Time to pack up, go home

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Fri Aug 6 08:29:20 CDT 2010


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKQcx1jzn4k

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...but you fail nobly?  something like that...
>
> hope everything works out for the best.  In this world it's amazing
> when there's any abatement of anxiety...
> hoping that you get your overdue share soon!
>
> I suppose it might be worth mentioning, I personally am unbelievably
> calm lately due to this buffered,
> effervescent Vitamin C, the Walgreen generic, which I substitute for
> every other cup of coffee or so...
>
> Linus Pauling.  2 Nobel Prizes. Lived to 90 something.  Vitamin C fan.
>  Think about it...
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:
>>> It appears that we are on a group fool's mission, or fools' group misssion.
>>> Why bother with V. or anything else literary? 2010 brings us, to quote a
>>> Greek lady of some renown, "Death, death, death."
>>
>> I fluffed the opening date for my hosting stint, and, as "my" computer
>> was trojanned almost immediately thereafter, I've been dependent on my
>> roommate's laptop, and a not-entirely-reliable connection which has
>> lost me more than a few attempted posts here.  I'm okay firing off
>> quick messages/responses, but ...
>>
>> Normally, I'd've stockpiled stuff ahead of time, but i thought my time
>> was a couple of weeks later than it actually was.  My life has been
>> changed drastically over the past year or so, and even more so since
>> this spring, and I've had all sorts of demands placed on me in the
>> past week or two that I didn't anticipate as well.  My time is still
>> not my own, even if nobody's actually paying me for it anymore ...
>>
>> But that being said, I've some commitments over the next couple of
>> evenings, but am trying--amidst hunting down a couple/three hundred
>> bucks worth of missing mail, dealing with boxes of possibly flood
>> damaged stuff people had been storing for me, and an anxiety attack
>> which I've been suffering since this past winter, among other
>> things--to get something up tonight, then get through the chapter over
>> the next couple/three days.  Move on if the time comes, but I'll keep
>> @ it ...
>>
>> Sorry, if there's on thing i know about myself, it's that i'll always
>> fail, but ...
>>
>



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