours of TV with us. He's so sweet.
09-12-2006, 04:09 AM
DrBee

I was awake when y'all were posting - thinking about relocation companies and finding a house and all. I should've gotten up and checked the computer. Oh well.

Have a glorious day everyone!

FishJr gets her school pictures taken today.
09-12-2006, 05:55 AM
Pax

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Originally Posted by fishdr

I was awake when y'all were posting - thinking about relocation companies and finding a house and all. I should've gotten up and checked the computer. Oh well.

Have a glorious day everyone!

FishJr gets her school pictures taken today.

What with packing and planning a move myself I must've missed your news...where ya headed??
09-12-2006, 06:18 AM
Lise

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Originally Posted by betagirl

Sorry to hear about your hips. Just pain from running/training I hope?

The hips are sore from leaping back onto the 1/2 marathon training program after two weeks of not running much post-triathlon. :o I ran 10 miles on Saturday and 5 miles yesterday. Not the smartest way to do it, but, hey, the darned race is in 19 days. Fortunately, the distances start to go down again next week. The run yesterday felt relatively easy (operative word: relatively), so that gives me hope. But all the muscles around my hip socket are protesting today. It's an odd place to have pain. Ah, it occurs to me that I had the treadmill set at a slight incline yesterday. Maybe that's it. :rolleyes:

About the fixed gear thing--if you have both cogs, can you shift between them while riding? Or does the freewheel cog allow you to both pedal and coast?

Nanci, as your little guy gets bigger, will you come up with bigger and bigger swimming pools for him?
09-12-2006, 06:25 AM
KnottedYet

Checked FedEx. My bike is in Chicago now waiting for a truck heading west. All you Chicago babes, blow her a kiss and tell her she'll be home soon!
09-12-2006, 06:59 AM
mimitabby

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Originally Posted by Kitsune06

some guy at work today emailed me this link...
It's certainly interesting.
I agree with everyone, how it's sad that the whole world looked to America and offered their support, and we basically turned up our noses at them, then went so far as to have lots of Americans talk **** about the French because they weren't supporting us in the ways we wanted. (Maybe this was different elsewhere, but such was the case in WI)

It's going to be our generation's "Grassy Knoll" with the "magic bullet" that passed through Kennedy's skull/throat and a Secret Service agent's shoulder. No one will ever be able to know what exactly happened that day, but everyone will have theories, conspiracies and doubts. What we do know is that many people died in that building that day, and many more are dying and will die given our reactions.

It makes me sick to think that people are so easily lead, rights so quickly shed and violence so readily endured and prolonged. Didn't we learn anything from sending our sons/children/husbands (or in our generation, fathers or uncles we never got to know) to Vietnam? The enemy wears the same clothes as the innocent, and fights for *their* beliefs, and *their* home territory.

...How many have to die?

Don't we have *ENOUGH* things to worry about at *HOME* like properly educating our kids, making sure everyone, of every ethnicity and background has equal opportunities, worrying about our resources, etc?

DID WE GO BACK TO THE '60s (minus the popular will to change and civil rights movents?!)

Sorry. I'll get off the soapbox now. I have a date with Jimi, Janis, Jim. :rolleyes:

GREAT POST!
09-12-2006, 07:21 AM
margo49

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Originally Posted by Kitsune06

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DID WE GO BACK TO THE '60s (minus the popular will to change and civil rights movents?!)

Sorry. I'll get off the soapbox now. I have a date with Jimi, Janis, Jim. :rolleyes:

You know, I think that kitsune is lying about her age.
She is really One of Us from the "over 50" thread a while back!
I have been noticing clues in her posts for a while now.
Even tho' she didn't mention Bob and Joan in her list , she knows stuff only a woman of the 60's/70's would know.
Or maybe she fell thru a (un-darned) hole in the fabric of the space/time continuum.

The plot thickens...
09-12-2006, 07:29 AM
Lise

Quote:

Originally Posted by KnottedYet

Checked FedEx. My bike is in Chicago now waiting for a truck heading west. All you Chicago babes, blow her a kiss and tell her she'll be home soon!

There are lots of trucks headed west out of here! She'll be in your arms in no time! :D
09-12-2006, 07:53 AM
Lise

Quote:

Originally Posted by margo49

Even tho' she didn't mention Bob and Joan in her list , she knows stuff only a woman of the 60's/70's would know.

One of my favorite "old boyfriend songs" is Diamonds and Rust, by Joan, about Bob.

"Well I'll be damned,
here comes your ghost again.
But that's not unusual,
it's just that the moon is full,
and you happened to call..."

I recently downloaded it. That woman can write and sing.
09-12-2006, 07:59 AM
snapdragen

Nanci - your new baby is so tiny! He looks like a little striped bracelet! Does Maizey swim too?

Margo, you may be right about Kitsune.....

Lise - yay for OTC narcotics! I could use some about now, I have a pounder of a headache. I'm starting to connect them to "spare the air" days, when the air outside is so bad they encourage everyone to drive less, not use gas mowers etc.
09-12-2006, 07:59 AM
DrBee

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Originally Posted by Queen

What with packing and planning a move myself I must've missed your news...where ya headed??

Heading to Baton Rouge - changing jobs. I'm staying with the gov't, just switching critters (from catfish to honey bees). We move in about a month. Still waiting on a specific date.
09-12-2006, 08:03 AM
Pax

Quote:

Originally Posted by fishdr

Heading to Baton Rouge - changing jobs. I'm staying with the gov't, just switching critters (from catfish to honey bees). We move in about a month. Still waiting on a specific date.

Hope it's great move for you and your family! I had a friend who did her grad assistantship with a prof at U of IL who was a bee researcher...her job involved something to do with painting dots on the bees for ID purposes. :p