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Posted by jay on June 2, 2005, at 18:08:09
In reply to Re: what color shirt?, posted by Jai Narayan on June 2, 2005, at 8:57:53
I posted this on social-babble, but this is a story that should be of deep concern to *all* of the world's citizens for human rights to us with a mental illness.
The post is here:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20050525/msgs/507022.htmlThanks for listening.
Jay
Posted by henrietta on June 2, 2005, at 19:46:09
In reply to Dr. Bob, all, PLEASE read..., posted by jay on June 2, 2005, at 18:08:09
Thank you, Jay, for this reminder of the real world that we have a responsibility to address.
hen
Posted by Poet on June 2, 2005, at 21:02:58
In reply to I think you've got the tally correct. (nm) » Dinah, posted by Poet on June 1, 2005, at 18:37:06
Posted by Spoc on June 3, 2005, at 7:45:43
In reply to See some of you tomorrow, wish all could come (nm), posted by Poet on June 2, 2005, at 21:02:58
... or something like that, if I see anyone I know. ;-) Happy commuting all.
Posted by rainbowbrite on June 3, 2005, at 7:48:18
In reply to Re: Welcome to Chicago, Knitters International!, posted by Spoc on June 3, 2005, at 7:45:43
ill try not to spill the beans ;-)
Posted by fallsfall on June 3, 2005, at 16:02:11
In reply to Re: Welcome to Chicago, Knitters International! » Spoc, posted by rainbowbrite on June 3, 2005, at 7:48:18
I wonder if the posts get online faster when you type them in Chicago.
Babblemail me if you need to contact the crew here in the windy city.
A very excited Falls.
Posted by 10derHeart on June 3, 2005, at 17:00:31
In reply to I'm here. With laptop!, posted by fallsfall on June 3, 2005, at 16:02:11
That's so great!
I am so envious.
I am so happy for you.
I live only a few hours away but couldn't come.
drat the luck.
Say hi to everyone for me, please.
Have a wonderful dinner and everything else, too!
Oh, and keep Dr. Bob on his toes!
Posted by Larry Hoover on June 3, 2005, at 17:31:52
In reply to I'm here. With laptop!, posted by fallsfall on June 3, 2005, at 16:02:11
> I wonder if the posts get online faster when you type them in Chicago.
>
> Babblemail me if you need to contact the crew here in the windy city.
>
> A very excited Falls.I'm very excited for you all. I'm so glad it is actually *happening*.
Lar
Posted by Deneb on June 3, 2005, at 17:49:57
In reply to Re: I'm here. With laptop! » fallsfall, posted by Larry Hoover on June 3, 2005, at 17:31:52
Posted by Dr. Bob on June 4, 2005, at 8:31:35
In reply to Re: I'm here. With laptop! » fallsfall, posted by Larry Hoover on June 3, 2005, at 17:31:52
> I'm very excited for you all. I'm so glad it is actually *happening*.
Me, too, thanks to annierose for getting us off to a great start!
Bob
Posted by Spoc on June 4, 2005, at 16:16:37
In reply to Re: I'm here. With laptop!, posted by Dr. Bob on June 4, 2005, at 8:31:35
...from Spoc & Rainbowbrite (who is here getting ready to go to the airport now). I didn't know you had put together those gift bags yourself, that was sweet (literally!) of you. Sorry we didn't get to say goodbye, hope you had a good trip back! Btw, we just got back from a group lunch, during which a torrential downpour occurred, but none of us melted and we had a good time!
Posted by annierose on June 4, 2005, at 21:03:53
In reply to Re: Thank you annierose!, posted by Spoc on June 4, 2005, at 16:16:37
You're Welcome!! It was my pleasure. I had fun thinking of some ice breakers.
Rainbowbrights name suits her. But you're not really a Spoc ... too pretty and smiley.
Posted by gardenergirl on June 4, 2005, at 22:49:41
In reply to Re: Thank you annierose! » Spoc, posted by annierose on June 4, 2005, at 21:03:53
Yes, much thanks for all you did to make this get-together so much fun and such a success. What a gal!
It was great to meet you, and to know that you are such a generous, fun, and warm person in real life, too.
Actually it was great to meet everyone face to face. I would say it was like putting on a pair of comfy shoes, but I seem to have forgotten what comfy shoes are like. :)
gg
Posted by rainbowbrite on June 4, 2005, at 23:23:47
In reply to Re: Thank you annierose!, posted by Spoc on June 4, 2005, at 16:16:37
HAHA HI *** SPOC/SPARKI/SPARKLE/SPARK ***
It is really cracking me up (it must be all the sugar;-P) that I have seen this identical post before... it looked exactly the same, I sware...and I think it was earlier today.... actually IT WAS this POST!!! on your computer hahaha and now Im so very far away LOL
Posted by rainbowbrite on June 4, 2005, at 23:29:30
In reply to Re: Thank you annierose! » Spoc, posted by annierose on June 4, 2005, at 21:03:53
That was so sweet of you to arrange everything! But I wish you didnt have to go :-(
I loved the ink blots btw....I think I should get into therapy or something cause it said Im legally nuts :-) or was that gg? or spoc?? or you??....Oh no it was Bob hehehe ;-)
All I could get for that is a (PDJ) ohhhh that sounds kinda psycho......'please dont joke' :D
Posted by annierose on June 5, 2005, at 8:55:18
In reply to Re: Thank you annierose! » annierose, posted by gardenergirl on June 4, 2005, at 22:49:41
Same to you GG!!
Yes, as I wrote to Fallsfall, eating pizza on a rainy afternoon with our babbling girlfriends, sounds perfect. Wish I was there. Who else can we talk with so freely about our lives, our therapist, our therapy and chocolate (of course)... plus, there was a Starbucks on every corner.
I hope your drive home was uneventful. No phone calls to get your off your path :) Those Chicago freeways are so confusing.
I am truly looking forward to our next adventure!!
Posted by Spoc on June 5, 2005, at 10:31:24
In reply to Re: Thank you annierose! » gardenergirl, posted by annierose on June 5, 2005, at 8:55:18
Everyone was very relaxed and friendly and I think it was a real success. Seemed like not a thing to worry or think twice about after all, in finally having a get-together. I hope you all got into some more fun things after I left, unfortunately I have some other commitments this weekend as well. Hope things worked out for fallsfall and whoever else was staying until today too; at least it's not raining (yet?)...
Thanks for the compliment annierose, I return it! One day I will think of which actress it is you remind me of. And Rainbowbrite, yes it sounds like you continued to O.D. on sugar all the way home, dipped into annierose's goodie bag again perhaps, hmmmm???? ;-)
Oh and to everyone not present: don't ever listen to Dinah again when she claims she is unattractive. She is honestly very pretty! As a matter of fact, we were all pretty much supermodels (including Toph and Bob). I think everyone around us wanted to ask for autographs but they were too intimidated. ;-)
Posted by Poet on June 5, 2005, at 11:05:10
In reply to Re: Really was great to meet you all!, posted by Spoc on June 5, 2005, at 10:31:24
Dr. Bob, Fallsfall, GardenerGirl, Partly Cloudy, Rainbowbright, Spoc and Toph.
It was great, not scary at all. I felt relaxed and comfortable with you guys which is a rarity for me. Now if I could just get that feeling in therapy. Hey, what is everybody doing on Thursday? I like the idea of that Greek chorus we wanted to do for All Done.
A special thanks to Annierose for the gift bag and all the thought put into our dinner.
Now if we could have just kept the rain away during lunch...
Toronto '06!
Poet
Posted by TofuEmmy on June 5, 2005, at 11:38:39
In reply to Thanks All Done, Annierose, Auntie Mel, Dinah..., posted by Poet on June 5, 2005, at 11:05:10
Posted by Poet on June 5, 2005, at 11:59:54
In reply to Beg to differ....NYC 2006! :-) (nm) » Poet, posted by TofuEmmy on June 5, 2005, at 11:38:39
Posted by annierose on June 5, 2005, at 12:47:37
In reply to Re: Really was great to meet you all!, posted by Spoc on June 5, 2005, at 10:31:24
Spoc -
I agree! Dinah is very attractive and probably not too happy that we are blowing her cover talking about this. Sorry Dinah, but it's true.
And I love G.G. reddish hair! I pictured her more of a brunette. But her bubbly and warm personality was exactly what I expected.
Here's to the 2006 tour of babbling cities!!
Posted by Toph on June 5, 2005, at 14:51:41
In reply to You look maavalous, posted by Toph on May 24, 2005, at 20:19:50
I've become involved in this place where I can congregate with others who like me have had some difficulties with life at times. There, I can get some things off my chest and work out a few things and learn a few things. The people seem nice, most of them anyway. I begin to curtail my involvement for a variety of reasons and then there's this party. Well, I'm not exactly Mr. Lifeoftheparty so I should pass on it, right? No, somehow I have this need to prove that I am real to others and to validate to myself that this all the time spend on this site isn't some narcissitic delusion of mine. So I go.
But it’s a little scary and I almost abort when the plans were too freeform for my liking. I drive to Chicago anyway and just as I'm nearing Navy Pier, the cell phone rings. I fumble to pick it up driving through unfamiliar streets with honking cars and darting pedestrians who ostensibly are attempting to commit suicide. "Where are you?" I hear faintly. "Ohio" I shout back reading the Ohio street sign. "I must have the wrong number," I hear before the call is terminated. Oh, sh*t, that wasn't my wife that was AuntieMel. Good start.
I call Mel back and explain that I thought she was my wife and it dawns on me I'm digging a deeper hole by suggesting that it's OK to yell at my wife. This isn't going well and I'm not even there yet. I can’t find a parking lot so I park at the nearest meter. No quarters. F*ck it. I start running toward the huge ferris wheel. I think manicly that here I have a whole thread about whether I can attend or not and then what happens, I turn into a Babble cliché for missing the boat, literally. I’m panicing. Ohmygod I’m starting to sweat. What if they hug?
I see this gathering of people and a guy wearing a straw hat transporting a camera with large phallic telephoto lens. There are hundreds of people milling about but that has to be Bob. I sheepishly advance after smelling my armpits. Everything is sort of a blur in my memory except the impression that everyone looks so normal and everyone seems so nice and, well, everyone seems so comfortable with everyone else. We board the boat, and it strikes me that no one is either leading or following. We all kind of make these decisions on where to sit or what to eat or where to go so easily. I’m so pleased that Chicago cooperated. This is my city and it appeared stunning to me from the boat.
Speaking of appearances, well, that’s the risk I guess to meeting. Our masks were coming down and we were going to be exposed. For those of you who want to know what we look like, all I can tell you is that the people I met are among the most beautiful people I know. They are who we hope to be - interesting, smart, funny and kind. There are parties you attend where you leave thinking to yourself what a waste of time. My regret this day is that I hade little time to speak individually with each person. And I would have loved to talk with everyone there for a day at a time. Anyway, it was nice to get the appearance thing out of the way. Everyone seemed to be above judging each other on looks. The weather also helped when the sky opened up and turned the event into a wet t-shirt contest. (Poet won, BTW). It’s hard to look cool when you look like a wet rat.
It was important for me to meet Bob. If this experience was about reality testing, well, it was definitely that for the other posters, but only slightly for Bob. I have developed a respect for him because his site is a supportive and safe place for people like me to associate. He was engaging but unwilling to open up much. I got the distinct impression that he had a sort of paternal sense of satisfaction that his virtual family was as wonderful as he had imagined. It is. His appreciative goodbye to us Saturday was really heartfelt.
You know, it’s really important for me, having lost touch with reality on several occasions, to reality-test things that I fear are illusory. Psycho-Babble has been a wonderful place to test out disclosing secret parts of myself with others. Sometimes I have been saddened by a sense that the relationships and the emotions on Psycho-Babble are only an illusion in my mind. It somehow seems all so much more real to me now.
Toph
Posted by alexandra_k on June 5, 2005, at 15:23:39
In reply to Impressions, posted by Toph on June 5, 2005, at 14:51:41
Thank you Toph
that was beautiful
:-)
Posted by NikkiT2 on June 5, 2005, at 15:38:10
In reply to Re: Impressions » Toph, posted by alexandra_k on June 5, 2005, at 15:23:39
hey, everyone (other than those that live here) love London or dream of coming!! *grins*
Posted by rainbowbrite on June 5, 2005, at 16:49:03
In reply to Impressions, posted by Toph on June 5, 2005, at 14:51:41
Toph that was nicely put. I agree that it would have been nice to have had more time to spend with each person. But for a pretty big group I think we did well! Im sorry that I missed Bob's goodbye :-(
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