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listen to your heart, or is it your stomach as to which road to follow. as far as writing for a livin'...........forget it. am very popular with 28M weeekly readers, at no financial gain. think before you give up day job.. bernie t Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:38:28 -0400 ====================================================================== Post: 030246 Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 Subj: janet's pickle [dill, extra garlic] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dear cyber-siblings i find myself in a bit of a pickle and am hereby imposing on my cyber family for advice or hints or harangues or whatever else it might be that families do in such picklish situations the winds of change are whipping through these isles for me at least it's time for me to move on in re career and country my 'growth-spurt' of the past two years has caused me to re-evaluate a whole lot of 'stuff' i have spent the past 27 years [yikes] involved in the interior design business in some form or other and i do believe that's quite enough for now since i have re-discovered an almost lost passion for writing and since many of you have expressed appreciation of my scribbles despite being my captive audience i thought hey why not ask the syblings for some advice? take advantage of this magnificent medium, as it were? where else could i have such access to so many net savvy wonderful caring virtual people many of whom know me better than any three dee type bermudians? in short i wanna write in medium i wanna write and have it mean something in long i wanna write and have it mean something and allow me to pay the rent the more i get into it the more i get out of it and the more fan mail i get so i'm tempted to take all the compliments as genuine and jump this creaking old design ship but into what? i'd love to work for a non-profit org of some kind i'm done with chasing the not-so-mighty dollar been there, spent some, so what one area could be 'insight', 'inspiration', or egads 'humour' another area could be the organizer/editor/condenser from hell cut through the crud and dig out the truly relevant information i feel like i'm being pushed in this direction by someone stronger than me for example: i read the list and all the messages about mirapex and someones comment that no one seems to know how to prescribe it even though it's been fda approved and it seems we're almost being used as phase two trial guinea pigs and that's what i've been thinking from the beginning of this mirapex frenzy and have been hunting high and low for instructions on how to take mirapex on the net and there's nothing there not even at the manufacturer's website and the neurologists all seem to have their own ideas although they've never heard of it before and some of the members have virtually suffered medical malpractice because of the way the prescribing has been mishandled and camilla's husband could have died wandering out into the street in the middle of the night hallucinating and paranoid because of a very obvious [to me] piece of over-dosing negligence on the part of his neuro and it just gets my dander up even more and i think i could be an independent advocate of some sort for we the consumers/patients against the ignorance and laziness of some areas of the medical establishment and the best thing that ever happened in that area is the us gov's establishment of free medline at pubmed on the net which is where i've been getting all the up-to-date published medical study results and i saw where the site was opened by al gore in a flurry of press in june as part of healthfinder.com a site which opened in april dedicated theoretically to providing net access to medical info for the public and i'm thinking of writing to al gore, thanking him for the service and telling him i think it could be better whew! location-wise all my friends and family are scattered around the globe [just like my cyber family!] so there is no 'there' to go to to be 'with' them legally, i am allowed to reside and work in canada as well as the u.k. in reality, i suppose if a job leapt up and grabbed me i could work wherever that was it's a quandary of ethereal dimensions, isn't it? so where better to toss it? your syber-sis [in all seriousness - no fooling] janet ps and of course while i'm tapping away at this the most magnificent blue and pink sunset is assaulting my eyes ====================================================================== http://www.geocities.com/janet313/wordspie/199709/030246.html ps updated pickle alert to follow janet paterson: an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit perky, parky . pd: 54/41/37 cd: 54/44/43 tel: 613 256 8340 email: [log in to unmask] . smail: 375 Country Street, Apt 301, Almonte, Ontario, Canada, K0A 1A0 . a new voice: the nnnewsletter: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/janet313/ . a new voice: the wwweb site: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn