Faith ,'End of Days'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
New study shows that people are paranoid:
The study found that:
* Over 40% of people regularly worry that negative comments are being made about them
* 27% think that people deliberately try to irritate them
* 20% worry about being observed or followed
* 10% think that someone has it in for them
* 5% worry that there is a conspiracy to harm them
I'm not at work today! Woohoo!
If it's more of a dragging action, it hurts like papercuts. Those fuckers are sharp.
I think that's what this must be, because I use the superthins.
Ow.
Well, that's just true of stabbing. If it's more of a dragging action, it hurts like papercuts.
This is what I've always managed to do to myself the few times I've jabbed me. Owie! (and, thanks!, that reminded me that I need to pick up syringes today).
I think throwing a party for yourself is totally fine. Most years my best friends have a party for me at their place but I end up sending out the invitation. This year friends have scheduled their wedding BBQ celebration on my birthday (it's a Sat. this year) and, while I'm thrilled they're getting married and all and I know it will be a fun time, I'm a little miffed about having to share my day.
Oh, that reminds me. I'm cat sitting a diabetic cat next week, so I may be calling on y'all for advice.
* Over 40% of people regularly worry that negative comments are being made about them
I've found that downsizing the number of people whose opinions matter to you helps tremendously with this.
* 27% think that people deliberately try to irritate themI wonder if this number reflects some under reporting. It seems to me like people are tightfisted with benefit-of-the-doubt. I know this is something I'm guilty of, and it's also something I notice a lot, in other people, not towards me, just when they're talking about something that's happened to them (cf. * Over 40% of people regularly worry that negative comments are being made about them).
New study shows that people are paranoid:
What are you saying? Are you implying that I'm too paranoid? I always knew Jesse was out to get me.
Last week Nora 'updated my file' to allow it, so I will note...
Aw, Rick, you may weigh in on any and all subjects! I enjoy your posts. (in case my teasing was unclear in any way on that point)
Re: birthday parties. I am always organizing my own birthday thing, because, well, I honestly don't expect other people to remember it, and then I can organize the when and where and what that I like, 'cause it's my birthday! I don't get the reticsence to plan one's own birthday celebration. Maybe it's the perception that to do so is to troll for presents?
I always knew Jesse was out to get me.
Am not! But Lee might be.
On the birthday thing -- I don't hang out in crowds where it is expected that you will buy an extravagant birthday gift (or any, really), but I can imagine that if you were, it becomes a slightly different situation. Generally my friends buy dinner for the birthday girl, and that's that. Two times weird things have happened: One year, just three of us went out, so I felt bad that they split my dinner between them (so in that case I wished I had invited more people), and last year a friend came who's not from the US and gave me a fairly significant present, and I wished I had told her not to. But otherwise, no big whoop.
Lee's posts always did look shifty.