Sounds right

If you have anxiety this is an exercise of nightmare proportions. That scenario has haunted me through life: get it perfect the first time, which is an unreasonable and punishing standard by which to live.

I had a math teacher once who forced us to redo our assignments in an infinite loop until each assignment was perfect. She had her own grading system. I could never get it absolutely perfect. Even after I got it correct, then I had to redo it because it was erased and rewritten so many times.

a stuffed penguin is sitting on a pile of wrapping paper . ALT: a stuffed penguin is sitting on a pile of wrapping paper .

me doing my paperwork today

some kind of special hell where there is too much of it, and no matter what you do to complete it, it is never done right. very much like seventh grade math.

feel like i have signed myself up to do documentation from now until the end of time

The oldest known image of Keith Richards, published around 1140 AD ...

Max Headroom called. He wants his vibe back

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How my father thinks people navigate in 2026

apparently some hapless soul got lost and ended up at my parents' house yesterday, and my father went out and scolded her thoroughly for not carrying a paper map

understand, my name sounds nothing like Harris. but ok

run out for a quick lunch and the person at the counter hears my name as Harris. What, as in Kamala? I'll take it

she was like. what

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walked past some man trying to impress a woman by chatting up his knowledge of chaos theory

I was reading a great book today and it said something along the lines of, "it's okay to neglect your responsibilities if it saves your life because if you die the responsibilities are still there. You aren't."

Just wanted to share. Take care of yourself.

#booksky #mentalhealth

Look at me like a human boy!

I would never, and have never, called up anyone for anything and said: hey I'm coming in at such and such a time, make a space. But people try to do this shit all the time
and think it's ok to do. I will never, ever understand it.

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I swear this person is in the cubicle near mine. I have never felt more like Charles Grodin in my life.

it's 10 am. I have decided I have worked enough. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

overheard in restaurant: two twenty year olds comparing jobs

"I don't know, his job sounds kinda shitty, some days"
"yeahhh"

me: [internally] that's all jobs

a close up of a woman 's face with the words `` here i go again on my own '' written above her . ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with the words `` here i go again on my own '' written above her .

here i am
non compliant
brought up on charges of non compliance yet again

A sign in Seattle, Washington that reads: “Congress, remove Trump now.”

ironic that a man who pardoned the 1/6 insurrectionists would call anyone else weak on crime

this is the most lethargic I have ever been

Emotions are indicators, like the weather. If it started raining, you wouldn't pretend it wasn't raining. You'd get an umbrella.
It isn't so much what you're feeling, as what you do with that feeling when it happens. If you can identify it and deal with it, its power on you lessens significantly.

Naturally I didn't say anything. I just studied my plate. I'm off duty

(I have no idea what any of it is about, I just have an allergy to dismissive statements like this)