So how are YOU today?

No work tomorrow.

9.00 am for the ******* doctor.

Goddess knows when for the ******* CAT scan.

2.00 pm for the physio.

My life is a social whirl.


Also, I had put Monday aside for the paperwork that is taking over my life.

So It'll just have to take over more.

I haven't dared look at my diary for Tuesday.

And that report has to be done.

Never mind that I have given it verbally like 50 times...with the goddam conference calls being RECORDED fer crissake, and that I have given my home phone number to the person who wants it, and offered to talk to her for as long as she likes, AND explained my situation.

You need policing, bunny. Honestly!

My back is hurting just from reading about your day, Deb. I'm so sorry you have to go through this.

How much sleep are you actually getting each night, Deb?

Dunno.


How much sleep does a BLOB need? Likely not much?

I wake up a lot at night when I make things hurt....then I get a hot drink, which seems to help....take drugs if I am allowed to, read a bit, play mindless games on my iPhone, and go back to sleep sometimes.


My mood would be lightened considerably if I could just exercise.

Really, I am just moaning a lot. Millions of people get bad disks every day, and I bet they don't moan like this.


Being rude to righties on A2k helps a bit...only I can't sit long enough to be really rude.

Mebbe our worst trolls and horrible people just have bad backs?

I really hope you manage to get some drugs tomorrow which do the trick! Can't stand it when I can't sleep properly! You've had a shocker of a run with this, you poor thing.



Well you'll just have to restrict yourself to short,though constant, bursts of rudeness! Well targeted little missiles.

I never really considered a possible connection between trolls & bad backs! You might be onto something there!

Heh! I'd like to KICK 'em in their bad backs.

I know you can ignore 'em and I do...but honestly, I am seeking a decently moderated site.

There's just something daunting about logging on to A2k hoping for a little learning or fun, to be greeted with pages of genoves, H2SO4 etc as the last posters....or people who just go to a thread to be rude to the side they don't like, making the whole thing just nasty. Yes, I know, I am joining this at present...but it's just deadening, really.

You know chances are they have baited enough people for the thread to have gone to hell, and it's truly hard to find threads they haven't polluted.


I have never really taken to Salon.com, likely cos people tend to agree...but somewhere there must be a decent site with real debate where the trolls are taken out?

I might try the NYT sections again...not sure if there debate fora survived the great crash that took out Abuzz.

Maybe the ABC discussions are worth it? But I really like the international flavour of international sites.

Sigh.

Any ideas anyone?

Sigh. I know, I know ....

I just popped a couple more people on ignore so I don't get tempted to be a goddam troll while I am being such a pain in the butt!

And I am trying to find a good site for therapists.

I'd LOVE to be able to get some decent professional discussion going, now that I get so little of it at work.

Ya know, I wish ignoring someone meant you couldn't see it if theirs was the last post on a thread.

Psychologically, it would make a difference if I didn't get two pages of almost pure genoves and H2o when I log on!!!

(about the trolling)

Not enough time for decent professional discussions at work then? That's really where they should happening.

I checked out one Oz politics forum last year & participated for a while ... but dropped out when it became obvious that it was the same people at loggerheads with each other, just jumping from thread to thread. Sound familiar? But many fewer participants than here, for obvious reasons. As for the ABC: I post there on & off. But it's not an ongoing forum ... pretty much responses to a particular issue in the news on a particular day ... then the thread is closed for comment & simply vanishes from sight.

Deb, you need a bubble bath with lots of good smelly stuff, shave under your arms and do your legs, lots of lotion and finish off with a wonderful powder, put on your favorite robe and finish the scotch.

By the way are you a Leo

Deb, You vacuumed!!!!



Are you nuts???

You're supposed to be taking care of yourself.

Sigh.

I did it while crawling around on my hands and knees.

This is supposed to be an ambulatory method recommended for those with backs....especially for getting to the toilet if back is really bad.

I think my back was fine with it, but my knees complained a bit.


There's always something in yer life bitching, eh?

It's more of a culture of the place issue, really, I think.

There's a couple of us now who want to see more, really miss it, and raise stuff...and also model not being afraid to say we're stuck, or we have no goddam idea about what to do and such.

Hopefully that might break the silence a bit? I think there's a lot of anxiety about not appearing like a proper expert or imperfect or somesuch dumb ****.

Got to doctor.

Ordered to take two weeks off at least!!!! Strong painkillers.

I'll worry about scans tomorrow.

Feels nice having someone take charge and stop the "should I work tomorrow" anxiety.

I am arranging to do some crucial tele-conference stuff anyway, cos I can, and that helps relieve my anxiety and there's some stuff that's time-limited.

Bought some crap magazines...waiting for nice pain-killers to work.

Feel better.

2 weeks - yikes!

How are we to find something to keep you entertained?!

Buggered if I know.

Good.

(Snort) I can just picture you saying, "hmmm, since I'm crawling around on my hands and knees anyway, I might as well vacuum the floor. Can't let a perfectly good crawl go to waste, now, can I?'