Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 14:48:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Marsha Faizi <mfaizi-AT-rbnet.com>
Subject: Re: Mama Faizi's Cold Remedy--I am a nurse, already, you know



>Dear Faizi,
> What's with this rural stuff, I thought you said you lived in
>Baltimore. 

I was raised in southwestern Virginia. I went to school in Baltimore and
ended up living there for seventeen years. I moved back to Virginia about
eight years ago. I live in a very small town in the mountains. 

I like it here, for the most part. Everyone knows each other. The mountains
are beautiful. We have had a very warm winter this year--in the sixties and
seventies most of the time. I have liked that immensely. Not much of a flu
and cold season. 

Delightful. Just some rather weird stuff.

>I read a bit, cleaned up my cell and organized the papers and
>books that were all over the place after a month of messy posting. 

I know what you mean. I need to do that, too. 

I am also a bit under the weather, so to speak. But I think that mine is
just fatigue and the usual depressive state. No big deal. Some Happy Camper
pills could help. Damn, are those things beneficial but I don't take them
often. I am afraid that, if I take them too often, I will become resistant
to them. I hold them back for emergency use only. Must be some really potent
Ginseng and Gotu-kola in those capsules. I am surprised that they are legal
but you can buy them in health food stores. Shows a picture of this little
guy wearing a green hat on the label. A little elf or somebody. You just
take two capsules and, fifteen minutes later, you got it made. Nothing can
bother you. 


>I
>slept too, helped my aching back and legs and bought some of that crap
>that's called neo citran, seems to work for me but I am listening to
>you and Don's suggestions. 

Never heard of neo citran but whatever works.

>Feel better today, coughing is going away
>but still feel weak. Should be okay for work tommorow. 

Keep resting.

>Yes, I finished
>Act I of Celestina and while reading some criticism on Valenzuela I
>realized that Lacan's seminar xx would go very well with a reading of
>Celestina. She is almost like you except she takes gifts which is still
>part of general economy in so far as the exchange is a waste of
>resources. Talking to Parmeno she advices him that, " there is nothing
>more pleasurable than to enjoy sensual pleasures and to recount them
>and communicate them to friends: "I did this--she said that--we did
>these delightful things--I took her in this fashion--kissed here this
>way--she bit me like this--this is the way I hugged her--she came close
>to me in this wise. Oh such conversation, such cleverness, such playing
>around! what kisses! Let's go there, let's turn back here, let's have
>more music, let's paint epigrams, let's sing songs, let's play on
>words, let's joust...." This is true enjoyment she says anything else is
>for the beasts in the fields.

I am certain that this must be a better sort of philosophy than just lying
around feeling miserable. 


>Ariosto
Whoever I am
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