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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 12:55 PM
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So what do you read when you're not feeling well?
My stomach won't calm down long enough for me to go to sleep but I don't feel like sitting up for too long at one time either. So I've been mostly laying on the couch reading. Got through a book printed back in 1980 about the state of the resisitence in Afghanistan and another written in the mid-70s on gender relations in the Muslim world focusing on Morocco as a case study. I usually find non-fiction like that fascinating...usually...but it's just not holding my attention today. And there's a long long afternoon staring me in the face.

Any suggestions on what to do to occupy my brain today would be greatly appreciated.
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 12:59 PM
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1. The obituaries
OK...so I'm a bit dramatic when I am sick...sue me
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 01:00 PM
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3. Heeeeeeeeeeee
You are a wonder. That made me giggle. :loveya:
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 12:59 PM
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2. Holy crap Velma, those are some seriously deep books!
You need a romance novel, full of good old-fashioned sex! That'll take your mind off your stomach ache!
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 01:01 PM
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4. I own very few books that would qualify...
as "romance novels". They just aren't my thing. :shrug:
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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 01:13 PM
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5. The inside of my eyelids
I usually try to nap things off. Even if I don't get any actual sleep, I end up feeling better anyway. Drinking Pepto out of the bottle is not out of the question for a seriously upset stomach.
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 01:15 PM
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6. I'm in touch with Pepto outta the bottle...
my momma would be so disappointed in my lack of manners, but oh well. It works and I don't have to wash a spoon.
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 01:18 PM
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7. The Pepto bottle!
:P
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 01:20 PM
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8. *snort*
Thanks for that deep and insightful response. :P
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 01:23 PM
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9. Hey! That's what I'm here for!
:bounce::bounce:
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BroadwayBrat Donating Member (280 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 01:24 PM
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10. I ususally curl up with a good John Grisham or James Patterson novel...
I love stories about forensics and lawyers!
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 01:25 PM
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11. For me it's usually spy novels...
Edited on Tue Jun-07-05 01:26 PM by VelmaD
or intrepid heros and heroines comitting brave but unsung deeds behind Nazi lines during WWII. For some reason nothing is holding my interest today. :shrug:
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 01:40 PM
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12. I usually sleep.
But with the upset tummy. Right now I am reading Pegasus Bridge by Stephen Ambrose. Abotu the 6th Airborne Division and the coup de main that they performed before the start of D-Day. It is a pretty good book.
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Juice45 Donating Member (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 01:42 PM
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13. A Robert Jordan maybe.
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 10:50 PM
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14. magazines; or a reread of something I have read before
reduces the level of concentration needed.

Humor is good when you are sick. I like the "Cat Who" books for extremely light fiction.
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