A Conversation with Elizabeth
1999
Diet

From:          Elizabeth 
To:            LMixson@PEC.com
Sent:          Monday, January 25, 1999 10:42 AM
Subject:       Diet
 
I've decided to try officially dieting, i.e. counting calories, as opposed to just controlling what I eat.  I'm apparently just not leading an active enough lifestyle to just eat ad lib, and when I weighed this weekend my weight had edged back up a little.  Dieting is a boring subject so I won't belabor it.  I did have a talk with myself about priorities this weekend though.  They are basically work/law school/and health.  My health has to be the foundation. I think it is hard for me to accept that middle age is a physical reality, when I don't have the mind set to match it.  Most of my friends are much older mentally than I am, even though they are the same age. (My boss says he has not been to a movie in years.  I can't imagine that, but he does lead a scout troop though.)  I still want to be able to have the energy and stamina I did when younger and I simply do not have it, plus I have the age onset stuff like my creaky knees.  The only thing I did unusual this weekend was go to a concert at the university.  It was a little dry as it was a song concert, most of them in foreign languages, but it was quite good.  It was billed as a concert of "women composers."  It was a crunch getting there, even though the university is only 10 minutes away, but I was trying to stick to my guns about ACTUALLY getting out for the things I PLAN to attend. Otherwise, I studied, and walked several times--the weather was gorgeous on Saturday and most of Sunday.  I listened to some of the impeachment stuff, and watched the X-files and although The Practice was a repeat I watched it as I missed most episodes last year. I also finished The Winner by Baldacci--I don't recommend it.  It was just okay. I really like Absolute Power though.
 
I was a little "rude" perhaps to someone at the concert.  It was a public library employee.  When I walked in, she saw me, as I just happened to be standing by her seats when I walked in.  She remembered me and introduced me to the person she was with (which was very polite I thought).  I hadn't seen her in ages.  BUT THEN, I remembered that a friend of mine had told me that this person was telling everyone that I had been FIRED from the public library.  So, after I acknowledged the introduction, I sort of turned back to her and said, "OH, I understand you've been telling people I was fired from my job at the library.  That is absolutely not true."  She then said, "That is what I was told."  I said, "Well whoever told you was way off base and that was completely erroneous."  I then said, "A professional friend told me you had told her that, and I really don't appreciate it."  I then walked away.  Maybe it wasn't rude.  The "library community" is quite small in town, but librarians everywhere are "connected" and gossip like that spreads almost immediately.  Thanks to her, many librarians around town, and even out of town, heard, quite inaccurately that I was fired at the public library.  Sometimes I never know whether I'm being assertive or nasty.  I feel good about setting her straight, but I feel a little bad about doing it at a place where we both went to enjoy ourselves.  I really like Ebola type books.  Once I thought about going into Public Health--in fact I took some courses in epidemiology--in fact I took a lot of courses in Public Health.  That was in Tampa.  Do you remember the dream I had about finding money in a book--I had another dream and this time someone was hiding money in a book.  Oh--I have 100's of favorites saved on my computer.  Is there anyway to create a copy of the sites--what I'm afraid of is if the hard drive crashes, I will lose all the addresses.  I mean other than manually writing down all the addresses.  I thought you might know. 
Elizabeth

So she wasn’t fired but this was another case of her having issues with the people she worked with and, if not getting fired, left a job after having issues with the people she worked with.

Bizarre