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Nuffing yet. The anxiety is literally making me dizzy at this point. Probably shouldn't have had coffee this morning.
My iBook freezes/crashes every 5 minutes. Macs aren't supposed to do that. 
| QUOTE (Cathy @ Feb 7 2005, 07:33 AM) |
| My iBook freezes/crashes every 5 minutes. Macs aren't supposed to do that. |
Cathy, e-mail me if you like for possible tech support.
| QUOTE (Heather @ Feb 7 2005, 01:56 PM) | ||
Ew. Who was the perpetrator? |
Chris heard his (The futureheads?) and thought it was really good!
Thanks, Tana. I'm embarrassed to say I probably screwed it up myself, installing some new memory a month or so ago.
| QUOTE (Ron Johnson @ Feb 7 2005, 08:53 AM) |
| The term "dynasty" |
Yes, even for a NE fan like moi. Stupid. Now, the Ming Dynasty, that was an awesome dynasty.
| QUOTE (GG Mora @ Feb 6 2005, 03:54 PM) |
| The corporation that I contract my services to was handed down an emergency spending freeze two weeks ago, and while I survived the first-of-year budget cuts, I'm not so confident about this freeze. I'll find out tomorrow morning. I'm trying very hard not to spend the day paralyzed by anxiety but so far I've spent most of the day paralyzed by anxiety. |
See Reasons To Be Cheerful.
Great news, GG. 
Calling my dermatologist's office to make an appointment and being told the next available time slot is on March 10. I'm glad there's nothing seriously wrong with me. 
| QUOTE (Daisy @ Feb 7 2005, 02:47 PM) |
| Calling my dermatologist's office to make an appointment and being told the next available time slot is on March 10. I'm glad there's nothing seriously wrong with me. |
When was the last time you tried to schedule a mammogram? Unbelievable.
| QUOTE (omnivorette @ Feb 7 2005, 02:54 PM) | ||
When was the last time you tried to schedule a mammogram? Unbelievable. |
Yeah. Last time I called for one of those they just laughed and hung up on me.
No money in mammos.
IIRC I was told that the reimb is $7 
I've been listening to football talk since I got into work at 8:15. In 2 and a half hours my boss and 3 other people have done NOTHING else. And I was so happy that the season was over so that I would no longer have to listen to the half hour daily fantasy football pick update .
Wouldn't you think that it would be possible to buy a decent piece of non-farm raised salmon in Whole Foods????? Well the answer is NO
I'm sick -- again. This has been a really bad winter.
| QUOTE (Rose @ Feb 8 2005, 10:52 AM) |
| Wouldn't you think that it would be possible to buy a decent piece of non-farm raised salmon in Whole Foods????? Well the answer is NO |
Citarella. Got some very nice wild salmon from NZ there last weekend. of course, it was $17 a pound.
People who pronounce nuclear as "new-cue-lar".
The first time I bought the NZ salmon from Citarella it was perfect. I first cured it then slow roasted it. The next week, I bought it again. This time it was disappointingly fishy. I wish Citarella were more reliable.
| QUOTE (Nancy S. @ Feb 8 2005, 01:26 PM) |
| I wish Citarella were more reliable. |
Yes.
I'll keep my hat on. Thanks. http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wi...world-headlines
Am home sick with some kind of unidentifiable illness--coughing, aches, and low-grade fever. I hope it doesn't turn into the flu.
Me too. My sinuses are so clogged I can hardly hear out of my left ear.
My sinuses are so clogged I can hardly hear out of my left ear.
Oh yuck.
Well I have a rash on my face. Serves me right for using some mask I bought in Polish - the packaging is entirely in Polish but hey, it looked cool.
Well I have a rash on my face. Serves me right for using some mask I bought in Polish - the packaging is entirely in Polish but hey, it looked cool.
Hacking cough that will not go away. I sound like I should be in the tubercular ward.
Having to roll truffles out of someone else's fucked-up ganache and not being allowed to make new ganache.
When another attorney comes into my office to ask me a question about an area of law about which I possess no knowledge, and when I tell this person I don't know the answer he proceeds to sit down in my office so that we can discuss it at length.
Maybe this should go under the Hey Asshole thread?
Maybe this should go under the Hey Asshole thread?
| QUOTE (StephanieL @ Feb 10 2005, 07:57 AM) |
| Hacking cough that will not go away. I sound like I should be in the tubercular ward. |
I hope you feel better soon, Stephanie. I had that cough for three weeks, and was coughing so hard I almost passed out. The only thing that seemed to help was drowing myself in hot herbal "tea."
| QUOTE (omnivorette @ Feb 9 2005, 06:16 PM) |
| Oh yuck. Well I have a rash on my face. Serves me right for using some mask I bought in Polish - the packaging is entirely in Polish but hey, it looked cool. |
Oh my God. This sounds exactly like something I would do.
| QUOTE (tanabutler @ Feb 10 2005, 04:58 PM) | ||
I hope you feel better soon, Stephanie. I had that cough for three weeks, and was coughing so hard I almost passed out. The only thing that seemed to help was drowing myself in hot herbal "tea." |
If you can get a doctor to prescribe it, get Hycodan. It stops coughing better than any drug I have ever taken. Unfortunately it's really hard to get a prescription as it contains codeine (I take it in half-pill doses and I don't get high or anything weird- I just stop coughing and I can sleep through the night.)
feel better!
http://www.rxmed.com/b.main/b2.pharmaceuti...H)/HYCODAN.html
My doctor has just diagnosed my current state of misery as the flu. Apparently, I'm going to be feeling this way for another 4 days. I want to shoot myself.
This should be a fun meeting.
Good thing I left my WMD at home.
And away I go.
Good thing I left my WMD at home.
And away I go.
| QUOTE (Tamar G @ Feb 10 2005, 12:29 PM) | ||||
If you can get a doctor to prescribe it, get Hycodan. It stops coughing better than any drug I have ever taken. Unfortunately it's really hard to get a prescription as it contains codeine (I take it in half-pill doses and I don't get high or anything weird- I just stop coughing and I can sleep through the night.) feel better! http://www.rxmed.com/b.main/b2.pharmaceuti...H)/HYCODAN.html |
You should be able to get a prescription for codeine-containing cough syrup without much fuss. There's one that also contains a good expectorant, which is important to clearing the crud from your lungs. Either way, codeine is the only way to stop the coughing and a sympathetic doctor shouldn't have a hard time with that.
My heart goes out to all of you who are sick. I just hope you each have someone to play nursey, since the only thing worse than being miserably sick is being miserably sick and all alone.
I quit my job yesterday in a fit of fury. Then, I reluctantly let myself be talked into unquitting, which I already regret. I was in such a bad mood last night that when a good friend called with an extra ticket to the ballet, I declined.
| QUOTE (GG Mora @ Feb 10 2005, 01:29 PM) | ||||||
You should be able to get a prescription for codeine-containing cough syrup without much fuss. There's one that also contains a good expectorant, which is important to clearing the crud from your lungs. Either way, codeine is the only way to stop the coughing and a sympathetic doctor shouldn't have a hard time with that. My heart goes out to all of you who are sick. I just hope you each have someone to play nursey, since the only thing worse than being miserably sick is being miserably sick and all alone. |
Hmm...I have some Tylenol with codeine left over from my surgery. Maybe I should take those, since I'm not planning a trip to the doctor unless this gets worse. What I really need is Tussionex, one of those codeine-laced cough syrups that always worked wonders. And what I really need is a suppressant--I've been doing plenty of expectorating, thanks.
I asked at the drugstore for an oxymoron: an expectorant and cough suppressent. They sold me something that had just been approved for OTC sales. It did not work at all, and I took it back. I tried a few other things, and wish I'd have thought of codeine.
I used to get mad when I got sick. Now I just tell myself that A) my body is cleaning itself out of all that cheese; B) my immune system is flexing itself, which is a good thing. I don't want to be one of those "I never got sick a day in my life" people who die of cancer of the everything because they never got sick a day in their lives. When I went through a box of Kleenex in two days, I kept saying, "Good work!" to my body. It hurt like hell, though.
Noting codeine for the future. (Thanks, GG.)
I used to get mad when I got sick. Now I just tell myself that A) my body is cleaning itself out of all that cheese; B) my immune system is flexing itself, which is a good thing. I don't want to be one of those "I never got sick a day in my life" people who die of cancer of the everything because they never got sick a day in their lives. When I went through a box of Kleenex in two days, I kept saying, "Good work!" to my body. It hurt like hell, though.
Noting codeine for the future. (Thanks, GG.)
This may be sort of gross, but whenever I get the kind of sickness that requires boxes of Kleenex, I use cotton handkerchiefs instead. You can't imagine how much nicer it is to your skin. You know that awful, red chapped-nose “I've got a wicked cold” look? Not with cotton hankies.
| QUOTE (GG Mora @ Feb 10 2005, 03:18 PM) |
| This may be sort of gross, but whenever I get the kind of sickness that requires boxes of Kleenex, I use cotton handkerchiefs instead. You can't imagine how much nicer it is to your skin. You know that awful, red chapped-nose “I've got a wicked cold” look? Not with cotton hankies. |
That's not gross; that's what handkerchiefs are for.
I am not yet quite foppish enough to use silk handkerchiefs for that purpose, but I aspire.
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Feb 10 2005, 09:58 PM) |
| I am not yet quite foppish enough to use silk handkerchiefs for that purpose, but I aspire. |
They're also pretty useful when you perspire.
| QUOTE (macrosan @ Feb 10 2005, 04:51 PM) | ||
They're also pretty useful when you perspire. |
As an aside, what is the youngest age at which a man can begin affecting a pocket square without qualifying himself as a young fogey?
| QUOTE (macrosan @ Feb 10 2005, 04:51 PM) |
| They're also pretty useful when you perspire. |
You mean "glow"?
How old is Wilf ?
| QUOTE (macrosan @ Feb 10 2005, 01:59 PM) |
| How old is Wilf ? |
How old does he aspire to be?
| QUOTE (GG Mora @ Feb 10 2005, 12:18 PM) |
| This may be sort of gross, but whenever I get the kind of sickness that requires boxes of Kleenex, I use cotton handkerchiefs instead. You can't imagine how much nicer it is to your skin. You know that awful, red chapped-nose “I've got a wicked cold” look? Not with cotton hankies. |
I know what you mean, but I did not have that red-nosed appearance. Things were moving in a hurry, what can I say? (I do have cotton hankies for those occasions, though.)
| QUOTE (GG Mora @ Feb 10 2005, 03:18 PM) |
| This may be sort of gross, but whenever I get the kind of sickness that requires boxes of Kleenex, I use cotton handkerchiefs instead. You can't imagine how much nicer it is to your skin. You know that awful, red chapped-nose “I've got a wicked cold” look? Not with cotton hankies. |
I've discovered the best tissue to prevent a chapped nose -- Kleenex Lotion Tissues with aloe and vitamin E. Today's day 4 of the flu, I've gone through 2 boxes of tissues and my nose isn't irritated yet.
You could probably also use those alcohol (witch hazel?) baby wipes if you could take the alcohol smell.
| QUOTE (bloviatrix @ Feb 10 2005, 05:57 PM) | ||
I've discovered the best tissue to prevent a chapped nose -- Kleenex Lotion Tissues with aloe and vitamin E. Today's day 4 of the flu, I've gone through 2 boxes of tissues and my nose isn't irritated yet. |
I smear a thin layer of Vaseline above my upper lip at regular intervals. Sounds odd but it really helps.
Eyebrows got a b'day present from somebody: 2 tickets to Billy Crystal's one-man show on B'way. I am so sure I'll hate it, but we can't not go. Maybe I'll be proven wrong. Ugh.
I wish it were Carl Reiner or Sid Caesar.
I wish it were Carl Reiner or Sid Caesar.
Same day round trip to Minneapolis - $600
Or stay in a nice hotel and return the next morning for a total of $360
I agree that the value of a night in minneapolis is negative, but this is still annoying.
Or stay in a nice hotel and return the next morning for a total of $360
I agree that the value of a night in minneapolis is negative, but this is still annoying.
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