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Shorter But Nicer
I had my follow-up blood test this morning. Also I got measured and weighed. I'm 5'7" and 12st. 7oz. Don't ask me how that translates into metric. Ailz says I can't be 5'7" because she's 5'7" and I'm taller than her. Really? So we measured up against one another and our eyes are pretty much on the level. We also looked in the mirror, but it's a dressing-table mirror and we couldn't see our heads. Maybe I used to wear higher heels or something.
The nurse was in a bit of a grump. It's her afternoon off and she has a class to go to- something to do with measuring pulses in diabetic feet. "Yes," I said, shamelessly, "I don't suppose they'll have anything to tell you that you don't already know." "Well, she said, reflectively, "They usually come up with something new". She was a lot cheerier after that.
I'm trying hard to be nice to people these days. Making a real effort. This started before I returned to church, but I don't suppose it's unconnected. Yesterday I found myself surveying my LJ post after I'd written it- and wondering if I'd been sufficiently nice to the authors I'd critiqued. Because Christians are unfailingly nice, right? Ogodogodogodogod, I'm turning into Cliff Richard!
The nurse was in a bit of a grump. It's her afternoon off and she has a class to go to- something to do with measuring pulses in diabetic feet. "Yes," I said, shamelessly, "I don't suppose they'll have anything to tell you that you don't already know." "Well, she said, reflectively, "They usually come up with something new". She was a lot cheerier after that.
I'm trying hard to be nice to people these days. Making a real effort. This started before I returned to church, but I don't suppose it's unconnected. Yesterday I found myself surveying my LJ post after I'd written it- and wondering if I'd been sufficiently nice to the authors I'd critiqued. Because Christians are unfailingly nice, right? Ogodogodogodogod, I'm turning into Cliff Richard!
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168 lbs. 7 oz.
(Good opportunity to look that up. I've always been curious.)
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It's a good 'resolution' (if you want to call it that) to try to be nicer to people. Christian or not, it's a good thing to which to aspire.
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Being "nice" does make a difference- and costs very little effort.
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It bothers me that I wasn't altogether complimentary about de Botton- though not nearly as rude as Charlie Brooker, who calls him "a slapheaded, ruby-lipped pop philosopher who's forged a lucrative career stating the bleeding obvious in a series of poncey, lighter-than-air books aimed at smug Sunday supplement pseuds looking for something clever-looking to read on the plane"—
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prescription for niceness
just occasional...
"heretics all wherever ye be
in tarbes or nimes or over the sea
ye never shall have good words from me
caritas non contarbut me."
Re: prescription for niceness
Belloc comes closer to the spirit of the Middle Ages than you'd think possible for a 20th century Englishman.
johnsonian?
ages is a large subject I am not
very qualified in though I did like
huizinga's waning of the middle ages
about all that remains in mind is the
bright colors...
belloc certainly positioned himself as
cantankerous... perhaps in part it was like
w c fields who in fact was kind to children.
I suspect he is in this sort of thing
like samuel johnson who says that if a man
comes at you with a stick to steal your
purse you disarm and subdue him before
talking to him and all the more if someone
comes at you to argue out of your faith which
is more precious than any purse etc
Re: johnsonian?
yes
wilson...andrew wilson was it?
he wrote some poorly done books also
--boilerplate, as someone gave me
his robespierre and it is no good
cruise of nora,road to rome, four
men are all fine and the verse
but it always is saddening to me how
many books I have read and how few if
any I remember in any substantial way.
I think with belloc I shoot the hippopotamus
with bullets made of platinum will remain
but that is about all.
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He once remarked, sadly and defiantly, that the only book he wrote for love- as opposed to money- was The Road to Rome.
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What is a "stone" - how many kilos?
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And of course the very word "snark" originates with that intellectually wiry Anglican clergyman, Lewis Carroll.
I'm glad to hear...
And I hope that you will soon get the results back.
God bless and take care. :).
Olga/Maddie
Re: I'm glad to hear...
They're testing me for cholestrol. This is a back-up test to confirm whether the last test- which showed high cholestrol levels- was accurate.
You're...
And thanks for letting me know about what they were testing you for.
God bless and take care. :).
Olga/Maddie