Aijiru

I'm a chemistry student and I've been yelled at for having my water bottle (closed) out of my backpack during a lab session. Any food or drink on a lab is only asking for gasses and other things around to be absorbed into it, that's why you never chew gum on a lab. So I guess this guy wasn't on one, and if he was he was pretty damn stupid to dip his gum on ANYTHING while on there, since it's really easy to get substances confused when they look almost identical and you have all them scattered around your table...

[hide=]Q1:What is something you write down to remember? A: Small appointments, things I have to bring down somewhere. Q2:What is something you hear on the radio besides music? A: News Q3:Why might a taxi driver say he had a bad day? A: Too much work? Stupid clients? Q4:What is something you're likely to forget in your car? A: Everything I'm carrying on my hands... Q5:Name an item you would find in a 3-day survival kit. A: Food! Q6:What is something you may find on top of a mountain? A: Ice Q7:What is something you would hate to find in the food your eating? A: A living cockroach. It has happened before :-? [/hide]

I've started having anxiety attacks this year, usually on holidays. I chalk them up to routine changes and the fact that during the year I've got so many things to do that I don't think about anything too much. Anyway, when I'm having one of them I feel like I'm going to die, my chest hurts, I can't breathe well and I start feeling dizzy and feeling really bad. Sometimes tachicardia hits too, and my heart beats so fast it feels like it's going to collapse. I went to the doctor a couple of times, had my heart checked and all they found were unusually high levels of anxiety. Luckily they are gone now. Some advice you would want to consider: 1. Have your health checked by a doctor. Anxiety attacks can be caused by a physical cause like anormal hormone levels, that's why you should disregard any physical causes before trying to fix it. 2. If they don't find anything, then you know it's not a life-threatening situation. Believe me, it is NOT. I thought I was going to have a heart attack ever after they told me it was nothing, and it only made things worse. 3. Always remember what you're feeling is only caused by your fear. If you relax and take your mind out of it, it WILL be gone. Trust me. Next time you feel an anxiety attack, try to lie down and relax. If you can, breathe slowly and deeply. If not (I wasn't able to do it the few first times) try having some mild tranquilizers like an hot infussion of tila or valerian. Feel it going down your throat. Also, taking your mind out of the attack is always helpful, so if you have a comic or some light lecture near you while you are drinking will help you relax. Sometimes, when the attack is intense, I have found that crying is also a good way to let the adrenalin out of your body. But then again, I'm a girl, so I don't know how it works on guys :P. 4. I know it's hard, but as I said, anxiety attacks are mostly caused by your fears. If you are always thinking when they will pop up and fearing that moment, next time they come they would be worse, simply because you're scared. Solution? Don't be scared of them. However bad they feel, they are nothing, they won't kill you, or make you go crazy. So, try to keep your mind out of them. Keep yourself busy, on something you enjoy and keeps your mind out of your fear. Going out with friends help too. Nobody says it's esay, but you mostly have to learn how to deal with them. Once you do it, once you realize anxiety attacks are nothing out of usual, you will notice that they slowly feel less threatening, they become lighter, and easier to deal with, until you no longer feel them. And trust me, they will pass.

http://www.vgmaps.com/Atlas/GB-GBC/Poke ... nTower.png (huge pic!) Possesed exorcists at Pokemon Tower on the Yellow Edition. They would come running at you, saying things like "gimme your soul!!" wile a tetric music played on the background... also, you needed a certain item to be able to fight the wild ghosts or else they would appear as generic "ghosts" who scared the hell out your pokemon. Maybe it isn't as graphic as the other examples of the thread but it sure was scaring for me, to the point I tried to fight as less as those guys as possible >.<

Just a tip, if you're going to tape it back, don't use cellotape (this), because it tends to stain the pages when it gets worn off and won't last too much anyway (assuming the book is going to stay in the library for a couple more years). If you can, use something like the transparent paper you put on books' covers to protect them (This, I don't know how it's called in English), just cut a thin stripe and it'll do.

I'm not sure how it works where you live, but I used to be a volunteer on the local library and there were a fair amount of books with torn off pages, but we never made anyone pay for that. I'm fairly sure that only applied if someone returned a book with a major damage, like something which made it unreadable. Just put the page where it should go and explain it to your library, they'll probably understand it. Pages rip off on old books all the time, nobody should be surprised.

From Asimov, try the Foundation series. It's science fiction inspred by the decline of the Roman empire. Here's the wiki link which explais the plot better than I can: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation ... he_trilogy I've only read the original trilogy books (Foundation, Foundation and empire, Second Foundation) and they were pretty good. I was unable to finish the fourth one (Foundation's edge) because it was too dense for my taste, but there are a lot more books of those series if you like them.

I don't know where you guys are from, but where I live hugs are a normal greeting between friends :|. There are mostly girls who do it, but it's not rare to see guys hugging too (though they use the "hold hand, hug, pat on back, release" type of hug, supposedly it's more masculine). Even if it's pretty common between teenagers (again, mostly girls) I see them at my university and it's not seen as wierd or strange...

Sevilla, Spain. It's a nice and calm place to live if you can stand being at 40º celsius in summer :lol:

Lol, if someone does that with me I try my best to get away :lol:. Can't stand it. And at least where I live (south of Spain) it's not natural, it tends to annoy most of the people I know. Not saying I don't agree with you though, just find that funny. And here breastfeeding IS a natural thing, I don't think I have heard anyone complaining about it. Even 50 years ago, when you couldn't walk with your partner holding hands in public if you weren't married (there were some super-strict christian moral laws, you could even get fined for that), breastfeed was still allowed. It depends of culture, I guess...

Almost everything I wanted to say has been already said. Don't let your loss detain you of doing anything: try to keep your daily routine and maybe find someone to go out in your spare time, as being busy and/or with people usually stops you of overthinking about what happened and helps relieving anguish and sadness. Talk with your family if you need it, it would help you a lot in accepting your grandma's death, but don't force yourself to talk if you don't feel like that; sometimes you just need to keep things to yourself until you're prepared to face them. As Ginger said, she had the best of deaths possible: she passed away while sleeping, without feeling any pain. Right now it seems horrible, but in a couple of months you'll be looking back and remembering all the good times you had with her. Trust me ;). (For the record, I'm 19, lost my father at 14. I know how you are feeling)

My mother used to sleep naked so I have seen her like that since I can remember. However, I don't think I ever saw my father naked :?. Into the subject of public nudity, you also have to take into account hygienic factors: walking around the street completely naked makes you highly vulnerable to illnesses, due to dust and dirt getting everywhere, not to mention everytime you sit into a bench, for example, your body is touching the same spot as a thousand naked people before, thus multiplying the risk of getting a nasty infection (since not everybody has good hygienic habits). There's also the protective factor, as clothes keep you protected from sunburn and cold, and even from small impacts. I don't think nudity is bad, per se, but highly impractical unless you have a designed place for it, like, let's say, a beach or something like that :|

Happy new year from Spain! (0:33 here :thumbsup:)

My step-dad is pretty cool, even if it took some time for me to accept him at first, my mom is definitely happier with him and that's all that counts :thumbsup:. He doesn't try to act like if he was my father, either, and that's good too because probably I won't like him too much if he did...

Same here. Our cats vary from the don't-get-near-me type (the run away if they see anyone getting closer, and are generally agressive) from the ones who you can stroke as much as you want. Our older cat is the best. She loves to do anything she knows it's wrong, like getting into people's houses, or our own (as they all live in the yard outside) and stealing food or any object she likes. Then if you catch her and shout at her, or even slap her a bit, she simply sits there looking all innocent and hurt #-o. You can't punish her on any way possible, she's like "I know I shouldn't do this but I don't care at all, and I'll do it again". There's no way to make her obey any rules. Also, since she's also one of the sharper cats I have ever meet, she learns how to do things the other ones don't even think about trying, like opening closed windows from the outside :shock:. I really want to know how she manages to do that. You hear her struggling with the window and next thing you know, she's standing on your bed with a proud face. We also own a dog, but now she's old (like 15) and she's never been the nicer of the family, barks and growls at anything or anyone and doesn't generally like people. Maybe that's why I'm a cats person, although I don't mind playful/friendly dogs, just mine isn't like that.