Today is Saturday, October 25, 2008.
I am returning from pciking up my new bifocals. The frame is a shocking burgundy color. Getting used to bifocals is going to take some time.
At the library I read about Adrian, the English pope and work my way to advertsing, an interesting topic. At the table is a man reading his Bible. My noble task seems trivial compared with his enthusiam about the Bible.
It is home to make avocado and bacon tea sandwiches, until I realize that I have hotdogs in buns from yesterday and remind myself that the ripe avocado means that I must make the tea sandwiches soon. Other residents tell me about the firings of the security guards. I will miss these guards...very much.
It is raining outside.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Adolescence through Adrian, Roman emperor. See Hadrian.
Today is Saturday, October 25 2008 for Friday, October 24, 2008.
I remember adolescence and suspect that I am, in part, stuck there. I suspect that I was dealing with depresesion or bipolar illness while at the same time struggling with my identity.
A friend an I went to Whole Foods on 14th Street in Manhattan where ai spent $54.00 on a small amout of food. My friend calls Whole Foods, "Whole paycheck". Later I went to Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center to hear the National Chorale sing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the "Ode to Joy". The program included Brahms' Schicksalslied and Bach's Singet dem Herm. The pieces were bigger than life. Little did I know that the security guard was getting fired as I enjoyed the music.
I remember adolescence and suspect that I am, in part, stuck there. I suspect that I was dealing with depresesion or bipolar illness while at the same time struggling with my identity.
A friend an I went to Whole Foods on 14th Street in Manhattan where ai spent $54.00 on a small amout of food. My friend calls Whole Foods, "Whole paycheck". Later I went to Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center to hear the National Chorale sing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the "Ode to Joy". The program included Brahms' Schicksalslied and Bach's Singet dem Herm. The pieces were bigger than life. Little did I know that the security guard was getting fired as I enjoyed the music.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Addition
Today is Thursday, October 23, 2008.
An acquaintance of mine wants to go to Whole Foods and Trader Joe's. I am upset over my ever increasing sugars.
Somewhere between addition and adolescence I felt better. Adnenaur was the entry that interested me most. He was the German Chancellor who took his post at age 73. Rather like what Senator McCain is trying to do, that is, take a major post, namely the presidency of the United States, at the age of 72. I wanted to learn what illnesses the Chancellor died with; there was no mention.
Interesting, too, was the entry on forms of address. I was surprised to learn that I would not use my title as doctor in the U. K. and I was pleased to verify what I already knew, that "Yours truly" was a formal closing and what I didn't know that "Respectfully yours" was more formal. I fast -forwarded past adolescence to Adonis and wondered how to pronounce Persephone, his mother's name, with or without the long e at the end. After having checked the Mirriam-Wesbster Online Dictionary, I learn that it is pronounced with the long e at the end. Over time I have learned to check the pronounciation of words I do not know, so as not to make a fool out of myself, if I pronounce it incorrectly. For instance, Terpsichore is pronounced with the long e at the end.
I had a bit of difficulty focusing on the other entries., so I don't remember them clearly. Adhesion, Adhesisve, and several others. This difficulty focusing and concentrating is part of my condition.
One of the obvious advantages of reading the encyclopedia is that you (or one) learn(s) things and meet(s) interesting people and concepts. One of the not so obvious advantages is that you (or one) learn(s) patience and perseverance. I am still at the very beginning of Volume A. Only time will tell how well I can persevere to the middle and end of the volume and proceed to letter B. I find myself suspicious of others and less tolerant of ignorance (or lack of awareness, which is less inflammatory and more tasteful, diplomatic and palatable).
An acquaintance of mine wants to go to Whole Foods and Trader Joe's. I am upset over my ever increasing sugars.
Somewhere between addition and adolescence I felt better. Adnenaur was the entry that interested me most. He was the German Chancellor who took his post at age 73. Rather like what Senator McCain is trying to do, that is, take a major post, namely the presidency of the United States, at the age of 72. I wanted to learn what illnesses the Chancellor died with; there was no mention.
Interesting, too, was the entry on forms of address. I was surprised to learn that I would not use my title as doctor in the U. K. and I was pleased to verify what I already knew, that "Yours truly" was a formal closing and what I didn't know that "Respectfully yours" was more formal. I fast -forwarded past adolescence to Adonis and wondered how to pronounce Persephone, his mother's name, with or without the long e at the end. After having checked the Mirriam-Wesbster Online Dictionary, I learn that it is pronounced with the long e at the end. Over time I have learned to check the pronounciation of words I do not know, so as not to make a fool out of myself, if I pronounce it incorrectly. For instance, Terpsichore is pronounced with the long e at the end.
I had a bit of difficulty focusing on the other entries., so I don't remember them clearly. Adhesion, Adhesisve, and several others. This difficulty focusing and concentrating is part of my condition.
One of the obvious advantages of reading the encyclopedia is that you (or one) learn(s) things and meet(s) interesting people and concepts. One of the not so obvious advantages is that you (or one) learn(s) patience and perseverance. I am still at the very beginning of Volume A. Only time will tell how well I can persevere to the middle and end of the volume and proceed to letter B. I find myself suspicious of others and less tolerant of ignorance (or lack of awareness, which is less inflammatory and more tasteful, diplomatic and palatable).
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Addison's Disease
Today is Tuesday, OCtober 21, 2008
It has been a long and busy day. A workshop in Garden City about Episcopal Health Misteries. On the way home I stopped by the library to read.
John Quincy Adams...was involved in the Monroe Doctrine...I must refresh my memory....what is the Monroe Doctrine? I read quietly until I got to addition...another multipage topic, more Adams's, Addams, ACTH, when I closed the book and went home. I admit that getting to the middle of the A volume will be a challenge, much less getting to the end of the volume. It may be just a function of my bipolar disease that makes me believe I can read the complete set and I admitted as much on the way back home from the workshop when talking with a woman about my experiences with bipolar disease.
It is a noble activity, though. That's the rub, staying in the noble zone. Doing things about which one can be proud of oneself. I am reading Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, the first of the Waverley Novels. It has lots of Scottich dialect and foreign phrases in it. So I am in front of the computer with one window open to a website of a gloassry of terms used in Waverley, one window open to the Mirriam Webster Online Dictionary, one window open to the net for words I can't find in the former two windows. And I persue each chapter noting the words and terms I don't know and looking them up conscientiously. I find the story enchanting and very romantic in its descriptions of the Highlands and Highlanders. I plan to read the rest of the Waverley novels, but I must go slowly not to plan too many projects...another symptom of the bipolar disease.
It has been a long and busy day. A workshop in Garden City about Episcopal Health Misteries. On the way home I stopped by the library to read.
John Quincy Adams...was involved in the Monroe Doctrine...I must refresh my memory....what is the Monroe Doctrine? I read quietly until I got to addition...another multipage topic, more Adams's, Addams, ACTH, when I closed the book and went home. I admit that getting to the middle of the A volume will be a challenge, much less getting to the end of the volume. It may be just a function of my bipolar disease that makes me believe I can read the complete set and I admitted as much on the way back home from the workshop when talking with a woman about my experiences with bipolar disease.
It is a noble activity, though. That's the rub, staying in the noble zone. Doing things about which one can be proud of oneself. I am reading Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, the first of the Waverley Novels. It has lots of Scottich dialect and foreign phrases in it. So I am in front of the computer with one window open to a website of a gloassry of terms used in Waverley, one window open to the Mirriam Webster Online Dictionary, one window open to the net for words I can't find in the former two windows. And I persue each chapter noting the words and terms I don't know and looking them up conscientiously. I find the story enchanting and very romantic in its descriptions of the Highlands and Highlanders. I plan to read the rest of the Waverley novels, but I must go slowly not to plan too many projects...another symptom of the bipolar disease.
Monday, October 20, 2008
John Quincy Adams
Today is 20 October 2008.
I arrived at the library earlier today than other days and found the A volume just where I had left it Saturday, on the table. No one had bothered to put it back on the shelf. No staffer, that is. Today I read up to John Quincy Adams. The Adams clan is very industrious and famous enough to be in the ecyclopedia. Not just John Adams and his son, but his great grandson and his grand son. I was intriqued to learnd that the US approached the Netherlands for money to fund... a war? during John Adams career. Very interesting. Youjust don't think of the US as a needy country.
One of the incompetant men on my floor mentioned to me the credentials of the director of the buidling. He seemed to be impressed. I wasn't I felt like I was being pushed back in time to when I was on rounds answerign questions of an attending physician. I replied something dissembling that conveyed that homelessness and mental illness can happen to anyone. Impressive credentials not with standing.
I arrived at the library earlier today than other days and found the A volume just where I had left it Saturday, on the table. No one had bothered to put it back on the shelf. No staffer, that is. Today I read up to John Quincy Adams. The Adams clan is very industrious and famous enough to be in the ecyclopedia. Not just John Adams and his son, but his great grandson and his grand son. I was intriqued to learnd that the US approached the Netherlands for money to fund... a war? during John Adams career. Very interesting. Youjust don't think of the US as a needy country.
One of the incompetant men on my floor mentioned to me the credentials of the director of the buidling. He seemed to be impressed. I wasn't I felt like I was being pushed back in time to when I was on rounds answerign questions of an attending physician. I replied something dissembling that conveyed that homelessness and mental illness can happen to anyone. Impressive credentials not with standing.
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