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the antidote to abstinence.

What are the things that you are overdoing right now.

Me, I'm overdoing salted food, so more saurkraut, pickles, salt beef, pastrami, ham, bacon, salt pork, anchovies please.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

ILX

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

gareth: thread revivals

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

stress and being ill

― james (james), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Worrying. I also feel like I've been drinking too much lately, though relatively speaking it's not much.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Lots of alcohol lately. Way more than ever before in my life, honestly.

Lots of, um, being awake. I don't think I've slept more than 5 hours in one night since March.

Lots of...well, how should I put this..."romantic yearning". At first I thought I was just really horny, but that's turned out to not be the case at all. I just want somebody to love. < /grace slick>

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Avocado Salad wraps from Pret A Manger.

Doctor Who videos.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

worry and depression.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Cigarettes, badly. I have my "routine" cigarettes, fine, but I keep adding more for hella flimsy reasons ("oh, I have an essay due, I deserve a cigarette. Oh, I'm listening to the Fall, Mark E. Smith smokes a lot, it's in keeping w/the record"). Other things too but I'm not about to tell anyone, not that they're bad. Oh and records, always. Also general pointless selfexamination leading to what hstencil said.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

ILX and AIM

Alky-hol (I had none last night and a co-worker remarked about how well I looked this morning. doh!)

cigarettes although i haven't had one since Sunday and am going to try and continue abstaining.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

everything. nothing.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I was just thinking about excess this weekend. I stayed up quite late three days in a row, which may not be a big deal for a lot of you, but for me that's unusual. Of course, even while indulging in that excess, I tried to make a point of sleeping a lot during the day, but it wouldn't have been possible for me if I hadn't done that. It seemed to reach its peak Saturday night when I was dancing to the last song of Andy Montanez's set. I was already getting into a state of flow, when the timbalero went into a perfect solo for that moment, sending me into crazy freestyle dancing.

Staying up late and dancing a lot seems to cut through some of my neurotic tendencies, at least temporarily. Unfortunately, I pay a price for it.

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Ice cream, coffee, and ilx.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

there seems to be a re-occuring booze theme sweeping this thread, i to have been drinking loads more than i have ever done, as a result i have put onloads of weight (i can accomodate it). I have started drinking as a result of quitting smoking and now i think ive possibly exchanged one monkey from my back for another - time to detox

― james (james), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I have been staying up very late a lot these days as well, though with good reason. It caught up with me last night as I fell asleep at about 9 and then woke up at 3:15 this morning. Didn't go back to sleep.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Not alot, I think I've been pretty restrained in my internet use, and I could have had a cake a lunch time but I didn't. Anyway, muffins with melted butter and strawberry jam for me tea, must be off.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Too much work, too much stress - external factors over which I have no control, but which get me wound up anyway - too little sleep, and far too much caffeine. I drink so much tea to get me through the day that I really ought to buy shares in TyPhoo.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm...can one download mp3s to excess? Some worrying maybe, possibly some MST3K overload this weekend but it will be in the company of others like Chris P, rah.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

You are going to show him Pumaman, aren't you?

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Please, give me some credit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, EBAY - I bidded on four Jimmy Scott albums yesterday in about five minutes.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been excessively happy lately. I want everything to be in excess. I am crazy.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Heartbreak and ice lollies.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Illness.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Lots of alcohol lately. Way more than ever before in my life, honestly.
Lots of, um, being awake. I don't think I've slept more than 5 hours in one night since March.

Lots of...well, how should I put this..."romantic yearning". At first I thought I was just really horny, but that's turned out to not be the case at all. I just want somebody to love. < /grace slick>

Yes, all of these, except I usually sleep for 4 hours or less - and it's been coming and going since I was about 16.

I've been drinking a lot more, too, but that comes and goes, too - sometimes I drink a LOT and then one day I just don't feel like it anymore.

I've been posting to ILx a LOT, as you may have noticed, but I like it and hey, I can quit anytime I want!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Cigarettes. I tried to quit smoking and lasted about three weeks. Then I was having a stressful day and I said "well, just ONE won't kill me," and, well, you know how it goes from there.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Sleep. I just lost my job so am taking advantage of having zero responsibilities (except finding a new job---Ahhhhh!)

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Food. Consumerism. Laziness.

― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Downloading mp3s to excess - when you're over the youre flatmate's 10gigabytes/month bandwidth cap & yet you sit up all night downloading stuff.

Abject failture.

― Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Gille oatmeal cookies. Ate three pounds of them last weekend.

― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Caffeine (excuse: the work I've been doing lately is tedious even by the standards of my usual assignments).

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

("show him Pumaman" is like the wort euphemism ever)

Innuendo.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Typos. Carrots. Ardkore.

― Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I always work to excess, but moreso lately.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Talking on the telephone. I think my right ear is about to separate from my head.

― Jen (nstop), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I have never overdone anything in my life.

and then i started buying records. and then i came across ILM.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

slacking

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

internet, cigarettes, general laziness.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Meanness.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

food, the internet, selfishness.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Negative excesses lately: CD buying, internet usage, caffeine a bit (not much by most standards, but a lot for me)

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 20 May 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

stress, cigarettes and self pity

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

great album title

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

That reminds me: Rick Springfield's new album is called shock/denial/anger/acceptance.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

second guessing his fans perhaps?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The phases he went through after Hard to Hold tanked, I guess.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Cigarettes, depression, and paranoid worry that my friends are trying to shit on me on purpose by excluding me from things we would all do (they aren't, and I know this, but my brain wont shut up and listen to my logic). I'm on a horrid rollercoaster of "I'm ok... no I'm not!.... ahh yes I am... argh" and it's shitting me to tears (literally sometimes).

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't consider the uncontrollable urge to buy 2-10 CDs every week negative excess, but if I did, there you go.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

not enough of the too much

― kephm, Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

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