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Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

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.


Aims - May 28, 2009 6:35:15 am PDT #21611 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.

This is our house. [link]

The suburbs aren't bad...


Gudanov - May 28, 2009 6:36:23 am PDT #21612 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

It looks like a nice house. It would be about 1/5th that price in my suburban town though. Yikes.


Gudanov - May 28, 2009 6:37:02 am PDT #21613 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - May 28, 2009 6:44:59 am PDT #21614 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

IdonotwanttoliveinthesuburbsIdonotwanttoliveinthesuburbs.

Tarrytown! For suburbs, you could do worse. (I lived in Ossining, NY for a year. It's really beautiful around the Hudson.)


tommyrot - May 28, 2009 6:48:47 am PDT #21615 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Huh.

Bitterness as mental illness?

You know them. I know them. And, increasingly, psychiatrists know them. People who feel they have been wronged by someone and are so bitter they can barely function other than to ruminate about their circumstances.

This behavior is so common -- and so deeply destructive -- that some psychiatrists are urging it be identified as a mental illness under the name post-traumatic embitterment disorder. The behavior was discussed before an enthusiastic audience last week at a meeting of the American Psychiatric Assn. in San Francisco.

The disorder is modeled after post-traumatic stress disorder because it too is a response to a trauma that endures. People with PTSD are left fearful and anxious. Embittered people are left seething for revenge.

"They feel the world has treated them unfairly. It's one step more complex than anger. They're angry plus helpless," says Dr. Michael Linden, a German psychiatrist who named the behavior.

I'm not seething for revenge. Good. No post-traumatic embitterment disorder for me....


Barb - May 28, 2009 6:50:33 am PDT #21616 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”

The suburbs aren't bad...

Nope, they really aren't. I'd like mine even more if it was a suburb of a real city. And I like my house here, but I loved my house in Hudson even better.

[link]


Amy - May 28, 2009 6:54:08 am PDT #21617 of 30000
Because books.

Aw, that's a CUTE house, Jessica. I love a front porch.


Jessica - May 28, 2009 6:55:41 am PDT #21618 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

It's really beautiful around the Hudson.

Oh, I know. I love it up there...for a weekend. After a few days I start to get really itchy for Brooklyn again.

The thing is, I love living in Brooklyn. Love love love love love it. But every now and then I get the real estate bug and start thinking about what it would be like to have just a few inches of extra space...and a yard...


Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - May 28, 2009 6:58:02 am PDT #21619 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

The thing is, I love living in Brooklyn. Love love love love love it. But every now and then I get the real estate bug and start thinking about what it would be like to have just a few inches of extra space...and a yard...

I'm with you. I feel much like that about London.


Dana - May 28, 2009 6:58:58 am PDT #21620 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

And I love that video for "Don't Stop Believin'"

Bizarre. It's flipped left-to-right from what aired on TV. Which I wouldn't notice if I hadn't watched it yesterday.