Lee, yes

YAY.

Once I get there, can I have a drink or two, watch TV and play on the internet all night instead of cleaning?

Lee, yes especially the no cleaning part!

(Man, do not tell my kids I said "yes" to all that (although their drinks would be Sierra Mist) they have gotten "no" to everything they called and asked me for this afternoon. Note to children: do not call mom at work and ask for cookies.)

Also, Happy Bday Sail

And I'm not even gonna think about the tapes in my head. They make me lay awake at nights as it is.

Oh no the A's won? Sorry guys, I love them, really proud but I have had to coordinate getting MLB tickets out to customers for the entire season and I am sick to death of baseball. I was hoping to be done with tickets until next season...

Tonight's agenda:

• Have dinner
• Make and chill Boston Cream Pie martinis
• Change into jammies and gather kitties
• Watch South of Nowhere and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (!!) while consuming martinis

Sounds pretty good to me!

I'm about to head to bed, but first...

I have a confession to make. I set up this "tapes" discussion this afternoon for use and analysis for a project I need to do for school. I will be having this same conversation in three different discourses (here, by e-mail with a friend, and in person with a different friend) to analyze how the different discourses allow the conversation to progress and the meaning made during the conversations.

Please let me know if you have a problem with me using your posts for this analysis. This is just for a class at school. This is not for anything further than a project that will be seen by one of my professors, and maybe some classmates.

I hope that no one has a problem with me setting this up in the way that I did. I think it was a really interesting discussion, and I enjoyed it. I’m looking forward to analyzing it further. But, I hope it doesn’t break any trust that I have built with the board.

Sounds pretty good to me!

I want to go to Glamcookie's house tonight!!!!

I'm getting ready to leave work, so I can get home in time for BSG. I think I follow her direction since I can't be with GC and will order in Thai, put on jammies, gather up kitty and watch BSG.

I've eaten soup, crackers, and apple juice.

Sick food is boring.

I also bought some of that frozen rice that I've been mocking for years.

I've found warm pajamas and a snuggly blanket, and now I'm watching SVU.

I'm about to head to bed, but first...

I have a confession to make. I set up this "tapes" discussion this afternoon for use and analysis for a project I need to do for school. I will be having this same conversation in three different discourses (here, by e-mail with a friend, and in person with a different friend) to analyze how the different discourses allow the conversation to progress and the meaning made during the conversations.

Please let me know if you have a problem with me using your posts for this analysis. This is just for a class at school. This is not for anything further than a project that will be seen by one of my professors, and maybe some classmates.

I hope that no one has a problem with me setting this up in the way that I did. I think it was a really interesting discussion, and I enjoyed it. I’m looking forward to analyzing it further. But, I hope it doesn’t break any trust that I have built with the board.

I don't know where to begin with my problems with this. I mean, I didn't say much in response to your topic, because it felt false to me from the get go, and because I'm already so tired of watching this thread turn to doom, gloom and drama on such a regular basis.

When I thought it might be organic, I confined myself to expressing my frustration off the board. When I thought it might be organic, I confined my reactions to thoughts along these lines: I was already feeling down today, but that thread is killing me. It's the all-therapy-all-the-time thread. I can't take it.

Now that I know it was staged for a project, without an explanation up front, I'm just pissed.

When we turn (devolve) into what I think of as "The couch," organically, I don't publically object, despite the fact that I often think it gets way unhealthy in here. I realize other people feel differently, and I am glad that people I care about have a safe space to talk about what's weighing on them, even if I think too much fluffing happens here, for HUGE drama over small issues, on a regular basis.

But this? Projects aren't safe space. Manipulating the community into participating in the project isn't friendship. It's puppet mastery.

It's the quintessential risk of hanging out with psych majors.

Cindy, I get where you are coming from, and if it is the wish of those who participated in the conversation that I not use it, I won't. That's why I'm asking.

And yes, I did set it up to a point. But, it came from something that was said by someone. It didn't come out of nowhere.

I do not like the idea of a conversation generated for homework.

I do however, think the conversation itself was interesting, and I'm glad to have read it. I've never done therapy. I don't know these terms--so not only was it further insight into the posters of the thread, it was insight into the mental health process.