Time to pack up, go home

Ian Livingston igrlivingston at gmail.com
Fri Aug 6 12:24:59 CDT 2010


Right. The only way to fail is to fail to try.

Vitamin C, yes, and B (for the cns), and turmeric
(http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/turmeric-000277.htm). I got all
calm when I woke up one day a little over seven years ago and
discovered I no longer needed caffeine or nicotine after 40 years of
believing those were the two most important vitamins.

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:29 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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