Energy, and How to Get It
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Energy, and How to Get It
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#3Lisdexamphetamine keeps me compatible with the cadence of my peers, comfortably this side of normal.
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#4The guidelines are easy on paper. Eat healthy, sleep a lot, work out multiple times a week and you’ll magically have a lot of energy.
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#5> A lean Montrealer, with a gentle yet poised intensity that one might classify as medium-energy, Picard came at the question of vim and vigor from a near-cosmic vantage. His office, high above the Heights, had a commanding view down the Hudson, a receding sun-blanched shorescape of skyscrapers and tidal swirl that lent his pronouncements an oracular air.
Did this assignment have a minimum word count? I know it's the New Yorker, but gah I couldn't handle it
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#6> A lean Montrealer, with a gentle yet poised intensity that one might classify as medium-energy, Picard came at the question of vim and vigor from a near-cosmic vantage. His office, high above the Heights, had a commanding view down the Hudson, a receding sun-blanched shorescape of skyscrapers and tidal swirl that lent his pronouncements an oracular air. Did this assignment have a minimum word count? I know it's the…
While we're bashing the style: Is 'scrip' really what they meant in "If a patient says, ‘I want more energy,’ maybe the doctor should just write a scrip for methamphetamine"? I just checked the dictionary to confirm, and 'scrip' is definitely a financial term; surely they meant 'script'?
Or is this a situation where they flaunt common practice to be quirky, like their superfluous umlauts?
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#7From the rumors I hear it can sometimes just be Ritalin.
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#8> A lean Montrealer, with a gentle yet poised intensity that one might classify as medium-energy, Picard came at the question of vim and vigor from a near-cosmic vantage. His office, high above the Heights, had a commanding view down the Hudson, a receding sun-blanched shorescape of skyscrapers and tidal swirl that lent his pronouncements an oracular air. Did this assignment have a minimum word count? I know it's the…
While we're bashing the style: Is 'scrip' really what they meant in "If a patient says, ‘I want more energy,’ maybe the doctor should just write a scrip for methamphetamine"? I just checked the dictionary to confirm, and 'scrip' is definitely a financial term; surely they meant 'script'? Or is this a situation where they flaunt common practice to be quirky, like their superfluous umlauts?
I’ve heard the term before - and it’s in MW. Check out definition 3 here:
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#9> A lean Montrealer, with a gentle yet poised intensity that one might classify as medium-energy, Picard came at the question of vim and vigor from a near-cosmic vantage. His office, high above the Heights, had a commanding view down the Hudson, a receding sun-blanched shorescape of skyscrapers and tidal swirl that lent his pronouncements an oracular air. Did this assignment have a minimum word count? I know it's the…
While we're bashing the style: Is 'scrip' really what they meant in "If a patient says, ‘I want more energy,’ maybe the doctor should just write a scrip for methamphetamine"? I just checked the dictionary to confirm, and 'scrip' is definitely a financial term; surely they meant 'script'? Or is this a situation where they flaunt common practice to be quirky, like their superfluous umlauts?
Short for prescription. I'm old enough to remember it being used. It doesn't seem to be in circulation as a term now
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#10Lisdexamphetamine keeps me compatible with the cadence of my peers, comfortably this side of normal.
Do you have ADHD or do you take this stuff without a diagnosis?