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20843. judithathome - 1/8/2007 8:46:34 PM I posted this elsewhere and didn't think I do any better job of telling it than I did so I'm copying it here, too:
Yesterday Keoni and I were puttering about the house and I had the radio on NPR. Suddenly I noticed there was violin music on and it was exceedingly irritating violin music, more like deranged "fiddle" music and I suggested Keoni turn it off...thinking he was in the kitchen where the radio is.
The music kept playing and I was beside myself...this stuff was worse than Chinese water torture...it was very fast paced and frantic Irish folk music.
Now I know some people love this stuff but my brain was not receptive to it at all. Maybe it's the sinus infection setting up on the right side of my head or maybe it's just that this music bores into my brain like a dentist's drill in the movie Marathion Man ...but suddenly I found myself running into the kitchen and slamming the button that turns the radio on and off. Keoni walks into the room about then and sees me gripping the counter and breathing heavily and asks what's wrong.
I explain in great detail and even flip the radio back on to shw him an example of the torturous, fiendish music and he says "I didn't even notice it" and blithely walks off. 20844. PelleNilsson - 1/8/2007 9:26:09 PM Irish music is generally horrible. 20845. judithathome - 1/8/2007 11:17:40 PM It's maddening. 20846. thoughtful - 1/8/2007 11:18:31 PM Not surprising....women are more tuned to higher pitched noises...maybe from millennia of child care where we are more sensitive to babies crying and such. I have to be very careful of any kind of violin music I listen to as I too can be irritated out of my skin...it can be worse than nails on a chalk board. Other women I know have mentioned this as well. 20847. judithathome - 1/9/2007 12:11:01 AM Good to know...I thought I was just going insane.
Keoni got a key chain gizmo from someone which is supposed to find your keys for you if you have mislaid them (ha! like everyday) and he set it up and then couldn't get it to work when we whistle.
We walked into the living room last night to see Harley up on this shelf that has two 100 year old Japanese saki cups on little stands on it and I shrieked...and the key chaim gizmo started beeping.
So I guess my shrieking would drive me insane, too...I already know it does that to Keoni. 20848. thoughtful - 1/9/2007 12:24:53 AM Hahahha!
Maybe you have to be like a couple with a toddler and 'cat proof' your house!
They do grow out of that kind of stuff eventually.
I remember when cas was a young'un and we'd come home every evening to a trail of toilet paper dragged all over the house. Fortunately he outgrew that one quickly. 20849. wabbit - 1/9/2007 3:53:16 PM With my cats, it has always been Qtips. I came home once to find them strewn throughout the house, maybe 300 of them, trailing from the bathroom, through the bedroom, down the hall, down the stairs, throughout the living room and dining room, finally petering out near the front door. It was a riot. And the perpetrator was sitting happily in the middle of a small pile of about 20 Qtips, chewing away on one, very pleased with herself.
Qtips are now kept on a high shelf in the bathroom closet. 20850. wonkers2 - 1/9/2007 8:04:21 PM Cats do like q-tips. Our cat fishes them out of the waste basket. 20851. Magoseph - 1/9/2007 10:20:41 PM After walking the wind behind me for twenty minutes, I decided to come back and the vicious wind caught me full face, bosom, and legs and seriously froze me so that I had to take a hot bath. I can't believe that I didn't check the temperature before setting out and didn't wear a warmer coat.
Anyway, at least now I can walk better and my back pain isn't so intense.
20852. judithathome - 1/10/2007 1:20:26 AM Good to hear, Magos! 20853. prolph - 1/10/2007 6:41:10 AM emesis
umm how did you choose your name?
I have been enjoying Great Courses which offers many subjects on dvd.
I started with the iliad since it is a favorite thinking ok tell me something I don't know. The lectures are given by professors and I learned a lot,
Alas I have no greek but the lecturer did including other scholars' translations,
I am now wathing philosophy and reminded of William Janes' coment on the subject--Philosopy is like going into a black room looking for a black car which isn't there,
20854. Magoseph - 1/10/2007 1:50:04 PM Patsy, I'm far from being as ambitious as you're--right now I'm reading Gore Vidal's series of historical novels. Character studies are more the type of reading I like these days. 20855. wonkers2 - 1/10/2007 5:47:40 PM Glad your back is better. Gore Vidal brings history back to life. 20856. judithathome - 1/10/2007 10:21:47 PM You want history brought to life, watch the History Channel's Building an Empire series currently running every week...Peter Weller hosts and he's a much better history buff than actor. In fact, he went back to college and got a Masters in Art History from Syracuse University in 2003...he did most of his work in Florence, Italy and his enthusiasm for the subject is amazing...he makes this more than just a dry history lesson.
We;re loving this series and watch it every week. 20857. prolph - 1/11/2007 2:46:48 AM william james said a blac k CAT, patsy said car and i thought i had previewed. sorry, 20858. arkymalarky - 1/11/2007 5:48:58 AM Now that I am finally done with my big project (turned in today) and courses where required reading has taken up a lot of time, I'm going to start by picking up FINALLY Guns, Germs, and Steel, which I've wanted to read since the discussions here. Several colleagues have read it and loved it. I got half-way through Language Instinct and hope to finish it, too. I've got a lot of others I want to read and re-read, but that won't start until I'm officially done with all but one class, in mid-May.
I've read more in the last several years than I ever have in huge chunks and in a plow-through fashion, but legislation and research usually somehow just aren't that satisfying--fascinating, but not like treating myself to downtime the way a good book (fiction or non-) does--especially when I'm having to use them to write masses of papers for school and education activism. The project I turned in was about 100 pages of text, forms, etc.
We have a full semester ahead of us on my job for numerous reasons, and I have to do a research project (not exactly a thesis, but I won't know until I meet with the Dept. Chair) and take one night class, but I'm hoping it will all be well behind me/us by spring break.
Right now I'm so glad just to be chilling, it's all I plan to do through the three-day weekend, so I don't know yet if I'll pick up anything to read or not. I ought to get stuff to listen to on my commute, but I find I want to listen to music (usually loud music, but sometimes really low-key stuff) more than anything else. I haven't turned on the tv since around early October. The computer has been my one time-related indulgence, since I've had to be on it so much anyway. 20859. arkymalarky - 1/11/2007 5:51:14 AM I read it to Bob as "cat." My dad has really been into William James the last few years. 20860. judithathome - 1/11/2007 6:37:24 AM Got a call tonight from my son's stepdaughter...she was at the ER with my son who was sent there by the doctor this afternoon due to his blood pressure being so high. Sonnie said she'd just found out when she stopped by his house tonight and his house guest told her where he was.
I could have beaned my kid for not calling anyone...by the time he saw her and told her to call me, the doctor was there signing his release. So we didn't go see him because he was given a sedative to take when he got home and told to rest...seems he decided he felt better NOT taking his BP pills so he just stopped them. I hope this scared some sense into him. 20861. judithathome - 1/11/2007 6:38:59 AM Arks, glad to hear you got that massive paper in on time. It'll all be worth it...this summer, you'll be laughing about how easy it all was! 20862. thoughtful - 1/11/2007 3:29:14 PM j@h...sorry to hear about the scare.
I don't know what it is...I know so many people who said well, my bp is normal so i don't need these pills anymore...never once thinking that the reason why their bp is normal is BECAUSE they are taking their pills.
Also, there are lots of bp pills out there, so if one is giving you side effects you don't like, ask about another. My ma recently switched hers as the old one was giving her a chronic dry cough. With the new one, she doesn't get that.
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