Velvet Elvis Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 My gf doesn't seem to get this. "Did you write that check today?" she will ask. "No," I respond. "I couldn't find a pen." "but there are are tons of pens look, there is one there and there and there and there . . ." She doesn't get that pens that are not in their places might as well not exist. Likewise, when she borrows my pen and doesn't put it back in its place she might as well be throwing it away. We've tried to work it out so that we have places which are designated points where we place objects of a specified kind. "all pens go in the basket on top of the television" is better for her than "the blue pen goes on the computer but the grey one stays by the alarm clock." Sometimes the basket on top of the television becomes depleted of pens as they are scattered about the apartment. I then can't find them and it's pointless to look and they might as well not exist because they are not in their place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latin Girl Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Why can't you make a basket for your things. And she can make one for her's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sepia Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 I started out the semester with thirteen pens. I'm down to one. I don't know where the fuck everything else went, or how to find it all. Hello, reality. If my roommate and I shared stuff-space, I think I'd drive her mad within the hour. Instead, we have this cozy little relationship where she has her room and I have mine, and my shit covers every surface which is not inside her room. Lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 I spent a lot of time creating spaces for my things... the problem is putting them there every time. Or remembering where those places are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenyflower Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Things have places. If a thing is not in its place, does it really exist? I'm not sure. This morning I found a checkbook that I had "lost" for months because I put it away in a new place. *That* was a bad idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becca Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 No! Nothing has a place! Of course, I can never find anything and when I do it's probably broken. But the idea of pens consistently going in a basket is laughable to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batou Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 you always find what you are looking for the last place you look if you are lucky enough to figure out where you put your glasses so you can go look for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit37 Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Oh, indeed, places have things. But I'm not reaching my hand down in there to see what exactly it is. Fuck you, DH, YOU stick your hands behind the couch cushions. Don't wanna know what's there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenyflower Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 you always find what you are looking for the last place you look But, of course. Cuz then you've found it and don't have to search any longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomboy Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 My keys and my work ID badge are the only things I own that have a place. Everything else is anyone's guess where it might be. I'm with Greenyflower I think. I seem to lose stuff more when I try to put it where it belongs. If I leave it out in the open, at least there's a chance I'll be able to spot it when I need it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seldarin Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 I think I may have finally solved my pen problem. For the low cost of 120 dollars I bought a fucking crate. 40 boxes, 5 packs to a box, 8 pens to a pack. That's 1600 pens. That should get me by till...like...march if I'm lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punky Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Oh things must be in there places! Very important. I was living w/my parents during a rough time. They were remodeling their basement and I was living in it. I'd wake up, run upstairs to take a shower, come back downstairs, and find that my mom had moved my belongings so she could start working. Every fucking morning she'd move my stuff before I got out of the shower. I lost a pair of pants for a month cause I couldn't figure out where she'd put them. One day I lost my mind over this and took a big huge nail and in a fit of rage I nailed my clothes to a support beam. Well, then I was the idiot with a hole in all of my clothes. But boy, did it feel good to drive that nail through my clothes before I got in the shower. I KNEW they'd be there when I got out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synthetic Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Yes, but the places keep moving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celestia Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Yes, but the places keep moving. <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Yes. Exactly. The things move, the places move it all moves including me around in circles looking for shit--all the time. VE: Tell her to write the checks and you wont need pens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sepia Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 I once lost my passport before an international trip. I finally found it in the second-to-last book, on the last shelf, of the last bookcase, in the last room of the house I searched. Does this mean it was in the second-to-last place I searched? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dweii Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 Things have places, definately. I need to be uberorganized in order to cope with ADHD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazon_42 Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 Why bother giving things places when there is a roving black hole that eats things and then spits them out someplace completely different, and my bras kidnap my car keys for six months? Plus the cats steal my socks, and one steals my underwear and I have NOT seen a couple of my t-shirts since I started dating Alex, as dating someone doubles (or in Alex's case qudruples) the number of roving black holes and kidnapping underthings. If it's an important thing, have several copies. And keyhooks are helpful but not infallible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 Zon, you speak the truth. Pens in baskets. Yup, I have a basket full of...erm, you know, there were pens when I started, but now there are highlighters, unsharpened pencils that I got in China, a candle, refills that fit no pens that I own... what were we talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breeze Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 Things have places. If a thing is not in its place, does it really exist? I'm not sure. OK this is sounding a bit like the philosophical question,"if a tree falls in the woods...." I have the uncanny ability to find things. My husband is amazed. I can find anything, within a short period of time. When we moved, and everything was spread willy nilly in boxes, I found what we needed when we needed it. We were both amazed. BUT, back to you VE - I am for your own personal basket of pens. Those are yours, and those move only when you command them to. And that would follow with just about anything that is important to you. If order is what you need, then you should have a way to achieve that, and your GF should respect it. Breeze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LikeMinded Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 If I try to organize everything, my things have places, except I can't remember where the places are! I just let the chips (things) fall as they may and generally find them fairly quickly. My super-organized tdoc finds this absolutely hilarious, but isn't discouraging my status quo of disorganized organization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sepia Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 Pens in baskets. Yup, I have a basket full of...erm, you know, there were pens when I started, but now there are highlighters, unsharpened pencils that I got in China, a candle, refills that fit no pens that I own... Hello, Other Me! You forgot the chopsticks, straws, geometry implements, birthday sparklers, glitter glue, fairy wand, and Canadian flag. No pens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigsaflyin Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 In theory, only. Or when I live alone, vaguely. I have a sort of photographic memory (I scroll my memory for the last visual image of a thing's whereabouts and am usually right, unless, as too often happens when living with otheres, it has been moved by someone else). "A place for everything, and everything in it's place." Uh-huh. The UNIVERSE is a PLACE, so I guess everything is ultimately in it's place, no? I think all my THINGS need to go into used cardboard boxes and find a PLACE at the curb on garbage day. SOME of them have made it there already, Thank You Adderall. pigs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 Somethings have places but don't stay there. My wedding band lives on my finger unless I am doing electrical work. Recently I have lost a bit of weight and now my wedding band is probably somewhere in the formt yard where I was raking leaves yesterday morning. I went through two yard & Leaf bags yesterday, leaf-by-leaf, as only a loony can do and didn't find it, yet. Tommy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazon_42 Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 OK this is sounding a bit like the philosophical question,"if a tree falls in the woods...." <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If a tree falls in the forest and then springs back upright as a joke, do the squirrels freak out? Tommy, as soon as the black hole spits up your wedding ring, 1) get it sized and 2) get a leather cord to put it around your neck for when you are doing yard work. As an aside, Dad lost his wedding ring in Havasu Canyon and Mom was overjoyed, she'd hated the thing after the first year and had an excuse to replace it. So as they say, DON'T PANIC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 Thanks, Amazon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seldarin Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 In theory, only. Or when I live alone, vaguely. I have a sort of photographic memory (I scroll my memory for the last visual image of a thing's whereabouts and am usually right, unless, as too often happens when living with otheres, it has been moved by someone else). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, that's more or less how I find everything too. The problem is I have a roommate that's just as disorganized as I am that can't do that and friends in and out all the time. So nothing's ever where I left it. And I'm stuck staring at an empty space going 'I left it RIGHT FUCKING HERE!' That's why I buy like a hundred of everything now and just have a great big 'extras' drawer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit37 Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 Pens in baskets. Yup, I have a basket full of...erm, you know, there were pens when I started, but now there are highlighters, unsharpened pencils that I got in China, a candle, refills that fit no pens that I own... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hello, Other Me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sepia Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 Pens in baskets. Yup, I have a basket full of...erm, you know, there were pens when I started, but now there are highlighters, unsharpened pencils that I got in China, a candle, refills that fit no pens that I own... Hello, Other Me! You forgot the chopsticks, straws, geometry implements, birthday sparklers, glitter glue, fairy wand, and Canadian flag. No pens. all that, and then I lose the basket! A-tisket a-tasket A green and yellow basket I wrote a letter to my love And on the way I dropped it I dropped it, I dropped it Yes, on the way I dropped it A little girlie picked it up And took it to the market (Was it red?) No, no, no, no (Was it brown?) No, no, no, no (Was it blue?) No, no, no, no Just a little yellow basket I'm told this song has *other* meanings.... <_> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazon_42 Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 A tisket A tasket A condom or a casket.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncc1701 Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 Heya, When I have my own office, things will all have places. Working in other people's offices makes this really tough. So, my pens are on a string, which hangs around my neck, along with my stethoscope. Add in a prescription-pad-on-a-string and I'd be all set! Once I lost the string for a month. Very, very scary stuff. Until I found it, at home, where a lot of other pens were. Rabbit, I really liked your post about places having things. Why I won't clean out the fridge, specifically those opaque unlabeled tupperwares. Things. In places. --ncc-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LikeMinded Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 ncc1701- I feel very bad for you, you being a physician and all. I'm somewhat thankful I'm going to be a researcher instead. We're expected to be a little bit absent-minded. ("Hey, how come there aren't any dye bands on my gel?... oh, I hooked the machine up backwards.") (Though, I don't think you can match my pdoc's disastrous afternoon two weeks ago.) Heya, When I have my own office, things will all have places. Working in other people's offices makes this really tough. So, my pens are on a string, which hangs around my neck, along with my stethoscope. Add in a prescription-pad-on-a-string and I'd be all set! Once I lost the string for a month. Very, very scary stuff. Until I found it, at home, where a lot of other pens were. Rabbit, I really liked your post about places having things. Why I won't clean out the fridge, specifically those opaque unlabeled tupperwares. Things. In places. --ncc-- <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncc1701 Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 Heya herrfous, Thanks for the sympathy. Having top-notch staff makes all the difference. Have fun as the mad scientist! I know a few. What happened 2 weeks ago? Sorry VE for threadjack. Not ADD myself, but it's funny how ADD issues resonate. --ncc-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LikeMinded Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 ncc1701- I'll summarize what my poor old (well she's not that old) pdoc did a couple weeks ago... First, she made the minor mistake of reversing two dosages on my Hx (wrote down that I was currently on 200mg Cymbalta and 30mg Lamictal... whoops). No big deal, she was very grateful I corrected her. The psych clinic I visit, where this pdoc works, has two separate Rx pads, one for controlled substances (all the way down to DEA Schedule IV), and one for non-controlled drugs. I suppose, since the clinic serves, for much of the part, indigent patients, that they believe they can't trust these "malcontents" with Rx pads where scripts can be modified to "illegal" things. The non-controlled Rx pads state in bold red text, "NOT FOR CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES!". (I always thought that Rx abuse was more an issue of the middle and upper classes, but anyways...) A few months ago, the pdoc wrote me an Rx for Provigil on the non-controlled pad. Oops. Walgreen's rejected it upon presentation and she faxed them a new one the next day and profusely apologized to me (again, no big deal... hell, I didn't even know that Provigil was scheduled, and I still had 5 days' worth left). Back to two weeks ago... now, this is very amusing. She had several scrips to write for me (Lamictal, Cymbalta, and Klonopin). As she was writing them, I told her... "oh by the way, remember that they won't accept a Klonopin Rx on a standard pad because it's controlled...". Her response: "oh, thank you for reminding me, but I was already well aware!" At that point, she surreptitiously scratched out the Rx she was writing, tossed it behind her back into the trash, and started writing a Klonopin scrip on the blue controlled substances pad... I refrained from laughing out loud and calling her bluff, as I was damn tempted to. Poor woman, I can't have anything against her, I'm too much like her in that respect. And again, she's damn disappointed if not outright upset that I withdrew all of my med school applications... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddy Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 I tried doing the organization thing. And couldn't find a damn thing. I live in a state of organized chaos. No one else can figure out my files but me. God I feel sorry for the lawyer that has to go through my estate. I can find and put my finger on anything that I need pretty much at a moments notice. But if anyone else searched through my library, they wouldn't have any idea of how I set up my system. If I even have one other than the fact that I know exactly where everything is. I memorized an entire retail store including many UPC codes for almost all of the popular items that I saw on a daily basis over a 6 month period of time. So yeah, organized chaos werks 4 me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LikeMinded Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 Actually... I did once misplace my mouse, as it's wireless! Bad idea! Bad herrfous, bad bad herrfous! (Though, not as many times as I've thrown the thing against the opposite wall in my room for being frustrated at it, or just in general... ahh gotta love anger issues.... God bless that mouse as it still works like the day I bought it, 4 years ago.) amazon_42 Not particularly concerned for condoms for myself, at least at this point. I'm sure though, when the day I die comes, I'll somehow have misplaced my casket. Don't ask how, but it will happen. And I still wouldn't have needed condoms by that point. =D ncc1701 Does the medical coat you wear have pockets? I find those convenient for holding pens (in cooler months, I tend to wear full sleeve button-ups on whose breast pockets I hold my cell phone, pens, receipts, and various other miscellany in, helps me to not lose these things. My favorite corduroy blazer also has one, which has come in handy and saved me from disaster more than once). Of course, there's one major disadvantage to the system. At the Cleveland airport a few years ago, all of the urinals were taken and I really had to go, so I deferred to a more conventional toilet stall. In my breast pocket, I had my boarding pass. As I leaned over the toilet to place my bag at my feet (I loop the carry strap around my feet so the bag can't be stolen), I heard a "plop". I stood up reflexively and looked down, and saw my boarding pass, which had fallen from the breast pocket into the toilet. Of course, this toilet was automatic. Sensing I had stood up (as if I had gotten up after using it), it immediately flushed and there went my boarding pass. Thank God for electronic ticketing... Simply by showing ID, the agent at a Continental Airlines desk was able to re-print my boarding pass in seconds. And she found my story absolutely hilarious, to boot. -dropping useful items since 1983, herrfous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazon_42 Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 Goddess forbid you lose a 'Scrip pad, NCC. Then your missing pad winds up on a poster on the wall of every pharmacy within 300 miles. *YEEK* My suggestion is, get your scrip pads hole punched, then get one of those wallet chains, and attach it there. It costs about 3 bucks extra at the printers to have them hole punch the batch. ADDED: Herferous, my will, family, and lawyer specifically have instructions to give to the funeral director to announce that my corpse/casket/ashes are "running a little late" and have them show up ten minutes after the funeral has started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldo Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 That's wonderful about the funeral. Might lighten up the mood a bit. But who knows if a sense of humor will be tolerated in future. I saturate my surroundings with pens. Another dozen every few months. I'm not sure where they leak out. However, they are starting to dry out. I like to carry a pocket knife but they go missing after a while. Many of my things have places, but then I get in a bit of a hurry and don't put all of them back in just the right place, yet I have to clean up public work area so I just toss in boxes. Now to go back down in the cellar and finish the van de Graaff generator, if I can find the pieces adn the tools..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 My wedding band is back in the right place again. Yesterday, my wife asked, "Why don't you rent a metal detector?" Duh! I did and $8 and 15 minutes later I had my ring back. I took fewer than 10 steps before the detector started warbling like a crazy grackle, and there it was right where I had looked on my hands and knees a dozen times or more -- and it was right on the surface. Tommy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sepia Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 I've just found four good pens and six bad (non-Pilot) pens in my coat pocket. Yay! Also a newspaper, two pairs of mittens, countless receipts and banking transaction slips, bus tickets to Toronto, over three hundred dollars cash (okay, I knew that had to be in there SOMEwhere), a universal TV "off" remote, two pencils, a straw, a chopstick, a comb, a half-pack of Nibs, a bandana, a dried cranberry, three pieces of Trident, and my dad's credit card number. Since he owed me three Christmas presents of my choosing, I hit up Amazon.ca without further delay. (Zon? They've added wedding registries....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncc1701 Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 Heya, Actually (to relieve all of our anxieties) I keep Rx pads in each room, and one at the front. They're secure until I need them. It's mostly about the damn pens. --ncc-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LikeMinded Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 I just found my laptop computer underneath the top half of a box, underneath my bed. I had no idea Apple built a 'walking' function into the iBook G4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazon_42 Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 (Zon? They've added wedding registries....) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, I caught that. But seeing as how most of Alex's relatives are 1) cheap and 2) luddites, and also 3) we'll have enough trouble trying to keep our realtive book collections from reaching critical mass.... I'm thinking Target. They have LOUSY books there. But good lamps. And bedding. And cat litter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazon_42 Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 Heya, Actually (to relieve all of our anxieties) I keep Rx pads in each room, and one at the front. They're secure until I need them. It's mostly about the damn pens. --ncc-- <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What, you don't get all the free pens you can handle from all the asshat drug reps trying to peddle Neurontin for every damn thing in the universe, and every drug company trying to sell its latest "CR" or "XR" or right angle rotating isomer patent extension cheat? I hear they've invented some cutsey new formula that's sorta kinda Librax but not really that they're gonna market as a whole new drug with a whole new 20 year patent, that should be worth 15 pens at least. Plus the fuckers at McNiel are trying to get Topomax approved for everything short of hair regrowth and fertility treatments, and Wyeth's whoring Effexor for chronic pain since the patent's running short on that too. Lilly's dealing Straterra like downton LA deals in Crack, Meth, and Smack (and it's just as nasty)....You should be ankle deep in pens. And it only takes 1/2 second and a little acetone to get the drug name off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stasis Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 Everything else can disappear. I always know where my Pistol is. Commies and Aliens you know. The truck, hmmm I left it someplace. Stasis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncc1701 Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Heya Zon, Lots and lots of em. Even thought the Aspie/schizoid/social phobia makes me scared to talk to the reps. But if I put one down, it grows legs and walks away with one of the staff, or nurses, or (mainly) docs. So I wear 'em. Everyone learns fast that if it can be attached to my string around my neck, it's mine. So they all use pens that won't attach. The disadvantage is that my pens are all together. Advantages (beyond theft deterrence) include the fact that when those crappy drug pens run out, I can toss one and immediately grab another off my string, in one smooth move. And that it's a good icebreaker -- usually looks like one of those necklaces with alligator teeth on them you see in National Geographic. --ncc-- Heya, Actually (to relieve all of our anxieties) I keep Rx pads in each room, and one at the front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazon_42 Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Slick! That's a GREAT idea! If you ever go on "Survivor" you could totally pass it off as jewelwry or something and win cos you'd have like, pens! BTW, I make a hobby of baiting and tortuing drug reps. Especially the ones selling optical isomer patent cheats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncc1701 Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Heya Zon, "Sure, Nasonex beats Flonase." "Sure, Flonase beats Nexium." "Sure, Cipralex (escitalopram, Lexapro in US) beats Celexa (citalopram)." "Sure, Nexium (esomeprazole) beats Losec (omeprazole)." "Sure, Alesse beats Tricyclen." Or, switch them all around. If it gets free samples for my pts w/o a drug plan, I'll say anything. And take all their pens, and pregnancy wheels, and birth control s/e charts, and ECG cheat-sheets. There may not be such a thing as a free lunch (although, I've slept through many a drug lunch after taking a bunch of cookies, so that seems free) but there is such a thing as a free pen. Come to think of it, my string *does* resemble one of those immunity thingies on Survivor. --ncc-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Lilly's dealing Straterra like downton LA deals in Crack, Meth, and Smack (and it's just as nasty)....<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hey hey hey, a girl's gotta have a hobby eh? lily Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncc1701 Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Heya, Drug Rep Lily: "Hey, you can have a cute cute kitten and three pens, because Strattera beats the hell out of meth, here's the studies." MD: "Okay, sure, whatever. Gimme the kitten and the pens." Meth rep: "Hey, you can have a sub and a pen, because meth beats Strattera hands-down." Me: "Well, meth is illegal, whereas Strattera is not. But, gimme the sub and the pen, before I call the cops." --ncc-- Lilly's dealing Straterra like downton LA deals in Crack, Meth, and Smack (and it's just as nasty)....<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hey hey hey, a girl's gotta have a hobby eh? lily <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Wait, those meth dealers are handing out subs now? Homemade subs? Rat bastards. Hmmm, maybe I still have some old Viagra notepads left or something. shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncc1701 Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Wait, those meth dealers are handing out subs now? Homemade subs? Rat bastards. Hmmm, maybe I still have some old Viagra notepads left or something. shit. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Heya Drug Rep Lily, Viagra beats Cialis for sure. Note pad please. And maybe some Swiss Chalet for the staff? --ncc-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wannabeok Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 For me all things have a place. For my husband nothing is in the same place twice. It drives me nuts when I can't find something. Of course, he is always asking me where things are. And, thank God, our three year old is more like me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncc1701 Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Heya wannabeok, Yah. Oh, yah. I tried putting a box out for him to put all his stupid receipts in. That lasted like one week, and now I just pick them up and put them there. And, his shoes are all where I trip. All. Not being a jerk, just does *not* get it. I hear ya. ---ncc-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazon_42 Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Heya, Drug Rep Lily: "Hey, you can have a cute cute kitten and three pens, because Strattera beats the hell out of meth, here's the studies." MD: "Okay, sure, whatever. Gimme the kitten and the pens." Meth rep: "Hey, you can have a sub and a pen, because meth beats Strattera hands-down." Me: "Well, meth is illegal, whereas Strattera is not. But, gimme the sub and the pen, before I call the cops." --ncc-- ***SPIT COFFEE*** ROFLMAO! My cousins Erin and Abby, (RpH and RN) once sat through an unholy long and BOOOOOOORING two hour presentation on "The Benefits of Low Molecular Weight Heparins" because it included a free steak dinner and open bar (wine and beer only). They said that by the end they were ready to kill either themselves or the presenter with the steak knife, and if they ever heard the words "low molecular wieght heparins" again they were going postal with a urinary cath or whatever was handy. ncc, if I ever become unholy rich I am buying off your student loans and making you my personal doctor. This, of course, comes with oversight a clinic to serve to poor of whereverthefuckIendupliving, and do tack on a PhD in Addiction Medicine, as I propose to put the prison industry out of business from the front end... You do know that the number one lobby for "Tougher drug laws" in the US is the Union of Prison Guards, right? By the way, I KNOW the woman who INVENTED Methamphetamine. She's still ALIVE and practicing Psychiatry in DAYTON. And she's FUCKING SCARY. Her grandaughter, Mara, was my best friend in high school, and all I'm gonna say is, you haven't LIVED until you've been screamed at in LATVIAN by a little old lady who takes two Methamphetamine pills with her coffee every morning (or did, until they got black boxed and then illegalized, then she switched over to Methylpheandate). I am TOTALLY not making this up. P.S. Hey Lily, I didn't know your first name was Eli. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 P.S. Hey Lily, I didn't know your first name was Eli. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's Ellie, as in Miss Ellie. Southfork was actually a crack den. Can I interest you in a Viagra notepad? Homemade meatball sub? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batou Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 By the way, I KNOW the woman who INVENTED Methamphetamine. She's still ALIVE and practicing Psychiatry in DAYTON. And she's FUCKING SCARY.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Did she invent it an attempt to make it easier to tolerate living in Dayton? Having grown up there, Dayton is rather boring. And there are some very scary people there. Erika Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null0trooper Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 Meth rep: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stranger Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 Things have places. If they are not in their places they disappear. Like my pencil case which I probably put on the right instead of the usual left in class. Or that paper which I probably put in the wrong file (the only things I've lost this year). I have two pens and one pencil. I've had them since October. The only times I lose pens is when I lend them to somebody and forget to ask for them back. So I never give my pens to anyone anymore. I have the memory of an ant, so if things are not in their designated places, I can never find them. Add OCPD to the mix and you get uberoganized neurotic neat freak. Add to it a roommate who I suspect has unidagnosed ADD, and you get DISASTER. I've made her promise several time to put things in a few designated places in the room, but piles of things keep growing everywhere. I now employ the strategy of shoving her things in the closet every morning. PS: the above only applies when not depressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 things have places, and if things are not in their place, and i SEE THIS, i cannot relax, i must go put the thing in its place. which is why i am always so stressed. hypervigilently scanning my environment for things out of their place to return. it makes me so tired. however, none of this counts in my car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groovyone Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 Indeed. Things need to be in places but they don't stay there. I had everything pretty much nicely situated in a state of organized chaos until I moved in with my partner (about a year ago.) Made the mistake of having her unpack me. Well, I did some of it but she's better at organizing stuff. Oh dear. I'm lucky if I can find anything now! We're both like... "Where's my..." And she is JUST as bad as me re: losing shit. And remembering shit. So we're two wonderful spazztastics and she put away all of my stuff and...well, hey. What are you going to do? At least it's all dumped *somewhere*. Our apartment isn't that large. It just seems it when you've lost something... I swear, it's like I've won the lottery when I do actually find whatever I'm looking for. Karen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazon_42 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 however, none of this counts in my car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LikeMinded Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 What, you don't get all the free pens you can handle from all the asshat drug reps trying to peddle Neurontin for every damn thing in the universe, and every drug company trying to sell its latest "CR" or "XR" or right angle rotating isomer patent extension cheat? Lilly's dealing Straterra like downton LA deals in Crack, Meth, and Smack (and it's just as nasty)....You should be ankle deep in pens. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> RE: Lilly... Let's just say that my father's not proud of Lilly and Strattera's recent marketing campaign (aka the "adult ADD quiz"). This is one of the reasons he's retiring at 57 and not 62. RE: Isomers... they're not isomers, they're enantiomers, get it right! Isomers have different groups attached on different carbons... enantiomers are differentiated mirror images of each other. =P I.e., if a pure molecule is a right irreversible glove, its enantiomer could be the left hand's glove. The isomeric form of either molecule, would, uh... have the middle finger attached to the thumb (and make giving the 'thumbs up' a disastrous proposal). Pharmaceuticals have the nasty tendency to form racemic mixtures in synthesis (like making a 50/50 box of irreversible left and right-hand gloves - that's a racemic mixture of gloves!). The L- and R- forms are extremely difficult to separate. Our body's enzymes (proteins that are more complicated than Avril Lavigne) may recognize one enantiomer, and not the other, which is why a pure enantiomeric drug can be up to twice as more powerful in-vitro (milligram for milligram!) than in its enantiomeric racemic mixture. It's not unheard of, also, that one enantiomer is found to create a negative side effect (or at least exaggerate it), when it hits a bodily enzyme that we don't want hit. Enantiomeric separation can then sometimes provide a medication with greater efficacy and reduced side effects. Or it can help a company get a new FDA patent so they can convince physicians to prescribe it with shiny pens and notepads. =D okay, Ima shut up and stop the anal-retentive dorkage now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncc1701 Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Heya herrfous, Yah like that. Annoying, for those of us who remember enough biochem to *get* that. Nexium beats Losec? Nexium *is* Losec, dorkwad, you just needed a new patent b/c Losec went generic last week. I mean, Nexium is great. Pass the cookies and the cute cute kitten. --ncc-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LikeMinded Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Pass the cookies and the cute cute kitten. --ncc-- <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Where's the kitten??? I want one!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amazon_42 Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 Herferous, you're right, except a lot of the time, the uhm...okay not opposite, but another word meaning kind of not opposite, anyway, you wind up with like, Nexium. Where it doesn' matter a damn bit or it matters maybe .3 percent, and the drug comapny rips off the public for another 90 bajillion dollars. Enantiomer, Isomer, some fuckwad figured out how to seperate them. And them gloves you're talking about are flipping consumers a middle finger. And as far as Avril Lavigne goes, she can suck my left tit, because I was more complicated than her when I was six, I just didn't get paid for it. In any case, kittens.... Would you settle for a mostly tamed smallish feral black half grown cat if I take care of the shots and neutering? I'm thus far calling him Scwartzhoph ("blackhaired"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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