anonemouse

I am originally from Crossville, which is about 2 hours east of Nashville. I am currently in grad school in Kentucky, though. I am having my surgery done by Dr. Weaver in Memphis.

I had the same problem. Even LB's petites are too long for me. I ordered some lounge pants (supposedly petites) online from them, but they were still about 5 inches too long. I also have shorter arms, so most of their long-sleeve and 3/4 sleeve shirts were too long for me. Even their underwear doesn't fit me right.

That's great. I have to teach a fungi kingdom lab for my students each semester, and I always have to remind them to be careful if they go out to hunt for mushrooms (some of them aren't the brightest folks in the world). I just wanted to make sure that you knew the difference between the two.

Some people can taste barium and some people can't. It's just a genetic trait. Unfortunately, I seem to be one who can. I would guess that you just can't taste it.

I try to respect everyone's opinion, even when I don't agree with them. That's why I never even considered using the rep-power thing to get back at people until they had already used it against me. I had just never occured to me to punish someone for their political beliefs. It makes me sick to think that I sank to that level. I learned a valuable lesson from it, that even though I may respect other people's opinions (or at least think that they have the right to express them without being punished), it doesn't mean that they respect mine. What bothers me the most was that I let that realization affect me to the extent it did.

I am absolutely pooped. I wrote a 23 page research paper in about 8 hours today. I have yet again learned my lesson about procrastination. I've had since late March to do it, but I waited until today. The very day it was due. :faint: Well, actually, I waited until yesterday to work on it, but I spent yesterday doing the statistics for it and didn't get much writing done. I started writing the actual paper about 12:30 last night and got about a page done. Then I went to campus this morning and found out that I was doing it in the wrong format, so I had to start all over again. It definitely isn't my best work, but I have a 100 average in the class, so I don't need to do wonderfully on it to get an A in the class. NEVER AGAIN will I do this. Of course, I say that every time I procrastinate. And then I do it again. :faint:

My insurance required that I have a drug test before I could get approved.

Exactly. I'm a listener. I firmly believe that you can tell exactly what kind of person someone is by listening to them and observing them for a while. Oh, yeah. If my first impression of someone (there's that listening again!) is bad, I generally don't ever come around to really "liking" them. I may pretend that I like them or act friendly around them, but really, I probably won't think much of them. And what you said about dropping friends really rings a bell. I lived with my roommate for four years, and was really quite close to her. She got married, I moved away to go to grad school, and it's now been about a year and a half since I've even emailed her. I tend to look at people more as "aquaintances" than "friends". I'll be friendly with people but I've never met someone that it would break my heart to never see again.

Ouch. You know, I hadn't thought of it like that, but that's exactly what it is, letting the pressure build. I'm really not trying to brag, but I can definitely tell you that even though I only really worked on my paper today (other than the statistics), it will still be better than some that my classmates have worked on for a month. I hate saying that, because I'm really not an egotistical person, but that's how it's always been. Even in high school, I never studied. If I could get an A or a B in a course with doing only a few minutes of studying before the exams, what's the incentive to actually put effort into it? Of course, that's also gotten me in trouble sometimes, because in some courses (like math), you can't do that. I'm pretty horrible at math, just because I don't put the effort into practicing. But seriously, I know that I could do better than I do if I didn't put things off to the last minute. I always ask myself, though, why put a lot of effort into raising my grade only a little bit?

Congrats, MsDad!

That's usually why I end up procrastinating. I do work better under pressure. If I try to start a project early, I can't think of anything to write. I wind up getting stressed out for a few days, but it works for me, usually.

This makes a lot of sense. In fact, it's one of my big problems here on the site. I expect people and their ideas to make sense. If it doesn't make sense to me, I have a hard time understanding why people believe in it. The opposite is true, too. If something makes logical sense to me, I can't understand why people don't beleive in it. Again, that's mainly why I don't understand Christian fundamentalists. Their beliefs don't make logical sense to me, so I just don't understand why they believe in it. I understand that they get some sort of sentimental value from it, but it isn't logical to me. It's really given me some problems when I teach, too. I have a hard time teaching some concepts to people, because I just don't understand why they DON'T understand and I don't know how to help them because that my understanding is just logical and intuitive to me.

When I first read that, my first thought was, "that's me". And it is. Even on this site, I get accused of arrogance (or "blathering", as one member said). It isn't that I'm arrogant, it's just that I am extremely self-confident in what I know. If I don't think I know something, I don't speak up at all. I am actually known (in real life, not online) for being extremely withdrawn, quiet, and reserved. I've been accused of being cynical in the past, and I guess that in some respects, I am. I don't trust people easily, and I don't have a lot of sentiment (which some of you have probably figured out by reading my posts in some of the RnR threads). In some ways, I think it's a waste of time. When I read the part about INTJs wondering if something "works", I really think that is part of why I am an Atheist. Religion doesn't "work" for me. With my reasoning, the only purpose it has is sentiment, which is something I am not big on. When I am in groups, the lack of ability in small talk is really evident. To me, it serves no purpose. I tend to become very reserved because I have very few social skills.

My only objection to the post-death baptism is that I don't want to go down in history as a Mormon. I want to go down in history as an Atheist. To me, it's desecration to officially change someone's religious beliefs after they've died. I don't give a damn what other people believe, even if it is my descendents. I am NOT a Mormon, and they better not try to have me become one after I die. 'Cause, I swear, I will come back and haunt the little bastards.

I can get the quick links button to work in any forum, but not on the main page. Anyone know why that might be?

Well, the process of getting everything TO the insurance company took forever, but once they had everything they needed, I was approved over the weekend. The surgeon's office submitted everything on the 27th, and they called on the 30th, telling me that I was approved.

Because some people don't realize that you don't have to have money to have class. Unfortunately, some of my relatives are like that. Think of the stereotypical redneck (well, almost - no hunting) blue-collar factory worker with a beer constantly clutched in his hand, and you'd have my uncle to a "T". Nine-months pregnant potbelly, and all.

Oh, yeah. I can see that one working out. Of course, it sounds about as bad as the family differences between my old roommate and her (now ex) husband. His family was Mormon. Her's was, well, not, to say the least. Her parents were divorced, didn't get along well, and her father remarried 3 months after the divorce. Her mother married a Brit not long after that, who now stays at her apartment all day, since he apparently isn't allowed to get a job. Honestly? It wasn't a surprise at all when my friend and her husband were separated within 6 months and officially divorced the day before their first anniversary.

I just heard my cell phone beep. Apparently I got a call today from the surgeon's office, and the person that called said that my insurance had approved me! They just resubmitted everything on Friday! I can't believe it happened that fast! :faint: :bounce: Of course, now I can't help but think about how soon I would have been approved if the office manager hadn't lost my paperwork AGAIN. Oh, well. They are going to call again to set up appointments and hopefully a surgery date.

Yeah, when reading it, you really have to wonder about the intelligence of some people.

If you guys ever check out this site, be prepared for some laughs. It's a thread called "Things I Learn From My Patients", where ER doctors and nurses post, and there are some pretty outragous stories about what people stick in themselves.

Oooh, I like your dress! I am very fond of aqua shades, and they look especially pretty next to black.

Yeah, what I saw (admittedly, I may have missed one), it was only one poster.

Yeah, I don't really put much stock into a single study. Now, if they could back it up with multiple studies, using multiple sampling methods, that's another thing. Don't forget, also, that there is a distinct difference between correlation and causation. Excess weight and lesbianism may be correllated, but that doesn't mean much. You can correlate the decline in pirate activity with the increase in global warming, but that doesn't mean the one caused the other.

Not yet. I missed their first call and they haven't called back yet (and I've been too busy with end of the semester crap to call them). It should be sometime this summer, though. (It better be before August 2nd, or I'll have to have everything resubmitted to insurance under the new policy that I'll have).