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MrWillsauce posted:I think you should just say what you feel man. I think everyone wants to hear what you have to say All right. So I recommend doing some reading; I have thought about what might be worthwhile for someone in your position to read, and this is a brief list I have come up with: -Baudelaire's Paris Spleen -Rimbaud's A Season in Hell -Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge I would pick one of these three and spend a great deal of time with it, reading it very carefully, until you feel you understand it. I would further suggest that you avoid reading any supplementary information about the text (or texts) you have chosen, up to and including Amazon reviews, cliffnotes, or the information the publisher has written on the back/jacket of the book. This may not be entirely possible but I recommend that you try to avoid anyone else's interpreting the work for you before you have a chance to interpret it yourself. Of the three, Rilke's book is the most difficult; Baudelaire's is the kindest, and the most modular, and I suggest you start there, but Rimbaud is also a fine choice. (Paris Spleen is a series of prose-poem vignettes, which can be read in any order; it's the easiest to break down) These three are suggested because they are all works by fine poets which do not suffer overmuch in translation, as they are poetry but they are not in verse. If none of these are interesting I suggest you make a study of the work (poetry or prose) of the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz; he wrote poems only in Polish but he personally translated almost all of his own work into English so you don't need to worry about missing much; Visions from San Francisco Bay, a book of essays he wrote while he was a professor at UC Berkeley, would be an acceptable place to start, maybe, if you find the poetry difficult. I have other advice if you would like it but I think that if you want to be a writer this is probably the place to start. There is an alternate route which does not involve any sort of reading whatsoever but I suspect you would not like it as much, and it is much harder to explain. |
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Mariana Horchata posted:it seems like the trick is to try to remain mindful  hun!quote:anyways~ i am now coming up on 1 week w/o smoking cigs after about a month long relapse following 2yrs of not smoking. so far so good w/ that...and ive also cut back the throttle on my alcohol consumption significantly post-holidays so i may as well keep that up for now as well and stick to just a couple of nites a week at most. beyond that i might have so more plans but i think thats enough to handle for now, anything else can wait until winter is over with.  
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Nutrition and the body is so strange. There's evidence that the adenovirus Ad-36 somehow permanently causes your body to be more likely to store food as fat.. Conservation of mass is always a thing of course, but genetics and tweaks like that adjusting the way your body treats your blood sugar are very interesting. The same person could try to keep to the same diet and exercise, and one feels exhausted and hungry constantly while the other feels normal, and yet the exhausted one will gain more visceral fat than the bright and happy one. It's difficult to pin down any particular system to keep the body running smoothly. Some fats cause inflammation; some don't; some do only if they aren't balanced with other fats; thousands of things affect the efficiency of digestion and nutritional availability to the body. Compounding the number of variables, it's very difficult to absolutely strictly control your diet, pretty much ruining the usefulness of a lot of personal observations in aggregate. Still, people find things that work for them. It seems like the best thing to do if you struggle with diet / health and nutrition is to try different things until you find something you like that makes you feel good. Some diet that minimizes your misery in either direction of over-indulgence or constant hunger is probably the better. It's also been studied that just tracking your calories without making any intentional changes to your diet makes you eat healthier. |
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Jan 12, 2017 22:20
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 weekly reports due mine is here https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3803393&pagenumber=1&perpage=40#post467813519 life tried to kill me this week but i'm still here so at least there's that
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FluffieDuckie posted:
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FluffieDuckie posted:
aint this a day early we started on sunday shoulnd we report on the past week on a sunday? idk maybe i just count weird e : not that i didn up date!! check the 1st page for the scary terry / alien / matoi ryuko / social vegan sig |
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mrbradlymrmartin posted:aint this a day early dude this is byob. if you turn it in on a wednesday we don't care
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you might get a sticker for turning it in on wednesday, it's byob and wednesdays are a pretty big freakin deal around here
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Jan 15, 2017 01:55
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resolution: draw a dang frog
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Haven't smoked a fag in about 2 weeks now and drinking has been restricted to two notes a week on average so far so good another BYOB success story thx fluffy dux u make Jenny Craig look like a fool u so coolmrbradlymrmartin posted:
 ofc  It's Blueberry season! (literally it is in Chile, home of the world's greatest blueberries) Mariana Horchata fucked around with this message at 11:23 on Jan 15, 2017 |
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Mariana Horchata posted:Haven't smoked a fag in about 2 weeks now and drinking has been restricted to two notes a week on average so far so good another BYOB success story thx fluffy dux u make Jenny Craig look like a fool u so cool you go girl be sure to be posting your updates in your sign up thread if you want to qualify for an awesome tag
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today i saw john hodgman and it was good. also i did a thing by doing civic duties. this evening i'm meeting with a cool therapist to see if she would be a good fit for me! everything's coming up ladybeard. on a terrible non-resolution-related note: i am sucking poo poo on my diet this year. i eat a pretty restrictive diet to begin with because of food allergies, but frying things that are healthy doesn't mean that they are healthy fried things. i need to not deep fry kale. it was really good (kale and mushroom fritters with cashews). it needs to be a once in a great while food. this is something i'm also going to work on with my therapist--fooding as a normal person.
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i am going to do all the things i said i was going to do within my week today, and then i am going to update. I AM GOING TO DO IT.
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Palisader messaged me; she'll update her OP at a later date as she's on throttled 2G data right now and can't get the forums stylesheet to load without timing out.
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ladybeard mcflurry posted:Palisader messaged me; she'll update her OP at a later date as she's on throttled 2G data right now and can't get the forums stylesheet to load without timing out. Tell her we said hi! |
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Update is in! Hoping some of my fellow music buds swing on by again e: quote is not edit Rock Paper Tongue fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Jan 16, 2017 |
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Dangerous Minority posted:Update is in! Hoping some of my fellow music buds swing on by again i hope yall like its p basic mrbradlymrmartin posted:and im gona fukken record at least an ep this year im sick of listenin to boring music on my phone
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I had a bad week, between sickness and car problems. I did get halfway through my motorcycle licensing stuff, though, so I should have a full license by March 
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shabbat goy posted:I had a bad week, between sickness and car problems. I did get halfway through my motorcycle licensing stuff, though, so I should have a full license by March congratulations! what sort of motorcycle do you have?
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I don't have one, I kind of just got the urge to get the license. I may buy a super cheap project bike off craigslist and wrench on it until getting frustrated and giving up. |
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Jan 17, 2017 03:22
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make that your next resolution--get a project bike. resolution after that: fix project bike.
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I LIIIIIVE and this time I've confiscated my daughter's phone so she won't eat up all the data again. Thank you, hamjobs!
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Is it too late to sign up? I haven't picked up a guitar in almost a year and I'm not all that great anyway. Thinking maybe I learn a new song every week. |
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HaveARottenDay posted:Is it too late to sign up? I haven't picked up a guitar in almost a year and I'm not all that great anyway. Thinking maybe I learn a new song every week. nope. get on board 
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mrbradlymrmartin posted:i did a music Not really my cup of tea genre-wise, but its got a really nice chill vibe to it and it made for some good background music while I was making breakfast today. Hoping you do some more stuff, I'm always looking for new music to check out! HaveARottenDay posted:Is it too late to sign up? I haven't picked up a guitar in almost a year and I'm not all that great anyway. Thinking maybe I learn a new song every week. And you should absolutely join up! Music is good and more people should do it 
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shabbat goy posted:I don't have one, I kind of just got the urge to get the license. I may buy a super cheap project bike off craigslist and wrench on it until getting frustrated and giving up. i recommend a dual sport! 
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shabbat goy posted:only if it's 2-stroke my only two-stroke experience was my kitted italian moped that hit 70mph once ur playing with black magicks friend  good luck with ur licensing and bike purchase tho - and be sure to gear up! if u have the excuse to dress like a power ranger why wouldnt u take advantage if it could also be the difference between a full recovery and death/dismemberment. u might already post there (i havent been in a while) but Cycle Asylum in AI is super knowledgable and always helpful...i was in ur position 2yrs ago and got my first and put like 7,000mi on it by the fall! |
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shabbat goy read this it's very useful http://www.clarity.net/adam/buying-bike.html and if you want me to come with you and check out a bike any time just let me kno |
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week 3 reports are due in your sign in post my week sucked all the way around. my goal for next week is for it to not suck
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oh in response to ur comment earlier FlufflieDuckie i dont need anything in return for this, im just putting my goals down here in post form and hanging around for the moral support and resolution chat. i hope everyones doing ok! i still havent smoked a cigarette in like what 3 weeks now? not sure of my progress w/r/t anything else i may have expressed improvement in but of course they werent nearly as important as the primary focus |
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Mariana Horchata posted:focus yes i kno, i kno - i try but its not just me its the dopamine or lack thereof 
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Update completed, and I just wanted to point out that my remaining miles combine to create their ultimate form: the funny s*x number 420 |
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this wasn't in my official resolutions, but my personal small resolution was to organize my very cluttered bathroom. I went from 90% of my counter space being taken up by skincare stuff and makeup, to a nearly empty counter with all my stuff tidily organized in a rolling set of drawers. it feels so much better 
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death sext posted:this wasn't in my official resolutions, but my personal small resolution was to organize my very cluttered bathroom. I went from 90% of my counter space being taken up by skincare stuff and makeup, to a nearly empty counter with all my stuff tidily organized in a rolling set of drawers. it feels so much better god i love that feeling
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Mariana Horchata posted:my only two-stroke experience was my kitted italian moped that hit 70mph once hell yeah, ATGATT and al, thanks for the link! Looks very helpful. Not sure if/when I will actually get around to getting a bike, but I'll let you know! |
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fixin to go meditate! hope the wall is still there sentient beings are numberless i vow to save them desires are inexhaustible i vow to out an end to them the dharmas are boundless i vow to master them the buddha way is unsurpassable i vow to attain it |
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mrbradlymrmartin posted:fixin to go meditate! hope the wall is still there peace to you my friend!
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