I don't feel ill or depressed or anything, but I'm proof-reading an acquaintance's novel (I haven't known him long enough to call him a friend) and giving him regular feedback. Mostly it's a tweak here and there - I liked this, you could try rewording that....that kind of thing.
But I just emailed him the latest set of feedback, in which I had to really slam one of the major scenes. I know it can be painful to receive harsh criticism of something you've worked hard on, but I wouldn't be doing him any favours by not mentioning it. He hopes to submit the novel for publication, and it's better that problems are picked up now, rather than when the editor/publisher/whoever looks at it.
I know the criticism needed to be made, but I still feel bad about it.
Now I feel both better and utterly despairing. He didn't heed a word of my criticism.
Yeah, there isn't much more I can do. He's been warned. If he gets a letter back from...whoever...saying the big rescue scene is emotionless and devoid of tension, I won't refrain from mocking him.
last night i ate some turkey i bought at the Safeway this weekend. one of those "ready to eat" turkey breasts that the deli makes and puts under heat lamps till you buy it. i've gotten chickens done like that before, never had a problem.
turkey poisoned me. at three a.m. i awoke with the worst stomach cramps imaginable. needless to say i was up vomiting and...well...you know what else goes with food poisoning, ALL NIGHT. worse case of food poisoning i've ever had. horrible cramps.
i still have an occasional twinge of cramping and my head hurts like hell but the OTHER horrifying symptoms seemed to have eased.
so...
i feel better. urg.
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
remember to replenish those fluids, Lucimay. as bad a case as it sounds like you had it will take more than just a couple days for you to come back to 100% from it, so don't push yourself too hard either. food poisoning really .....................takes it out of you,...so to speak.
My throat feels like has several small pieces of glass in it every time I swallow (and sometimes when I don't), so I have gone to the supermarket and come home with throat lozenges and lemons and manuka honey and oranges. And rye and raisin bread, slthough that has little to do with my having a sore throat.
I finished shopping at just the right time too - as I walked out of the supermarket the mall fire alarm went off and they had to evacuate the whole place.
You do not hear, and so you cannot be redeemed.
In the name of their ancient pride and humiliation, they had made commitments with no possible outcome except bereavement.
He knew only that they had never striven to reject the boundaries of themselves.
last night i ate some turkey i bought at the Safeway this weekend. one of those "ready to eat" turkey breasts that the deli makes and puts under heat lamps till you buy it. i've gotten chickens done like that before, never had a problem.
turkey poisoned me. at three a.m. i awoke with the worst stomach cramps imaginable. needless to say i was up vomiting and...well...you know what else goes with food poisoning, ALL NIGHT. worse case of food poisoning i've ever had. horrible cramps.
i still have an occasional twinge of cramping and my head hurts like hell but the OTHER horrifying symptoms seemed to have eased.
so...
i feel better. urg.
SUCK!
Here's my many given adivce:
Shot glass of hot sauce chased by a cup of lukewarm black tea.
Hope you feel better!
Avatar wrote:But then, the answers provided by your imagination are not only sometimes best, but have the added advantage of being unable to be wrong.
thanks for the well wishes all! and Balon? does that prescription work for EVERY MALADY KNOWN TO HUMANITY????
(he's not gonna quit, you know, till one of us dares to drink his horrid concoction!! )
ps. peven, on the fluids. ice chips rock!!
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
Feel much better. Going to have to get on a slow, gradual program to gain a healthy weight. About 1 pound per week, I'm thinking. I already eat right. Problem was I just pushed myself too hard, near the end. All As and jogging every day...
My legs are recovering, though. Hydrating more and just walking.
Green tea in the morning instead of coffee. A lot less soda stuff too. I think I'm getting closer to balance. In any case, I'm happy. Maybe it's not even about balance. Who really finds it, eh? I'm thinking the general struggle of day-to-day is perhaps the source of happiness. If so, then I’m a pig in mud!
Feeling a lot better than I was last night and this morning.
Friday afternoons have become something I look forward to. Son of Seareach is off at kinder for 2 1/2 hours (so I get some *me* time), and I try as much as possible to catch up on the phone with someone who is near and dear to me but whom I don't get much opportunity to talk with.
Today I really needed someone with whom I could be "in the now" with; and although I ended up talking about a lot of the things going on in my life...there's something about being engaged (by talking) rather than just having too much time to sit around thinking by oneself which makes all the hard stuff seem a little less hard. I needed that today.
A few years back I got food poisoning from the Safeway deli, too. I wouldn't wish food poisoning on my worst enemy. Oh, wait, maybe I would. Say, Mr. Phys Ed teacher from 5th grade, I've got some nice Safeway chicken I'd like to give to you for being such a special person...
Matrixman wrote:I wouldn't wish food poisoning on my worst enemy. Oh, wait, maybe I would. Say, Mr. Phys Ed teacher from 5th grade, I've got some nice Safeway chicken I'd like to give to you for being such a special person...
You mean you had the same PE teacher I had in the 5th grade!!!!!!!!!!
Matrixman wrote:I wouldn't wish food poisoning on my worst enemy. Oh, wait, maybe I would. Say, Mr. Phys Ed teacher from 5th grade, I've got some nice Safeway chicken I'd like to give to you for being such a special person...
You mean you had the same PE teacher I had in the 5th grade!!!!!!!!!!
I have a new mobile phone! YAY! It has a camera. I think it does lots of things but I'm not quite sure what those things are...but it smells good!
Edit: and so tonight I managed to turn on the wrong hotplate (even though I was *so* careful and made sure I turned on the right one...but obviously not!). So, the pyrex (sp?) dish that I had on the wrong hotplate then EXPLODED! Glass flying everywhere. Poor Son of Seareach nearly jumped out of his skin (as did I). And then I managed to break a wine glass and...
Matrixman wrote:I wouldn't wish food poisoning on my worst enemy. Oh, wait, maybe I would. Say, Mr. Phys Ed teacher from 5th grade, I've got some nice Safeway chicken I'd like to give to you for being such a special person...
You mean you had the same PE teacher I had in the 5th grade!!!!!!!!!!
I think we all had the same PE teacher. There's only one, and it keeps doing the rounds, generation after generation, sometimes masquerading as a man, sometimes a woman...
Lucimay wrote:last night i ate some turkey i bought at the Safeway this weekend.
You have Safeway too? Huh.
You have my sympathies. I remember food poisoning.
My girlfriend's university has accused her of plagiarism, the charge being that she has copied five or six words from an essay written by a student at a different university two years ago. The words are very commonplace ones (I forget the exact phrase, but it's something along the lines of "this cognitive effect results in...") so the whole charge is a joke.
She and her dad appeared before the Faculty Board today, Hannah apparently crying all the way through, but to no avail. The answer, in essence, was "We've made the accusation and that's that. You've brought it on yourself." The fact that there isn't a shred of evidence Hannah would even have access to this mysterious other essay is clearly of no import. Furthermore, the logical implication is that every student should read all essays from all other students at all other universities, in order to avoid accidentally using a phrase that has been used elsewhere.
The whole thing's a farce. I can tell you, if I'd been there, they wouldn't have got away with that. Even if I couldn't have made them drop the charge, I would have at least got them to admit, aloud, for the record, that they are pressing the charge without cause or evidence. Then it would have been a trip to the solicitor.
Sadly, my girlfriend and her dad are both quite gentle and not fond of confrontation.
I should have been there. I should have bloody been there, but she didn't even tell me she'd got a date for the hearing, never mind that it was today.
This does not end here. Not if I have any say in it. No way in hell.
Now I feel both better and utterly despairing. He didn't heed a word of my criticism. 
on the fluids. ice chips rock!! 
Huh. 
