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This is bullshit

I thought having super strong urges to go do something interesting every few minutes was normal

If you are having trouble falling asleep, and you like to read, drag yourself out of bed and go into another room to read. You want the bed to be associated with sleep and sex. Sleep hygiene is important!

Also, get f.lux.

@buttercup

No. There will be other times. Right now your children are political targets and vulnerable to a deadly disease. Covid-19 is still killing people. Go on the 60th. Your sons will be 11 and 16. They will be safer.

ETA: I'm not a parent, so take this with a mine's worth of salt.

Thanks @faraday and @Auspice . That is a helpful explanation.

But now I'm more confused, lol. I rarely miss deadlines, but that's because I tend to cram at the very last minute. Maybe I have mild ADHD? Talking about this is really weird because, like... some of the stuff is me to a T. All the time. Messy (more like absolute disaster) of a room, papers always everywhere, scattered, disorganized, make fancy plans and never go through with them, always forget to send thank you cards, bills pile up, etc...

But, like, at work? I'm fine at work. I mean, I get distracted constantly, but I get shit done on time, even though deadlines are really stressful. I don't know if this means I just have a mild form of the disorder or if being undiagnosed for 30 years means I developed coping strategies that let me function albeit miserably.

It is also 5 in the morning and I have spent the past hour and a half to two hours looking at ancient churches in England. So... there's definitely some executive function issues going on.

BUT LOOK AT THIS CHURCH

@Ganymede

The district court just ordered the DA to produce the entire trial record of the case.

I am positively gleeful.

We may not win but now some poor bastard has to do what I did last year.

@Kestrel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Nah we definitely went over the genocide in school, and the part where God commands his best boi to kill his own son because ‘you’d do it if you really loved me’. (Years later my first sexual partner said this to me about anal and you know, it wasn’t cool then either.) And him fucking with Job, and killing all the Egyptian kids to prove a point.

That's Genesis and Exodus tho. They're bangers. Leviticus and Numbers are the Mosaic law and wandering in the desert and Israel complaining. There are a few exciting bits where God kills a bunch of people but mostly it's God telling Moses that the Israelites are stiff necked and Moses telling God "well you chose them you can't unchoose them" and God saying "fair enough" and killing a couple of people to make a point

ETA: The best interpretation of the binding of Isaac that I ever heard came from a reform rabbi who told me that it wasn't God testing Abraham but Abraham testing God. She said there's a tradition of thought that held that Abraham had no intention of killing Isaac and was bluffing to see if God would stop him and thereby be worthy of worship. I have no idea whether or not such a tradition exists but it is excellent regardless.

@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

super hippie Presbyterian church

... how in the fuck does that happen?

PCUSA was the first major denomination to have gay marriage in the US. Not hard at all.

@insomniac7809

Yeah I mean I think it's useful to say here that there are relative limitations to how "hippy" a church can be and stay within the bounds of Nicene Christianity (which the Unitarian Universalists and various sects of Quakers, laudable though they may be, do not).

@SilentHills

I took a 3 year long leave of absence from my undergraduate university and ended up becoming an attorney. Take care of yourself. My poor care of my own mental health throughout my twenties has robbed me more than any extended leave of absence ever could. Nobody will judge you for having taken a break in 2020.

@ganymede

Thanks, robocat.

At the end of the day, law school just doesn't prep you to know whether or not you're built for litigation. I still like policy work, and when I'm healthier I intend to get back into it. But the relentless pace combined with my mental health combined with my transition combined with, you know...

gestures at 2020

It burnt me out. But like I said: keeping the license. Still paying dues, doing CLEs. Just in case.

@ganymede

Ugh. It's a nightmare in Louisiana particularly. We'll see how this sensitivity training works out, first.

@cupcake

I may have moved my first day to Monday after sitting in a dazed and horrified stupor all of yesterday

@aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

So when people say that things are "back to normal", I honestly don't know what the fuck they're talking about. What is the phrase for feeling like you're being gaslit by 300 million people?

Capitalism.

I'll say this, informed by but not exclusive to my leftist bent: the situation is not back to normal. But the attitudes of your bosses? They absolutely are.

@arkandel

And at some point kids just have to go to school. I don't have answers beyond vaccine mandates, which are legal in the US and which I've ended up becoming a supporter of.

I’ve been watching The Owl House which is extremely cute and surprisingly funny.

@groth said in Good TV:

It's a bit of a shame and almost weird how as copied as all the other aspects of Tolkiens work are, almost all of them abandon the communal heroism in favor of more straight chosen one narratives.

That aspect of Tolkien's work (along with Frodo failing at the end and Sam--who also would have failed had he been in Frodo's position--rescuing him) requires a very deeply rooted sense of humility that runs counter to modern popular sensibilities. It's rare to find it outside of very serious humanist, philosophical or religious adherents.

ETA: tl;dr America's "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" style of capitalism is diametrically opposed to the communal responsibility/heroism in question.

@Rinel said in Good TV:

Having watched Another Life and read all the universally negative reviews of it, I think it's safe to say that I have truly atrocious standards for television. I thought it was lots of fun.

I'm gonna watch the Expanse next.

WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME THE EXPANSE WAS THIS GOOD

Almost done with season 2. The acting and the pacing is just phenomenal.

@Auspice said in Should Rinel become smol birb?:

@Ghost said in Should Rinel become smol birb?:

I made a thread that was so spicy it got locked. IN THE HOG PIT.

+50,000

do we expect any less from Rinel? From what I read in ArxThreadLand that seems par for the course

That's just my character!!!

@Auspice

I'm sorry. I hope this isn't affecting your self-esteem too much; please treat yourself with love.

@Alamias

I watched the series first, then started the books. I think the series made a good choice by combining viewpoints chronologically in ways that aren't represented in the novels; it's a lot easier to follow the story that way in the television medium.

EDIT: Chrisjen is so amazing that even with her introduction being way less than stellar, she's still my favorite character.