Text 25580, 83 rader
Skriven 2012-05-31 21:26:01 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 25513 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: mental 732
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Hi Michael,

 RH> month to pick a jury & alternates. From what I've heard/read, the
 RH> defendent and parents didn't tell the doctors everything some years
 RH> ago.

 ML> I imagine mental issues are a factor in most bad behaviors.
 ML> Some may posit the existence of an entity called "evil"; I
 ML> won't go any farther in a family echo than to say that
 ML> mental illness sometimes seems to be caused by something
 ML> outside the ill person - whether that be evil spiritual,
 ML> collective unconscious harking back to primal amorality,
 ML> or infectious disease, who knows.

All interesting conjectures, but as you say, not appropriate for this
echo.

 RH> Doesn't sound like you've got a whole lot of relatives you see much of
 RH> anyway. What about friends of your parents?

 ML> [snork] You're positing some normality someplace. My mother
 ML> had no friends, permanently alienating everyone at one point
 ML> or another; not as bad as her twin, who alienated everyone but
 ML> also had a disturbing tendency to chase people out of the house
 ML> with a knife, or so I am told. My father's friends are mostly
 ML> dead, and they didn't tend to have any truck with me as they
 ML> wanted me to be a famous cancer researcher like my father,
 ML> only more so; they were sorely disappointed after I told
 ML> them that the best way to combat cancer was to get rid of the
 ML> internal combustion engine.

Oh well, it was a thought.

 RH> You're in the air so much.

 ML> Two or three years of my life, when I'm done. On the other
 ML> hand, many people drive that much, and I've driven probably
 ML> 5 to 10 hours total in my entire life and have no plans for
 ML> doing so again.

I've driven more, don't know if I'll ever get a license tho.

 ML> Comes of flying in coach, I suppose.
 RH> That's the only way we fly.

 ML> That's the only way most people fly. I am fully conscious of
 ML> my being very lucky; having been in the right place at the
 ML> right time a large percentage of the time; and knowing enough
 ML> about the system to maneuver myself into the "the rich get
 ML> richer" niche in the frequent-flyer system; would that I
 ML> could be as astute with money.

OTOH, we drive quite a bit, saving money for flying if it's too far to
decently drive. Our younger daughter got us going with Southwest last
year--nice thing, even with the cattle call boarding, they do offer
priorty boarding for handicapped (me) or families with babies/small
children. That's a good way to get an aisle seat. Snacks are plane
crackers, honey roasted peanuts or a shortbread cookie, not much taste
or variety.

 ML> Grilled Pork on Skewers (Sateh babi)
 ML> cat: Indonesian, United Airlines, starter
 ML> Serve with peanut or soy sauce.
 RH> Now that looks good! I guess we'd have to make up both a soy and a
 RH> peanut sauce; most of the latter use peanut butter which Steve would
 RH> like but I don't.

 ML> Actually, all kinds of sauces work with satays.

Seems most of the ones I've seen are the satay with peanut butter type
tho. Stuck in a rut!


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Ruth
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