Yeah, I was thinking that they're at a good age for accepting weirdness if everyone is cool about it. I spent about five weeks in a hotel in Brooklyn (trial in the Eastern District) when my two were about the same age, and they took it completely in stride.
It's bad form to praise yourself--even obliquely--in the third person, Ideal.
Alas, I am in no danger of ever being a famous litigator. But the guy to whom I am referring is. He left our trial to go try a case where, IIRC, the amount at stake was in the tens, maybe hundreds, of billions of dollars.
I have to regulate my autonomic process, i.e. consciously decide to breathe each time. This produces more of a suffocating panic.
What's up with that? That happens to me sometimes if I'm a little stuffed up, and I'm trying to go to sleep, and I consciously try to breathe normally, but then I'm concentrating on it too much and then I get the suffocating panic.
I've had that happen too -- what works for me is to stop breathing: if I can't breathe without making a conscious effort, I just won't make the effort. Then after about thirty seconds I start gasping for air and that seems to reset matters.
Sometimes it backfires and I start to feel that I have to regulate my autonomic process, i.e. consciously decide to breathe each time. This produces more of a suffocating panic.
I thought I was the only one who had this problem. I cannot ever focus on my breathing without inducing panic. When I took yoga I just didn't bother with any of the breathing stuff.
And meditation exercises where you're supposed to clear your mind? Makes me panicky too.
Great that the girls were fine. I was thinking about that.
Posted by David Weman | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 7:17 AM
Yeah, I was thinking that they're at a good age for accepting weirdness if everyone is cool about it. I spent about five weeks in a hotel in Brooklyn (trial in the Eastern District) when my two were about the same age, and they took it completely in stride.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 7:38 AM
Were you acquitted, LB?
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 7:51 AM
I've been told I acquitted myself quite well, thank you very much.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 7:57 AM
Were you acquitted, LB?
She was one of the stars of the show. I got to see a famous (among lawyers) civil litigator come to LizardBreath to get her advice.
Posted by Idealist | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 7:59 AM
...between the bars of the cell.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 8:03 AM
And just like I said, that tie he was wearing really didn't suit him.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 8:04 AM
Bah, false modesty, LB--you know you were brilliant.
Posted by Idealist | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 8:07 AM
I got to see a famous (among lawyers) civil litigator come to LizardBreath to get her advice.
It's bad form to praise yourself--even obliquely--in the third person, Ideal.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 8:09 AM
It's bad form to praise yourself--even obliquely--in the third person, Ideal.
Alas, I am in no danger of ever being a famous litigator. But the guy to whom I am referring is. He left our trial to go try a case where, IIRC, the amount at stake was in the tens, maybe hundreds, of billions of dollars.
Posted by Idealist | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 8:12 AM
I have to regulate my autonomic process, i.e. consciously decide to breathe each time. This produces more of a suffocating panic.
What's up with that? That happens to me sometimes if I'm a little stuffed up, and I'm trying to go to sleep, and I consciously try to breathe normally, but then I'm concentrating on it too much and then I get the suffocating panic.
Glad to hear you're doing well, alameida.
Posted by silvana | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 8:32 AM
I've had that happen too -- what works for me is to stop breathing: if I can't breathe without making a conscious effort, I just won't make the effort. Then after about thirty seconds I start gasping for air and that seems to reset matters.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 8:55 AM
He left our trial to go try a case where, IIRC, the amount at stake was in the tens, maybe hundreds, of billions of dollars.
Is he Tom Cruise (in The Firm)?
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 8:58 AM
The morning's not yet over, Smasher. There's still time left to eat your Wheaties.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 9:02 AM
Sometimes it backfires and I start to feel that I have to regulate my autonomic process, i.e. consciously decide to breathe each time. This produces more of a suffocating panic.
I thought I was the only one who had this problem. I cannot ever focus on my breathing without inducing panic. When I took yoga I just didn't bother with any of the breathing stuff.
And meditation exercises where you're supposed to clear your mind? Makes me panicky too.
Posted by dagger aleph | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 9:02 AM
if I can't breathe without making a conscious effort, I just won't make the effort
You are lazy.
(Found by Yahoo!; Google continues to suck.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 9:04 AM
'lazy' s/b 'lazy'
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 9:05 AM
Buffy and Kit Kats? Your rehab sounds like my rehab, if you replace "Buffy" with "Alias" and "Kit Kats" with "sitting on a yoga ball."
Posted by Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 9:46 AM
What did you eat sitting on a yoga ball?
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 9:51 AM
Three square meals a day. Is that not normal?
Posted by Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 10:02 AM
I've done it again. Will somebody call it?
Posted by Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 06-13-06 5:34 PM
Uh, corner pocket?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 06-14-06 12:05 AM
Pool? Pool? This thread is dead and all you can do is talk about pool? You have the sensitivity of roadkill, Wolfson.
Posted by Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 06-15-06 12:11 PM