Maybe some Rube Goldberg-ian contraption hooked up to your alarm clock - if it goes off for x amount of time without you turning it off, Cagney's crate gets opened (via a mousetrap, bowling ball, lit match, etc.)

I hate dealing with stressed-out students. I feel really bad for them, but with one student this semester in particular, just talking to her takes so much energy, because I have to keep constantly calming myself down, because it's like her stress is contagious, and I get really stressed out just from talking to her. By the time she's done talking, I just need to go somewhere quiet and relax and breathe for a while before I can do anything productive.

maybe they need better friends than me.

I think you are, at best, looking for the word "different", but might also be looking for the modifier "in addition to" somewhere up in there. No one needs only one sort of friend, do they?

Totally this.

My mom sent me donuts for my birthday. The place she sent them from, Vegan Essentials, has continued their streak of sending me a bunch of random stuff in addition to whatever they were supposed to send me. This time, it was three packages of vegan salami and one package of vegan turkey. Um. I guess sandwiches for lunch for the next few days? I think I liked it better last time, when I ordered cheese and got some chocolate coconut bars.

their streak of sending me a bunch of random stuff in addition to whatever they were supposed to send me.

I got a Groupon for a company that does boxes of gluten-free foods, a different bunch of stuff every month. They managed to send me 2 boxes, and I offered to return one, but they told me to keep it. Score! Relatedly, coconut chips are really freaking good.

Random interruption:

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Hi

Decompressing, catching up. I may do the dishes.

Don't think this will depress me.

Jerk from work posted in his Facebook, "Why take personal responsibility when you can have a Facebook pity party." After I posted my status to friends and got a lot of responses.

I un-friended him.

All in all, I think I need to take a step back and see where I want to go next. I'm not sure I want to be in a similar position with my next job.

OTOH? my life expectancy probably shot up when I walked out that door.

Thanks for the well wishes here and in FB.

I think you are, at best, looking for the word "different", but might also be looking for the modifier "in addition to" somewhere up in there. No one needs only one sort of friend, do they?

Thanks. Really. I know I'm a good friend, to many of my friends, but some of them need more, emotionally, than I can manage to give on a regular basis. And I do feel bad about that.

I also feel bad about needing the emotional support that I do from my friends, so I don't generally ask for it.

OMG, Daniel. What an utter asshole.

Better-things-(and-better-co-workers)-ahead-in-abundance~ma to you.

Maybe some Rube Goldberg-ian contraption hooked up to your alarm clock - if it goes off for x amount of time without you turning it off, Cagney's crate gets opened (via a mousetrap, bowling ball, lit match, etc.)

This, I like.

Facebook pity party

This, I do not.