What do you think it says about the economy when a business sends you a copy of LAST YEAR'S catalog?

...You have dreams about chefs in the middle of nowhere (say, the backwoods of the Pacific Northwest/Canada/Alaska) who invent pies made from an obscure vegetable I haven't heard of before (and don't ask me, I don't remember this part) which becomes for this decade the food-fad parallel to quiche in the early Eighties ( Read more... )

I just got a notice that TennCare (the state's medical assistance program, which is paying the bills for my mental health examination and psychotherapy) is dropping me effective the end of April, because they claim that I make too much money. But what they claim as my monthly income exceeds my total for 2007 ( Read more... )

What good is Common Sense when what you need is Actionable Intelligence?

FP

That nightmare the other night was just the start of a very nerve-racking depressive episode the whole day (Monday). To attempt to burn it out of my system, I drove to Maryville and Alcoa, just for the change of scenery. It didn't quite work, but I was worn out enough to take a nap later that afternoon ( Read more... )

Hey.

Just woke up from a nightmare. I won't get into the details, but I figured out that the message was "I don't want to be famous". Becoming famous right now would do much more harm to me than good. If I'm not comfortable with myself and my situation in private, it would be infinitely worse if it all was public.

FP

After helping set up overnight and doing more this morning, and then over an hour working the registration table, I took a quick circuit of the vendors and decided to go back to the house ( Read more... )

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Today, the National Public Radio program "All Things Considered" had a very interesting and enlightening segment about a discovery that autism seems to be rooted in abnormalities in the portion of the brain that on one side governs memory and the other governs reaction to specific emotions...namely fear and anticipation ( Read more... )

I forgot to do something very important today, and I won't get any opportunity to make it right till late in the afternoon tomorrow...assuming I remember. And it may already be too late to fix it too.

On top of the usual frustration, demoralization, fear, loathing, self-loathing, anxiety and neuroses, my esteem is at an all-time low.

FP