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Good luck with the treatment. Remember to take all the antibiotics and afterwards it might be an idea to treat your system to some prebiotics and probiotics to replace the friendly bacteria that got wiped out with the nasties.

Hey, dude, hang in there, a colleague of mine has had kindof the same thing, and she got much better after so hey, things are looking up, they have found what's wrong and there's a cure, just think of all the fun you can have soon when you get a big fat beer belly like the rest of us normal humans... :biggrin:

I've been to the doc's too, with my CT scan results after having my lumbago, and he said that I was on my way to having a slipped disc, but if I'm good, it'll get better before it gets that far... so I'll have to start by some physiotherapy, and then, well, gym, swimming, and continuing to lose weight will help, and basically being careful, no heavy lifting, bending knees, all that... *sigh* If my parents were rich enough I would so sue them dry...

Wow,Rince,look for(haha)the fat girl in a "So how do you like Iceland" t-shirts wawing the icelandic flag,and you've got me

Shirt singular,not plural.I'm fat but not that fat

I don't know how many tens of thousands will be at the concert Rince,but I'll look for a skinny,un-constipated guy with a big camera....I'll be waving the icelandic flag,shouting "No one's gonna take me alive",yodelling oder etwas.
Oh,I'm a nurse,and if you haven't already had stomach problems with your meds,then they're unlikely to start later....ciao
London Baby!

My workday on friday consisted of me breaking up rock (a sphalerite ore sample) by hand with a sledge hammer to a powder that was less than 1mm in diameter. Took eight hours to do 1 kg.

Research is fun:smile:

Actually it was quite stress relieving.

I am sickeningly jealous of you fiends going to see muse... today, as it is...

I saw them last year in manchester, and they were more than incredible. >wistful sigh<

No, that was my in-laws. I would sue them for faulty fabrication... The list of thigs wrong with me that I was either born with or that are directly the fault of or made worse by them being daft when it comes to anything medical, is as long as my arm. And I have freakishly long arms.

Edit for cross posting : Thanks Grace, unfortunately, almost having a slipped disc means more exercise and eating healthily (more or less) so it's doubly sucky.

Pity we can't physically get together, I've always said that a**e kicking to music is a neclected form of LIA... (Low Impact Aerobics)

Don't look at me, my weight is perfect for my height*.










*When I'm wearing stilts.

I have been a bad person and haven't exercised properly in a long time. My arse is beginning to give away my guilty secret... Damn snitch that it is.

We could always start an exercise thread and become hugely competitive and yell pathetic platitudes with a smile* to encourage each other.



*This is what you get on exercise videos, where the non-sweating anorexic evil instructor yells "SMILE! I KNOW THIS HURTS! BUT THINK OF HOW FABULOUS YOU'LL LOOK!" I always wanted to kill them, which made me mad and made me avoid those videos.

Yeah, I have a yoga video like that, where the bit*h does a demo of all the insane bendy things she can do and then says "now, for you, we'll start with learning how to sit down. If you can't do this first time, use a towel."

Hate her !

Sorry to hear that Rinso. I hope the drugs do work, unlike the verve once sang. On a lighter side is this the reason for your uglyness?

Hey, Grace, don't sweat it, gaining weight is just as much a problem for some as loosing it is for others, and also so much more overlooked by important pillars of society such as... Cosmo ?

(Damn I really must stop mentioning that damn mag or you guys will think I actually do read it ! Which I don't, unless that's all there is in the doctor's waiting room. Although admittedly I do spend a lot of time in waiting rooms at the moment. It's just a nice international reference for stupid girly mag's... )

Respect?
Admit it Kat, you love that magazine.

Quite, Rinso, what respect ? And please read the next paragraph after I mentioned it, it does explain a lot And nope, Sam, I don't, sorry. I admittedly have one copy of it at home, but it's the special interior design edition 2005 that I pinched from a doctor's waiting room, and only because it had a great article about place mats made out of banana leaves and absolutely nothing about slimming or fashion. And it is probably because it is the only trace of girly magazines that I actually have that I can come up with that name. I would have rather a hard time thinking of another girly magazine right now off the top of my not-blonde head.

So, looks like I'm having computer trouble again. Took it into the shop and looks like it's 100 bucks to replace a small but essential part in it.
I really need a new computer, but that's something I can't afford until the end of the year.

What with the availability of computers in the world I'm not really strapped for internet, but my biggest trouble this week was that last Monday I had an anxiety attack and had to go to the emergency room. I'm doing better after a week -- still seeing my lovely therapist and decided to soldier on with my summer Astronomy class -- which was partially to blame for my meltdown.

Hopefully things will be all right for the rest of the summer. I'm saving up money for a new printer, and once I get paid hopefully the tickets for the Marilyn Manson/Slayer concert won't be sold out yet (I know, Manson in Nebraska, get the pitchforks. It's gonna be a blast).
Summer class could be worse, but the early morning hour makes it less than fun. At least working at the library means I have time to do all my homework! Yay!

So yeah, that's where I've been. Accursed technology. *shakes fist* Accursed emotions *shakes fist at self*

You need to eat more puddings Grace as they are generally calorie packed. Or are you not a pudding person?

Rincewind?Did you go to the show?
UNBE-F***ING-BELIEVABLE.............I'm in a daze.......

Your not far off the truth at all Rinso. I did live the life of reily indeed. I blew a lot of chocolate covered badgers and opened a very shrewd shrew sales office in shrewsbury. Then it all fell to pieces when I found out they weren't actually shrews but in fact small cats with eating disorders. Needless to say I no longer run a dot.com business and I barely struggle to keep my dot.co.uk business running.

Heh. Good to have you back, Kenny.


This bothers me though:

Is that stereotypical? I thought most people know how to drive, which makes your case atypical
Try driving on back roads and avoid the highway? Takes longer, is slower and much more relaxing. Mostly not too crowded either, and if it suddenly appears to be, you can just pull over and let the crowd pass.

Well I go away for a day and Kenny starts blowing badgers and the world has a panic attack. I think its one of those kinds of days...

I had one panic attack while driving, I just freaked out completely as I needed to get across 4 lanes of heavy traffic so I could turn the corner and I didn't have much space available to perform this manouvre. I just freaked, decided I couldn't get across the traffic and nearly in tears I went straight ahead for ages until there was a left into a side street, I turned the car around by going around the block and then turned right to get back to where I needed to be...

I then didn't drive for years. Then I moved cities to one where public transport is a mythic creature that is run for the convenience of no one. I had to get back behind the wheel of a car. After much practice I am now comfortable driving at anytime. Don't give up Hsing, practice will make it seem every day and I'd say avoid the autobahn at all costs. barreling semis at unlimited speed is a recipe for freaking out.

I have no news. My life is so lame.

BTW I hope you feel better soon Rinso.

Hsing, you have all my sympathy, as I am one of those who gets driven around by her husband (mainly because of my unpredictable dizzy spells that would be extremely dangerous if I was driving and had one) and I get panic attacks (although less extreme than yours or Mal's) as a passenger ! I don't even feel comfortable if I try to drive myself round a deserted car park, so hey, I don't know how you lot manage to drive on the roads with other cars at all !
But yeah, stick to the back roads as much as possible, we did it for an 8 hour trip, and boy was it more fun and less hassle, even though the motorway version would only have taken 6 hours...

A day in the life of Pepster:

Today I ground up a mineral sample (powder) by wet milling it in a ball mill, the idea was to take it down to a average particle size of less than 10 microns.

This was the first time I did this, it was generally successful. Successful until I tried to remove the sample from the mill, where I have managed to make a huge mess of it. It being a green sludge that is sensitive to oxygen.

I also paid bills, it has been a day of success, failure and being kicked in the balls (the bills).

Well as a few of you may have noticed I have been around the last couple of days and I plan on making this a permanent return. Firstly i'd like to say how good it feels to be back reading the great stuff (dribble) that you lot write on this board. Secondly I suppose I should explain where i've been and why i've not posted a lot in the past year or so.

Well a lot has happened to me in the past year. There is no real excuse why I stopped posting here, it was nothing to do with the people on this board at all. As many of you know I class a lot of you as my friends, some as good friends. All that it really was was that I had so much going on in my life that I just lost track of things like the board, and not only the board. As always there is a girl involved and as seems to happen with me when I meet someone I really like I tend to forget about everything else and concentrate only on my life with her, for this i'd like to aplogise. I suppose thats the main reason for my lack of posting but also I had a bit of a messy job change and I also started studying for my Beng in Manufacturing systems last October which when working full time can be a right pain in the arse, as i'm sure many of you know.

Really i'd just like to apologise for ignoring you all for the past year or so and hope you'll take this smelly and scruffy doorman, if Doors still needs me, back into your group and love him, or loathe him, as you once did.

PS: This post is far too serious for me so i'd just like to say Rinso is an Irish eejit who would quite happily live in a shoe with a mouse family comprising mainly of Rats!

PPS: Great new board by the way!

Love ou or loathe you, such is the question... As I haven't really had a good chance to get to know you much before you were kidnapped by the brain-eating zombie Daleks (although, of course, they let you go as soon as they noticed you didn't have anything interesting for them to eat) I will have to make this a snap judgement.

Bikkits.

Milk or plain ? (hint : milk is evil)

Sure. You just don't want your mascara to run, we know.

Welcome back Kenny...

I have very .. umm .. interesting characters sitting around me at work. One of them just asked me .. what is this Carnegie Mellon? Is it a good university? I mean, wow.

Hey, Grace, no problem, I'm sure that especially here people either know you and are willing to listen and even try to help, or they don't know you enough to mind the venting :wink:

If it makes you feel any better, you will soon get a wonderful handmade jumper. Ok, so soon means probably October and besides it'll be so swelteringly hot until then that you won't even care about jumpers until you get it. But still, this should, in itself, cure any feelings of stress or depression.

Also, it is purple. Or maybe dark plum is a better description.

Until that, consider you receive a minimum wage of one Large size virtual hug from me each and every day... I still have no idea of whether I will still have a job in 10 days time, and it's starting to worry me a little, but then, that's life, things have to go downhill a bit so they can pick up speed and get up the next hill. Whatever happens, we'll be thinking of you both and wishing you the best.

*offers hugs to anyone who needs them*

I've been busy with my essay, as you should have noticed by now, and I've been down, maybe because of stress, maybe because of something else, and I tend not to post then... or do anything. I'm kind of anti-social to begin with, so when I get down I just don't have the energy to bother.

Also, I've passed all my credits this term and I'm now looking forward to a bit of free time until the 1st of September when next term starts... with pedagogics again.

Sorry to hear that Grace. **Big hugs**

You could always sell your first born...

What, Rinso ? No one would buy him, they've been trying for years anyway.

Wow. I really must find something to do with my time, I just noticed I have hit the 3000 post count... :shock:

You are slow. It's 3048 - so you are 48 posts too late. And we should probably remove the 3000 posts that say "Pfft "
Still, well done

Edit: I take back the allegations of speed. You're French

Pffft


(If I'm French, you're a cheese naan.)

Well... France ?

Become Irish, then he'll have no claim to be a relation.