I already boycott Wal-Mart year-round, and I never, ever shop on Black Friday.
Velma and Soren, continued prayers for y'all both.
Re l*x@pro and c*l*xa, that's interesting and possibly useful. I'm in the process of being weaned off generic c*l*xa, as it damps down my anxiety but makes me sleepy/groggy 24/7 and worsens my depression. OTOH, it is the only antidepressant that works for my sister (after trying and discarding 4 others).
SylvieG @ #7, what everybody else said, plus this: don't let anybody tell you your grief is inappropriate. Grief, like love, is what it is. Give yourself permission to feel what you feel. And get out in the sun as much as feasible.
Magenta: as my brother-in-law said one year when saying grace for Thanksgiving dinner: "Lord, there are wars being fought over smaller differences than we have here in this room."
Mez: glad to hear you were able to win those gardenias.
Nix: prayers for your mother as well.
Praying as hard as I can. Hang in there, all.
I'll drink to that. May walls of that ilk continue to fall, when the powers that built them least expect it.
Re the Nancy Linton link: 2 great collections here (Cocaine Toothache Drops!) and here (Radioactive Toothpaste!).
Serge @ 606, Jon @ 609: I just checked it out on AMC's site. Intriguing. I remember being scared witless by Rover in the original series. Alas, I have only basic cable so will have to wait for the DVD.
David @ 594, I'd settle for making help available for people who are actually seeking it. That would be a start. (For both mental illness and addiction to legal and illegal drugs.)
David @ 581: are you sure Bruce at 573 is talking about criminalizing mental illness? I read it more as getting mentally ill people appropriate help before they become violent. I could get behind that. (We have a severe dearth of mental health and substance abuse services here--long waiting lists, no residential program at all within 50 miles or so. Perhaps it's different where you live.)
It's been a tough year in Athens. We had another murder/suicide yesterday. This brings our domestic violence death toll to 12 for the year:
"A man murdered his former girlfriend at an Athens shopping center Thursday afternoon then shot and killed himself some 30 miles away in Oglethorpe County when the sheriff tried to stop the car he was in, Athens-Clarke police said.
Michael Dwight Wise, 25, waited in the parking lot of the Shoppes of South Athens for Kendra Borders to return from lunch, and shot her after she parked her truck, according to police.
[....]
â–º On Jan. 28, police said John David Latimer shot and killed his two sisters and his brother in their trailer at Hallmark Mobile Home Park in Eastern Clarke County. Latimer, 52, pleaded not guilty to 13 felonies in the deaths of Janice Carol Patterson, 57; Sara Kathleen Tatum, 61; and Thomas Garland Latimer, 50.
â–º On April 25, University of Georgia marketing professor George Zinkhan III shot and killed his wife, Marie Bruce, 47; Thomas Tanner, 40; and Ben Teague, 63, who tried to intervene, outside the Town & Gown Theatre on Grady Avenue. Zinkhan then committed suicide after digging a shallow grave for himself.
â–º On Aug. 18, Lisa Davenport was set on fire by boyfriend Phillip Scruggs in her apartment at Bethel Midtown Village, according to police. She died 11 days later and police charged Scruggs with murder.
â–º On Oct. 9, a young boy found the bodies of his parents in their home on Chardonay Street. Police said Harry Marable apparently shot his wife, Phyllis, then himself.
Originally published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Friday, November 06, 2009"
Lee @ #448: oooh, I loved The Interior Life. I should see if I can score a copy on abebooks.com.
Recs for mysteries: Dorothy Sayers' The Nine Tailors is, IMO, the best mystery ever written.
Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time is a very different take on the genre.
Ngaio Marsh's Light Thickens is the last and best of her theatre-based mysteries. If you have any fondness for the stage, give it a try.
re faxing: the travel company I worked with asked me to fax many, many pages of documents to them. I ended up negotiating with my recruiter to instead scan them and send them as email attachments, which cost me nothing (my printer is also a scanner) and them only the paper to print them. Plus, as they were sent via Gmail, I have backup copies of anything that gets lost.
Went to friends' Halloween party as Harriet Jones (former Prime Minister) with husband as Arthur Weasley; teenager and 20-year-old stayed home to hand out candy as Dr. Horrible and Dead Bowie. There were only a dozen or so trick-or-treaters (rain and a neighborhood where many folks just don't do decorations/candy) so our kids came & joined the party after a while. Low-key, but fun.
I've decided this is the year. I caught myself going "the only novel idea I have is (blahblahblah), and I can't write that because (variety of excuses)." I'm going to write it anyway.
Xopher, if I understood and remember correctly, it's because the nuclear force (which holds protons and neutrons together in spite of the like charges of the protons) operates only over very tiny distances. In a nucleus with more than 92 protons (atomic number=# of protons), the size of the nucleus is greater than the range of the nuclear force, so the protons repel each other.
(Please, more knowledgeable fluorospherians, correct me if I've misunderstood!)
Ah. (Hides her very square head in shame.)
OT, but... is the post title a Chris de Burgh reference?
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