What bums you?  Talk about it.

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I am not looking forward to tomorrow-- my grandmother's funeral-- for 
reasons of the living, actually.  See also the Winter bummed item.

The divorce goes on.  (My wife is divorcing me.)  It's time to enter a 
new item about it.

We had our last practice for the club hockey team today.  Relieved as I am to
not be in charge of it all (tm) anymore, I'm now gonna be bored and hockey-
less for the next six months, except on Sundays.  Time to look into a summer
league.

my pool game is really off right now and i have a big tournament sunday and
monday.

IBB I went to bake a cake and was so tired afterwards, I thought I 
would take a nap, but missed the timer and burned the cake.  Not so 
bad a loss because we had an extra cake mix, but still, waste of a 
perfectly good cake.

IBB All Songs Considered does not actually list the songs sampled during All
Things Considered.  Of course, even if it did, it probably wouldn't help
because the sample I want to identify was part of Morning Edition.

oval, where is the tourney? 

I need to find a new job.  I don't know how the company I am working for is
going to stay in business another month.  I went to the job fair this lat
monday and there were several hundred people there talking to the less than
20 organizations looking to hire people.  I was toldf by one person at a local
hospitl connected to a local university that unless I was a nurse, there was
little hopeof getting a job with them unless I knew someone who worked there
and could get me an in.

makes me think the same is true for the local university they are affiliated
with.

How about the non-university hospital?  

In reference to the happy item, I did NOT enjoy how I felt today.  I never
thought a human being could feel so sad.  Now I know where "heartbreak" comes
from.

gelinas in resp:7 :: to find tunes used as "bumpers" in weekday 
All Things Considered and Morning Edition shows, look at the 
section of those shows' web pages where they list every story 
played, in order.  Between the story descriptions are detailed 
listings of the tune snippets.  (The link on the Morning Edition
page is called, "Experience By Segment.")

got some very bad news about a very close friend.  I don't have the 
whole story yet, but I'm really worried about them.

IBB I didn't end up getting the super cool combinatorics research summer
internship thing I was looking at.  

Guess what else that means?  I get to take summer classes.

<goes and sulks>

The head of Ann Arbor Solid Waste, who said he was working on changing city
laws to prevent the newspaper companies from trashing people's properties,
sent me a summary of proposed new legislation (open for public debate April
15).  It essentially requires delivery companies to toss onto lawns instead of
extensions or public sidewalks, and fines the victims if they do not remove
unwanted papers from their lawns, rather than the perpetrators who are
throwing them there.  
This would accomplish the solid waste department's goal of not seeing trash
in people's yards and on sidewalks (it does not say what happens if the
delivery companies keep throwing it on sidewalks) but does not stop the people
who are throwing the trash there from continuing to throw it.

Ain't democracy wonderful!  You asked them to change the laws, and they came
up with a change!  

tsty - it's at my local pub.

Re 16, if they enforced existing laws they would not need new ones.
I wrote asking who they plan to bill for cleanup if the newsprint ends up on
the sidewalk or extension.  One of my neighbors throws his Tuesday trash there
every week hoping the city will take it away the next trash day.  And pointed
out that it is already illegal to leave trash in your yard and to throw it
there in the first place but nobody is enforcing those laws.

Re 12:  Thank you, Ken.  Looks like the song I heard was "Java" by Floyd
Cramer.

IBB I am sick.  What a way to end a week.

Crappy gig last night.  Drummer was mostly to blame.

Going off the medication I was on that caused me to be chronically depressed
is now making me go into withdrawal--i.e., more depression.  This *sucks*.

IBB when I went to practice roller-blading yesterday, I was missing the 
most important piece of safety gear: my helmet.  Thus, I used an extra 
truckload of caution yesterday.

IBB Jon's cold makes him snore REAL LOUD!

IBB my roomies cat went into heat before she got it fixed.  We now have a
very noisey cat wandering the apartment.

We have 4 poor little kitties taking turns going into heat.  The 2 guys get
fixed Thursday.  At least 2 of the girls will be done in a couple weeks with
the other 2 done next month, unless we eat peanut butter and get all 4 done
at the same time.

Beans are much cheaper than peanut butter.  You could do 6 at once.

<is having mental images of South Park cat-in-heat clips>
I think I've gone through half a bottle of st john's wort in the past three
weeks.  I'm sorely tempted to go get an actual prescription, except that I'm
convinced that the original problem is medicine-related and should be back
to normal any day now.  It truly sucks in the meantime, though--I can't 
even get friends to distract me because I don't trust myself to refrain
from random and unforgivable comments.

well ibb i lost last night in the second round. i did beat the first guy, but
lost to the second guy (#1). oh well.

resp:24  sorry about that.  I *hate* being sick =P

This is the best relationship I've ever had, and Dave is the only one I will
ever want, but it's sooooo hard to remain strong while we work on his issues.
He does not want it to end, and neither do I, but part of him sabotages
happiness when he achieves it.  This is taking tons of strength from both of
us, and I'm scared I'm going to lose him again before we can come up with a
solution.

I'm doing lots of research and application since he refuses to take medicine
(even St. John's Wort).  His reasoning is that it will change who he is.

Must remain strong.  The pain is worth it.

sarah why does he need to take medication>?
is he suffering from depression>?

I understand sabotaging happiness when it's achieved.  For me, it was 
fear of loss of control-- fear that another mood swing was coming on.  
Upswings of mania are very infrequent in my case (bipolar type II with 
rapid cycling), and I found them frightening.  Plus, it was difficult 
for me to be socially astute when I was up.  I babbled a lot, trying 
to nervously work my way through difficult encounters with people.  
Depression, which was much more often, seemed safer.  I could 
withdraw, and well, people don't mind that so much.  Really.

I understand his fear, but if med treatment is right, he's looking at 
this externally.  If it's done right, the true person inside should be 
able to come through.  My own mother swore up and down that she knew 
me better than I knew myself, and when I was on meds, she claimed she 
didn't know me anymore.  My father and I knew better than that.

but.. this is just my own experience and opinion.  Your mileage may 
vary.

IBB
Cause I took a nasty fall with my racing bike last Friday, doing 20 mp/h
Apparently some no good-let's harass-cyclists type of person had placed 
a fist sized rock on the biking track. 
I only noticed it when I was on top of it.
My handelbar made 90 degree turn and I plumitted to the ground.
In doing so I collided with my biking friend Daniel, whom as a result
fractured hos elbow.
As for me: lots of bruises and abbrasions. Biking clothing torn,
but my bike survived faily well.

Ouch.

Re #34- ouch.. that doesn't sound good. I'm glad you got off so lightly 
though. :)

I am very surprised to hear that there are anti-bike vandals in the
Netherlands.

IBB I went into MSN chat where my handle is "StoriesGalore" and was 
asked for pornographic stories by a total fo three people and 
constantly pestered by soem girl who couldn't take the hint that I was 
busy.

I don't tell porno stories but I WAS in the middle of the story of How 
Thor once had to Dress in Drag and I DETEST being interrupted in the 
middle of a tell.

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