Dear Abbott

Hi ZS,

I think I say it both ways. The professor I worked with last semester said all kinds of shit in ways I'd never heard it pronounced, ie "meiosis" as "meeeosis," whereas I (and everyone I have ever fucking met) pronounce it "my-osis." Maybe this has warped my pronunciation of things. I think I say it as "spe-sheez" more often (which I pronounce "offen").

Yours from this side of the isogloss,

ABbott

That question's premise was specious.

Dear Abbott,

What makes human beings that have wealth beyond any ancient kings want more?

s

^loaded question I know

Dear Abbott,

My quality of life is so much better now that I've been made aware of Chareth Cutestory's existence, via my query about big turtle eyes. If Mr. Cutestory is is any way huggable, please deliver him a gentle embrace in my name.

~U R

Dear Abbott,

Should I start looking into drugs and shit to combat my semi-regular anxiety? I'm not down with like wellbutrin or anything like that, but beta blockers are starting to sound interesting. Any recommendations?

-Forks

Dear brownie,

I don't know the answer here. Also, I fear that knowing the answer to this would be tantamount to having this mindset, so I can't say I am entirely sad to have been of so little help.

Poorly,

Abbott

i wanna one-up brownie and ask if jesus could microwave a burrito so hot even he could not eat

it

Dear unregistered,

I love Chareth so much! The female of his species can get to be 18" long in the wild. Is that terrifying or what? Sometimes I have an anxiety dream that Chareth has grown to fill up his tank. Anyway, I am glad you like him. Watching him swim is better than TV.

Yours in chelonian solidarity,

Abbott

Dear harbl,

Yes, but you have to bear in mind I come from an anti-trinitarian background, meaning God the Son does not have the same hot-burrito-sustaining properties as God the Father.

Yours,

Abbott

Dear forks,

I'm not a doctor, so if you have a doctor you trust, obviously they would be the one you'd want to talk about this with. Even most any doctor you dislike is better than me when it comes to this kind of thing. At any rate, if you think medication would help you, talk to a pro about trying it. If it doesn't work out, it's not like your damned to it, and if it does work, then that is awesome.

Meds have different effects on different ppl, but the time I was on Wellbutrin, I was a giant crankypants all of the time. It was "hilarious."

Sympathetically,

ABbott

sorry to interrupt Abbott on her thread, but forks: are you still in Jersey City?

yep, sure am.

i'm a little medication shy honestly. I took antidepressants once for like two weeks when i was bottoming out and it helped tremendously! i just don't think it's something you should use like allergy medication, i.e. constantly. but that may say more about my sinuses than anything.

forks: i ask b/c i am looking for therapy options right now myself, and i am medication-shy myself (though i've never been on meds). i'm more inclined to get some sort of old-school talk therapy. will let you know who/what i find.

i guess old-school talk therapy terrifies me more than crazy pills? I had one therapist experience and WHOO BOY it was a doozy. It ended with me leaving her office with her screaming "YOU'RE GONNA FALL APART, YOU'LL SEE!"

therapist needs a therapist imo

yikes that sounds terrible. they're not all like that!

be fair- part of the job is diagnosis

after a month and a half of therapy and a script for antidepressants, I felt much more together. I had just met a girl (same one i'm still with) and gotten a new job so I told her I was gonna stop coming... it was a bit of a cashflow issue as well. She wigged. "You may think you're well, but you haven't even scratched the surface." It was an hour of her telling me how fucked i was. I ran for it as soon as i could.

It was an hour of her telling me how fucked i was.

Inexcusable conduct on her part.

yeah you should turn her in to a medical board or something - that's exploitative and cruel

she was a psockologist

that situation does sound fucked up, forks. maybe not "malpractice," but definitely unethical. obv. you did the right thing to get the hell outta there.

dear abbott(t),

why have you accumulated a third t?

lurve,
m.

Dear mookieproof,

The extra BT is not a bacon & tomato tribute. Abbott is a mod, and mods can't see images, just links to them. It was that "bar bands of the seventies" thread that drove me to this. I could not stand clicking through to all those wacky sideburns...I so dearly missed being able to see everything as it was, self-loading. It's still surprising to me every time an image shows up. "Abbott" is still around for all your moderating needs, if needed.

Yours in blandness,

Abbott (the same pertson)

so are you going to make a mod called abbbbotttt when you get sick of all the damn images? living is progressing.

i didn't even see
the third b

Do you know what it is like to live life a half of a whole?

kind of

http://darkentriesdjd.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/pp-and-marcie.jpg

it would be good for there to be a sandwich with three bacons and three tomatos but no lettuces

the a and o stand for "approximately" and "ond" (meaning and but also on), respectively

no lettuces ond the sandwich?

apparently not because she is abbbottt and not labbbottt (mark pauline to thred)

what do you want to ask mark pauline?

he is expert on things labbbottt related (such as rabot)

fewer bbs and lls, but still...

i was just wondering if you had a question for him that i can pass along?

oh no, nothing in particular. i saw SRL in 86 or so and was v much impressed, especially at the barely controlled outer skirts of the destruction, but have no questions to pass along. only admiration. walking home afterwards i found the streets and sidewalk outside the cordoned area powdered with florescent tube shards, the remains of strays from a pneumatically fired cannon of some sort. the outside inside boundaries not so well patrolled after all. glass dust on parked cars. my pillow smelled of exhaust in the morning.

dear Abbott, do you have a good chicken salad recipe (srsly)

Daer San Te,

if you mean the kind of glop that is put on a "chicken salad sandwich," with the least-wanted scraps of the fowl suspended in a a matrix of mayonnaise, then no. I have my mom's recipe for "Chinese chicken salad," which I like, but is only abstractly Chinese. You may want to ask over at I Love Cooking.

Yours in willingness to share,

Abbott

any good chicken salad recipe should involve at least two of the following:
grapes
paprika
cherry tomato
avocado
bacon
scallions
apple

Dearest Abbott,

Do you know any effective banishing rituals?

Yours most sincerely,
Elmo

Dearest Elmo,

I really value this question! I don't know any, but I did consult a reference book on your behalf. The index of Life Forces: A Contemporary Guide to the Cult and Occult has nothing between Balzac, Honoré de, and Baphomet. Useless! I am sorry that neither it nor I were very helpful. For what it's worth, apparently you shouldn't even be doing them if you are of the Satanist persuasion.

Best of luck in your banishings,

Abbott

Thank you for your research efforts! While I am not a satanist, I find the injunction against banishing interesting.

Dear Abbott,

yay music!

Dear Abbott,
Am I being unreasonable here?
KIDS TODAY WITH THEIR HIPPIN' AND THEIR HOPPIN' AND THEIR CRAZY SHIRTS NOT TUCKED IN
Forks

Dear Abbbottt,

Please come to my BBBQ. The extra 'B' is for 'BYOBB.' (That last extra 'B' is a typo.)

xokjb

p.s. I'm not having a BB(B)Q. This was just a way to say 1. I didn't know mods can't see images (odd!) and 2. you rock harder than Nazareth.