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That Burnt Toast Feeling

invisible_al

09:39 / 28.07.05

So my brain feels like it has the consistency of burnt toast, I'm guessing I'm a bit burnt out. So what do people do to relax when they turn off the computer and do...stuff.

So far I've got

Long walks though a park
Go swimming
Visit a museum
Read a good book
Read a trashy book
Watch some videos (bab 5 season 2-3 is a plan currently)
Go watch a movie
Go to the pub

Any other bright ideas here, This article has a few others oh and cheapness is good as well.

I really need to remember this whole 'taking care of myself' thing at times...

mondo a-go-go

09:47 / 28.07.05

Have a long, LUSH bath.

Or stand under a really powerful shower -- actually, that tends to quieten down the noise in my brain a lot more.

Waves are calming. If you can't get down to the seaside, then hit the Thames foreshore when the tide is turning, it has the same effect...

Ariadne

10:07 / 28.07.05

Go for a bike ride!

God, I'm so predictable, sorry. Anna's right about the sea and waves - in fact, I think I read a study last week about how just looking at the sea calms people down. Getting to the sea might be another matter.

Baths are good, and swimming, because it makes you breath evenly and deeply - a bit like enforced yogic breathing. And there's yoga itself, of course.

invisible_al

10:13 / 28.07.05

Hmmm Brighton daytrip, I have the weekend off for once in a blue moon so thats a possible...

captain piss

10:20 / 28.07.05

Give us a shout if you do the Brighton thing, maty

< Ewan Macgregor > You caan't say it's not tempting!

On the relaxation front - I've been grappling with this question quite a bit lately, having opted to forego booze and other things for a while. Playing guitar and watching Sopranos DVDs is getting me through, mainly... I also thought about going for a massage somewhere - the fairly un-sexual and health-based variety is fine (although tricky to find, it seems)

Ariadne

10:25 / 28.07.05

hehe, I have this highly entertaining picture in my head now of just some guy going for massage after massage and being dismayed to find it's yet another 'rude' one. Go to a health club, jsg, they usually have physios and therapy rooms for just that sort of thing.

Spaniel

10:30 / 28.07.05

the fairly un-sexual and health-based variety is fine (although tricky to find, it seems)

Weird this, but true, apparently. A few years ago another brighton-based pal o' mine tried to get a massage-minus-hand-job and had real difficulty.

uncle retrospective

11:05 / 28.07.05

Al meet pints, pints meet al.

Are any of the lads left in London, if so give them a ring. Just get out of the house. We're having a big party this weekend, jump on a plane over here.
!

Quantum

11:54 / 28.07.05

Brighton Brighton Brighton, oy oy oy! It rocks hard here and we have the Sea. When I want to relax I go to the beach and throw stones at the old pier, try it- and let us know if you do get down here.

captain piss

13:11 / 28.07.05

Ariadne and Boboss: heheh - yes, well, I'll have to continue in my quest for purity... the image you've suggested sounds like it would make a silent-film classic (I'd have to grow a Victorian moustache first)

Loomis

13:13 / 28.07.05

Am I the only one who now has a craving for toast because of this thread title?

Just me then?

Ariadne

13:23 / 28.07.05

I've a bit of a craving for a massage.

>schniffle<

I started a thread in the Gathering about coming down to Brighton, and only jsg came out to play (and only because I texted him)

I'm going home tomorrow, so the rest of you all suck.

invisible_al

22:47 / 29.07.05

Well It's on and I'll probably end up in the pub later on in the day, have PMed a few people my mobile for possible meet-up. Alternatively someone can just suggest a nice pub and I can just turn up, or theres always the George.
I'll check this in the morning and post something

JOY NO WRY

22:52 / 29.07.05

Do you guys all know each other already? Outside of Barbelith, I mean.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:55 / 29.07.05

There's an "outside" of Barbelith?

That's really scary.

invisible_al

22:56 / 29.07.05

I think I know some Barbelites in Brighton, Tezcatlipoca for example but the Brighton posse are cool so I don't mind meeting up with random people, pm me you mobile if you want up to date info on where we randomly end up

invisible_al

07:34 / 30.07.05

Ok slightly less vague plan, the George (veggie pub) at the end of the Lanes for about 3:30pm.

See you there

invisible_al

20:30 / 30.07.05

Mission accomplished

. Nice meeting the people we bumped into, will try and organise it a bit better next time.

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