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Less searchable M0rd4nt
23:21 / 15.09.05
I am totally fucking clueless. I have a million things to learn that I should already know and a million skills to master that I should already have down. And the more stuff I do learn, the more I realise how much I don't know.

I need occult remedial classes.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
23:27 / 15.09.05
Gawd. I feel like this all the time about almost everything I do*. (in spite of an incredibly productive and exciting few days working on some academic stuff which has totally reminded me that I have skillz, I'm still worrying about being the weak link amongst some damn talented people)

*the enormous exception being my mental health work. Where I pretty much always feel like I'm great at it, and have much more to learn.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
23:35 / 15.09.05
Which is also to say, if you can get it in balance, it's potentially a really useful way of conceptualising what yr upto.

Like, I always think with stuff I'm learning, far better that than being all cocky and 'hey, I r00l the sch00l' and getting oneself into deep trouble/fucking around with other spheres of influence.

Basically, AFAIC see, it's sbout balancing useful confidence w/ useful humility$.


$which I have never yet magnaged to do. So you could equally ignore all this
 
 
Scrubb is on a downward spiral
16:58 / 21.10.05
Things I want to be doing some/all of:
* Dropping out of this fucking doctorate.
* Hiding under a duvet for ever and ever and ever.
* Buying a cheap ticket to New Zealand and moving there to start over.
and in doing so
* Apologise to my parents for being such a bloody failure.
* Ditto friends (plus being sucky company).
* Wallowing in self-pity as the might hippo wallows in mud.

Gaaaaah.
 
 
Sekhmet
19:21 / 21.10.05
I dropped my cat off at the vet this morning for his "senior exam" and a dental cleaning.

I am taking him home plus a diagnosis of diabetes, a carton of insulin, and some pamphlets, and minus most of his teeth.

My sweet furrball has suddenly become a toothless old diabetic.

Ye gods I feel awful.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
19:31 / 21.10.05
Kitty!
 
 
electric monk
19:32 / 21.10.05
So sorry to hear this, Sekhmet.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
19:35 / 21.10.05
Oh, poor cat.
 
 
Mistoffelees
19:37 / 21.10.05
Best wishes for your cat from me, too!

I didn´t know if it´d be off-topic to offer sympathies, and so started reading the first page of this thread to look if it´s okay. But now that there´s safety in numbers, let´s hope, your cat gets well soon.
 
 
Sekhmet
19:37 / 21.10.05
Especially because we could have caught the diabetes and the tooth decay a while ago if we'd just taken him to the vet more regularly, and...

(*sniffle*)

Bad momma. Bad, bad momma.
 
 
Sekhmet
19:49 / 21.10.05
But thanks to everyone for the well wishes.
 
 
Laughing
15:57 / 22.10.05
I am stuck here in this godforsaken place and the person I love is very very far away.
 
 
Evil Scientist
17:22 / 22.10.05
Life is too solitary for words.
 
 
Axolotl
08:29 / 25.10.05
My job is teh suck. But not teh suck enough to force me to look for another one. Thus I continue throwing away 40 hours a week doing a job that is just so dull I can feel it sapping my energy like that bit in the Phantom Tollbooth with the Lethargians. I am stuck in the Doldrums.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
15:15 / 04.11.05
Meh.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
15:17 / 04.11.05
Can I both offer sympathy for that Meh while seconding it?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:14 / 04.11.05
Likewise, I'm sure.
 
 
Totem Polish
16:38 / 04.11.05
I feel utterly stuck. I've taken on too many djing gigs and plays at school, most of the activities around these involve booze. I've been hungover for about a week now. My work has ground to a halt and I'm progressively getting into more shit with the respective authorities who can't understand the fact that I came back from the holidays sick as a dog and on three different types of antibiotics might make me more susceptible to fucking up.

On that note, a girl who I like came up to visit me yesterday. Good so far, but then when we got horribly pissed withy my friends she confessed that she already had a boyfriend. A guy I know who's a complete poser prick, who I know from friends at home has cheated on her a LOT. Inevitably morning after she decided her life was too fucked up at the moment to get involved with me at all - she'll get deported to the states soon if she can't find a sponsor for her visa. I know I'm being selfish and careless; this all makes me too miserable for words...

...also pretty incoherent, for an English student this is teh fucker.
 
 
Shrug
04:53 / 12.11.05
After many years of careful avoidance I've just run into the only person who could ever even circuitously be called my enemy. It seems to have dug up old realms of hate. How does one deal with malign individuals? Does one merely cross the road? Or is glassing proper etiquette?
 
 
Shrug
04:59 / 12.11.05
Oops that was probably an untamed hate and rage post really. The point in posting it here was that I actually do feel very miserable about my "hate".
 
 
c0nstant
14:29 / 12.11.05
this thread is perfect...

not only do I worry continuously about my complete lack of skill in my chosen degree (and after changing once before...), I also have the most enormous crush on a girl I met very recently. To the point where I think I may break up with my girlfriend of three years over it.

I'm confused and rather miserable.
 
 
Mister Six, whom all the girls
15:52 / 12.11.05
Sorry to hear about the cat, solitude and general sickness.

My dog is doing OK, I'm happy to report. She is definitely a surrogate child to my wife and I, so we coddle the crap out of her (sometimes literally).

My health has been dodgey as fuck. I got fired for the first time from a job I hated to bits, considered suing them and dropped it, got an amazing job at a record label with these excellent people then started feeling very very ill.

I'm a very high strung person, always have been, but I think it's caught up with me. I was diagnosed with high blood pressure, no big deal, and prescribed some meds which bummed me out but again no biggie. Two weeks later I'm getting these heart palps and I end up in hospital for a day.

After several EKGs and Echo cardiograms... nothing. No sign of any trouble. Then I get thos absurd cold for a week which is very odd. My constitution is usually far better. This lead to my handing out candy to kids as a sniffling zombie which apparently only I thought was funny.

My doc decided to prescribe Kalonepin (sp?) which I haven't picked up yet and so I stopped taking my blood pressure meds entirely.

Plus XMas is coming and due to my family situation, it always depresses me. I try to ignore the holiday completely but... there it is.

There's usually a whole other thread about Christmas depression, ain't there?
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
10:52 / 14.11.05
Gah.

I have been very stressed and chaotically busy at work over the last month, which has left precious little time for anything else. I haven't exercised for ages, have no energy and and can't seem to take off the negative-tinted glasses.

And I wish the company honchos would hurry up and move the office to Farringdon, as that will cut about an hour off my travelling time. Until then, it's 6am wake-ups and the horror of the Hammersmith & City line every day.
 
 
Mister Six, whom all the girls
11:24 / 14.11.05
klonopin makes very very sleepy.
 
 
Mister Six, whom all the girls
17:06 / 14.11.05
Walked outside and bumped into an ex-coworker from my previous crap job. It turned out that the Pres was cornered by a mass (unsigned) letter from the staff and in response made the rounds from dept to dept asking key personnel who was to blame.

So I got fingered as the patsy by my insane co-worker and they sacked me. She tells me this wincing in that 'Oooo but I'm so sorry about how it turned out' way.

Idiot's a born-again Christian and doesn't understand that such things have a way of biting you on the ass (a real or rational Christian can bite me on the ass for the mis-reading and set me straight but my point is that it was back-handed, dirty and evil... behavior I doubt Christ would condone).

Now she's doing my job and her own, so I should feel happy but I've just got all this anger and nowhere to put it.

... is this in the right thread?
 
 
Earlier than I thought
15:17 / 15.11.05
I'm busy. The busiest ever, stressed like mad. My family keep having to go to the hospital for sinister tests. Other bits of my family are mixed up in frankly terrifying situations that I genuinely can't discuss for fear of coincidentally dropping someone in it big time. My relationship, that wonderful affair that's kept me going all these years is suddenly on scary dodgy ground in a number of startling and unexpected (and ironic) ways.

Hey, you said whinge. I can't recall having felt like this since I was sixteen...Christ.

I feel oddly better for that. Presumably, the rest of you feel worse.
 
 
Earlier than I thought
15:23 / 15.11.05
Oh, and while I'm at it - the strange one. My mortal enemy from school days died a horrific death, I found out yesterday. This leaves me filled with a crawling gloom, which is odd seeing as I haven't thought about him in ten years or more.

I'll stop now.
 
 
electric monk
11:36 / 16.11.05
A MAN WOULD LIKE TO PUT A BULLET IN HIS SKULL!

FAILING THAT, A MAN WOULD LIKE TO STOP BEING SUCH A USELESS SHIT AND LEARN FROM PAST MISTAKES!
 
 
Axolotl
12:01 / 16.11.05
My flatmate is being made redundant at the end of the year and he's decided to move home. This means I will probably have to leave my nice flat and also go through the tribulations involved in looking for a flatshare.
Obviously it kind of sucks more for him, but I felt the need to moan.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
12:09 / 22.11.05
Why, hello there, Rabid Paranoia! How've you been? Oh, and you've brought your little friend, Guilt Over Experiencing Said Rabid Paranoia In The First Place Because Intellectually You Know That It's Really Not All About You.

What fun we shall have.
 
 
fuckbaked
05:37 / 24.11.05
I fucking hate myself. I hate myself a lot. I'm really really really pissed off at myself because I'm so extremely lazy and I can't even seem to manage to do the things that I want to do. and I'm really really reallly really scared right now because I've fucked up my life again. And I'm really scared in general. Really really really scared. I can't fucking handle anything. I can't handle living alone. My house is a fucking safety hazard but I'm too scared to deal with it. I also really don't want to live with other people, because I'm a very difficult person to live with (I'm awake at strange times, I smell bad, I don't clean the house as much as I should even when I have housemates nagging me, and I tend to be secretive and weird because I get paranoid and think people are spying on me....etc).

I don't want to get kicked out of school again. If I were going to post to the thread about what sort of student you are (I can hardly bear to read the thread right now, so I'm not going to post to it) I'd say that I'm either an excellent student or a complete failure, and never anything in between. I mean, dude, I once got 100% in a multivariable calculus class. I got 100% on every assignment and test, and I would have gotten higher than 100% if I'd bothered to turn in the extra credit (which I completed. I have a bad habit of doing assignments and then never turning them in. I don't know what's up with that. I don't know what's up with any of this, really.) I tend to either get almost all A's, or to fail everything. This quarter I'm failing everything. I failed everything last quarter, too. This is after getting readmitted to this school (which I got kicked out of years ago, for failing too many classes) because I went to another school for 3 years (I kept changing my major, so I have tons of credits, but I still have to take a lot more classes to finish in my current major) and had a very high gpa there. During the summer I contacted yet another school to see if I'd be able to get in there if I got kicked out of my current school, and I sent them my transcripts (from the 3 colleges I've attended, with some classes pass/fail, some for grades; two of the schools use the semester system and one uses the quarter system...my transcripts are bizarre) and they somehow calculated an overall college gpa for me: 3.5 (which is artificially higher than it should be, because of all the pass/fail classes I failed, but it's lower than my gpa from just my last school). They said they would admit me, and they treated me like I'm a good student, and like they really want me to go to their school (which feels weird, because I'm a fucking awful student, and I've gotten numerous letters from my current school about how they've decided to be lienient and not kick me out quite yet but that if I fail one more class I'm out, stuff like that. my current school only counts classes that I took at their school when they decide if I'm to be kicked out, and my record at my current school is absolutely horrible). I know I'm going to get kicked out at the end of this quarter, and even though I don't like the school, I don't understand why, and I think I might like it if I could get used to it (I really really really wanted to go part time until I got used to the school, because I did that at my last school and it seemed to help a lot, but the school won't allow me to go part time. I have documentation that says I'm disabled in such a way that I should be allowed to go part time, and if I weren't such a lazy disgrace, I'd get a lawyer to force the school to allow me to go part time.) It's going to fuck me over financially to switch school at the end of the quarter, and I'm so fucking ashamed to be getting kicked out of school yet again. I don't want to have to try to explain why. I'm sick of making excuses for myself. There is no fucking excuse.

I'm a fuckup in pretty much every way imaginable, and I fucking hate it and I hate myself.

I know I don't deserve huggles, but I really want some huggles. Please?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
06:36 / 24.11.05
Dude. Nobody deserves huggles.

Have some huggles. And stop beating yourself up over all this shit. It's the only way you're gonna make yourself feel better.
 
 
Mistoffelees
07:17 / 24.11.05
Huggles for you fuckbaked!

There is no point in self-flaggelation, even if you have made mistakes. Beware of self-pity and simply try to take on your problems one at a time. I know from experience, that problems can be overwhelming and one doesnt know which fire to quench first, and as a result simply sits there watching it burn. If you realize where that leads to, you find the strength to douse those flames.

Accept where you are now, and then slowly but steadily dig yourself out of that hole. You can do it!
 
 
Axolotl
13:04 / 05.12.05
Bah, just been told I didn't get that job, the one that was identical to the last job I enjoyed, that I was uniquely experienced in, that actually had prospects and a training scheme and that would have been interesting and challenging.
Maybe I should have shaved my beard off.
 
 
Quantum
13:30 / 05.12.05
Money. 'Nuff said. I feel like my friend whose schoolyard enemy was named Joy.

Mordant, thanks for taking Rabid Paranoia off my hands for a few days, remember not to feed it after midnight and not to get it wet...
 
  

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