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24 Jul 06 - 01:49 PM (#1791810) Subject: BS: So how is everybody? From: Kim C I haven't been around as much lately, just being busy and all. So how is everyone? |
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24 Jul 06 - 01:49 PM (#1791813) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Rapparee 'Bout the same as before, only moreso. |
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24 Jul 06 - 01:51 PM (#1791816) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Dave (the ancient mariner) I'm still alive much to my doctors surprise and my wifes dismay |
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24 Jul 06 - 02:07 PM (#1791830) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Kim C 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. |
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24 Jul 06 - 02:15 PM (#1791837) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Sorcha Just HOT! |
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24 Jul 06 - 02:33 PM (#1791848) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: number 6 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 |
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24 Jul 06 - 02:51 PM (#1791862) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Kim C Six, murder ballads are old as the hills, and plentiful, and surprisingly, there's little scholarly work on them. |
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24 Jul 06 - 02:51 PM (#1791863) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Ebbie "I am well and mostly have been, with exceptions in between" ?;>) |
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24 Jul 06 - 03:00 PM (#1791872) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: number 6 Kim C. ... ok, understandable ... that's cool. sIx |
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24 Jul 06 - 03:32 PM (#1791904) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: fat B****rd Ok Thank you Kim C. A few aches and pains due to lack of exercise but still counting my blessings. How are you ? |
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24 Jul 06 - 04:06 PM (#1791935) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Kim C 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! |
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24 Jul 06 - 05:26 PM (#1791983) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Slag Better now, thank you. |
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24 Jul 06 - 05:31 PM (#1791992) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Peace 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. |
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24 Jul 06 - 05:34 PM (#1791998) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Tootler Beginning to get anxious. My daughter gets married on Saturday. |
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24 Jul 06 - 05:41 PM (#1792004) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Kaleea 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? |
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24 Jul 06 - 05:51 PM (#1792011) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Kim C "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. ;-) |
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24 Jul 06 - 05:52 PM (#1792012) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: katlaughing Yikes, Kaleea, take it easy! Kim, nice to see you back. That sounds like a great thesis idea! |
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24 Jul 06 - 05:56 PM (#1792018) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Michael in Swansea Terrific, spiffing, supersonic. Good luck with the murders. |
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24 Jul 06 - 05:57 PM (#1792021) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Liz the Squeak 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 |
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24 Jul 06 - 06:30 PM (#1792041) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: GUEST,Wesley S On vacation in Atlanta and visiting the family. Having a good time. |
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24 Jul 06 - 06:39 PM (#1792048) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Georgiansilver A little older |
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24 Jul 06 - 06:56 PM (#1792066) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Azizi 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!! |
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24 Jul 06 - 07:29 PM (#1792097) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: GUEST ...still can hit a lick or two across the dance floor when i need to...u? |
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24 Jul 06 - 10:09 PM (#1792216) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: GUEST,Art Thieme Mainly, just fine!! (I ignore the rest. ;-) Art |
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24 Jul 06 - 10:21 PM (#1792242) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Bert Better now that you're back. We missed you. |
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24 Jul 06 - 10:29 PM (#1792259) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: GUEST,khandu 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 |
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25 Jul 06 - 10:05 AM (#1792674) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Kim C Well, in belly dancing news, Mister gave me a sword last Christmas. So now I can dance with a sword on my head. ;-) |
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26 Jul 06 - 07:45 AM (#1793553) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Mr Yellow In the pink ................... |
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26 Jul 06 - 08:07 AM (#1793565) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Catherine Jayne 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 |
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26 Jul 06 - 10:07 AM (#1793655) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Kim C 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! |
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27 Jul 06 - 01:28 AM (#1794262) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: hesperis 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? |
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27 Jul 06 - 01:34 AM (#1794266) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Matt_R 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. |
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27 Jul 06 - 01:36 AM (#1794267) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: GUEST,Coyote Breath puting it off once more Geez! I'm happy to still be above ground. Good health to all, and higher power bless. CB |
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27 Jul 06 - 11:36 AM (#1794605) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Kim C Hesperis, where do you live? Matt! Lookit you! Ain't seen you around for eons. |
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27 Jul 06 - 03:35 PM (#1794807) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: hesperis Matt - wrecked car? Good thing you prefaced that with "doing ok" lol KimC - I'm in Canada. PM on it's way. |
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27 Jul 06 - 04:36 PM (#1794846) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Catherine Jayne 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. |
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28 Jul 06 - 01:39 AM (#1795157) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Matt_R 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. |
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28 Jul 06 - 01:57 AM (#1795165) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Metchosin 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. |
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28 Jul 06 - 01:20 PM (#1795555) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: Kim C Congratulations, Met!!! I just love new puppies. Sorry 'bout the car, Matt, but it's only a car. At least nobody was hurt. |
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28 Jul 06 - 04:45 PM (#1795690) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: GUEST,Billy McKinley 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. |
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11 Aug 06 - 02:34 PM (#1807404) Subject: RE: BS: So how is everybody? From: rock chick Ok thanks. rc |