Introverts, how is your day?

[Pseudonym]

Apparently this guy does.

[Van Buren Supernova]

I'll hold her down while you put in the DVD, Artemis. :DIf it's any encouragement to you young 'uns, I didn't make friends in college either, and pretty much went through my 30's and 40's without real friends. With a couple of exceptions, all the friends I have now I've made in the last 15 or so years. So it does happen. I didn't go looking for them either, we just sort of washed up on the same shore.

I guess I'm lucky I had friends during almost every milestones in my life, but not many remains friends. I supposed I have one from high school, one from uni who keep in touch..eh.. once or twice a year? Had two from my previous work but we are falling out of touch and the latest one from this work cut abruptly as I told in another thread. But I suppose it's more than half my fault, I'm not good in keeping touch and I don't do social medias anymore, which apparently is very important and what people care about.

But the older I get, I'm more weary with friends and more guarded, maybe in a way I've become more familiar with what works or not that there is no point wasting time..?

 

Arcadia are you around 100 years old? :p

 

 

'My anticipation abounds dear boy, eager to continue.'

:D :D :D

I understand every word.. on its own.

[Shadow Dweller]

Today I meet a new playmate who is much into analysis of the classic literature. This sort of reminds me about this forum. At times when people here talk about English-based classics (example, Jane Austen's works)  I must do some quick research in order to understand what people are talking about. It is all good, new knowledge and expanding horizon, and it also reminds me to the different educational systems between mine and them. Mine was heavily geared towards science and engineering, literature only get a passing nod. My first experience of character analysis happened here on this forum. From reading and analyzing facts and figures to trying to draw a complete picture of a character's psyche from tidbits of information provided thorough the series. We are Sherlockian, speculating is part of the fun.

[T.o.b.y]

:-D I hated analyzing literature in school! This is... Different somehow. More fun, less pressure.

[Pseudonym]

And in part 2 of 'Tales From the Office' a customer who lives somewhere called Upton Snodsbury. Sounds very much made up. 

[Boton]

:-D I hated analyzing literature in school! This is... Different somehow. More fun, less pressure.

 

I did too.  I'm convinced that teachers make you analyze literature when you are too young to have enough life experience for it to make any impact on you. 

 

I'm becoming increasingly convince that, after high school, you should do 4 years of mandatory military service, then 2 years of college.  Then, sometime when you're in your 40s, you should get the last two years of college just when you need a little intellectual jump start.

[Doe]

I enrolled in a second university 20 years later...

 

It's Management Information Systems.

 

I am stupid. Why do I want comfort?

[Fantasy Lover]

Might I ask why you decided to do it? You're not stupid for wanting comfort *hugs*

[Doe]

Might I ask why you decided to do it? You're not stupid for wanting comfort *hugs*

 

 

I produce a lof of information but I'm behind in reporting. I like to make statistics and comment.

 

which is why. 

[Fantasy Lover]

I see, I wish you good luck!

[Carol the Dabbler]

My brother just got this email from a customer - is this incredibly British or typical of all old folk?  :lol:

 

'My anticipation abounds dear boy, eager to continue.'

I suspect it's typical of all old British folk. Sounds like something one of Alex's elderly British uncles would say.

 

And in part 2 of 'Tales From the Office' a customer who lives somewhere called Upton Snodsbury. Sounds very much made up.

 

Now maybe you understand what I meant when I said that to an American, many British names sound humorously improbable. :D

[Carol the Dabbler]

I have indeed been living with depression for many years now. I've explored it extensively and at this point I've pretty much done everything I can do about it (or know to do about it). It's just a matter of living with it now. Some aspects of it are situational, and those won't see much improvement until my situation improves.

 

I'm not sure if this dissociative experience is due to the depression or not. (I suspect not, because they don't seem to correlate in strength or timing.) It's just this feeling like I don't know how to talk to people anymore. It's like having a one-way mirror between me and them.

 

One of the worst things about my depression is the anhedonia. Makes it very hard to identify passions or interests; I barely enjoy anything that I do.

 

Watch out -- more unsolicited advice is on the way!

 

Regarding your lack of enjoyment, you might want to get an endocrine workup. If the tests show you're low in one hormone or another, you can do something about it.

 

I had been kind of apathetic about most things for many years. Then more lately I had been so overworked that I started taking thyroid pills, and the difference is amazing.

 

I didn't even go to a doctor, I just started taking tablets made of freeze-dried bovine thyroid tissue, that I got from the health-food store. Started with one a day and felt considerably better, but then I got even more overworked and found that I now need two.

 

I'm still overworked, but I can handle it far better -- plus I'm feeling more enthusiasm. And I can face tasks that I never have enjoyed with the comforting knowledge that if I just go ahead and do it, it'll soon be out of the way -- whereas before I was far more likely to keep putting it off till things piled up to the point where I not only had to do it, but I had to do an awful lot all at once.

 

Sorry for the blather. I'm not quite sure how to word that any less lengthily!

[Pseudonym]

 

My brother just got this email from a customer - is this incredibly British or typical of all old folk?  :lol:

 

'My anticipation abounds dear boy, eager to continue.'

I suspect it's typical of all old British folk. Sounds like something one of Alex's elderly British uncles would say.

 

And in part 2 of 'Tales From the Office' a customer who lives somewhere called Upton Snodsbury. Sounds very much made up.

Now maybe you understand what I meant when I said that to an American, many British names sound humorously improbable. :D

 

 

I forwarded the 'dear boy' quote to my mother, and her response was 'where is he from? The past?'  :lol: I don't think it's a normal way of speaking, even for old folks, but I get the impression this bloke is ancient. 

 

I love coming across those types of place names - it sounds improbable to me too. :D The other thing I find funny is place names that sound like diseases. There's a place a few miles away from me called Scurlage. It's a lovely little place, but it sounds like slang for dysentery to me - "Poor Mavis, she's been struck down with scurlage."

[Carol the Dabbler]

On my first trip to England, I took a train from London to Stratford, and one station along the way was named Bearley Halt.  Which amused me, because that's exactly what the train did there!

 

 
Added:  I see that its official name is now apparently Bearley railway station (though Wikipedia refers to it as "an unstaffed rural halt"), but when I passed through, the sign on the platform said "Bearley Halt."  Which is of course much funnier.

[Artemis]

When I was in Scotland, we found a street called Butts Wynd, and everyone in my group thought it was hilarious.  They took more pictures of that than anything else we saw, lol.

 

 

[Artemis]

Watch out -- more unsolicited advice is on the way!

Regarding your lack of enjoyment, you might want to get an endocrine workup. If the tests show you're low in one hormone or another, you can do something about it.

 

I had been kind of apathetic about most things for many years. Then more lately I had been so overworked that I started taking thyroid pills, and the difference is amazing.

 

I didn't even go to a doctor, I just started taking tablets made of freeze-dried bovine thyroid tissue, that I got from the health-food store. Started with one a day and felt considerably better, but then I got even more overworked and found that I now need two.

 

I'm still overworked, but I can handle it far better -- plus I'm feeling more enthusiasm. And I can face tasks that I never have enjoyed with the comforting knowledge that if I just go ahead and do it, it'll soon be out of the way -- whereas before I was far more likely to keep putting it off till things piled up to the point where I not only had to do it, but I had to do an awful lot all at once.

 

Sorry for the blather. I'm not quite sure how to word that any less lengthily!

 

 

I actually do believe that some of it has to do with a thyroid issue, and I know that some of it is due to being overworked.  I went through a really bad burnout a few years back, and it's a slow recovery from that.  Unfortunately it's been a struggle getting anyone to look into it because my health insurance is poor and doesn't really get me much beyond a basic physical.  Not to mention it's very difficult to find a good doctor who will actually listen and investigate instead of just dismissing my issues.  *Sigh*.

 

 

[Artemis]

I didn't do all that much literature analysis in school, to my recollection.  Most of my knowledge of literature comes from being an avid reader from a young age.  When I did have to analyze literature though, I didn't like it either.  I often felt like my teachers were forcing us to read way too much into things that weren't even intended to be analyzed by the author who wrote them.  This was especially true in university.  With some professors in particular, my passing grade depended heavily on my ability to write papers laden with lies, which I am not very good at.  I really don't think the blue hat symbolizes the cloud of depression hanging over her head, lifted up and blown away by the winds of change; I just want to pass the class.  I'm not a fan of Freud, but I am a fan of one thing he said: Sometimes a cigar is just cigar.

 

 

[Arcadia]

I guess I'm the only one here who actually liked literary analysis in school. I wasn't too fond of some of the literature (Main Street, ugh) but I enjoyed the process of picking through them looking for themes, etc. It's stood me in good stead over the years, too, in terms of developing critical thinking. At least, I hope that's a good thing!
 

Up late last night, in work horribly early this morning. It was still dark when I got here. :(
 
My brother just got this email from a customer - is this incredibly British or typical of all old folk?  :lol:
 
'My anticipation abounds dear boy, eager to continue.'

 
Why of course it's typical of old folk, I say it all the time.
 

Arcadia are you around 100 years old? :P

 

[Pseudonym]

Does that mean you're not 100? :o

 

I don't know what the hell is going on here, it's 3.40 AM and there's a police car and ambulance outside my house with all the lights flashing. Obviously something major going on in a neighbour's house but no idea what. They've been there for ages.

[Arcadia]

Well? Did they come and take you away?

[Pseudonym]

Oh, they're coming to take me away, oh ho, oh he, hoo hoo, ha ha, ha he!

 

Do you know how hard it is to type in a straight jacket?!

[Fantasy Lover]

So you're typing with your nose? AND you were able to upload a new profile pic? That's amazing!

[Pseudonym]

I'm talented. ;)

[Van Buren Supernova]

What happened to the moody adult Harry Potter?

And I thought you would at least consider your precious crush as replacement avatar before Sherly :p.

 

Outside your house: any chance someone just chin an authority or could it be flatmate hostage situation?

 

Does that mean you're not 100? :o

I detect disappointment. I know right? High five.

[Pseudonym]

is too precious to use on something as frivolous as an avatar. 

 

No idea what was going on outside, 'tis still a mystery. I'm very disappointed they didn't bring out a handcuffed Sherlock though - I could have offered him a place to hide. ;)