My learning disability is mathematic, AmyLiz. Some dyscalculic people even struggle with arithmetic, but I think the photographic memory helped...my God, I'm God's biology experiment, aren't I?
I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Spike's Bitches 31: We're Motivated Go-getters.
[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.
erikaj - Jun 20, 2006 10:07:24 am PDT #809 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
brenda m - Jun 20, 2006 10:09:26 am PDT #810 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Shit, she's on to it. That's gonna skew the results.
Trudy Booth - Jun 20, 2006 10:20:25 am PDT #811 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Trudy, Dallas will be finefinefine. I decree it.
Thanks, Teppy.
I thought I had braced myself, pre-discussed a salary advance to pay the unaffordable vet bill, pep-talked myself "they've always been fine before" -- and then I get Upper West Side Yuppie Vet saying "well, they'll probably want to remove a large region around the masses and lymphnodes and drainage and... and I'm not qualified to do it."
Dude, the dog is just not that big! How much do you think you should chop out of her WITHOUT EVEN DIAGNOSING CANCER?!?!?
Sighhh
Soup has been achieved. The walk to the corner nearly flattened me. Wish me luck not fainting on the trip to Queens. Oy. (I have a plan, actually, all this soup will be restorative and I'll be fine-ish for the schlep)
Trudy Booth - Jun 20, 2006 10:21:10 am PDT #812 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Shit, she's on to it. That's gonna skew the results.
Smooth, Brenda, now she knows we're in on it.
beekaytee - Jun 20, 2006 10:25:35 am PDT #813 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Aw Trudy. Bless your heart. No faintyness. All restorativeness to you.
I'm with you erika. I didn't get the 'diagnosis' until my early 30's. Kind of a relief in a nsm way. At least I could stop viewing myself as stupid, but the effect is still the same. Sigh.
Interesting about the dyscalculia. Must google. I think mine is garden variety dyslexia. I can see the numbers...and calculate in my head...I just don't see the RIGHT numbers.
Once had a stats prof who would follow my page-long caluculations and give me credit because he could see that I got the concept even if I didn't get the right answer. Kindness in graduate school ('professional graduate program' = old people askeared of math), foolishness in real life.
Scrappy - Jun 20, 2006 10:28:38 am PDT #814 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Vet-ma, Trudes.
I am sitting at home. I was suppose to go to Costa Mesa (about 50 miles away) for a class and left at 7:00 this morning. Then, I took a wrong exit and got hopelessly lost in a baaaad section of LA, then found my way to a better section that was all warehouses, so there was no one to ask directions of, then ended up in some place called Vernon. I finally found my way back to a road I recognized, but by that time I had missed half the class and decided to head home. Annpyinmgly, I had taken the day as PTO to take class--although I will be able to make it up in the future. I assuaged my feelings of doofusitude by stopping at Mervyn's and buying two tank tops for $9 each.
sj - Jun 20, 2006 10:29:58 am PDT #815 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
~ma for Dallas.
Calli - Jun 20, 2006 10:34:02 am PDT #816 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Much health~ma for Dallas. Is Dallas part lab? Most of the labs and lab mixes I've know have gotten all lumpy with age. No cancer, just fat-filled lumps.
Fred Pete - Jun 20, 2006 10:34:08 am PDT #817 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Best wishes for Dallas.
Amy - Jun 20, 2006 10:34:32 am PDT #818 of 10001
Because books.
All kinds of ~ma for Trudy and Dallas.
I assuaged my feelings of doofusitude by stopping at Mervyn's and buying two tank tops for $9 each.
Good plan!
Interesting about the dyscalculia. Must google.
Me, too. I'm so bad at math, I still use my fingers half the time.