She went reluctantly.

Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD); described by the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fourth edition (DSM-IV-TR), as an Axis II personality disorder characterized by “…a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood.” Doesn’t really affect my bile duct, but it sure does make things difficult as far as making friends.

(that only took me around a minute as its something I’m quite familiar with, haha!)

Regarding my being undeserving of an interview, no, please hold your breath. No, I can’t imagine most (any?) would want to hear my views on politics or travel or otherwise. And that’s okey-dokey. So. Okay. You win. No more trolling for ‘feesh.’

Please be sure to let us know the first time anybody finds you or anything you have to say interesting enough to merit an interview. I suspect that nobody around here will be holding their breath.

narcissism
Definition
nar·cis·sism[ nrssə sìzzəm ]NOUN
1. self-admiration: excessive self-admiration and self-centeredness
2. personality disorder: in psychiatry, a personality disorder characterized by the patient’s overestimation of his or her own appearance and abilities and an excessive need for admiration. In psychoanalytic theory, emphasis is placed on the element of self-directed sexual desire in the condition.
[ Early 19th century. After Narcissus ]
nar·cis·sist NOUN
nar·cis·sis·tic ADJECTIVE
nar·cis·sis·tic·al·ly ADVERB
Thesaurus
NOUN
Synonyms: vanity, self-love, self-admiration, self-absorption, egotism, conceit, self-importance, selfishness, self-centeredness

While I’m most certain that none of us can speak to the second definition given (or can we?), I’m certain that most of the peanut gallery can agree on the first. Well done!

Stex: not as much as I used to. It was a losing race with development and traffic. I’ve nursed possums, raptors (including owls and vultures), parrots (several species of invasive psitticines are established here), all kinds of snakes, turtles and lizards. I just can’t stand raccoons – they’re nasty as hell and can turn vicious on you without warning – so I don’t do those. I had an injured fox once but it was so flea and parasite ridden, and so defensive, that the vet who examined it recommended euthanizing it. Broke our hearts, but so it goes.

My prize right now, of course, is my little Friendo. Pygmies used to be common even around the area where my house is and when we were kids we called them buzzworms, but again, development eradicated most (but not all) of them in the immediate area. Friendo was found less than a mile from my house under an old tire in an acquaintance’s back yard. This fall, when he’ll be about two thirds of his adult size, I’m taking him out to the dry prairie area of the ‘Glades and releasing him.

It’s been a good year for apex predators in San Mateo County.

Good story. Do you do a lot of wildlife recovery?

We continued to see it on random menus as far as the Canso Strait. It may have spread past the causeway by now but I suspect fierce resistance by the locals had halted its northeastward progress and menus remained fairly clear of it from there all the way to Cape Breton. It wasn’t missed, though – they’ve got these things called lobsters up there, which are cheap, plentiful and delicious.

Follow that? Good.

Anyway, it took me a few days to calm it down, make a hood and jesses for it, and gentle it for the stress of the surgery to remove the pellet. I had never encountered a set of talons like the ones on that bird, and the grip on my glove was incredible – but when you make your living grabbing feesh out of the water, I guess you need all the armaments you can deploy.

The lowlife who shot it did a good job. The pellet lodged in the wrist joint so Ahab (as I named it) was never going to be fit for the wild again. He was taken by New York State Fish and Wildlife to a shelter up in New Palz where, I imagine, he lived out his days pretty well fed and cared for.

Still a fine subject for an interview, and the focus on the Feesh was perfectly understandable.

Someone mentioned Toronto’s Indian food below. Yeah, definitely – and there are some killer Thai restaurants too. I think, though, that for sheer anomalousness, nothing will match the Korean taco bar that’s just a few storefronts west of Caplansky’s on College Street. I have never seen anything like it this side of the demilitarized zone and I don’t expect to.

And you know what? It’s good. Next trip to TO, I am going to have to vet it properly.

I think it’s just a difference in background (academic, not necessarily socioeconomic). I’m in a scientific field, where he has studied and taught in the arts. Words are his tool of expression, where I like to say things as simply as I know how.