So allergies is causing my good eye to go red and tear up -- my SBS (short bowel syndrome) is making my bowels declare independence, adding in stomach cramps which never happened before. So yeah, health wise I think I'm doing poorly. 
What made me unhappy today ?
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Thank you for this. I still come back to this comment from time to time when I'm feeling low.
So allergies is causing my good eye to go red and tear up -- my SBS (short bowel syndrome) is making my bowels declare independence, adding in stomach cramps which never happened before. So yeah, health wise I think I'm doing poorly.
From one stomach-cramp sufferer to another, hoping you feel better soon, Link.
Not really unhappy, but just . . . bored. I have so much to do, but I don't feel like pushing through and doing it. It's very childish, and writing this here will help me face how childish it is, but still.
I know it's got to do with screen addiction. I want to be entertained All The Time. How do you kick that dopamine habit in these times?
At least I have work tonight at the store. It'll make me get things done, whether I want to or not.
I know it's got to do with screen addiction. I want to be entertained All The Time. How do you kick that dopamine habit in these times?
At least I have work tonight at the store. It'll make me get things done, whether I want to or not.
If I have all my tabs open when I am writing, I will definitely keep clicking on them whenever I am stuck on so much as a word.
I have to close them to get right into the head-space of writing.
I hear you. My existential boredom knows no bottom, I feel sometimes. Every day is the same unless something bad happens, which isn't often, fortunately. Trying to quit smoking definitely isn't helping. And working 60 hours a week for the last decade has become so routine that I don't even know what normal is anymore. But I don't have a problem with screens. I've been using them for almost 40 years, so who cares? I didn't even hear the word "screens" used like it's some kind of carcinogen until a few years ago. I use screens to keep from punching people or burning buildings down, so society is actually benefiting there.
I still think of screens as things that cover windows so the bugs can't get in.
Think how so many of those words have new meanings.
Think how so many of those words have new meanings.
Dark_Indigenous_Prince
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My grumpy roommate. She always seems to be in a bad mood. I have decided to avoid her and keep conversations short and hopefully she gets the message.
I'm the one who, as a teenager and undergraduate, never turned on the TV unless I was actually watching a particular program. When it was over, I turned the set off. When I left college, I didn't even own a TV for the next five or six years, until a client gave me her old one. I rarely watched that and sold it when I went back for grad school. I don't own a TV even now, but oh, have I changed, "thanks" to what I get over the internet! I'm watching YouTube videos all the time, even when I'm not particularly enjoying them, and sometimes I feel I have to have one going on my phone and one on the laptop at the same time. The shorts are the worst. It's like I feel the next one is going to give me the fix I crave, or the next one, or the next one. When I'm not chasing that high, I'm playing online solitaire (no combat or racing games--- too much stress for me), over and over. It's nuts.
So I guess it isn't really "screens," but particular things that come over them.
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That's hard. I guess you have a situation where sharing living expenses is the basis of your relationship and no law says you have to be friends. But her attitude affects you and vice versa . . . Gosh, I hope things get better and she gets over whatever it is. Maybe you can use your writer's imagination to come up with some idea of what her problem is. Or maybe just think of yourself as a character in a story you're writing. A little positive detachment can go a long way.
I had some difficult roomies in college. Have to say the problem was "solved" by their moving out.
Dark_Indigenous_Prince
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shes having issues with her boyfriend and also her boyfriend doesnt like me lol its a lot
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