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[hops]

The politics threads will always get traffic despite the constant banning covfefe

[TD1]

YOU FOOLS

DWARFY IS FREE

YOU GAVE DWARFY AN EXAM AND NOW HE'S FREE

PREPARE TO FEEL THE WRATH OF THE HOUSE DWARF!

(Yea, I'm gonna stay indoors for the next seven weeks recuperating)

[Sirus]

Congrats! You earned it!

[TheBiggerFish]

Grats Dwarfy!

[Parsely]

Very, very close to done with a project that's been taking me the better part of a month and a half. Just having a little moment of celebration entering the final stretch.

Is it a secret.

[Shook]

HMHM, today has been good in Shookville. Went to psychologist, did a pretty significant exposure thing, am feeling good about it. She actually pulled in two volunteers from a daily course they're having, and i ended up agreeing to stand up in front of them all three (volunteers + therapist) and display the drawings in my sketchbook. This was, as you may have figured out by now, a rather scary ordeal for me, but apparently i cool down extraordinarily quickly from exposures like that (though in all fairness, it's a very controlled environment with people who all know about anxiety). It was also nice to hear what people were actually thinking and/or focusing on. Not that i think you guys are dishonest, it's just that there's a world of difference between reading a written message and actually hearing it face to face, and part of that difference is that i am FAR more anxious in the latter case. I've got a good feeling about this course though, so here's hoping i might finally be able to deal with the monster that is anxiety. c:

next course: learn to not write everything in a single block of text

[A Thing]

HMHM, today has been good in Shookville. Went to psychologist, did a pretty significant exposure thing, am feeling good about it. She actually pulled in two volunteers from a daily course they're having, and i ended up agreeing to stand up in front of them all three (volunteers + therapist) and display the drawings in my sketchbook. This was, as you may have figured out by now, a rather scary ordeal for me, but apparently i cool down extraordinarily quickly from exposures like that (though in all fairness, it's a very controlled environment with people who all know about anxiety). It was also nice to hear what people were actually thinking and/or focusing on. Not that i think you guys are dishonest, it's just that there's a world of difference between reading a written message and actually hearing it face to face, and part of that difference is that i am FAR more anxious in the latter case. I've got a good feeling about this course though, so here's hoping i might finally be able to deal with the monster that is anxiety.

c:

next course: learn to not write everything in a single block of text

Done.

[itisnotlogical]

I had to help a customer with a money order because I was the only guy around who spoke a bit of Spanish. And... It worked! I spoke Spanish in real life and didn't look like an idiot! Yaaay I'm useful

[Yoink]

My hangover funk (the mood, not the music) seems to have cleared up! Suddenly my recent irrational optimism is breaking through the dark clouds of anxiety, regret and self-loathing to flood my mind once more! I don't know why this is happening so soon, I expected at least a full day of misery as punishment for how I mistreated my sleep schedule and bank balance last night, but I shan't complain!

I had to help a customer with a money order because I was the only guy around who spoke a bit of Spanish. And... It worked! I spoke Spanish in real life and didn't look like an idiot! Yaaay I'm useful

Grats, mang!
Communicating successfully with someone in another language is a great feeling. I've only done it on one occasion as far as I can remember where it actually mattered (even if it was just a very basic question I was asking), but it was an oddly powerful moment.
The fact that I had people around to witness this triumph no doubt made it even better.

[TheBiggerFish]

Grats Shook!

[CABL]

I had to help a customer with a money order because I was the only guy around who spoke a bit of Spanish. And... It worked! I spoke Spanish in real life and didn't look like an idiot! Yaaay I'm useful

Good job. When I was in Moscow, there was a lot of foreigners; Germans, English speakers, and even some Turks/Arabs/something like that. When the fire alert triggered in the hotel, I had an opportunity to help firemen with translating English to Russian, but I let this opportunity slide, because I was sick with cold, was afraid that the foreigner wouldn't understand my heavy Russian accent, and also because I was extremely PISSED that day. Also, the fire alert was triggered because someone decided to light the candles in his/her own room. I just wanted to murder everyone around me after I heard that the fire alert was a dud.

Note: I also mix my "l" and "r" sounds in both Russian and German.

[Yoink]

Sitting here in the gloom, listening to one of my favourite tapes and just... feeling incredibly mellow. It is nice.

[Avis-Mergulus]

There's so many reenactors around Moscow center today, like heck
The mayorate has decided to stop being a suck and organize something cool finally
There's a bunch of Italians and French guys reenacting Romans and Etruscans. I saw an SS officer getting lectured by a bunch of Roman Legionnaires, possibly on how he is an inferior derivative fascist
Also there was a bunch of Napoleonic Wars reenactors, who were pretty chill. A Moscow Grenadier Regiment musician girl explained ranks and signalling in NW era armies to us, and also taught us to play a pretty stupid game where you have a stick, and then you have to spin round until you're nauseous and then you have to run and knock down another stick.
Also I beat a guy at tafl. Unsure if he lost on purpose, but it felt pretty square to me. There was also a girl who had a pretty strange loom, in which the threading pattern was maintained by a row of square wooden thingies with threadholes at the corners, which are spun around to change the loom state.
Some guy also named a bar "Howard Loves Craft". It is a stupid pun. Consequently I am somewhat drunk. If you see a milk stout called Black Jack, it is pretty good.

[Spehss _]

Got a haircut today. Been making progress on making a little roguelike game. Work tomorrow isn't too bad.

I am content. Wouldn't say I'm happy, but content. Better mood than most days. Feels like I'm making decent self improvements. Got a job, making money, cleaning up my appearance, improving my eating and sleeping habits, working on getting better/more productive hobbies and cutting back on useless internet time. Little steps are adding up, I suppose.

[Mephansteras]

Just got back from seeing Wonder Woman. It was good! Nice to see DC making a decent movie for a change, and very nice to see a proper female lead superhero movie.

I have nitpicks, but overall I found it quite enjoyable.