The first step is to try to feel more like a functioning human being and less like a feral world-hating curmudgeon
Does fake-it-til-you-make-it work for this? Asking for myself.
Where's the praising and extolling of my virtues? Where's the love?
Host ,'Not Fade Away'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Apr 27, 2021 7:44:09 am PDT #5921 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
dcp - Apr 27, 2021 7:50:15 am PDT #5922 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I want to embrace my not so inner at the moment feral world-hating curmudgeon!
Right there with you.
flea - Apr 27, 2021 7:54:26 am PDT #5923 of 30000
information libertarian
Like, imagine trying to write a job application letter, much less interview, while feeling like the world is shit and everything is useless. I'd need cocaine, I think.
Jesse - Apr 27, 2021 8:13:35 am PDT #5924 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I know the meme, but I can't connect how ramen equals May.
Young JT's hair looked like dry ramen, with the bleach blond and perm and over-gelling. But I'm down with forgetting JT.
Yes and yes! (And the NSYNC song "It's Gonna Be Me" sounds like "It's gonna be May.") I am glad to confirm I shouldn't have tried this comment in any other setting!
Relatedly (?), Joss Whedon came up in my staff meeting just now, and I was like, "Historically, I was a HUGE fan of his work," but left it at that.
Like, imagine trying to write a job application letter, much less interview, while feeling like the world is shit and everything is useless. I'd need cocaine, I think.
No, it's a nightmare. This is part of why I've often had trouble getting a new job because it's usually when I'm a little depressed, feel like I hate my job and I'm no good at it.... so I'm going to sell myself on something else? Yeah, no.
-t - Apr 27, 2021 8:47:03 am PDT #5925 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Very true, job hunting is intrinsically pretty awful and doing it when so much else is generally awful can only be worse
Laura - Apr 27, 2021 8:55:14 am PDT #5926 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
The first step is to try to feel more like a functioning human being and less like a feral world-hating curmudgeon
Please share if you discover a solution to this one.
meara - Apr 27, 2021 9:09:52 am PDT #5927 of 30000
The first step is to try to feel more like a functioning human being and less like a feral world-hating curmudgeon, so I'm working on that. Starting with return to proper exercise
Um, I need this for several things not just work. So uh...if you have suggestions let me know. Exercise is a difficult one to enact when I’m feeling feral. But I’ve been watching tiktok and feeling like an ancient crone who cannot possibly plan to date anyone because I am actually a cave troll blinking in confusion at the light after merging to become one with my couch.
Jesse - Apr 27, 2021 9:26:23 am PDT #5928 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was laughing this morning because a coworker said something about taking his dog for a walk and I was like, yeah, I took myself for a walk. I don't exercise but I always go for a stupid walk. [link]
DavidS - Apr 27, 2021 9:50:58 am PDT #5929 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Matilda has added doing a Chloe Ting YouTube workout to her morning routine, after she does her run /before school. She has become less feral and doesn't snap at my fingers when they wander too close to her cage.
There's your anecdata.
She has her position assignment for summer camp on Saturday. I get my second vax next week.
I'm liking this trendline.
Jessica - Apr 27, 2021 10:01:47 am PDT #5930 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
"Historically, I was a HUGE fan of his work,"
"Historically" doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence!
Matilda has added doing a Chloe Ting YouTube workout to her morning routine, after she does her run /before school. She has become less feral and doesn't snap at my fingers when they wander too close to her cage.
Dylan has been walking home from school since he returned to in-person learning and daily exercise has made a huge difference to his mood. Also anecdata-lly, I swam this morning for the first time in weeks (reserving a lap lane is a nightmare) and it was awful getting up early enough to do it but I felt wonderful afterwards.