Big Life Changes Support Group Part 3
Guest
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: The Deep South
Posts: 14,636
Suze is super excited about visiting the states. 
I know lots of people are excited to meet you, Suze, myself included.
So, I am combating what's left of this cold with a large bowl of hot & sour soup from our favorite Chinese restaurant. It's hitting the spot. Katie is even enjoying pieces of tofu!!
I know lots of people are excited to meet you, Suze, myself included.
So, I am combating what's left of this cold with a large bowl of hot & sour soup from our favorite Chinese restaurant. It's hitting the spot. Katie is even enjoying pieces of tofu!!
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Do your best
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 67,047
What book you reading J ? Ive just started mastery by Robert Greene before that read the book by Alan watts if you know it ? I loved it and will be ordering more Alan Watts books
I'm off to beddy byes now but hope you feel better tomorrow morning hun x
I'm off to beddy byes now but hope you feel better tomorrow morning hun x
Guest
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: The Deep South
Posts: 14,636
Yep, I have read some Alan Watts. Interesting stuff.
I've been reading Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago. It has been difficult to get into at first. I loved his book All the Names. It is one of my favorites.
And still reading here and there from the Oliver Sacks memoir. I love his writing.
I've been reading Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago. It has been difficult to get into at first. I loved his book All the Names. It is one of my favorites.
And still reading here and there from the Oliver Sacks memoir. I love his writing.
Guest
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Ashburn, VA
Posts: 30,196
Good night, SW.
Yes, Jennie, I'm still happily in grad school, one class at a time.
I am currently taking a class called "Christian Encounter with Islam."
It is very interesting, and the tone of the discussion is gracious.
Yes, Jennie, I'm still happily in grad school, one class at a time.
I am currently taking a class called "Christian Encounter with Islam."
It is very interesting, and the tone of the discussion is gracious.
Guest
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: The Deep South
Posts: 14,636
Last night I started reading Gloria Steinem's My Life on the Road and couldn't put it down. It's fascinating. Highly recommend this one.
Feeling way better today, though not 100%. I will probably leave the house today and get fizzy drinks and some other supplies.
Feeling way better today, though not 100%. I will probably leave the house today and get fizzy drinks and some other supplies.
Guest
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: The Deep South
Posts: 14,636
Terribly nauseous this morning. So sick to my stomach. Just opened up the Pepto Bismal.
One positive is that I'm not producing much mucus now. Just coughing and clearing out my lungs. So, that's a good sign as far as the cold goes.
One positive is that I'm not producing much mucus now. Just coughing and clearing out my lungs. So, that's a good sign as far as the cold goes.
saoutchik
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: London
Posts: 16,203
Hi Jen hi everyone
I won't pretend to have read the whole thread but I hope your car got fixed, stuck in neutral usually means linkage (which is cheap parts wise).
Gone 6pm in London and I have just left work, still, Friday is Friday!
I won't pretend to have read the whole thread but I hope your car got fixed, stuck in neutral usually means linkage (which is cheap parts wise).
Gone 6pm in London and I have just left work, still, Friday is Friday!
Guest
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: The Deep South
Posts: 14,636
Gloria Steinem is very intelligent, and has tons of life experience (she is now in her 80s), remains open-minded, curious, and is so widely read. I find her fascinating, SW. She is just full of information, and the way she pulls it all together, the connections she makes ... I think that's her genius. I also can really appreciate how she went from being a quiet, introverted writer/journalist to this dynamic personable, public speaker and organizer of groups. It is inspirational. Watching her speak, I can still see that she's an introvert and an intellectual, but she still makes a very interesting speaker, I think. Also fascinating to read how traveling made her who she is, how the act of travel itself, forcing you to live in the present, and allowing you to cross paths with people you wouldn't ordinarily ... changes you.
Saramago is a Nobel Prize winner, btw. I was hugely impressed with All the Names. If you do recommend to Mrs. SW, maybe start with that one. I haven't finished this other one yet, and am still not sure about it.
Saramago is a Nobel Prize winner, btw. I was hugely impressed with All the Names. If you do recommend to Mrs. SW, maybe start with that one. I haven't finished this other one yet, and am still not sure about it.
Member
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Mare Crisium
Posts: 1,930
Hi everybody!
Almost ready to leave work.
Have a list of things to do at home.
Leaving in a week and a half
for upstate NY.
Hope you're feeling better, Jennie.
Rosie graduated to eating full-sized crickets, this morning.
Almost ready to leave work.
Have a list of things to do at home.
Leaving in a week and a half
for upstate NY.
Hope you're feeling better, Jennie.
Rosie graduated to eating full-sized crickets, this morning.
Guest
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: The Deep South
Posts: 14,636
Rosie is lookin' good, Lunar.
Are you going to one of your cabins up there? The one with the lake?
I am feeling better. It's been gradual. Today I finally had to work again at the PO and it wasn't pleasant. The work itself would've been ok. There were some interactions with the other employees that really dampened my day. I am perceived as 'blunt' apparently. No big deal, except this is the south and I'm a woman. These women are idiot gossips who have their own weird way of communicating, very passive-aggressively, too. I try my best to steer clear of it, but they inevitably try and pull me into their drama. I really envy the one guy who works there. They leave him alone. I wish they would leave me alone, too.
Today, I had to bite back a few times at someone and it did work. She shut up and left me alone. It was very subtle. I had to restrain myself, mostly to protect my job. But I do want them to get the message to back off.
I hate this kind of thing. It is such an energy drain for me and really puts me into a depression.
I am a clear communicator, and I tend to be direct. I love to 'talk shop' but I don't like idle chat, and I absolutely hate gossip.
These women seem immature in the way they interact and communicate. I just really don't have the time or energy for it.
Are you going to one of your cabins up there? The one with the lake?
I am feeling better. It's been gradual. Today I finally had to work again at the PO and it wasn't pleasant. The work itself would've been ok. There were some interactions with the other employees that really dampened my day. I am perceived as 'blunt' apparently. No big deal, except this is the south and I'm a woman. These women are idiot gossips who have their own weird way of communicating, very passive-aggressively, too. I try my best to steer clear of it, but they inevitably try and pull me into their drama. I really envy the one guy who works there. They leave him alone. I wish they would leave me alone, too.
Today, I had to bite back a few times at someone and it did work. She shut up and left me alone. It was very subtle. I had to restrain myself, mostly to protect my job. But I do want them to get the message to back off.
I hate this kind of thing. It is such an energy drain for me and really puts me into a depression.
I am a clear communicator, and I tend to be direct. I love to 'talk shop' but I don't like idle chat, and I absolutely hate gossip.
These women seem immature in the way they interact and communicate. I just really don't have the time or energy for it.
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