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7228. wonkers2 - 1/11/2008 9:53:46 PM A lot of Wall Streeters apparently are blind in one eye and can't see out of the other, as my grandfather used to say. 7229. thoughtful - 1/11/2008 10:22:46 PM I've decided I'm insane.
Is it just me, or does everyone find themselves obsessing over the slightest incident of which you're sure was totally meaningless and is completely forgotten by the other person and yet seems to dwell inexorably on your mind?
And if so, how does one go about extricating oneself from it.
I remember reading a hint one time about getting a song stuck in one's head...the way to eliminate it is to play the song in your mind all the way through to the end and wrapping it up with a most elaborate and flourishing ending. I've found that to work swimmingly. 7230. judithathome - 1/11/2008 11:27:03 PM Is it just me, or does everyone find themselves obsessing over the slightest incident of which you're sure was totally meaningless and is completely forgotten by the other person and yet seems to dwell inexorably on your mind?
I used to do this and invent all sorts of reactions from the other person until one day, I confronted an old boyfriend about what he MUST be thinking about some insignificant thing that was said and he MUST have interpreted it this certain way. He looked at me as though I were insane and said "Never in a million years would I have thought that...it just never would have occurred to me to think something like that!" and I realized my mind worked on a much more complex plane that did his...
So I started to apply this to everything and I'm a much more relaxed person today as a result of this particular enlightenment.
7231. alistairConnor - 1/11/2008 11:34:27 PM Yeah just enjoy your superiority... I'm of the oblivious persuasion. 7232. arkymalarky - 1/12/2008 12:00:04 AM I sometimes do that, Thoughtful, partly because I'm such a mouth. Before Christmas I was getting ready for the kids' finals, seeing who was missing what work, talking to kids individually, etc, in a fairly large class. I looked up and there was my principal at the back of the room. I had no idea how long she'd been there. I wasn't worried about kids all over the place or what was going on--all I could think about was what I'd been saying, and I couldn't remember. I'm always making remarke that have a little bite to them in ways that invoke the things the principal says. I like her, but it's just my way. So as soon as she left I asked the kids what I said, and they told me I didn't say anything or imitate her or anything mortifying. I still worry about it a bit and wonder if she's acting the same way with me.
One of my good friends at work thought this was hilarious, because I always make fun of her over how jumpy she is about the principal. I'm not jumpy about her, but that doesn't mean I feel good about making snarky humor echoing stuff she always says when she's sitting right there. 7233. judithathome - 1/12/2008 4:59:58 AM I realized my mind worked on a much more complex plane that did his...
Alistair, I realize that might have come off as sounding "superior" but trust me, I didn't date this dude for his intellect. He looked like a marble statue of David and was about as smart.
7234. thoughtful - 1/14/2008 3:05:55 PM Thanks, ladies. Great comfort in knowing at least i'm not beyond the norm...of course that means nothing about whether or not the norm is insane.
:)
Thanks for the advice, J@h, I'm sure you're right.
7235. robertjayb - 1/15/2008 10:26:58 PM Majority favors mandatory medical coverage...
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - As health care generates debate in this year's presidential campaign, about 68 percent of Americans say individuals should be required to have medical insurance, with government help for those who cannot afford it, a survey released on Tuesday found.
According to the survey by The Commonwealth Fund, an independent foundation working toward health policy reform, health insurance mandates were supported by 80 percent of Democrats, 52 percent of Republicans and 68 percent of Independents...
7236. concerned - 1/16/2008 8:31:53 AM Gay sex is now being blamed for the spread of the flesh eating bacteria MRSA, as well as AIDS.
Just another reason that the average gay life span is something like 43 years. 7237. concerned - 1/16/2008 8:36:02 AM Getting tens of millions of people killed for no good reason does not fall under the purview of 'tolerance' in my book. 7238. concerned - 1/16/2008 8:39:53 AM OTOH, as long as gays keep their diseases in their bedrooms, I'm more than eager to stay out of their boudoirs. But the problem is that they are not keeping their diseases in their bedrooms.
They have a nasty way of killing many millions of non consenting adults. 7239. concerned - 1/16/2008 9:15:29 AM "SF" "gay" "epicenter" "virulent staphylococcus"
Any of this mean anything to anybody here?
Of course this is all the Republicans' fault. 7240. judithathome - 1/16/2008 3:39:31 PM Gay sex is now being blamed for the spread of the flesh eating bacteria MRSA, as well as AIDS.
They have a nasty way of killing many millions of non consenting adults.
Of course this is all the Republicans' fault.
I'd like a cite for the first statement.
And I love how you skip from "they" to "Republicans" in such a short leap...yoy should join the ballet with jumps like those!
Of course, the Republicans sent our troops off to die by the thousands in Iraq and THAT'S okay...no fault there. At least from you. I guess because all those tropps were consenting? The old "we who are about to die salute you" canard....
7241. wonkers2 - 1/16/2008 6:30:21 PM Concerned, the spread of MRSA, STDs and HIVs, in case you haven't noticed, are not confined to gay sex. I seem to recall reading somewhere that heterosexual activity is a major source of the transmission of HIV. 7242. wonkers2 - 1/16/2008 6:31:50 PM Next, you'll probably be blaming Katrina and global warming on gay sex. Oh, I forgot--your're a global warming denier. Sorry! 7243. concerned - 1/16/2008 7:57:10 PM No, you didn't 'forget'. You're deluded. I in no way deny global climate change. 7244. wonkers2 - 1/16/2008 9:15:05 PM Okay, sorry. 7245. wonkers2 - 1/16/2008 10:57:17 PM Also, I mostly retract my post about MRSA and gays. I just heard a report on NPR about concern over MRSA spreading in San Francisco and other big cities in the gay community and others. 7246. wonkers2 - 1/16/2008 11:18:46 PM However, I wonder why you and so many in the lunatic conservative community are so preoccupied with gay health issues. You don't seem to be sincerely "concerned" about it as you might be about Alzheimer's or whooping cough among children or some other epidemic? You and others of your ilk hardly miss an opportunity to take a poke at gays and lesbians. Your carping is about gays is quite unbecoming and casts doubt on your status as an educated, rational and tolerant indivudual. 7247. concerned - 1/17/2008 2:00:24 AM However, I wonder why you and so many in the (unwarranted insult) conservative community are so preoccupied with gay health issues.
Since you're a purportedly rational, thinking individual, I wonder at your apparent ingenuousness here.
The concern here is that sound medical practices are being completely disregarded, or treated as a poor second in importance to frivolous narrowly defined social agendas.
Either you give a fuck about the general well being of society's health or you don't. People who avert their heads regarding STDs when gays are involved because of PC considerations don't, AFAIC.
The gay part of the equation is only a relatively minor part of the whole picture, but should not be selectively ignored.
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