What's odd about such self-restraint is that I was terrible at holding back my childish desires in almost every other way.
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Once upon a time, I was a middle-level manager within the largest division of a publically held company, and I was terrible at it.
Doing it in private was one thing, she said, but letting other people know that I typed was terrible for my professional image.
My "routine" outpatient surgery (which was on my butt -- get all your sophomoric jokes out of the way now) went awry and I was in terrible, excruciating pain.
Now, I think personally I thought that was terrible mistake.
It was terrible I tell you, but alas, I survived to tell the story.
On the issue of the third day's play, I was astonished by the terrible scoring.
"I can remember the wreck of the vessel and it was a terrible sight and I'm surprised there is no memorial, " said Mr Deacon.
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It was a terrible move, I didn't understand what I was doing and I was dragged in to it.
All that time, all I could think of was the terrible 24-hour ordeal that we had had downstairs.
And I just decided that if I read back I was going to be so discouraged at seeing how bad the manuscript was, what a terrible job I'd done, so I just kept going.
The second was the terrible lack of access to decent internet while I was away.
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Much of this, I suspect, was the result of the terrible budget constraints under which he operates.
It was a terrible tackle but I don't think he really meant it, he came and said sorry.
The news, and so I grew up - there was a point in my life, like in middle school, where I just wanted to fit in and I just didn't want to be an Arab because I thought, you know, it was a terrible thing.
Well, OK. I had a terrible and traumatic time in the Boy Scouts and I saw firsthand what it was like to be the subject of discrimination - if you will - in my troop, where it wasn't so much that I was Asian but just sort of like a fat kid with glasses.
The former finance wizard replied in tones almost forlorn: "I believe I was extremely greedy, and that I lost my moral compass, and I've done terrible things that I very much regret, " answered Fastow.
Bulas was flush enough (wince, I know, terrible pun) to have a personal residence which included a house, a garage, and a guesthouse.
Overall, this year's Oscars were - in spite of everything, in spite of a terrible national economy - I thought it was a perfectly acceptable ceremony.
By then, I was also hooked to my family's satellite radio account, which was like terrestrial radio without all of those terrible commercials for car dealerships or rug outlets.
What I repeatedly witnessed was the love and faith of families, unchanged by terrible events.
It was after that, I was walking through the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh, surrounded by terrible poverty and the devastation of a cyclone.
The thing that Jobs did a terrible job of in Act I and Act II of his career was manage talent.
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It was terrible. (Laughter.) Just like I remember pumping gas.
That being said, I think your past weight loss effort was far too aggressive and that is why you felt terrible and were hungry all day.
And he was getting terrible pressure from friends, family members, his wife, to - I hate this word - have closure, to forgive her, to see her at the end because he would feel so guilty if he didn't have a reconciliation.
As the terrible news began to spread, my Facebook feed was filled with messages from people I know telling me they were all right, or asking if someone else had been heard from.
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