That Moment...

TMW... at least you travel a lot... I trade you the 18 euros!!!!

 

Experienced corridor awkwardness last week as well. It's a bit more convoluted, bear with me.

TMW you bump into a neighbor, and there's an unwritten rule that you greet neighbors-you-don't-know with "hei" which is similar to "hej" or "hi" while when you meet a friend, you say "moi" (kinda like "tjena"), but you get them mixed in your head and say "hoi".

The problem is, that's actually a racist greeting, so when a white chick says it, it sounds like she's making fun of Finnish Roma ("gypsies").

Awkward...

 

You made me laugh!

 

Japanese verbs, and many of the social lubricant words, tend to end in "masu" (yes, the other Japanese linguists are going to jump down my throat. I know I'm wrong, but bear with me unless you've lived here). One of my coworkers has adopted the speech pattern of the elderly Japanese men and simply uses a mumbled "...aasuuu..." in every situation.

 

I've heard of those! I think it was in James Clavell's Shogun where the British main character tried to wrap his head around the Japanese speech intricacies while I was trying to do that as well, and ended up just shaking my head, thanking my lucky stars I'm not trying to learn Japanese.

Masu means 'tummy' in Finnish by the way. It's a cute word.

 

Some people in Spanish culture adopt a speech habit of using the diminutive in every word possible in a sentence (and even some that shouldn't take it at all) as a way of making their speech sound affectedly cute and servile.

Mira, papito, crees que me puedes dar una manito (not a word) para ayudarme con algo bien simplecito (not a word) y facilito (that's a word, but it's first person for facilitate, not a correct diminutive).

I've learned that there's a strong tendency for this pattern of speech to mean "I want you to treat me gently. Also, it's perfectly possible I will stab you."

 

Honesty first of all.

 

TMW you face what you've done, and your still freaked, come on, Prozac...
TMW you wish you could just get the hell out of your own head, please, Prozac... go faster.
I think I'm still episodic.
so exhausted... just gonna close my eyes

 

What does this mean? It contains things that aren't words, so it's incomprehensible. Probably.

 

I hate to think you’re so upset.

Everyone snaps a bit sometimes. It was very kind of you to recognize it and apologize.

I wish I had some advice. Do you have any positive coping mechanisms you’re used to? Exercise, yoga, writing, talking to someone, ect? Anything to help if the medicine isn’t working today?

 

TMW...

I'm posting this as an apolitical WTF moment. Yes, it's a real book. Available in library binding even.



ETA: Part noir thriller and part bromance novel, Hope Never Dies is essentially the first published work of Obama/Biden fanfiction--and a cathartic read for anyone distressed by the current state of affairs.

 

(wuz posed to post this Before I left)
Gotta take my boy to dinner, back in a while.

 

Writing with you folks has made a difference, actually. Thanks.
Unfortunately, my episodes are, like all mania, related to seizures, as they are trigger based. The killer is the trigger is often completely unrelated to the strike(?). It's a fascinating field for study. ADD, ADHD, OCD, Bi-polar, seizures, paranoia, alcoholism, and addiction are all related. What sucks is it never manifests in some people. For older people, it can be onset after a lifetime without incident. We've probably all encountered the 'mean old man' yelling at the neighbors for whatever, that didn't actually happen.
I may start an awareness thread, or blog it.
Damn hindsight! If I go back through my posts, I can almost work a path to where I started becoming epsodic. More excited, blabby-er, jumping madly between posts, then a trigger - which wasn't actually the thread I blew up in. This is what we need AI for, intervention in a pattern. Maybe that's why Seeker is in my story, that's what it does. If only...

 

And yes, I was about 2 hrs off meds.

 

Is that a sequel to these







I think it's a sort of Action/adventure, politician edition.

 

Just saw the Clinton one today!

 

Oh God, that's like 3x the awful.

Everyone knows that William H. Harrison was the greatest President that America has ever had!!!! EVAR!!!!!

 

'You better not pout,
You better not cry,
Here comes my finger,
And it's goin' in dry."

 

TMW you wanna be the Space Emperor but realize you never will be.

 

"Speak for yourself, sonny, I"m already working towards it"

 

And I'm his friend:

 

Dude, you don't need to be the Space Emperor, you're the freakin' Moon! People go to you as a destination.

 

That's no moon baby...

 

You're right! I'm so fabulous, they write songs about me!

I'd strike a pose but earth keeps me locked down.