Out of the ER. Now for a very expensive cab ride home so I can call my insurance company and see about getting a rental car so I can stagger in to work tomorrow night. Valium and Motrin FTW.
- teleken
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Thanks - me too. Had time to call my insurance company and order a pizza so I could get something to eat. CAT scan at the ER revealed no cats. :)
- teleken
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Sam has been one of our Special Collections student employees for the past couple of years. He's an amazing young man!
- LB: #TeamMonique
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Wow. What an inspiration. As someone who too-often cut a class for more pressing 'social' commitments, I feel ashamed. Fortunately my children didn't inherent my opportunistic penchant for existential freedom. #IdontKnowWhatThatMeans
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Bumping because when Sam came in to work today, he headed straight for me and said, "Let me give you a hug. I heard about your dog." :)
- LB: #TeamMonique
Generally it's "best before a week or so after this date, but the US is a litigious society, so we are covering our butts". You can tell when yogurt has gone off - it stinks. No stink, you are probably just fine.
- WebGoddess
What brand do you like best? I'm hooked on Chobani!
- Lois: #TeamMonique
I used to buy Fage, but I kept having bad luck and getting ones that had gone bad. I stopped buying them from that one store, but then the other store started it too. So I switched to Chobani.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
I will eat pretty much any of them except for the one that starts with an N. Can't remember the name of it off the top of my head, but it's the only one I've ever eaten that I really don't like.
- WebGoddess
My mother was from Atlantic City if that allows for her use of this acronym. Or having a five year old ask what is a "whore" bath. I will leave the hiney song for another post.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
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Until I read the comments here, I would have assumed the same thing as Soup. I thought it was about the Parent Teacher Association holding a fundraising car-wash. Now that I've seen the comments, though, I realize it's a totally different thing.
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
I guess I could have given some context but it's more interesting this way. :-)
- c.a.j.
from Android
Sending special love to LB and Mr. B today as they make a tough decision about their dog Frodo. The vet discovered that he has a large mass in his stomach and the tumor has spread.
Yes Mary -- You are right! What a year for them! I know they appreciate your thoughts and all the messages FFeeps are sending. xo
- Lois: #TeamMonique
That's so sad, and so hard to struggle with emotionally. You want to keep them with as long as you can, but you also don't want them to suffer. Been there. Thinking of you,LB and Mr. B.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
You've probably seen Laura's update. They decided to have him put down as he was no longer eating. Sad and hard but a very wise decision. Love my Sis and Bro!
- Lois: #TeamMonique
Mother would call the alternative to showering the PTA sink bath. You can figure out the acronym.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
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Janet, my mother says the same thing. that's too funny. also, once I was hanging out with friends for an all-day festival thing,we made a pit stop at my house which was closest so we could all use the bathroom. when I got back in the car my friend said "did you just put some perfume on to cover your stink?" I admitted I had. She says, "you are southern aren't you?" 0_O
- t-ra: not givin up
:( Could you entice him with a touch of cooked chicken throughout his serving?
- Janet:#TeamMonique
We've been mixing in some of Tucker's special food, and that has helped some. While ago I gave him about 1/2 cup of Tucker's food, and I (ETA um, no, FRODO) gobbled it down. Of course. We might have to try some chicken or something.
- LB: #TeamMonique
Boo! Spock is the same way with the dog food Adrian's been buying recently. I usually give him an egg or splash some milk on it and he'll eat it. Sometimes, I have to give him peanut butter of pan leavings to really get him to eat it.
- Anika
Way back when, gravy and carrots would convince my dog that she was dining on the finest gourmet dog chow available. Without gravy and carrots, she'd even ignore a steak. But then, she was a strange dog. Loved kids, women and most men. Hated wingback chairs, lightbulbs and puddles. Loved root vegetables, ignored cats and rabbits. Expert fly-hunter, terrified by her own flatulence. I miss that stupid mutt :-)
- Le Slip Anglais
from Android
German Shepherd, possibly Labrador cross. She was a rescue dog.
- Le Slip Anglais
from Android
Find some inexpensive beef or chicken broth to pour over the food. When Stormie is being picky, this always works for her.
- Friar Ticket to Ride
Cheap powdered parm cheese ... A tiny bit works for us, he can't just eat it and ignore the chow, and it doesn't make the food (my dogs don't seem to like wet kibble)
- Shannon - GlassMistress
I've started to add warm water to their Purina One dog food and they like it alot better.
- Paulette
Well, today we found out the reason Frodo hasn't been eating well is that he has a softball-sized mass in his stomach, and it looks like things have spread to his chest and liver. He's not in any obvious pain, for which I am grateful. But we will be making some tough decisions.
- LB: #TeamMonique
This is the part I HATE about having animals, but I do know I couldn't trade my years of dog kisses, love, etc. for even this one horrible, horrible moment. SUCKS BIG TIME!!!
- Jenny
:( so sorry LB *hugs to ya'll* if you need anything that i can do let me know
- Sir Shuping is just sir
DAMMIT! missed a call from my kid bro in Korea. Why don't I remember that an Unknown Number or Restricted is probably him calling me? Pick up the phone you eediot! Grrr.
Lol. Yes, mommy has hypermesis and has been home for the past month with no end in sight. Other than the constant vomiting everyone is healthy.
- Mary Carmen
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I just saw your pregnancy whine post and I think all of downtown Sac heard me say, "Wait, she's pregnant?" (scroll back scroll back scroll back, find announcement) Wow! Congrats to you and Scott.
- Corinne L
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki..., "Important early 20th century western writers who studied the phenomenon of spirituality, and their works, include William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), and Rudolph Otto, especially The Idea of the Holy (1917). James' notions of "spiritual experience" had a further influence on the modernist streams in Asian traditions, making them even further recognisable for a western audience."
- LB: #TeamMonique
So far, I found the toast I gave to my baby brother in speech class, and my "electronic communications" class wherein I learned to save files and change fonts in WordPerfect 7 during the week labeled "Power tools and system software."
- lris
88 pages of notes from taking my dad's super-scary required course as a sophomore.
- lris
Freshman and Sophomore years done. Only 6 more years to go...
- lris
this is a very good idea. I wonder if I could get my husband to agree to it. At least for the dang Chinese he hasn't looked at in twenty years.
- RepoRat
I'm about to chuck out my notes from undergrad. So long Old Saxon, Middle Dutch, and Middle High German. Well... maybe not Middle Dutch. My translations of Eulenspiegel are hilarious.
- kendrak
I did the same thing years and years ago. Except I didn't scan them first. In many cases, I didn't take them first.
- Steele Lawman
Iris helped me throw mine out a few years go. i haven't missed them a bit
- maʀtha
Every now and then I go through all my stuff and toss a little more. There are some things I'm glad I've kept, but most are just food for silverfish.
- Deborah Fitchett
steve, if i find the notebook of the nazi history class i took where you can clearly see where i fell asleep each week, i'll scan a page. i eventually gave up towards the end.
- kendrak
"Food for silverfish" is going to be my new nasty epithet
- maʀtha
you people don't move often enough if you've still got that stuff.
- DJF
i'm still in the same apartment i lived in when i took some of those classes!
- kendrak
I threw out most of my notes from college and grad school. In fact, I remember burning physics notes.
- Laura H.
Oh yes, I had a burning notes party with some of my friends from my math class. Good times. :-)
- lris
I had no idea people kept notes. I rarely kept them in class. (Hello, soulmate Steve!)
- barbara fister
To be fair, I was a theatre major and spent most of my time pretending I was a lion or pretending I knew how to use a pneumatic nail gun, or something like that. Can't put that kind of real-world experience in a binder.
- Steele Lawman
All I have from my formal education is my undergrad dissertation, my Masters dissertation, and a few notes from my library course.
- Pete #TeamMonique
Who would win in a fight, a giant silverfish with a binder in each claw, or a lion with a nail gun?
- Jason P
I used to take all my notes home and dump them in my childhood bedroom. That backfired when my mom made me bring them all home with me when I moved them to La Crosse. I spent a long weekend reliving most of college, which brought down the amount of paperwork considerably. Still need to plug in my scanner and get the rest of it digitized.
- Hedgehog
DJF, I moved 14 times in 10 years, and I still have all that crap.
- laura x
The last time (15 years ago or more) that I had to scan important documents, the OCR capability proved pretty marginal. I'm guessing that they've improved substantially? At the time I mostly just tossed stuff, cases and cases of stuff, because we were moving from Seattle to the Twin Cities and my spouse said "No way we're moving all of that crap." Haven't missed it since.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
And yes, the silverfish factor played a role in my decision.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
It's been a lot of fun looking at some of this stuff again. Who knows if I'll look at it ever again, but maybe in another 10 or 15 years I'll page through again and have another nostalgia fest.
- lris
my eternal problem is figuring out what undergrad English texts to keep or give away. Even though I don't really like classic literature, I'm always so conflicted about "but it's Norton's Anthology of [whatever], it's classic!"
- MontglaneChess
Oh yeah. I still have my Nortons. I will NEVER read them. Even if I want to read things in them, I'd read them in separate volumes.
- lris
What barbara sez. Class over: Notes gone.
- Walt Crawford
Burning math and physics notes. Blasphemy, I tell ya.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
Burning chemistry notes, on the other hand, seems entirely appropriate. Even better if you could get them to explode or dissolve somehow.
- Steele Lawman
I took notes in lecture/exam courses but not really in discussion/project courses. I kept all my papers, though, except the ones from one course. I wish I hadn't tossed those because there was a lot of drama surrounding that course and I want to remember what I actually wrote.
- lris
I saw him at Club Venus in 19..70? The room was very cold and the waitress said "You won't mind - it's a warm show." It sure was .
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed