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Old Nov 10, 2016, 04:24 PM
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Thanks. I have to drive my H to the hospital tomorrow because he may have broken his foot at work. Everything seems to come at once...
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 04:30 PM
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I read all of Gerald Durrell - my favorite was My Family and Other Animals -it was the first of his I ever read and I got it on the dime table at the library sale when I was 10. It makes me laugh out loud every time I read it.

I have been taping, but have not yet watched, the masterpiece theatre episodes based on it.
I love them, too, and also laugh out loud - earlier today I scared both cats, who had been sleeping peacefully on top of me, by suddenly starting to laugh when I was reading Birds, Beasts (etc).

I read The Bafut Beagles, in translation of course, over and over as a kid, starting when I was about five. I didn't read any of his other books until much later.
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 04:33 PM
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I read all of Gerald Durrell - my favorite was My Family and Other Animals -it was the first of his I ever read and I got it on the dime table at the library sale when I was 10. It makes me laugh out loud every time I read it.

I have been taping, but have not yet watched, the masterpiece theatre episodes based on it.
My dissertation adviser gave me a copy of My Family and Other Animals during a particularly trying stretch of writing. I still turn to it occasionally. His brother Lawrence's descriptions of him are quite funny too. (eta: having read Crocus's picture, I also now realize that their writing styles are very similar. Just on different topics.)

I'll have to look for those episodes!
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 04:56 PM
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Here is a theoretical scenario for you to discuss (or not, if you prefer) while I am asleep.

Suppose you had been thinking about a certain behavioural pattern in your spouse/partner/other family member/close friend, a pattern that was mildly harmful for you and that your T and some friends even called mildly abusive (not physical abuse). This has been pretty much ongoing for many years. Then the person suddenly tells you about a friend of theirs, whose Facebook posts makes it clear that their spouse treats them in a manner similar to what you have been upset about in your relationship with your person, and your person is a little upset on their friend's behalf. Might that mean that you have been wrong and unfair in your assessment? (I say "might", not "does".) How would you go about getting less upset about this?

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Old Nov 10, 2016, 05:02 PM
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Here is a theoretical scenario for you to discuss (or not, if you prefer) while I am asleep.

Suppose you had been thinking about a certain behavioural pattern in your spouse/partner/other family member/close friend, a pattern that was mildly harmful for you and that your T and some friends even called mildly abusive (not physical abuse). This has been pretty much ongoing for many years. Then the person suddenly tells you about a friend of theirs, whose Facebook posts makes it clear that their spouse treats them in a manner similar to what you have been upset about in your relationship with your person, and your person is a little upset on their friend's behalf. Might that mean that you have been wrong and unfair in your assessment? (I say "might", not "does".) How would you go about getting less upset about this?

Goodnight!
I don't think you are wrong or unfair. I think this MIGHT show lack of insight into their own behaviour.
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 05:08 PM
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Here is a theoretical scenario for you to discuss (or not, if you prefer) while I am asleep.

Suppose you had been thinking about a certain behavioural pattern in your spouse/partner/other family member/close friend, a pattern that was mildly harmful for you and that your T and some friends even called mildly abusive (not physical abuse). This has been pretty much ongoing for many years. Then the person suddenly tells you about a friend of theirs, whose Facebook posts makes it clear that their spouse treats them in a manner similar to what you have been upset about in your relationship with your person, and your person is a little upset on their friend's behalf. Might that mean that you have been wrong and unfair in your assessment? (I say "might", not "does".) How would you go about getting less upset about this?

Goodnight!
I guess it would make it apparent that the person was unaware of their own behaviour. For me that would mean a greater hope of change in the relationship. In that not only does the person have room to change their perception of their own behaviour, but also they are showing themselves to be capable of empathy and to disagree with abusive behaviour. That could be conducive to change too.
I can see how the contradiction and lack of self awareness would be frustrating though!
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 05:22 PM
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Thanks. I have to drive my H to the hospital tomorrow because he may have broken his foot at work. Everything seems to come at once...


I hope both of you are better quickly!!
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 05:31 PM
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Feeling kind of one-dimensional today.
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In an academic setting is 37 words in a sentence too long. This was my tutors main gripe for my last assessment. It was the longest sentence in the essay and she gave no indicators as to how it could be broken up.
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 06:06 PM
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In an academic setting is 37 words in a sentence too long. This was my tutors main gripe for my last assessment. It was the longest sentence in the essay and she gave no indicators as to how it could be broken up.
I would have said that 37 words was on the *short* side.

If you want to PM it to me, I can see if I can break it down.

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Old Nov 10, 2016, 06:15 PM
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Ow. I hurt. Had a fall down a flight of concrete steps today. Landed on my chin. I'm lucky I didn't do more damage but I hurt my neck, legs and grazed my chin. It felt like a metaphor for my life.
Holy carp! Did you get an xray? You could get all misaligned from that, tmj at the least. If you didnt crack stg. That sounds like stg i heard on tv this week on an old cop show about what a mafia-type bad guy did to somebody!

Eta - re friend - sounds normal to me. But thats me.
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 06:22 PM
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In an academic setting is 37 words in a sentence too long. This was my tutors main gripe for my last assessment. It was the longest sentence in the essay and she gave no indicators as to how it could be broken up.
In legal writing it would be. I make my students break their sentences down to be more direct and concise. But strictly academic writing is not known for either.
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 06:35 PM
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Ooh! I got myself a new cable for my antenna - i have DIYA TV - its Indian! This makes the news bearable, listening to it with an accent. Its quite lovely. It lilts, its musical.
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 06:46 PM
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I just walked through the lamest student protest ever (proposed tuition hikes). The print on their signs was so small I had to squint to read it, it was long-winded, they all had their earbuds in, and they were all filming themselves. They weren't even chanting.
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 06:47 PM
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I've gotten a bruise on my ribs, not visible just feels sore. Being lazy and not inclined towards physical activity that might have accidentally injured me, I can only infer that my ribs are protesting the sheer amount of weight they have to carry around, and are therefore protesting their ill treatment the only way they can. In other news I'm off work tomorrow and the little has school, trying to talk myself into doing something non-sedentary for a little while before she comes home. Have a good night Couchies!
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 06:48 PM
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I think I just wrote a somewhat grammatically correct sentence with more than 37 words. . .
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 07:12 PM
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Ow. I hurt. Had a fall down a flight of concrete steps today. Landed on my chin. I'm lucky I didn't do more damage but I hurt my neck, legs and grazed my chin. It felt like a metaphor for my life.
Ouch, that sounds very painful and scary! Glad you didn't hurt yourself worse.
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 07:38 PM
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Thanks @@ and SD. I guess it depends on the discipline. I may ask what she thinks a good sentence length is.

Also my 'f' key is broken totally now. first the key came off and now the little rubber cone thing is broken.
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 08:56 PM
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Does anyone know how to disable the clickable link thing in a word document so the link appears as non-clickable?
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 09:20 PM
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In an academic setting is 37 words in a sentence too long. This was my tutors main gripe for my last assessment. It was the longest sentence in the essay and she gave no indicators as to how it could be broken up.
Oo! Oo! I love breaking sentences! Let me have a go!
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 09:21 PM
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Does anyone know how to disable the clickable link thing in a word document so the link appears as non-clickable?
I think right click then remove hyperlink
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 09:23 PM
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Does anyone know how to disable the clickable link thing in a word document so the link appears as non-clickable?
If you right-click on it, there will be a little menu--hover over "Hyperlink" on it, and then pick the option for "remove hyperlink." (If you have an earlier version of Word, you might have to select "edit hyperlink" first, then choose to remove it, if I remember correctly.)
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 09:35 PM
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Oo! Oo! I love breaking sentences! Let me have a go!
I hope you're as good at gaol-breaking, cause someday you and I will have to break unaluna out of jail, and I already called dibs on driving the getaway car.
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 09:41 PM
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Leonard Cohen died.
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Old Nov 10, 2016, 09:44 PM
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I saw that on my news feed. Really sad.
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