Spike's Bitches 21 Gunn Salute
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Ah, yes, apartment hunting in DC. Strength to you, Hil. Where are you looking? The City Paper ads come online on Tuesday afternoon, so you can get a jump on the paper version that comes out Thursday.
Thanks. I'm mostly looking around Arlington, but also some around Adams Morgan and Friendship Heights. (Pretty much, I want something that's got a not-too-difficult commute to campus, feels like a city neighborhood rather than a suburb or an office park, and is, at the absolute highest, $950 a month. Unfortunately, this place does not exist. I can get the neighborhood and maybe the price in Adams Morgan, or the commute and maybe the price in Arlington.) I've been checking the City Paper on Tuesdays and emailing and calling about the ones that looked good, but most of what I've been seeing there has been too expensive.
Hil, I love your tag.
(For posterity: "A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician." -- Karl Weierstrass (or possibly Sonya Kovalevsky)
Also, once the serious bit's out of the way, it's still ok to work in a few cheap laughs, right? I'm afraid he'd think I'd been hijacked if I didn't.
Absofuckinglutely. He'll probably appreciate it and remember it more than anyone else he hears from.
Well Lilty is fabulous. No laughs and brain pod is the only plausible scenario to account for it. If there were no laughs, taken over by a brain pod could be the only plausible scenario that accounts for it. And we want our Litly unpodded.
vw, you okay? I mean, it's late for me so later for you... Um, hi, nice to meet you, my name's, "Pot," and this here is, "Kettle."
eta a hell of a lot of sense, I hope.
Hee, Cass! Thanks for asking. I'm fine. We just raised the dosage on my anti-depressant and it's screwing with my sleep. I can no longer sleep through the night. Usually I just take another sleeping pill and go back to sleep. I've decided, though, that today it's too late to take another sleeping pill, since I have to get up at 8am. So, unless I just get the sleeping urge, I'm up for the day.
Yay coffee!
Ugh, are you getting enough rest at least? That is important (obviously). For me, a good amount of sleep beats out the actual timing of the sleep.
My cold meds have my schedule wonkier than usual but I am sleeping so I figure it will work out.
However, weirdly, Ambien (I often take a half dose, I am eternally hopeful) has been acting like an antidepressant of sorts. I just relax and feel a whole lot better and calmer. Then I can just go to sleep like what I think normal people do.
Ugh, are you getting enough rest at least?
Yeah. This is the first night it's really been bad. Usually I'm up again by 1am and can easily take another sleeping pill. I'm a little restless in bed, but I've been getting enough sleep. I'll take a nap later today (probably around 10:30am), and I'll be fine.
This anti-depressant is helping so much that I'm willing to ride out this weird sleeping thing. It happened the last time we increased it, but died down in a week or so. I can hold on that long.
Oh, and cold medicine can definitely do that. Are you going to try to get to work today or stay home? I'm glad the Ambien works for you. Sleep really is so important. I'm glad there are aids out there now that really work.
This anti-depressant is helping so much that I'm willing to ride out this weird sleeping thing.
21 Gunn salute on an AD that works and helps. They should be given a shrine too.
The cold med is definitely messing with stuff, though insomnia has been a life-long pal of mine. I work from home so work tomorrow is iffy but only down the hall. And I can stumble into the office late if need be.
Ambien is a dream in that it really does help. My doctor doesn't like to give me much and interrogates me for every refill but it works and he does write the script with minimal hair tearing on my part.
So glad there are sleep aids that work finally. Made a huge difference in my life.
Also, insent.
21 Gunn salute on an AD that works and helps. They should be given a shrine too.
Oh. My. God. You have NO idea. We have struggled over the last two years to find SOMETHING. ANYTHING. We've literally tried every class of antidepressant. Finally, this new drug, Cymbalta (I think that may be spelled wrong) came out in October. My shrink thought it may just be the right combo for me. So far, so good.
I think another thing that has helped me is that I'm no longer expecting the drug to fix everything. There is a lot of work that I have to do, and do do, in therapy. I've really noticed that recently it's a lot easier to do that work, and I think it's the new medication. Plus, when my sleep isn't getting screwed up by an increase, I sleep pretty regular hours, which is nice. My concentration and memory are still big trouble points, but I think even they are getting a little better.
I don't know if I've said this on the board or not, but I really feel like, going into this semester, that I'm going to make it through. It's the first time I've felt that way since starting at UMass Boston. I really think I can do this. It's an amazing feeling.
Also, backflung.
and, on edit, I think I'm gonna go try to sneak a couple more hours of sleep in. Night, board! Night, Cass! Sweet dreams.
Oh. My. God. You have NO idea. We have struggled over the last two years to find SOMETHING. ANYTHING. We've literally tried every class of antidepressant.
I really wish I had no idea, but I know exactly what you mean. "Have you tried X?" "Yes... Didn't work and wicked side effects. You should take notes in that file of mine."
And as far as we ever got is something that helps marginally. I am relying on other skills and cog therapy these days, and like you said, realizing that no drug is going to make things just magically okay.
Not true, one combination worked total miracles but my Dr didn't like the side effects enough and took it off the table.
But I can kinda see a way out that will be a lot of work but also will be a way out. And that is the important part.
I don't know if I've said this on the board or not, but I really feel like, going into this semester, that I'm going to make it through. It's the first time I've felt that way since starting at UMass Boston. I really think I can do this. It's an amazing feeling.
YAY!
And flung back again. Thanks vw.
eta: Night vw. get some sleep. I am off to that dream within a dream too. At least, that's ny plan...
eAgainta: Sleepy. Pleasant dreams for all the Buffistas.
