3,181 Comments Posted by Lynne

I am betting large sums of money that this was written on the wall after the place was closed. Very large sums of money. Bags and bags and bags of money. :-)

OK, so am I to assume that the word "quagmire" is somehow related to Family Guy as is the phrase about "Gigadee"?

No, I haven't, but I was reading an article that referred to that very thing just the other day:

http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/

By the way, the article was written a year ago and predicted almost exactly what recently happened in New Orleans.

~~We don't need no education~~
~~We don't need no thought control~~
~~No dark sarcasm in the classroom~~
~~Hey teacher leave us kids alone~~

HVAC! :-) Heating, ventilation, and air conditoning!

I always remember seeing the hideous slime creatures from hell hiding out in these HVAC crawl spaces in all the swell old sci-fi movies, so I am afraid to say that if I were ever trapped in one of these rooms, I would seriously think twice about trying to shimmy out via one of these, because I KNOW what's waiting for me in there. 8`-)

It just made me think of how awful it looked there last week with all the water in the houses. Some of the pix of home interiors looked a little like this. :-(

Yes, our up-to-date safety equipment ought to impress the hell out of people. 8`-)

Except when we ask the Buildings & Grounds crew to paint the violent ward red to make them even more disturbed, eh? ;-)

Hee hee! That's what we are always striving for - make 'em crazier so we can get our butts kicked more often and have more "days off" for Workman's Comp when someone gets irritable and chucks us through the window.

P.S. It is truly awesome to watch someone pick up an entire loaded metal file cabinet or bed and toss it across the room. It makes you a little less critical of wire mesh and thick glass after you've been beaned with a large chair a few times. Luckily the worst I've gotten is several cracked ribs, but that was back before I picked up better skills at de-fusing upsetting situations. And what's funny is that I still love the people I work with and wouldn't do any other job in the world.

WAWAWAWAWAWAWAWA!!!!!! 8`-)

[Blechhh!!! You are right - that WAS pretty disgusting, wasn't it? :-) ]

If you have a serious mental illness you do not necessarily need to have gone through any traumatic environmental experiences to cause a crisis; your biochemistry does all that for you. It takes all environmental stimuli and warps them. Yes, it is worse if terrible things happen to you in your life, but you can have the perfect, ideal life and a serious mental illness will twist and warp whatever your experiences are. It is not usually the case that people are "driven crazy" by life or by other people; it depends on the amount of "resources" that your biology gives you in the first place. If you are prone (genetically) to a specific form of mental illness it takes fewer environmental "prompts" to cause problems. If you are lucky enough to be born without much in the way of a pre-determined genetic problem you can be in some pretty terrible environments and come out all right.

I went to graduate school with a woman whose parents had each been in a different Nazi death camp in WWII, and she was quite well-adjusted and her parents were two of the sweetest little old people you'd ever meet.

I also had a young college student in counseling from a very rich family (read: very, very, very, very, very rich) and she was suicidal because she did not get in the "correct" sorority. Another was upset because she couldn't figure how many people to invite to her parents' yacht for spring break. (Both true stories - details changed slightly to protect the identities - etc.)

Most of us are somewhere in the middle and need a combination of coping skills issues, a predetermined genetic disease process, and some environmental stressors to tip us over the edge.

The type of violence we see in a "violent ward" is usually the result of a schizophrenic or psychotic process (or a physiological process such as dementia, alcoholism, or drug use) and rarely the result of sociopaths, such as your Ted Bundy types. Those folks are generally much more self-controlled, especially in situations like this.

Gack! I sound like I am teaching class! Sorry 'bout that! :-)

Humph! The REAL story is that he was drinking all that beer and his camera got a little cross-eyed . . .

Regardless, I LOVE this shot. Oh wait - I already said that earlier. Sorry.

[Psssst!!!!! I think anna stole those when she stole the beer! Hope she doesn't get mixed up and drink the wrong stuff . . . ]

Well, actually *I* am down there sometimes . . . . just waiting . . .

Watusis . . .

. . . number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9 . . . .