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Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: 198505 (---.cable.ubr04.pres.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: December 07, 2007 05:30PM

You can add send a text in there as well now.

It's not too bad though, it's bad when it's your children doing the same to you.
I know all about that. My 2 keep checking and asking why I don't answer my home phone in the week any more after 8-30.
'Well sweet, it's cos I was round at my girlfriends, and only got home at 6 am?'

Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: MartinB (---.cache.isnet.net)
Date: December 07, 2007 06:10PM

Numbers? You are back! Or did you not go...? Sure you left....

Hello anyway.

This is the nice thing about living at Uni. No one really cares where you sleep.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: December 08, 2007 02:17PM

WWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!


When you start to snore in a Cognitive science lecture mid afternoon the lecturers tend to get a bit stroppy. You become unwitting competition for them and are generally far more interesting. I only survived because I had already handed in medical cert stating that I was malfunctioning and the specialists couldn't find a reason. Eventually tracked after two years to a partly malfunctioning pituatry gland. Temporary solution was instructions to eat chocolate, sweet lollies, unsweet lollies, and anything with a bit of sugar in it. No protein as it took too long to metabolise and I would go to sleep in the meantime.

I was lucky with Geography subjects. I had Rowley Twidale as a lecturer and he was entertaining as well as informative.

Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: MartinB (---.cache.isnet.net)
Date: December 08, 2007 06:19PM

I do not have afternoon lectures. But I do tend to fall asleep in the lectures I do have.

It is like I am allergic to lecturerers or something. I do not crash regularly at a given time (since lecture times shift from day to day), but I regularly doze off. No matter how interested I am.

__________________________________
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: OC Not (---.socal.res.rr.com)
Date: December 10, 2007 09:13AM

I like the word "stroppy." It shall be incorporated...

Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: BibwitHart (---.rivernet.com.au)
Date: December 11, 2007 10:37AM

Dozing off like Peppermint Patty!

Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: December 11, 2007 10:40AM

Well, it was Cog Science. It would put most normal people to sleep, although computer science and mathematics students appeared to maintain some semblance of alertness and understanding.

[I got 55% for each of the three essays I had to submit]

Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: BibwitHart (---.rivernet.com.au)
Date: December 11, 2007 10:49AM

Is that a bare pass?

Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: 198505 (---.cable.ubr04.pres.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: December 11, 2007 08:01PM

Getting back on topicish here, I know dangerous money is being spent on this but, I met my girlfriends mother last week, 71 looks a good 10 years younger, she likes the look of me, and commented that we look very comfortable as a couple.

Only her dad and her ex husband to go now.

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Blood! Death! War! Rumpy pumpy! Triumph!

Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: BibwitHart (---.rivernet.com.au)
Date: December 12, 2007 08:23AM

Good luck then! (hope the ex-husband meeting is uneventful).

Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: December 12, 2007 10:31AM

Very much a bare pass, but that's all I needed. However I found out later that people with linguistic skills as opposed to numeric usually got bare passes. It is apparently a geek subject.

As for someone attempting to get back on topic such behaviour is unacceptable in a universe where nearly every thing happens and what doesn't happen has a good excuse.

Good luck with the new person, and her mother. If you have her mother onside you have most of the battle won. Fathers follow along without too much display of initiative and ex's have no say in the matter. Are there any byproducts of her previous relationship? They may cause some settling in problems, but nothing that chocolate, humour and/or a shared interest won't fix.

Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (149.135.108.---)
Date: December 12, 2007 12:58PM

Although if they are of a certain age, you may have to read Harry Potter...

Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: MartinB (---.cache.isnet.net)
Date: December 13, 2007 10:15PM

Geek subject? Check the latest xkd for how to deal with that. It is the one involving "nerd sniping".

__________________________________
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: OC Not (---.socal.res.rr.com)
Date: December 14, 2007 07:24AM

Hey numerals best of luck. At least her mum doesn't live next door. Imagine, how offputting! (Sigh.)

But what do your offspring think of her? That might be most important of all, you know. (See Parent Trap.)

Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: 198505 (---.cable.ubr04.pres.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: December 14, 2007 05:47PM

Youngest likes her a lot and plays with her daughter, same age,
Oldest likes her, but it too wrapped up in her boyfriend to see much.

Had 2 days together in the Lake District, and going round about 7-45 tonight, and she is missing me already!

Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: December 15, 2007 10:11AM

Lots of crossed fingers here

Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (58.163.131.---)
Date: December 16, 2007 03:45AM

awwwwwwwe!

Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: December 16, 2007 11:55AM

198505

Hook, line .... and not yet sinker, I think.

BK,

Think ....deep breath....it is not as good as chocolate. You can eat chocolate in public. You can admit to your mum that you enjoy chocolate. Chocolate doesn't make you sleep on the wet patch. You can keep chocolate for later and it doesn't degrade. Chocolate doesn't hog the TV remote. Chocolate doesn't watch the footy and cricket but allows you to watch reruns of Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, etc. Chocolate doesn't leave its wrappings on the floor - not least without your consent.
there's no such things as an inadequate chocolate.

Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: MartinB (---.cache.isnet.net)
Date: December 16, 2007 04:44PM

What if it has nougat? Or is covered in marzipan?

__________________________________
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Anxiety Attack
Posted by: BibwitHart (---.rivernet.com.au)
Date: December 16, 2007 10:49PM

Wet patch??

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