BS: So how is everybody?

Subject: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Kim C
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 01:49 PM

I haven't been around as much lately, just being busy and all. So how is everyone?

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 01:49 PM

'Bout the same as before, only moreso.

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 01:51 PM

I'm still alive much to my doctors surprise and my wifes dismay

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Kim C
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 02:07 PM

Well, I reckon that's all good. ;-)

I'm halfway through with my Masters degree, and am thinking about doing my thesis on murder ballads. I haven't really decided yet, though.

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 02:15 PM

Just HOT!

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: number 6
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 02:33 PM

I'm good ... despondant over the rain we've been having in the last 2 months.

A thesis on murder ballads .... gee, that's a pleasant subject for ballads ... good luck on it.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Kim C
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 02:51 PM

Six, murder ballads are old as the hills, and plentiful, and surprisingly, there's little scholarly work on them.

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 02:51 PM

"I am well and mostly have been, with exceptions in between" ?;>)

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: number 6
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 03:00 PM

Kim C. ... ok, understandable ... that's cool.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 03:32 PM

Ok Thank you Kim C. A few aches and pains due to lack of exercise but still counting my blessings. How are you ?

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Kim C
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 04:06 PM

We're all peachy. Getting into our busy performance season --- we have at least 3 gigs a month every weekend from now till October. Reckon I won't be doing much housecleaning the next few months!

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Slag
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:26 PM

Better now, thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Peace
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:31 PM

I wasn't in the hatched, matched, dispatched column today, and I have always found that to be a positive start to the morning.

All the best on the thesis.

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Tootler
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:34 PM

Beginning to get anxious. My daughter gets married on Saturday.

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Kaleea
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:41 PM

I was doin' just fine till I took a tumble this am & fell on my good knee. bummer, man. got ice on it now. Do ya think my Harp teacher will believe me tonight if I say I couldn't practice cause my knee hurt?

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Kim C
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:51 PM

"Do ya think my Harp teacher will believe me tonight if I say I couldn't practice cause my knee hurt?"

But of course. After all, you can't be sitting down with your hurt knee bent, now, can you? You need to recline and keep it elevated and it's kinda hard to play the harp in that position. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:52 PM

Yikes, Kaleea, take it easy!

Kim, nice to see you back. That sounds like a great thesis idea!

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Michael in Swansea
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:56 PM

Terrific, spiffing, supersonic.
Good luck with the murders.

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 05:57 PM

I've discovered that my ankle is allergic to the North Circular road, because it's hurting again.... but otherwise, we're all fine.

Limpit is already bored and holidays are not even a week old. The shops are full of 'back to school' deals and I'm expecting Christmas cards any day now.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: GUEST,Wesley S
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 06:30 PM

On vacation in Atlanta and visiting the family. Having a good time.

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 06:39 PM

A little older

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Azizi
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 06:56 PM

I'm fair to middlin. Actually I'm better than that. Thanks for asking.

Positive vibrations to all!

-Azizi

PS. Congratulations, Tootler to your daughter and to your son-to-be as well!!

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 07:29 PM

...still can hit a lick or two across the dance floor when i need to...u?

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:09 PM

Mainly, just fine!! (I ignore the rest. ;-)

Art

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Bert
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:21 PM

Better now that you're back. We missed you.

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: GUEST,khandu
Date: 24 Jul 06 - 10:29 PM

I am not quite like I used to be...perhaps I never was.

But the bigger and better question is this:

How is my favorite Tennessee Belly Dancer?

Kk

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Kim C
Date: 25 Jul 06 - 10:05 AM

Well, in belly dancing news, Mister gave me a sword last Christmas. So now I can dance with a sword on my head. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Mr Yellow
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 07:45 AM

In the pink ...................

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 08:07 AM

We're fine. I've got a lower lung infection which has knocked me for six but is being treated with steroids and antibiotics so I should be fit again soon.

Good to see you back

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Kim C
Date: 26 Jul 06 - 10:07 AM

Thanks y'all, I am glad to be back and to see a lot of new names along with several of the old ones.

PHiddle, hope you get to feeling better real quick!

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: hesperis
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 01:28 AM

Let's see... depressed, poor, unhealthy, need $10,000 more in loans by the end of August to completely fix my life (and that of the people I care about) and have no way to get the loans. Banks don't care that by borrowing that much I'd be setting up for a job I could actually physically do that would make $60k a year or more. Allergies pretty much have me a prisoner indoors right now, I can't even go outside to enjoy the lovely summer because I start going completely voiceless and get chest pains and become so weak I can barely walk to the damn grocery store and back. (I can dance - *indoors*) I'm already taking as much medication as I can afford while still eating.

Family can't really afford to help, government simply won't help... the usual. I'm sure you're all very tired of hearing about it but guess what, you're probably way less tired over it than I am.

And it being ragweed season, I'm feeling suicidal. There being no hope of changing the situation, I don't have much to fight the suicidal feelings with right now. But that's normal. Happens every year since I can remember. I just have to batten down the hatches and make it through ragweed and then through leaf mold, and then it'll be winter and I can breathe without pain again, and look for a job again, and maybe make enough to get enough treatments this winter that it'll never happen again. That's assuming the gov doesn't kick us out and we can LIVE until November.

Aside from that, I'm doing a collaboration with a guitarist and have gotten quite decent at some aspects of 3D art. And for the first time in my life I have a decent midi keyboard, so I'm learning how to play again.

A friend of mine broke up with his girlfriend and thinks he has nothing to live for. He has health, and skills to get a decent job. And he thinks I'm ok just because I have a decent relationship. Ironic, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Matt_R
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 01:34 AM

Doing ok. Got a new (used) car to replace the wrecked one. Still trying to get out of this job and find something in Raleigh.

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: GUEST,Coyote Breath puting it off once more
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 01:36 AM

Geez!

I'm happy to still be above ground.

Good health to all, and higher power bless.

CB

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Kim C
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 11:36 AM

Hesperis, where do you live?

Matt! Lookit you! Ain't seen you around for eons.

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: hesperis
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 03:35 PM

Matt - wrecked car? Good thing you prefaced that with "doing ok" lol

KimC - I'm in Canada. PM on it's way.

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 27 Jul 06 - 04:36 PM

I've spent today in hospital on nebulizers and steroid IV to get a grip on this chest infection. I arrived at about 10am and left at 7pm. Only when my peak flow got to 350 was I allowed to go home. I feel like Mike Tyson has been dancing on my chest but much better than I was earlier.

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Matt_R
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 01:39 AM

Yeah, totalled the car after a hydroplane. I came out ok though. Glad to be back in a Galant again. I've been visiting your neck of the woods a lot, with my girlfriend being in Knoxville. In fact, that's where I was driving back from when I spun out.

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Metchosin
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 01:57 AM

I'm happy, happy, happy! I'm a Grandma......well sort of...........and at least its a bit better than the damned rats. My eldest daughter phoned today to let me know that their new puppy, was born today. One of these.

So sorry about your car Matt R, glad you are OK though.

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: Kim C
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 01:20 PM

Congratulations, Met!!! I just love new puppies.

Sorry 'bout the car, Matt, but it's only a car. At least nobody was hurt.

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: GUEST,Billy McKinley
Date: 28 Jul 06 - 04:45 PM

I don't quite feel this old


Crabby Old Man
When an old Man died in the geriatric ward of a small hospital near
Dundee, Scotland, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value.
Later, when the nurses were going through his meager possessions, they found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital. One nurse took her copy to Ireland. The old lady's sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas edition of the News Magazine of the North
Ireland Association for Mental Health. A slide presentation has also been made based on his simple, but eloquent, poem. And this little old Scottish man, with nothing left to give to the world, is now the author of this
CRABBY OLD MAN
What do you see, Nurses?
What do you see?      What are you thinking    When you're looking at me?
A crabby old man,      Not very wise,      Uncertain of habit,      With
faraway eyes?      Who dribbles his food      And makes no reply      When you say in a loud voice,      "I do wish you'd try!"      Who seems not to
notice    The things that you do,      And forever is losing      A
tie or shoe?      Who, resisting or not,      Lets you do as you
will, With bathing and feeding,      The long day to fill?      Is that
what you're thinking?      Is that what you see?      Then open your eyes, nurse, You're not looking at me.      I'll tell you who I am      As I sit
here so still,    As I do at your bidding,      As I eat at your will.
I'm a small child of ten      With a father and mother,      Brothers and sisters, Who love one another.      A young boy of sixteen    With wings on his feet    Dreaming that soon now      A lover he'll meet. A groom soon at twenty,      My heart gives a leap,      Remembering the vows
That I promised to keep.      At twenty-five now,      I have young of my
own, Who need me to guide      And a secure happy home.      A man of
thirty, My young now grown fast,      Bound to each other      With ties
that should last.      At forty, my young sons      Have grown and are
gone,      But my woman's beside me      To see I don't mourn.      At fifty
once more, Babies play round my knee,      Again we know children,      My loved one and me.      Dark days are upon me,      My wife she is dead,
I look at the future,      I shudder with dread.      For my young are all rearing Young of their own,      And I think of the years      And the love that I've known. I'm now an old man      And nature is cruel;
'Tis jest to make old age    Look like a fool.      The body, it
crumbles,      Grace and vigor depart,      There is now a stone
Where I once had a heart. But inside this old carcass      A young boy
still dwells,    And now and again,      My battered heart swells.      I remember the joys,      I remember the pain,      And I'm loving and
living      Life over again. I think of the years      All too few, gone too fast,      And accept the stark fact      That nothing can last.
So open your eyes, people, Open and see,      Not a crabby old man;
Look closer . . . see ME!! Remember this when you next meet an elderly
person who you might      brush aside without looking at the young soul within . .. If we live long enough we will all be there someday.

Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody?
From: rock chick
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 02:34 PM

Ok thanks.

rc