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1. Listening to a coworker shuffle his feet as he walks repeatedly down your hallway makes you want to kill him. 2. You listen to a new coworker cackl- I mean, laugh in her office, and the first thing that jumps at you is how much she sounds like a screaming Nazgul. Because she does. It's h o r r i b l e. 3. Today you have eaten: 2 waffles, 3 vegetarian sausage links, a pumpkin muffin, a turkey/cheese/sprouts/cucumber/spinach/tomato sandwich, a bowl of vegetable soup, and a Starbucks carrot cake bar (not all at once, of course), and you're still hungry. You're perpetually hungry. You could have eaten 6 waffles, 8 sausages, 4 muffins, two sandwiches, four bowls of soup, and 3 carrot cake bars, all at once, and you'd still want to eat more. You want to eat even when your stomach feels stuffed. You are saved from falling into binging and purging only by your will and your fear of losing control. 4. Getting an email from your mother about an academic conference makes you want to cry. Getting an angry email from a customer (not directed at you personally) makes you want to cry. Thinking about your life makes you cry. 5. You have to dig out your pants with drawstring or elastic waists from the closet because none of your regular pants fit. You feel four months pregnant, and you might even waddle a bit when you walk. I truly thank God for giving me the presence of mind at 12 years old to relish not having to deal with this hell yet. |
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. Male -- Lifetime of unreasonable and often inappropriate horniness Female -- The menstrual cycle and all it entails followed by the rocky shores of menopause. . I think I chose wisely. . On the subject of sanity-crushing laughter, I know a guy with a loud, high, gasping, screeching laugh that pierces cloud, shadow, earth, and flesh. And the merest of things will set him into a fit of laughter. And I can't escape him. He was my neighbor in the University dorms, he was a last-resort roommate over a summer, and now he works with me. |
Now my boss is moving his office to the empty space across from mine. I might have to stop coming here so often, cos I don't want to be caught. Hmmm...his laugh grates, too. *sigh* Though, i' faith, all overheard laughter irritates me. I'm cool if, like, I'm talking to you and you laugh, or we're watching something funny together and we both laugh, but if I have to listen to you laugh while you're on the phone or in another room, God, it makes me sick. It's probably indicative of some mental disorder or something. Maybe I should make my main character have this trait, too. |
If the buddha laughed in the next room, would you kill him? :) |
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sexual deviance. |
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spider, i feel your pain, i really do. do you find that some months are worse than others? the patch seems to be working wonders for me. i'm on week three right now. no more nausea, my appetite has stabilized if not decreased a bit, my moods seem to be a bit more even keel, and i'm having regular bowel movements. typically i wouldn't recommend birth control, but if you don't have any ethical or moral problems with it, you might want to give it a shot. especially if your PMS is as debilitating as mine had a tendency to be. |
Actually, after all the bad effects I had from birth control before, this thing fucking rocks. I have had so little pain that I actually noticed a little bit of moodiness, but not much and that was about all. My appetite has been normal. I haven't gained a pound, in fact, I have lost 5 lbs. and am back to my normal weight. I have never been happier. |
Luckily that went away real quick. But, at least I got some appreciation of what she went through. I have two coworkers here that whistle the same tune everyday at about the same time. It wouldn't be so bad except I'm usually suffering from a sinus headache then too. When that happens I get very grumpy. Their whistling usually stops compleatly about ten minutes later. So it's not too bad. |
Spider, laughter really annoys me too, along with eating. In fact...humans making noises annoy me. One of my coworkers is a gum chewer...oh...god save me. (Or her, probably...). pde. I like it. (The phrase, not the action) |
Don't even get me started about gum. I won't let people chew gum in my car. |
Don't even get me started about gum. I won't let people chew gum in my car. |
And I do love my depo. It has made my life so much easier it isn't even funny. And I normally don't recommend anything like that. |
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I've got no moral problems with using birth control to regulate my hormones. I don't know if I could deal with nausea for several days, but I may ask my doctor about that patch the next time I see her if it really doesn't have any emotional side effects. My PMS seems to be getting worse as I get older, especially the irritability/depression. |
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yeah, me too. again, you know it must have been *really* *really* *really* bad for me if i considered trying birth control to alleviate it. and hey, you may not experience nausea from the patch. that's just a possible side effect, not an inevitable one. please let me know if you decide to try it. i'd love to compare notes. this sunday i take the patch off and have the week without it. that will be the real test - to see how i fare physically and emotionally the 2 or so days just prior to having (theoretically at this point) an actual period. |
likewise about eating sounds. when working for the computer hardware dist/manuf. there were the no-english, fresh-off-the-boat chinese that worked in the monitor department. since the entire office took lunch at the same hour, we would often all be in the break room together. the 3 or 4 chinese would sit by themselves, literally scrap, slurp and suck their bowls of food into their mouths. there was no more than an inch of distance from bowl to mouth. the good part is, they were done by 15 after, and would go out and sleep under a tree dreaming Confusious. i can't stand being in very quiet atmosphere with one person and listen to them eat. even if they are very well versed in the manners of eating. when its dead quiet and you can hear the food tumbling in their mouth.....ARGHHHHHHHH i've literally sent my wife away from the table i've been so annoyed at times, or at the very least I'll go turn on the music. |
Eating, coughing, sneezing...existing. Humans are gross. |
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I still love my depo, and the lack of side effects from it..... I never noticed the eating sounds until after I had been married to Spunky for a while. He used to complain about Hayley, and then I noticed it for the first time. Now it makes me nuts too. I can't eat in the same room as Hayley anymore. |
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We're all a little strange. That's what keeps us sane. Or at least close to it. |
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Ain't it kewl that my new office mate does that ALL OF THE TIME? MP3 player to the rescue! |
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Whispering in church makes me want to convert to the Aztec ways just for the human sacrifices. Old women especially have this slurpy loose-dentury sound to their whispers that is physically revolting and makes it impossible for me to think about radiating Jesus' love for humanity. Sorry about that. |
Come on, uterus. |
sniffing all your bogies up instead of blowing your nose. hate that. |
I hate when people hum during lectures or discussion or when they taste something. either nod or make a real word. |
And I'm not the only one in my family who is that way. My dad is just the same...same kind of sound, same reaction. |
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Alas, it's a Pyrrhic victory, as I'm now being assaulted by cramps. (I just have to say, I don't know if it's the hormones, or happiness that it's Friday, or what, but I feel like I've had two glasses of wine.) |
By the way there really is no norm. It's just our perception of what normal is. Do you really think in the 1950's women cleaned house and other things wearing dresses and pearls? That was suposed to be the norm at least according to the TV networks. And, thank god most families are not like the osbornes. Or, the osmonds for that matter. |
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I will eat your children. |
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have you ever had menstrual cramps so bad it gave you diarrhea? |
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so you think the cramps were related to having diarrhea and not to having a period? |
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