The Not Happy Thread

What's the answer though? I was bored and had trouble finishing my work and got in the same trouble he's starting in on. (ADD was a factor, but he has a healthy dose of it himself.) By the time I was a teen, I had a seriously negative attitude toward academia, and started getting into much worse trouble with teachers. By high school, I couldn't be bothered to apply myself beyond the minimum to pass. I hung out with the worst crowds and did a bunch of drugs. I aced the PSAT's and still managed to graduate in the bottom quarter of my class of 900. I don't want any of that for him either. I hope the GT program is a good fit next year.

ETA: I hear you on the entitled little shit thing. We've worked a lot on humility. He's the sweetest kid on Earth though. God knows what will happen, but for now, hurting other people's feelings or making them feel bad makes him cry. He doesn't brag much, except, ironically, about things at which he's totally below average, like running fast. He's the slowest kid on his soccer team and says, "Did you see me? I was super fast!" I love it.

 

They were supposed to be making a miniseries of Station Eleven, based on a book about a global flu pandemic that reduces the remaining human population to "a rounding error".

According to Wikipedia (and my facebook feed) filming began in Chicago in January 2020. Some of it took place very near where I grew up.

Don't see this one as having much of an audience these days. Remember when the adaptation of Dave Barry's Big Trouble got unreleased to theaters because a character inadvertently smuggled a nuke onto a Cessna? Due to be released Sept 21st, 2001?

Yeah.

 

Pull him out! Get him a job and the internet FFS! Take him to the park for socialization! Sounds to me like he would be perfect for crisis management by prevention. LOL Civil Engineering or Architecture might satisfy his drive to achieve. If you feel the system won't be at his level, you're probably right. Get him out long enough for him to equivalency-test out, then put him on his path. We need him more than ever.
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A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine with anxiety issues happened to mention he'd just started reading Station Eleven but he didn't know what the big event was yet. I said something like 'ahahahaha no burn that book and throw the ashes in the ocean'.

I mean, it's a great book, I loved it. I recommended it to an absolute fuckton of people about a year ago ._.

This stuff is really hard to kill. Evidence against it is just taken as more evidence for the conspiracy cover-up. At best you can push them down a different, less harmful rabbit-hole: "Nah mate, you've got it wrong. 5G is actually holding back coronavirus, Big Pharma are putting out all the stories that it causes it because they want a bigger epidemic so they sell more pills."

 

I've lost the vows I wrote on my phone over a year ago. I'm gutted that they're gone.

 

S'okay, we saved 'em for you:

Spoiler: Source

Lifted from In Conquest Born, by C.S. Friedman

 

I have to go out for supplies...

 

You and me both. I need fucking water, again.

 

I'm not happy that I typed that an hour ago, but I've only just come back. I only went down the street, how did it take me an hour to get outside?!

 

This made my heart do the whole clutch a pillow close and make a stupid grin because of how precious this was. Thank you for this. It is beautiful.

 

I am so done with this quarantine nonsense...
Let me know when the Imperial Inquisition
plans on eradicating the Tau Tiddy Fever.

 

@Cave Troll
Legit how I feel every 2 weeks when I leave for some supplies.
I almost feel bad for leaving my house to go shopping.
Shopping is now just a stressful experience where I am just in the way, you know?

Everyone seems more polite, tho.

 

Sitting here, my high functioning Autistic self just chilling minding my own business being able to hear mothers ...whatever it is...programing and overhear "Autistic children are filled with parasites." I though the indigo/star seed child crap was bad. Like I`m legit...I don`t want to say offended none of this crap surprises me anymore but also...what the hell. God forbid we have a difference, we`re either some mystical totem person or just really need to be wormed. This same person also said a few days ago that all diabetics had parasites in their kidneys and they could get rid of them just by buying their remedies. All of this is harmful, somebody does that instead of insulin and that could kill them. Not to mention the autistic community hardly needs more abuse from misguided hookem. All to make a profit, it`s disgusting. Not even touching on how "autistic children" makes it sound like it`s a childhood problem when it isn`t. Autistic people because contrary to popular belief you don`t outgrow it. Same with ADHD, and anything like that.

Now they're talking about how stupid you have to be to sit and twiddle your thumbs right now. Learn this and learn that....some of us have serious mental illnesses that out effecting us really bad. Even those who don`t its still ok to not be ok enough to "learn how to sew" during this. Its valid and no one should tell your otherwise like there shit don`t stick.

Now the rapture is going to occur while we`re all inside and all the "bad people" our going to be removed.

....ok this bothers me more than I...

It`s all just...disgusting... absolutely disgusting.

 

It's costing me a fortune to get everything from the local shop. Boredom is no longer sufficient for what I feel. I opted out of going to the supermarket when I saw people queuing, and wearing masks. If anything, I think this lockdown is turning me back into a hermit. I don't want to be a part of this bullshit society anymore. I want to live in nature. That's what gives me positive feelings, not this grey systematic society.

 

But on the plus side, at least we're no longer just getting labeled as "incorrigible" and getting beaten with the strap for not listening properly.

 

I quit weed, again, and couldn't sleep (The main reason I use) which was VERY frustrating but I decided to play more video games and watch some cartoons while my body slowly loses the energy actually required to keep me awake.
And then the flu/mild food poisoining happened.
No idea where or what, but I was terrified it was the rona!
Apparently not since it's done but I feel weak, I woke at 12pm, and I dunno... just needed to write it out so someone reads it.

 

There are definitely snacks in nature, they're just usually a little juicier/crunchier than most people appreciate.

 

You don't need society for food, water, or sunshine though.

Plus, you're assuming that I benefit from the junk food and internet. I do it out of boredom and conditioning, rather than genuine fulfilment. A bar of chocolate can never make me feel as happy as being amongst trees, or the sea.

I foresee the start of a personal challenge...

 

Once this virus is over I dare you to try it for a week. No fair raiding farms and gardens either, and no reading up on edible flora and hunting techniques in the mean time. Just keep your cell phone on you and call emergency services before you get too weak to remember how.

 

That dude died a horribly slow death.

 

Might have as well been the rona. For the majority the symptoms are very light and don't last long. But you never know... That's the reason you shouldn't quit weed especially in these challenging times.

 

Yup. I still kind of admire him for trying. One of the things that Krakauer mentioned in the book is when he (Krakauer) traversed a glacier with a couple of shower-curtain rods tied to his waist to save him if he fell into a crevasse. He didn't fall, he survived the trip, and later realized how stupid a move it had been. Had Chris McCandless made it out okay he might have ended up a celebrity speaker, bestselling author, or some such. Or homeless in Baton Rouge, who knows? But he rolled the dice hard and lost. There's a spot for him in Valhalla, I suspect.

 

and lived a horribly painful life considering he's plunked his arse in a patch of stinging nettles.