The Bar

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:25 pm

Here maybe some red roses and a bottle of champagne

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:29 pm

okay how about this...

BIG TIME I'm on my way I'm making it ...
Peter Gabriel

(gasp) oh you shouldn't have

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:32 pm

*Champagne cork pops and Z fills to glasses with bubbly *

congratulations on your 1000th post

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:34 pm

taking glass

Why thank you good sir.

So Z, how was your day?

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:37 pm

pretty good, kind of quiet,.. how about you blue,..

Ranger Genius · Post by **Ranger Genius** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:37 pm

At first I read that as "How about some REDS and a bottle of champagne."

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:39 pm

Busy, and loooong.

Howdy Mr. Genius

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:43 pm

What did you do?

I've been getting into making posters for Kamp Apokiliptika ,...down loading a lot of propaganda posters from WWII and later from around the world to work with.

I also went through the pulp cover are I've gathered to see if any of them would work.

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:46 pm

guess I'm getting tired, I start getting worse about misplacing letters when I'm fading.

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:48 pm

OOoo, that sounds fun.

Well, first off I only slept five hours friday night. Then I went to bed last night at 1:00 am, can you believe it? Didn't sleep very well though, even though I was tired. Anyways, I did all that because I went to a seminar today in brooklyn center about ADD from 10:30 to 4:30. Then I got home and went to target with my mom for two hours. Crazy! Now, I'm going to have a glass of wine.

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:51 pm

yea, I'm rambling. My body is tired right now, but my mind is still going.

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:51 pm

It's kind of hard to imagine, a room full of people in a 5 hour seminar,..

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:53 pm

God I did it again,.. it was suppose to say a room full of people with ADD in a 5 hour seminar

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:54 pm

Yea well, a good majority of those people were educators and health proffesionals. But it was kind of funny watching the speaker, cause he has ADD. It was interesting though. It was done by this guy Dr. Hallowell, who has written a bunch of books. I've read a few of them and my uncle, who bought me the ticket and went with me, bought me his newest book.

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:55 pm

I felt bad for the people sitting behind me, cause I couldn't sit still. I was more agitated today, probably because of the crappy sleep I got last night.

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:00 pm

shouldn't feel to bad, you could consider yourself an educational aid,..

Did he have any good new info or ways of dealing with it?

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:06 pm

yea, he talked about his five steps, and also touched base on things like diet, exercise, drugs, medication. I think he goes more into depth in the book. I'm gonna start reading it tonight. There was a lot I'd heard before, but some new stuff that I thought would be helpfull. Though it would have been nice if the seminar was geared towards the adult with ADD. But oh well, it was still interesting even in an academic perspective.

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:13 pm

I know very little about ADD, but knowing a knitter or two and the calming hypnotic, and maybe addictive nature of it, I was wondering if it helps to maintain your focus.

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:18 pm

It can, though not always. But I do find that I can get more done sitting in a busy coffee shop, rather than sitting in a quiet library. It's almost like the constant distraction from that kind of surrounding keeps me from distraction in my own mind. I have ADD without the severe hyperactivity. So I battle against daydreaming the most. And being distracted be something in a coffee shop can help to remind me to keep working. I don't know, it's kind of hard to explain.

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:21 pm

Kind of interrupting the interruptions

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:23 pm

Yea, because if left alone in a quiet room I can daydream for hours and not notice the time go by. I'm more aware of the time passing in the coffee shop because of those distractions.

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:26 pm

and I also believe that I'm more sensitive to other people's energy. An empty home can be a black hole for me. While a busy coffee shop can energize me.

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:32 pm

That's become more subtle for me theses days but I have more of a tendency to get keyed up ,.. not really anxious but leaning that way around some settings like that .

It has a tendency to suck energy

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:37 pm

And apparently, the ADD population is more prone to over sensitivity. For example, I'm really sensitive to smells. I can't wear perfume and have to smell shampoos and deoderants before I buy them. Otherwise I can become very distracted and agitated by the smell of myself. I didn't know that was connected to my ADD until today.

Yea, It happens to a lot of people. It's just personality traits.

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:40 pm

Anyways, I find a lot of this stuff to be fascinating. But I've always had academic interests in psycology and sociology

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:44 pm

Me too,.. I'm alway trying to figure out why other people and myself do what we do and feel the way we do.

I need to go , you have a good night, Blue, probably see you around here tomorrow,... Good night

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:53 pm

yea, that wine is making my mind catch up to my body and I think I need to go to bed too.

Good night Z, I'll see you tomorrow.

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 2:44 am

- sputnik crawls in, finds the coffee and makes up a pot -

uuuugggghhhhhh

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 3:36 am

morning, Sputs. What happened?

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 3:42 am

Just tired. Nothing else.

Ahhh...good coffee