Random thing you loathe right now.

bleh.

manta173 wrote:
Wink_and_the_Gun wrote:
manta173 wrote:
CptDomano wrote:
Demyx wrote:

Had a hard time waking up this morning... only to find that my coffee grinder was dead.

Yeesh--vetting process for new GWJ members has become pretty rough, huh? :lol:

Must have gone into the wrong part of the forums alone... poor little thing.

See what happens when you rename P&C to D&D!!!

It sounds like so much fun... but it isn't...

Has jrralls taught us nothing?

sometimesdee wrote:

Has jrralls taught us nothing?

Just heard the news yesterday ...

RIP Jack Chick, father of the Satanic Panic

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We'll miss you, Jack. You loveable, paranoid, overzealous, pompous, racist, sexist old douchebag!

BLACKLEAF NO

We have, of all things, a Jack Chick thread. Which may well become a stories-of-the-times-people-tried-to-scare-me-away-from-roleplaying thread. Because I loathe all the time I wasted paying attention to them. And how hard it made it to get a group together.

Stress. Have mini freak outs about my thesis defense tomorrow, while waiting to get an offer on my house, while thinking about the interview I have in Friday that I really need to work out. This week needs to be over and the whiskey witcher time need to be here

Finished four days sleeping a cold off in bed, and now my back is in agony. Heavy wool doona on my legs probably contributed.

I put in for a physiotherapist appointment months ago and nothing yet. When I called up to enquire, was told there were seventy people ahead of me in the queue. Ok.

I have no significant other or similar to complain to, so I am complaining here. Ow.

Co-workers who think I'm supposed to be putting in free overtime or suddenly do the work of two people at once to make up for their incompetence.

"Can you do Task A for me?"
"I need you to get Task B done immediately!! This urgently needs to get to the client!"
"I need you to get Task C done immediately!! This urgently needs to get to the client!"
"I need you to get Task D done immediately!! This urgently needs to get to the client!"
"I asked for Task A first thing this morning? What is the hold-up??"

f*ck you is the hold-up.

f*ck you is always the answer.

Family that believe they know THE solution for literally every problem.

Gesh. We finally get a. Little rain in SoCal and suddenly the power grid is mess. We just keep losing power.

By all accounts, my life is going pretty well. I have a good job, I get along well with my family, my anxiety is improving and I'm getting better at being social. Would still like to get more experience in the intimacy department, but aside from that, I really think I don't have that much to complain about.

And yet, my spirit feels sick. Day after day, I am inundated with doom and gloom and the state of things just saddens and depresses me. I can't seem to escape it, wherever I go. It throws me so horribly off balance that it overshadows all the great things going on for me. Work can only be a distraction for so long, once projects get stalled and people start gossiping, it's easy to lose balance. I keep trying to use short-term gratification to stay positive, but I don't have enough to be excited about for the foreseeable future (seriously, I just want to blink to next Saturday, and then blink to the Saturday after that, and then after that I don't give a sh*t what happens to me).

I know this feeling isn't necessarily irrational or unusual, most sensible people are probably feeling the same way right now. I just wish there was more I could do, you know? The feeling of powerlessness is extremely deep and dangerous. There's only so much serenity you can ask for, it would seem. Previously, I've wanted to launch nukes and annihilate the planet; now, I think I'm content to just board a rocket and launch myself into space. Or into the sun. Six of one.

I know those feels bubs. Grad school was 4 years of hell for me... You aren't alone.

I know it sounds silly, but vitamin B and caffeine helped me a lot. Still wasn't great, but at least not get in a rocket to space bad. If I had thought about it I would have gotten some basic blood work done back then.

Never hurts to ask the doc for a check up.

Hey Bubs. I noticed you moved from sunny California to Connecticut. Have you thought about Seasonal Affective Disorder, or gotten your Vitamin D levels checked lately?

sometimesdee wrote:

Hey Bubs. I noticed you moved from sunny California to Connecticut. Have you thought about Seasonal Affective Disorder, or gotten your Vitamin D levels checked lately?

It' just an anecdote, but I was feeling sleepy an completely unmotivated the last few weeks - autumn has kicked in in Switzerland. A week ago, I started taking vitamin D supplements and life feels much better now.

It's worth a try and can't hurt (well, it can, if you overdose it - but it seems to take effort to do so).

sometimesdee wrote:

Hey Bubs. I noticed you moved from sunny California to Connecticut. Have you thought about Seasonal Affective Disorder, or gotten your Vitamin D levels checked lately?

Yeah, I had SAD when I moved from Southern California to British Columbia for a few years. It wasn't pleasant.

I just spent a week back in Chicago after moving to San Diego in March. I was amazed at how grey and depressing it was. No wonder I suffered from SAD.

Glad to be back in SD.

Having a cold at the start of five days off of work. Boo

Mantid wrote:
sometimesdee wrote:

Hey Bubs. I noticed you moved from sunny California to Connecticut. Have you thought about Seasonal Affective Disorder, or gotten your Vitamin D levels checked lately?

Yeah, I had SAD when I moved from Southern California to British Columbia for a few years. It wasn't pleasant. :?

I definitely deal with this - Ott lights are pretty helpful, as they're designed to mimic daylight. Just have to be careful not to leave it on too late and completely throw off your circadian rhythm.

The narrator/coach on the jogging / training podcast am using at the moment... Towards the end of the session" - nearly there... just a little further to run... a few more minutes... you're doing great" - I hate you, hate you, hate you... #@%*!

My knees are shot, but am feeling the benefits to be fair.

Bubblefuzz wrote:

The narrator/coach on the jogging / training podcast am using at the moment... Towards the end of the session" - nearly there... just a little further to run... a few more minutes... you're doing great" - I hate you, hate you, hate you... #@%*!

My knees are shot, but am feeling the benefits to be fair.

Does not compute. I hated that too. I'm sure folks who are comfortable runners think that way, but it has no place in something like couch to 5k.

kaostheory wrote:
Bubblefuzz wrote:

The narrator/coach on the jogging / training podcast am using at the moment... Towards the end of the session" - nearly there... just a little further to run... a few more minutes... you're doing great" - I hate you, hate you, hate you... #@%*!

My knees are shot, but am feeling the benefits to be fair.

Does not compute. I hated that too. I'm sure folks who are comfortable runners think that way, but it has no place in something like couch to 5k.

Every challenging long run I've ever done (training or race), I'm mentally doing that to myself. "Another quarter mile to the halfway point", "65% complete!", "Restroom coming up in a half mile", "Last mile!", "I can see the finish line!"

Jonman wrote:
kaostheory wrote:
Bubblefuzz wrote:

The narrator/coach on the jogging / training podcast am using at the moment... Towards the end of the session" - nearly there... just a little further to run... a few more minutes... you're doing great" - I hate you, hate you, hate you... #@%*!

My knees are shot, but am feeling the benefits to be fair.

Does not compute. I hated that too. I'm sure folks who are comfortable runners think that way, but it has no place in something like couch to 5k.

Every challenging long run I've ever done (training or race), I'm mentally doing that to myself. "Another quarter mile to the halfway point", "65% complete!", "Restroom coming up in a half mile", "Last mile!", "I can see the finish line!"

Either I try to just zone out and not think or I do the same thing, and I'm so terrible at running that I'll look about 20 feet ahead and tell myself, "Let's just get past that lightpost!" And then I'll make a new short-distance goal once that light post is accomplished!

In anything physical, I'm 100% fine with telling myself all kinds of motivational "You're almost there!" kinds of things, or demotivational "come on, you fat, lazy, jerk, get that weight up" kinds of things. What I absolutely don't want is anyone else telling me those things mid-work. Basically, I get super internal when I'm working hard, and don't respond well to anyone talking to me. Tell me what to do before, tell me how I did after and how I could do better, but mid-thing, shut up and let me do the thing.

I convince myself to do one more lap when I'm flagging, and then another when I finish that one. Short-term goals feel more doable, even when I keep moving the goalpost. But yeah, an automated voice doing that is annoying. My best running was when I was training with a friend of mine who was really good at gauging when I was hitting the wall and needed pushing and when I was actually spent. Hard for an automated app to do that.

My favorite trick that he used was to name each lap in my first 1.5 mile run after a conference opponent of our basketball team. If I matched or beat the pace time he set, our team won. If I slowed down below the pace time, we lost. Worked wonderfully. In the home stretch had to take a loss to NC State, but powered back to beat UNC and crushed Duke with my fastest lap of the run.

By a twist of fate, I now live down the street from the house I grew up in. My memory might be wrong, but based on what I'm seeing tonight, trick or treating has really died off around here. There aren't many kids out, and there aren't many houses open.

I've never lived in a trick-or-treating hub. In fact, this is our third year in this house and still zero trick-or-treaters. My wife didn't ever buy candy this year under the pretense of giving it to kids.

I grew up in a trick or treat-heavy suburb; it's been weird to not have dozens of people ringing the bell every Halloween.

I figured moving into an apartment complex would mean I'd have nothing but trick-or-treaters on Halloween, as it's the best bang for your time investment. This year I didn't even bother with the pretense of buying candy. For some reason no one trick-or-treats around here.