How do you feel today?

[Lady Revel]

Tired. I am in the middle of a spell of insomnia and I CANNOT sleep. I used to take Xanax, and that put me right to sleep, but after seven years of taking it (to sleep, not for anxiety - fortunately) they decide that it might be addictive. Forget that it works for me. It MIGHT be addictive.

So I tried Ambien and didn't sleep. Then they gave me Flexeril. One word - yuck. Tonight I tried Trazodone for the first time, which has messed me up worse than Xanax ever did. The closest I can come to describing how Trazodone makes me feel is the time they gave me Morphine when they took my tonsils out. I hate it.

This totally sucks.

Besides that, life is great!

[CovenantJr]

Amused. Gotta love living in Wales. Just got the following email from my university:

Annwyl Fyfyriwr

Mae Bwrsariaeth Dechrau mewn Addysg Uwch wedi cael ei dyfarnu i chi ar
gyfer Blwyddyn Academaidd 2007/08. Mae hon ar gael i fyfyrwyr hÅ·n a
myfyrwyr sy'n dod i Brifysgol o ofal, a'i gwerth yw £300.

Mae eich siec yn awr ar gael i’w nôl o’r Swyddfa Ymholiadau, Llawr Isaf
y Swyddfa Gyllid, Cae Derwen, Ffordd y Coleg, Bangor. Yr oriau agor yw
9.30am - 4.30pm dydd Llun i ddydd Gwener. Dewch â rhywbeth gyda chi i
ddangos pwy ydych os gwelwch yn dda.

Os oes gennych unrhyw ymholiadau am eich grant, cysylltwch â’r Uned
Recriwtio Myfyrwyr ar (01248) 382005 neu’r Ganolfan Gwasanaethau
Myfyrwyr ar (01248) 383637.

Thanks.

I particularly like "fyfyrwyr"

Menolly (if you see this): I've discovered 'Why?' in Welsh is 'Pam?'

[Menolly]

Amused. Gotta love living in Wales. Just got the following email from my university:

Annwyl Fyfyriwr

Mae Bwrsariaeth Dechrau mewn Addysg Uwch wedi cael ei dyfarnu i chi ar
gyfer Blwyddyn Academaidd 2007/08. Mae hon ar gael i fyfyrwyr hÅ·n a
myfyrwyr sy'n dod i Brifysgol o ofal, a'i gwerth yw £300.

Mae eich siec yn awr ar gael i’w nôl o’r Swyddfa Ymholiadau, Llawr Isaf
y Swyddfa Gyllid, Cae Derwen, Ffordd y Coleg, Bangor. Yr oriau agor yw
9.30am - 4.30pm dydd Llun i ddydd Gwener. Dewch â rhywbeth gyda chi i
ddangos pwy ydych os gwelwch yn dda.

Os oes gennych unrhyw ymholiadau am eich grant, cysylltwch â’r Uned
Recriwtio Myfyrwyr ar (01248) 382005 neu’r Ganolfan Gwasanaethau
Myfyrwyr ar (01248) 383637.

Thanks.

I particularly like "fyfyrwyr"

Wow. And this is common for your school? I am impressed.

Menolly (if you see this): I've discovered 'Why?' in Welsh is 'Pam?'

Oh my...you have no idea how appropriate this is...

For instance, on a teen tour of Israel and Rome I took the summer I was 13 (the youngest of the group), my roommate was a poet. As a parting gift to us at the end of the trip she presented each of us with an individual poem. Mine was titled "Questions???"

...I really haven't changed all that much from that innocent of 1973...

[CovenantJr]

Aww, a baby Menolly, how cute.

Wow. And this is common for your school? I am impressed.

Everything that comes out of the university is in Welsh, usually shortly followed by an English translation. They're generally quite short, but this one went on and on... Though Wales is part of the UK, the North Welsh are very proud of their little nation, and use their language as much as possible. Though I've only picked up a few words myself, I agree with them in principle, since Welsh is a much older language than English. If you've read Stephen Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle, this is the language the characters are meant to be speaking.

[Menolly]

Aww, a baby Menolly, how cute.

*blush*

If you've read Stephen Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle, this is the language the characters are meant to be speaking.

*nodding*

A favorite cycle of mine.

[CovenantJr]

Have you ever heard it spoken aloud? It boggles the mind - partly because it's quite complex and very context-dependant, but also partly because it makes everyone sound slightly camp. It's difficult to sound threatening in Welsh, but very easy to sound like you're swearing.

[Wyldewode]

I recently read the Dark Is Rising series, and they have some Welsh in it. It sounds beautiful, though my mind has a hard time wrapping around the different combinations of consonants and vowels and such.

[A Gunslinger]

Tired. I am in the middle of a spell of insomnia and I CANNOT sleep. I used to take Xanax, and that put me right to sleep, but after seven years of taking it (to sleep, not for anxiety - fortunately) they decide that it might be addictive. Forget that it works for me. It MIGHT be addictive.

So I tried Ambien and didn't sleep. Then they gave me Flexeril. One word - yuck. Tonight I tried Trazodone for the first time, which has messed me up worse than Xanax ever did. The closest I can come to describing how Trazodone makes me feel is the time they gave me Morphine when they took my tonsils out. I hate it.

This totally sucks.

Besides that, life is great!

That does stink on ice.... Try this: take a dose of Nyquil. Of any of the sleepy-type stuff...Nyquil ought to be illegal. Say what you want, but if I ingest some Nyquil...I can't do so much as a single push-up. The sandman verily beats the imbiber to DEATH.

[emotional leper]

Tired. I am in the middle of a spell of insomnia and I CANNOT sleep. I used to take Xanax, and that put me right to sleep, but after seven years of taking it (to sleep, not for anxiety - fortunately) they decide that it might be addictive. Forget that it works for me. It MIGHT be addictive.

So I tried Ambien and didn't sleep. Then they gave me Flexeril. One word - yuck. Tonight I tried Trazodone for the first time, which has messed me up worse than Xanax ever did. The closest I can come to describing how Trazodone makes me feel is the time they gave me Morphine when they took my tonsils out. I hate it.

This totally sucks.

Besides that, life is great!

That does stink on ice.... Try this: take a dose of Nyquil. Of any of the sleepy-type stuff...Nyquil ought to be illegal. Say what you want, but if I ingest some Nyquil...I can't do so much as a single push-up. The sandman verily beats the imbiber to DEATH.

My ex-roommate used to habitually abuse nyquil to get to sleep. Like a bottle or two a week, minimum.

[Menolly]

Have you ever heard it spoken aloud? It boggles the mind - partly because it's quite complex and very context-dependant, but also partly because it makes everyone sound slightly camp. It's difficult to sound threatening in Welsh, but very easy to sound like you're swearing.

I can only think off hand of one instance where I might have heard it, and that was an old news reel of Prince Charles being installed as the Prince of Wales. There may have been other ceremonial things I have seen where I was unaware that was the language being spoken. Was it used at all at the wedding of Charles and Diana?

I so want to travel to the British Isles one day. But even if I make it to Wales, how often does the average tourist get to hear it spoken?

[A Gunslinger]

Tired. I am in the middle of a spell of insomnia and I CANNOT sleep. I used to take Xanax, and that put me right to sleep, but after seven years of taking it (to sleep, not for anxiety - fortunately) they decide that it might be addictive. Forget that it works for me. It MIGHT be addictive.

So I tried Ambien and didn't sleep. Then they gave me Flexeril. One word - yuck. Tonight I tried Trazodone for the first time, which has messed me up worse than Xanax ever did. The closest I can come to describing how Trazodone makes me feel is the time they gave me Morphine when they took my tonsils out. I hate it.

This totally sucks.

Besides that, life is great!

That does stink on ice.... Try this: take a dose of Nyquil. Of any of the sleepy-type stuff...Nyquil ought to be illegal. Say what you want, but if I ingest some Nyquil...I can't do so much as a single push-up. The sandman verily beats the imbiber to DEATH.

My ex-roommate used to habitually abuse nyquil to get to sleep. Like a bottle or two a week, minimum.

Thaqt had to be good for him/her. SHEESH!

[Wyldewode]

Thaqt had to be good for him/her. SHEESH!

I forsee cirrhosis in his/her future. . .

As for me: MUST GET TO WORK! Cursed internet is too tempting. . . signing off now!

[Worm of Despite]

I feel crushed. A person I know from two of my English classes died. Two weeks ago she was fine. On a Friday she was in class and very pale, and last week she missed all her classes. The professor mentioned her having mono. I thought she was just recuperating, until the professor drew me aside a few minutes ago and told me the bad news.

Apparently it was a complication or something--something brought on by the mono, I suppose. There's going to be an autoposy to find out.

It feels really weird when someone so young and promising just literally stops existing. You see her one day and then someone mentions she's gone and you think about the stuff she said, the way she acted. She had a boyfriend and they had just celebrated their one-year anniversary. One day she's in class, taking notes, and now--totally unreal.

[aliantha]

Poor LF! Sorry to hear about it.

Nyquil -- yeah baby. That stuff sends me right to dreamland. It's fabulous. (No, I don't abuse it, thanks very much! Hmph!)

Today...here...it's Monday. 'Nuff said. I found out this morning that I'll have to take at least 3 more semesters of Czech to get the basics, instead of two more, as I thought. Yeesh. The thought of committing that many months to spending every Saturday on the road to Baltimore has me re-thinking this a little bit. The round trip really does blow the whole day. Well, I don't have another class 'til Jan. 26 -- time enough to decide what to do, I guess.

[A Gunslinger]

I feel crushed. A person I know from two of my English classes died. Two weeks ago she was fine. On a Friday she was in class and very pale, and last week she missed all her classes. The professor mentioned her having mono. I thought she was just recuperating, until the professor drew me aside a few minutes ago and told me the bad news.

Apparently it was a complication or something--something brought on by the mono, I suppose. There's going to be an autoposy to find out.

It feels really weird when someone so young and promising just literally stops existing. You see her one day and then someone mentions she's gone and you think about the stuff she said, the way she acted. She had a boyfriend and they had just celebrated their one-year anniversary. One day she's in class, taking notes, and now--totally unreal.

LF...look out for meningitis. I am sorry for your loss, but for goddsakes, call a dr. and see if you can get tested, or innoculated. Meningitis can often be confused for Mono on the onset of the infection.

[Mortice Root]

Gunslinger said

Lord Foul wrote:
I feel crushed. A person I know from two of my English classes died. Two weeks ago she was fine. On a Friday she was in class and very pale, and last week she missed all her classes. The professor mentioned her having mono. I thought she was just recuperating, until the professor drew me aside a few minutes ago and told me the bad news.

Apparently it was a complication or something--something brought on by the mono, I suppose. There's going to be an autoposy to find out.

It feels really weird when someone so young and promising just literally stops existing. You see her one day and then someone mentions she's gone and you think about the stuff she said, the way she acted. She had a boyfriend and they had just celebrated their one-year anniversary. One day she's in class, taking notes, and now--totally unreal.


LF...look out for meningitis. I am sorry for your loss, but for goddsakes, call a dr. and see if you can get tested, or innoculated. Meningitis can often be confused for Mono on the onset of the infection.

Lord Foul - Gunslinger is right. Usually a preventative course of antibiotics is prescribed for contacts in a meningitis case. It's rare to have death follow that quickly for mono. The story sounds much more likely to be meningitis. Certainly do not ignore it if you start feeling ill.

And I'm sorry for your loss as well.

[Menolly]

I am sorry LF.

I hope an answer regarding this is forthcoming quickly.

[Worm of Despite]

How does one contract meningitis? I sat behind her during class, but other than that there was no contact with her. I'm more worried about her boyfriend, who I know pretty well.

[Wyldewode]

Ah. . . so, so sorry Foul.

As for the information you requested, it is here:

www.vpul.upenn.edu/ohe/library/cold/Transmission.htm

[Lady Revel]

Lord Foul:
I am so sorry for your loss. It is very devastating to lose someone when you aren't expecting it.

A Gunslinger:
Thank you for your suggestion. I am desperate and willing to try anything!

Nyquil it is! I think I have a bottle lurking around in the bathroom somewhere.