oh.. that sounds like a tricky weekend to negotiate!
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oh.. that sounds like a tricky weekend to negotiate!
Dear paper on the biological and neurological basis of anxiety:
You are standing between me and graduation. I have to start reading that lovely article on "Increased Amygdala and Insula Activation During Emotion Processing in Anxiety Prone Subjects."
Enough said. I would rather go to the grocery store right now and then go ride my bike.
Crankin, could you call up some voice data recognition software and have it read the article to you?
Roxy (it actually sounds pretty interesting to me, being in the subject group and all)
Roxy, it is interesting, that's why I chose this topic. I read the articles and printed a couple more. Decided not to go for a ride today. I have a bit of a hang over and food satiation from a wonderful dinner at a tapas bar last night!
I am doing the paper with a friend and we are focusing on yoga as a treatment option, but we have to have citations that support the neurological/chemical reasons for using yoga. Thankfully, cutting edge research on this is being done at BU and Harvard.
I am just sick of school. Eight more weeks...
Dear Friend's boyfriend,
I don't care how late you got home or how tired you were, you can't forget to close the outside door, leaving it wide open for hours, while you're upstairs asleep. You're lucky the dog is too old and feeble to have noticed, because he would have escaped if he did. Last time you watched him, he threw up 6 of your socks a few days later. Do you really just not give a crap about him? You're idiocy is going to shorten his life. Oh, and what if someone broke in? You're a cop! Get with the program! Putting me in the position of having to tell on you really sucks.
Dear Friend,
Board your dogs from now on. You should already know you can't trust your bf to do the right thing EVER! Stop trusting him with the lives of the things you love the most. I have a feeling the things we know about are just the tip of the iceberg. It may be stressful to leave them with strangers, but at least you'll know they're being taken care of.
Oh dear, what an uncomfortable situation. Glad doggie was ok!Quote:
Originally Posted by redrhodie
There's something similar going on here at UCSD, too, having to do with yoga and metabolic disorder/disease or something like that. I tried to sign up as a test subject, but they said I'm too active. I had to laugh. "But I'm 100 pounds overweight," I said. The young woman on the phone said, "I'm sorry, but you're just too active for a baseline study group. We need people who don't exercise so much."Quote:
Originally Posted by Crankin
Take a moment. Enjoy the irony.
Roxy
Yes, most of the studies have a lot of restrictions, to tease out the possible "confounding" effects. One I read yesterday started with 3,000 people who filled out a questionnaire and ended up with 32 people in the treatment group and 30 controls! Funny, the subjects were from SDSU and UCSD. This was nothing to do with yoga, though. I am doing the "hard science" part and my friend is doing the yoga part, as she is more of an expert in that.
It's hard to find a lot of people who don't take psychotropic or any other drugs, don't smoke, and haven't had counseling.
Dear Pet Sitter,
Thank you for being so reliable and responsive. Every since my First Pet Sitter forgot to visit my cats as scheduled, I've had a lot of anxiety about leaving my babies, but you've proven to be so trustworthy and undertanding of my various worries. It's such a relief to me to know that you're taking care of them.
Dear mother,
I appreciate your concern regarding my back/hip pain. I know you have suffered from back pain for years as well and chose to have back surgery. That was your decision. For me, chiropractic care really seems to be making a difference. Yes, the back pain does reoccur, but its not nearly as severe as it used to be. Losing some weight, doing strength training and running have really helped. If my choice is going to the chiropractor every six weeks for the rest of my life OR having back surgery: I choose the chiropractor.
I know you don't agree. You've made that clear.
Limewave
Dear Calypso,
You are the shame of PNW kitties, and you are a PNW kitty now. I gave you some nice fresh salmon for dinner, so why did you turn your nose up at it? This is much better quality than what comes in a can.
I'm sorry, but this isn't shrimp, crawfish, or sac-au-lait (Cajun for crappie) country.
Your Mom, who doesn't want another fussy eater. What did Bonnie tell you before she crossed the Rainbow Bridge?
Dear hospital billing depatrment and health insurance company customer service rep:
Are you serious about sending us a bill for $4000 for the emergency room visit? That time after my DH had that hit and run accident that fractured part of his scapula? I sincerely hope there is a misunderstanding, because what else we were we supposed to do at 10:30 at night besides go to an emergency room? Isn't that why I have hundreds of dollars deducted from my paychecks every month?
We will be in getting in touch with you Monday morning about this....
Grrrrrr
Yeah, isn't that annoying? :confused: We have a large, active cat with a healthy appetite, who eats or at least checks out everything that falls on the floor - raisins, scrap of lettuce, garlic, you name it - and who wolfs down every kind of dry cat food as if there were no tomorrow. But when we give her salmon scraps as a treat she sniffs and nibbles, and licks a little, and looks at us, and lets most of it be. Silly cat, you're supposed to be a predator.Quote:
Originally Posted by bmccasland
Raisins are poisonous for cats, so keep those away from her.Quote:
Originally Posted by lph
miss ike not only looks at us disdainfully if we offer her anything resembling real meat or fish, but will silently and efficiently bury all the way around anything on the floor or in her dish she doesn't approve of. All this on a tile floor. Now the dogs on the other hand.......
Dear kids, I know its Monday and we're all suffering from the Monday blues but really?? POOP in the classroom and 3 attempts at SMOOSHING said poop with the brand new play rug? Boy, you really know how to show your teachers a good time.
Please tell me you teach special needs kids.
Veronica
Veronica, yes I do. This happens to be the 1 out of 10 days I totally lose my sense of humor since we were moving classrooms today too. I foresee a new health education topic for this term - "Poop - what you can and cannot do with it". It'll probably be funnier tomorrow morning.
Dear Winter,
Please leave! You came early and have outstayed your welcome. You have had a great run this year, but it is time to allow warmer temperatures to arrive! I have already missed two organized rides that I wanted to go on because it was too cold/damp. Don't let the door hit your butt on the way out.
Thank you.
Dear beloved Hospital,
Forgive me, you know I love working for you, but I am a little bit irritated today.
I do understand that you are a public institution on a tight budget, but giving your medical educators a 40% pay-cut (:eek:) sounds like telling them that you value medical education close to nothing. Do we get it right - when we spend half of our time in class or bedside teaching, you think that we produce less hospital revenue and we deserve a lower salary? Did you forget that we were already underpaid compare to 80% of hospitals?
I'm confused.
Our mission statement used to include educating residents and students while providing compassionate health care and pursuing excellence in medical research. Did you change our mission while I was sleeping?
And yes, I know that y'all administrators think that we spent 24 years of our life in medical training just because... :rolleyes: but please please please would you be so kind as to show us some consideration? We are here to help, and we shose to serve in a State hospital to help a larger patient population - but please do not be upset if we start looking for alternatives at the big private hospital around the corner...
Yours truly,
TxDoc
How short-sighted of them to undervalue the educators, TxDoc. I can't imagine how frustrating that must feel.
Wow, TxDoc. That really stinks. Definitely short sighted, and not a good judgment call. What *are* they thinking?
that stinks, TxDoc, will they also cut your student loans by 40%?
LOL :D I'm sure my students would love that!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Biciclista
Dear Co-worker,
You might not realize how rude and socially inept you are, but you should at least realize that I didn’t get my hair cut for you. I’ve gotten lots of compliments on it from women. I know a lot of men aren’t crazy about short hair and are often uncomfortable with change in general, but “Holy Cow – that’s different!” type of comments should really be kept to yourself. You kinda ruined my whole morning. Didn't your mother ever teach you that if you can't say nothing nice, say nothing at all?
Dear Self,
Don’t worry so much about what other people think. In most cases they don’t matter in your life at all (like stupid coworker above) and should not have the power to make you feel bad about yourself.
emily, I consistently wear my hair in a #4 buzz and have been wearing it that way since I was a teen. It's not quite short enough to see the skin through but less than 1/4 " in length. I wear it that way because that's the way I like it. Since I am of certain age and my non existant ta tas are rapidly disappearing and sliding towards my waist, I am more often than not mistaken as a man at least until I open my mouth and say something. I do so love being called sir.
As my mother used to say when others made comments about my hair or lack thereof. "Tante piss, screw them if they can't take a joke."
If it looks good to you and you enjoy it that way, then wear it with pride- as long as you are sane, happy and able to sit up and take nutrition, it's all good.
Ignore that azzhole, Emily. I've had pretty short hair for ten years and no one has ever made a comment, except to say it looks good. DH sometimes said "it's really short" right after a haircut, but since my hair grows in about 2 days, he stopped.
Short-haired chickies, unite!
I've gotten more compliments with 2" hair than I ever got with shoulder length locks. Don't let the haters get to you...they're just jealous that they can't rock it :D
:D :D Is that Cajun? Hadn't heard that one before. I love multilingual expressions - I'm not even sure where DH picked up "bookoo dinero," but that's a favorite of mine. (Yeah, I know how to spell beaucoup AND how to pronounce it, but that's not how it goes in that expression. ;))Quote:
Originally Posted by marni
"Tante piss" means "aunt piss" in Norwegian :D
Which leads me to another digression: a Danish 3 yr old got lost the other day and spent a night wandering the woods. When he was found safe and sound the next day, the search leader had apparently bust out, in front of the tv cameras - "Pisse fedt!!"
Which amounts to about "Whoa, phaaaat!" in English. :D
And the tv announcer had started crying :o
So very glad to hear the little boy was found safe and sound :D
It is SNOWING - this is just disgusting. Where do I file my complaint to the weather bureau? mumble grumble mumble...
Guess my southern genes expects it to be spring by March 30 :o
That snow is coming here late tomorrow into Friday, forcing Hirakukibou and I to cancel our ride :mad:. I got out at lunch for a 16 mile ride today; it was glorious, but I am wondering when i will get to ride again. I was planning to ride when I get home tomorrow and now I hear it might already be raining. We are right on the edge of the "6 inches or more" zone, so let's hope the weather gods are looking my way.
Every one here is talking about opening day of the new Baseball season... Seems more like football weather to me... Grrrrrr... Sooooooooooo ready for "spring" to have sprung so I can ride outside!!!
Shannon
I think it was just Muzs' way of say piss them in a perverted french sort of way. As far as I know it has no national origin other than my mother.
My MIL's favorite expression which we now use to mean something excessively in bad taste was "Bayersche blau und groen schieze de ganze" which supposedly meant "Bavarian blue and goose **** green" which apparently is a pretty endemic color combination in the more blatantly decorative/decorated older buildings in souther Germany.
How, um, colorful.
:)
Roxy, with hair half-way down my back. I like it long. If I wore my hair as short as yours I'd look like a fuzzy basketball. And I'm not even exaggerating.
Dear Twiggy,
That all-nighter was fun! I loved that part where I got up to hang out with you and you hid. Since you know I really only need 3 hours of sleep, let's do it again real soon.
Oh, and don't even think about sleeping all day today. I think we need to play more. See how fun it is? Playing instead of sleeping is good.
Can't believe I still was motivated to ride after only 3 hours sleep. It saved my day for sure. Cycling is one of the few things I can do fairly well sleep deprived. However, I will save doing my taxes for another day.
Thanks marni, crankin, and becky! You all rock! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Becky
Actually, my stylist cut my hair a lot shorter than she usually does, and I didn't ask her to. She was on meds for a busted ankle, and I think she was a bit loopy as she did some other kinda crazy things too, like scheduling my next appt. for 4pm when I always come at noon. I guess I'm lucky I didn't come out of there with a mohawk!
So, I'm actually not really sure I like my hair this short either, but I still don't think anyone who doesn't like it should so much as open their mouth. It's just plain rude, like asking someone if they've gained weight. I just HATE it when people comment on my appearance unless it's positive -keep it to yerself! :mad:
I work with a bunch of engineers, who aren't known for being socially savvy, and this guy is definitely typical geek. Minimal social skills.
Short hair ROCKS! And you need to post pics of the new do.Quote:
Originally Posted by emily_in_nc
SheFly (with less than 2" and ready for a haircut)
Enough already. This is a VERY bad April Fool's joke. Two weeks ago it was 70 degrees and now this. Please let Spring arrive.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LX2juPNfTc...0/IMG_4158.JPG
SheFly
As much as you have my sympathies, shefly, that is a gorgeous stand of trees! I just love it when the snow is heavy on every branch.
And once it melts off the branches, it can all just go away, thankyew very much!