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...tired. Well, I couldn't sleep all night long. The same type of thing. I've got to remember this and remember that." About 2:30 a.m. Friday, Rowley had had enough. I said, "This is ridiculous. I'm on 36 hours without sleep. If I jot it down, first of all I won't forget it. And I won't have to keep reminding myself of things to say. I'll get it out of my system, and I'll be able to sleep...
...never ask why? Ginny scheduled several appointments with a psychiatrist, Gail McVey. She and Hilary talked mostly about books--Hilary and Ginny read one or two a week--and about memories of her father. After four visits, McVey gave Hilary a Harry Potter journal in which to jot down her feelings and told Ginny, "You have a remarkable daughter. She talks all about her father ... She can keep seeing me if she likes, but she's doing so well, I'm not sure it's necessary...
...begin to explore its wireless communication capabilities. It uses Microsoft's recently released Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition software, which nicely integrates ordinary phone functions with those of a handheld computer. SMS messaging and e-mailing are effortless, thanks to the handwriting recognition software that allows you to jot a missive on the touchscreen and send it off to someone in your address book with just a couple of taps?no more thumb typing. Even cooler: if you're listening to music through the included headset?the xda can play MP3 files?and a call comes in, the system automatically...
...people I see are great dieters, beautiful dieters," says Dr. Cheryle Hart, founder and medical director of the Wellness Workshop in Spokane, Wash. "They can deny themselves, but only for so long. Then they snap. We all would." Second, we could stop paying such close attention to every jot and tittle in the diet debate. It will take decades for researchers to unravel all the reasons we eat what we do, and why we like to eat so much of it. But a few insights are emerging that should point us in the right direction, as long...
...home after dark from a former studio "took me past all these sports complexes and football pitches. These places seemed to have a different dynamic at night. The last thing it seemed like was a place of recreation." He photographs the locations in daylight, then returns at night. "I jot down things, make a sketch on the back of a cigarette packet, then go back to the studio and paint them in the way I remember them - or should like them to be." His painting of a pavilion, with light streaming out past an empty bench, has conscious echoes...