I want to share this poem. It is tremendously empowering for the individual and I am loving it right about now, as I go through a time when I am being asked to fill the minute with sixty seconds of distance run, and I'm doing it.

If--(Rudyard Kipling ( Read more... )

Who has had an EEG?

I might or might not have epilepsy. I had it when I was a kid but haven't had any medicines for about 20 years. Now, though, I have realized that my "nightmares" and my "spacing out" might actually be seizures. I'm a bit afraid... :P

This letter is due tomorrow at 10:00am...could somebody proof-read it for me?

(The format is messed up from copying and pasting...printed out it looks like a normal letter, I promise...)

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I should graduate in Spring 2010, a year late ( Read more... )

How do you know if you've injured your back seriously? I was just carrying some kitty litter to a neighbor (I recently rehomed my cat) and I slipped down the top of my outside steps and fell all the way to the ground. The cat litter (about 40 pounds) fell on top of me then spilled all over me. I was too embarassed to call an ambulance because I was ( Read more... )

I know exactly one person who takes melatonin for sleep. I have had some for about ever and I want to take it, but the thing is I also take Seroquel for sleep (it doesn't work anymore). I'm wondering if any of you out there (geez, that makes it sound like you live on the moon) have taken melatonin, how much, and how it worked for you ( Read more... )

Has anybody else noticed their replies not getting mailed to them?

The last fifty seconds of this:

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are why I love Melba Moore. Her voice is shrill in the upper register, but I love it.

What do you think about this letter? Is it too harsh?

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1) This morning I saw a mother starling and a father starling feeding their fledglings on the grass. Have starlings ALWAYS had babies into winter? I can't remember it. It seemed weird to me to see young birds hopping around at the end of November ( Read more... )