My next step.

I got an appointment to have my back looked at. Hopefully, I'll be able to cross that off of my list of current worries.

yesterday was my 19th birthday!
had a delicious homemade icecream cake for lunchtime dessert, went out for dinner (lobster tarragon ravioli) with my parents.
received The Brat Pack 3-DVD set (Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, and Weird Science), Pretty in Pink on DVD, new binder (zip-up), pencil crayons, paper, and a Tinker Bell poster for my bedroom door.
family party is on Friday!

HBGR!

have a fantastic day, gr

3 hours of sleep last night. i barely notice it anymore. it seems i operate nearly the same with or without. lack of sunshine bothers me more. crazy.

Happy green~robot day! Have fun, sweet 19.

lith, I knew that thread would be good for something.

Kradlum, I did the same damn thing once, split my eyebrow open on a corner, got to see all the funny things inside. What I wonder is how these things happen? Normally I consider myself fairly agile, but every once in a while my reflexes pull a total slapstick move. Bonk!

Jasi, if you don't sleep, your dreams will come after you. Watch your back.

(actually 3 hrs. is all you get in a zen center or the army, so you should be fine)

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Originally posted by the_Etruscan:
Kradlum, I did the same damn thing once, split my eyebrow open on a corner, got to see all the funny things inside. What I wonder is how these things happen? Normally I consider myself fairly agile, but every once in a while my reflexes pull a total slapstick move. Bonk!

did that to my knee sophmore year. oddly, due to lack of sleep. was kind of fun anatomy lesson. at least after the pk's took effect.

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Jasi, if you don't sleep, your dreams will come after you. Watch your back.

would that be such a bad thing?

I guess it all depends on whether or not you want to be caught. Sleep deprivation is the drug-free road to hallucination.

if i had more time i'd indulge

...the unconscious? You should, your's has a lot to offer (I mean creatively, not repression).

ha! probably plenty of the latter as well. i, like many others, am a highly functional sea of denial. hypnosis sounds like a bad trip.

Hey, let's not be competitively neurotic. I've got obsessive compulsive disorder printed, all caps, right on my forehead.

i suppose i would too, if i used caps at all.

okay, we won't go there.

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Fish Weirs in Carrol Inlet for Boogerhead.
Very sorry aboot the car Myth, I really find car issues to be well... such a pain in the ass, wreckages even more so, and well best of luck. As for yr head poor Kradlum, I'll bet it bled crazy, sending healing thoughts your way, try not to do it again, yes?, and Archie's back, Dang ya'll hang in there.
On a lighter note Happy birthday Mz. Green Robot and here are some Weir pics for Mr Boog.

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Originally posted by colin:
Elements of Style says inside the quotation mark, as I recall.

Then again Elements of Style also says to use "he" as a gender-neutral pronoun.

Thanks for the view, Thal. According to Brian Hayden's classic work (which Marshdrifter was kind enough to email me) this sort of thing was the start of monopolized commodities and social hierarchy --the gradual diminution of the egalitarian ethos which characterizes generalized hunter-gatherers, steering it towards the competitive feasting of accumulators and the social stratification of complex hunter-gatherers. In biblical terms, the fish in that weir are like the fruit of the tree that got Adam & Eve expelled from the garden.

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Originally posted by Colette Phair:

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Originally posted by colin:
Elements of Style says inside the quotation mark, as I recall.

Then again Elements of Style also says to use "he" as a gender-neutral pronoun.

And it also says use apostrophe 's' to show possessive in all cases, whether the noun ends in 's' or not. I don't agree with that one myself.

But I think the positions on punctuation when using quotation marks are relatively uncontroversial.

EoS may not encode a set of rules that everyone agrees on, but it does have the advantage of being very succinct and very clear about those rules, so you can decide, in a well-informed fashion, exactly which ones you want to break.

whoa! could you dumb that down for me a bit E?
The weirs are pretty easy to find even now. it is hard for me to imagine that there were not enough fish for everyone back in the day. Pretty hard not to catch one here in the 07.
I am curiousthough,would you be able to forward me the Hayden's dear?

Also, just because I enjoy living dangerously: There is an argument to be made for using he as the gender-neutral pronoun. Given the choice between clunky-sounding neologisms like hir, rewriting in some convoluted way to avoid an offensive use of he, or just going for the clearest (if sub-optimal) alternative of using he, I tend to side with the he-users. Then again, I am a member of the male-dominated hegemony.

On the otherer hand, I have been known to indulge in the dodgy use of they to avoid these problems. That, and even using she as the gender neutral pronoun when the mood strikes, has achieved some limited degree of acceptance amongst the grammar Nazis and style guide writers, I believe.

What do you think?