A Conversation with Elizabeth
1999
Nano Reply

From:          Elizabeth 
To:            LMixson@PEC.com
Sent:          Thursday, January 21, 1999 1:55 PM
Subject:       Nano Reply
 
No, I don't watch Star Trek Vogager--I'm not even sure--is that a new program sequence after the original Star Trek and then the second series that followed it--the name of which I forget.  A couple of years back I was still watching/taping some of the second series, as I have discovered a lot of episodes on my unlabeled videos.  I may try to find a popular book on nanotechnology, something I can understand.  Are you reading anything lately?

I try to keep a list of things you mention that you are reading because sometimes it is a lead on something good (although I still haven't finished one of those sci fi books I got about virtual reality--although I want to).  I thoroughly agree about the 17 year investment, as long as you are still happy or content.  Since Julie "left" though, in some ways it seems to put more on the burden of correcting the situation on you, unless she gets reconciled with herself and with you to adapt to whatever it is she is/was unhappy or malcontent over.  I basically gave up dating a long time ago, or perhaps it gave me up, or probably a combination. I don't like the whole "effort."  I enjoy going out, particularly to movies, dinner, and nature stuff, or just events, but I HATE dates.  I just do a version of "That sounds interesting; I'll meet you there" rather than the date format.  I'm sort of pretty distanced from the whole notion of feeling I have to be, or even wanting to be "attractive" to someone.  Alabama women are pretty--well there is a phrase some of use about them--"bowheads."  Even today here at work, I saw a woman who must have been older than I, and she had the "bow"--quite fancy--tied in her hair--like a little girl would.  I'm not talking about a clip type bow, but a fancy ribbon elaborate bow.  The women here do that and then they wear these little girl empire dresses--which is a way of saying I don't fit in, at all, with the Southern woman look.  Today I went to a class in Excel.  The hospital is converting from QuattroPro and Word Perfect to Excel and Word.  I never learned QP.  I won't use it much, but I won't reject the training because it was free, and sometime I might use it.  I don't have much to put on spreadsheets here, but I do want to set one up for my journal subscriptions.  I hate to always talk law school, but the grades finally came out.  The prof teaching that class I dreaded/dread this term gave 50% D's and F's for his class last term, really low.  Rumor has it there were more than that, which is why the grades were so late, but Administration intervened.  I'm in the second part of the class with them, and last night in another totally unrelated class, many of them started expressing their anger.  The prof tried to be helpful, but said he didn't want to get into the middle of it about another prof.  But he said he would give us/them some of his personal notes on the subject.  I found out my last grade which was an A+, in Con. Law.  I still probably did not get best paper though, as there were 3 other A+.  I would have to have the best A+.  Tough.  Nothing much else new.  I'm tired and not getting much exercise lately, and have been eating too much, or in a way which is skewed towards late in the evening.  I have to watch that. 
Elizabeth 

Bowheads, that's funny.

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