I used to be the ultimate/eternal optimist, but am a mess now & starting to lose that hope/feeling
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – <snipped did anyone say those magic words ? …. ‘ Useless Turd ‘ OK, NOW I know why we need a MonkeyBoy. It’ll be his job to give you 30 lashes with a wet noodle every time you use that phrase. Er, why would MonkeyBoy have a wet noodle? [Nancy again ponders the possibilities.] Spend some time at the monkey cage at the zoo during mating season. Are you suggesting that they use wet noodles when they’re mating?! I must’ve zoned out when that part of the mating ritual was described in all those nature programs on TV that I’ve watched over the years. Must’ve missed it in all the reading I’ve done, too. Odd where these gaps in my education lie. So, tell me more. Do the monkeys use Italian noodles, Oriental noodles, Eastern European noodles, or some more exotic variety? And does the type of noodle used vary with species?
http://www.hormel.com/templates/knowledge/knowledge.asp?id=171&catite… Manufacturer of noodle equipment… http://www.pavan.com/ Interesting technical article about types of noodles .. http://secure.aibonline.org/catalog/example/V20Iss12.pdf Asian Noodle Technology Short Course September 11-13, 2006 January 8-10, 2007 Winnipeg, Manitoba http://www.cigi.ca/pdfs/Asian_Noodle_Short_Course.pdf ‘… Despite experiencing unparalleled growth in sales up until the middle of 2004 the noodle market is expected to decline by 5.4% in 2005. This is largely due to the growing perception among many consumers that instant noodle snacks and instant savory noodles are relatively unhealthy. On the bright side, speed and convenience are of paramount importance when cooking and for this reason noodles still have considerable growth potential. There are opportunities particularly within the traditional noodles sector for alternatives such as rice noodles. Straight To Wok noodles also have experienced success and this fairly recent variety has considerable growth potential as a convenient yet healthy carbohydrate base for a meal. …’ http://reports.mintel.com/sinatra/reports/index/&letter=14/display/id… Cordially, RL
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<snipped did anyone say those magic words ? …. ’ Useless Turd ‘ OK, NOW I know why we need a MonkeyBoy. It’ll be his job to give you 30 lashes with a wet noodle every time you use that phrase.
Er, why would MonkeyBoy have a wet noodle? [Nancy again ponders the possibilities.] Nancy Unique, like everyone else
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Spend some time at the monkey cage at the zoo during mating season. — –John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – <snipped did anyone say those magic words ? …. ‘ Useless Turd ‘ OK, NOW I know why we need a MonkeyBoy. It’ll be his job to give you 30 lashes with a wet noodle every time you use that phrase. Er, why would MonkeyBoy have a wet noodle? [Nancy again ponders the possibilities.] Spend some time at the monkey cage at the zoo during mating season.
Are you suggesting that they use wet noodles when they’re mating?! I must’ve zoned out when that part of the mating ritual was described in all those nature programs on TV that I’ve watched over the years. Must’ve missed it in all the reading I’ve done, too. Odd where these gaps in my education lie. So, tell me more. Do the monkeys use Italian noodles, Oriental noodles, Eastern European noodles, or some more exotic variety? And does the type of noodle used vary with species? Nancy Unique, like everyone else
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Am worried I’ll never be able to CONSISTENTLY find and keep success in my career, with friends, with boyfriends, etc. ADD is the number-one cause for my current unemployment and lack of friends. I’ve matured a lot, but I took a job that was too senior for my experience–even though they hired me for it, knowing this. Anyhow, my ADD impulsivity created problems interacting w/people and keeping friends. I can make them easily, but it is keeping them that is the hard part. This is the 4th job I’ve had in 4 years. I was fired from the second and third, and this one was a firing for poor performance (even though I was hired with all the right credentials and was excellent at the main function, I lacked the industry knowledge the job called for. I can accept responsibility for myself just fine, but I didn’t change from what they hired me as–the job requirements did, but b/c these people were macho jackasses, they put it on me. So, b/c of poor planning on their part, they realized 6 months into my job that they needed someone with more experience–even though they knew up front that I had only 1.5 years, not the 5 or more they ended up needing.) I’m also impulsive. I get hung up on and fixated on individual guys and e-mail them incessantly, annoying and turning them off, b/c I’m so impulsive, I don’t stop and think about what I’m doing–and I’m needy, with low self-esteem. According to a lot of people, they think I’m extremely pretty, skinny, perfect body, funny, loyal, incredibly intelligent. But my ADD and OCD/anxiety antics drive people away–and have done so for YEARS. So, I’ve ended up with: –no job –no friends –never having had a serious boyfriend–I’m in my early/mid 20s. Part of this is due to the no friends, and therefore, not having opportunities to meet guys, and the other part is that I devote myself to whoever my latest crush is. I believe in myself, that I deserve to have a great job–I lost 2 of my 4 jobs for performance reasons, b/c I was so disgusted and felt the jobs were beneath me–which they definitely were. The first firing came the day before I handed in my typed resignation letter, b/c I hated it so much. The good thing is that I could collect unemployment, which if I’d quit, I wouldn’t have been able to do. I’m just starting to lose the faith I’ve always had in myself, the eternal optimism that is my trademark–hey, you have to have hope when your ADD has caused you to succeed and fail at equal levels your whole life. Getting 99th percentile scores on achievement tests and then failing classes b/c I wasn’t challenged and was bored out of my mind. Does anyone with ADD (and anxiety/OCD) ever maintain success once they’ve found it? Can ADDers live in the real world and be normal? I worry I’ll never make friends or have a boyfriend. Or be truly happy–something that has eluded me for years.
did anyone say those magic words ? …. ‘ Useless Turd ‘ ( Inside ASAD joke – grimace – one sided debate [ RL versus ASAD ] … sorry. Not part of the ADD – OCD thingy ) Cordially, RL
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<snipped did anyone say those magic words ? …. ‘ Useless Turd ‘
OK, NOW I know why we need a MonkeyBoy. It’ll be his job to give you 30 lashes with a wet noodle every time you use that phrase. Kitten
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<snipped did anyone say those magic words ? …. ‘ Useless Turd ‘ OK, NOW I know why we need a MonkeyBoy. It’ll be his job to give you 30 lashes with a wet noodle every time you use that phrase.
Psst. Notice the signature block ~~~ ‘ Sarcasm is my sword, Apathy is my shield. ‘ Uhm … Did anyone say, ’ Useless Turd ‘ ? see http://groups.google.com/group/alt.astronomy/msg/d9d4b0ab13fec813 seconds) ‘ Vanilla Gorilla (Monkey Boy) — V.G. Change pobox dot alaska to gci. Sarcasm is my sword, Apathy is my shield.
