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[Kedly]

Robot Parade: Is there a mutual friend you can temp pass support onto? That might be best at the moment. Your situation is exactly why Im kind of rotating through support people each time my functioning level is collapsing. She is possibly very aware of the stress she is passing onto you, and instead of focussing on the right now, that your still here, she's focussing on the future where it becomes to much and you go away
, again, possibly fully aware that it is a self fulfilling prophecy. As someone going through possibly something similar. Let me just say I very much appreciate anyone who gives me a shoulder to lean on, and I hope to never lean on someone strong enough that I drag them down with me.

To continue with my earlier wtf. Im back to normal levels of functioning, and am embarrased that I even made the post to begin with. Thank you everyone for saying my post was ok!

[Sergarr]

There is nothing more annoying to debug than a script that terminates without an error message. Especially if there are multiple potential causes for such termination. Why do people do these things?

[inteuniso]

There is nothing more annoying to debug than a script that terminates without an error message. Especially if there are multiple potential causes for such termination. Why do people do these things?

Laziness, mostly.

[miauw62]

also, i just look like shit usually

That one, at least, is easy to fix. Wake up 10 minutes earlier and go to bed 10 minutes later, and use those 10 minutes before and after sleeping to do some little steps towards making yourself look better (shower, shave, push ups, whatever you feel will push you towards looking better). Force yourself to hold that habit without ever breaking it for at least 2 weeks (a month is preferable) to establish it as a habit. Then stop worrying about it (or at least don't go out of your way to do so), and over time if you hold that habit you will eventually start to look better. Change is slow, but as long as you're moving towards the goal then you're winning.

i already shower every evening (because my hair often manages to look worse when i've just showered), and i don't actually need to shave more than once every one or two weeks. push-ups... eh. i did that, once. don't know why i stopped, probably because it's too cold on my room just before i go to sleep in the winter. when i tried to start again the tendons in my shoulders hurt a lot, which didnt seem to be a very good thing :/

the shit im most insecure about is probably my hair which looks really bad most of the time, but i have no idea what to do about it.

and man, i really feel like i'm not moving towards my goal right now. i've made no concrete progress in two months.

i try to get "out there" more, it's why i decided to start playing mtg. except everybody at my lgs is a dude so it basically didn't help me at all. yay. what the fuck am i even supposed to do when all of my interests are massive sausage fests.

On the other hand really the only answer to something like this is "find a hobby that isn't a massive sausage fest", sadly. Find something that sounds somewhat interesting and that is a bit more gender neutral and start looking into it. If you look hard enough there is usually at least something that you can find somewhat interesting and has both genders. That said it is worth mentioning that even talking with members of the same sex is still good social practice; maybe not quite as good at obtaining your eventual goal, but still helpful at least in some ways.

i really can't think of anything, at all. aand even if i could, it probably wouldnt exist in this shitty city. "wait until you go to uni" is not an option, because i would prefer not to be an awkward recluse for the next two years.

[inteuniso]

"wait until you go to uni" is not an option, because i would prefer not to be an awkward recluse for the next two years.

Take up gardening. Weird suggestion, I know, but you'll grow food/other plants and any excess you can give away/sell off. It's a conversation starter, at least.

And as for pests/other stuff: don't worry about them. Plant a large variety (as many different kinds as you can fit) so even if some plants are affected others may not be.

Also, don't water them, that damages the root system. Cover the seeds in soil and drop them to the ground, and let the rains do the work. Obviously this is a problem during a drought but ya know.

EDIT: Here's a subreddit if you're interested.

[i2amroy]

Yeah, often some of the more artistic/personalized places have a higher girl/guy ratio than the game-based ones (just as a general guideline). This is gonna sound somewhat sexist, but picking up something like joining a book club, gardening, dance, cooking, painting, soap making, or similar hobbies will greatly increase the numbers of women involved in the groups as opposed to card game playing, sports, or video games. (Again, not trying to be sexist here, or trying to say that that's where women "belong", I'm just stating trends based off of the pure data that I personally have observed.) And as inteuniso mentioned, in a worst case they still serve as good conversational topics.

push-ups... eh. i did that, once. don't know why i stopped, probably because it's too cold on my room just before i go to sleep in the winter. when i tried to start again the tendons in my shoulders hurt a lot, which didnt seem to be a very good thing :/

That's generally why you want to take a week or so just doing some stretches without much of a real workout, and then always start with a minute or two of stretching before you do anything serious.

[i2amroy]

I recall there being a study that found muscle pulling is MORE likely when you stretch because the muscles will tighten as a result of it.

I think you might be slightly confused. The idea of warming up or stretching before you seriously exercise is pretty much the first object on any list of "How to avoid pulled muscles". Most likely what you are remembering is a study on whether you should keep stretching AFTER you pull a muscle, which can aggravate the healing process and cause further problems if you aren't careful.

It is also important to note that stretching does not constitute a warm up on its own, and is only a part of the beginning of a real workout.

Edit: Followup, it's also important to note the two different kinds of stretching. Static stretching at the start of a workout can, in some cases, lead to injuries because your muscles aren't ready for it (it's great at the end of a workout though). On the other hand dynamic stretching is great at the start of a workout, and should be an intrinsic part of any warm up routine to help protect you against accidental injury.

[Loud Whispers]

Also stretching incorrectly instead of improving your performance and muscle healing will just cause damage, possibly permanent. Stretch correctly

[TempAcc]

I'm probably too late for the whole wtf train resulting from this, but :v

EDIT: and ye, stretching incorrectly can really raise the overall likeness of pulling a muscle, but proper warm up is pretty much recommended if you're going to do any actual exercise. I still have vivid memories of a physical test thing I took part in, in which more then one participant pulled a leg muscle and ended up falling to the ground in pain due to not warming up before doing a 100 meter sprint. Warming up doesn't necessarily equate to stretching, though, stretching is just part of it.

[penguinofhonor]

The NHS site says that there's little evidence stretching helps or hurts you significantly, unless you specifically need more joint flexibility for something like gymnastics.

[miauw62]

"wait until you go to uni" is not an option, because i would prefer not to be an awkward recluse for the next two years.

Take up gardening. Weird suggestion, I know, but you'll grow food/other plants and any excess you can give away/sell off. It's a conversation starter, at least.

And as for pests/other stuff: don't worry about them. Plant a large variety (as many different kinds as you can fit) so even if some plants are affected others may not be.

Also, don't water them, that damages the root system. Cover the seeds in soil and drop them to the ground, and let the rains do the work. Obviously this is a problem during a drought but ya know.

EDIT: Here's a subreddit if you're interested.

i'm 16 years old. i might do this if i wouldnt have to convince my parents for vague reasons that i want to take up gardening, but now it just seems sort of impossible.

Yeah, often some of the more artistic/personalized places have a higher girl/guy ratio than the game-based ones (just as a general guideline). This is gonna sound somewhat sexist, but picking up something like joining a book club, gardening, dance, cooking, painting, soap making, or similar hobbies will greatly increase the numbers of women involved in the groups as opposed to card game playing, sports, or video games. (Again, not trying to be sexist here, or trying to say that that's where women "belong", I'm just stating trends based off of the pure data that I personally have observed.) And as inteuniso mentioned, in a worst case they still serve as good conversational topics.

push-ups... eh. i did that, once. don't know why i stopped, probably because it's too cold on my room just before i go to sleep in the winter. when i tried to start again the tendons in my shoulders hurt a lot, which didnt seem to be a very good thing :/

That's generally why you want to take a week or so just doing some stretches without much of a real workout, and then always start with a minute or two of stretching before you do anything serious.

well yeah i am in a creative writing class for school and it is literally all girls except for me and one other dude, but it's basically silent 90% of the time...

even when it isn't, i can hardly manage to talk to anybody :/

then again, this is because circumstances have me sitting next to the only other dude all the time. and when i'm not (e.g. when the teacher is absent), everybody talks with their friends who are also in this class, except i dont have any friends in this class.

[TempAcc]

Acquire friends in class :v

[i2amroy]

Yeah, breaking into groups of friends can be a lot of difficulty. Honestly the best way I've found so far is group work, which everyone groans about, but serves as one of the best setups to introduce yourself to someone else. I don't know if you do this in your particular creative writing class, but if you do any sort of peer critiquing that could also probably be a good time to introduce yourself.

Generally the first break through is the hardest part, but once introductions are done you can interact a bit more. In a worst case you can always just interject on something before/after class and follow it up by introducing yourself. It's one of the absolute most awkward ways to break the wall that way, but once the wall is down you can comment and slowly regain that lost ground.

[Dutchling]

we're gonna need a bigger boat

[TempAcc]

We're gonna need a bigger gun.