stir-craziness

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I've now been in Seattle two weeks and aside from having drinks w/a friend last Friday I haven't gone out yet. I've spent about 10-14 hours in the office almost every day since I started work, far far more than I actually need to be here; whenever I've been here telling myself to work on stuff I just dick around on the computer. I am incredibly restless but can't drag myself out of here until everything is closed. This worries me greatly. Should it?

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 29 June 2003 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I think some of it is shellshock from the really abrupt change I made--a really active social life in NYC, working from home, plenty of work to do, more or less a routine w/o a routine--to here, where the weather's great, the city is physically gorgeous, I know people, but don't fucking know where/how to begin. I think if you read the Lifter Puller thread on ILM where Josh and I argue you can see some of that frustration coming out.

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 29 June 2003 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Matos, m'friend -- just call or e-mail Donut Bitch and ask to meet up for a drink or a meal. Take a nice small step and know that you've already done quite a lot in a high profile/pressure job, and trust me -- if there's one thing DB will provide for you, it's a chance for good low key conversation with humor and empathy about anything and everything.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 June 2003 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

haha Ned--wanna wait till the Lockarm profile runs!

also, I just joined Friendster. y'all can hate me now

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 29 June 2003 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. You can join the club. Send me an invite or something.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 June 2003 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

any second now!

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 29 June 2003 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Rah.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 June 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

out of school here, but i'll essay...

a routine w/o a routine is effortless, and can (therefore?) feel very good. but it's still a structure even if it doesn't look like it. leaving the routine means leaving the structure (plus, more latitude means that structure is not imposed), and thus a new structure requires initiative/creativity/design.

(or just ignore it for long periods of time and end up posting insane road trip itineraries to message board)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 29 June 2003 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't worry about it yet, MM - you're bedding in. I would advise against getting in a pattern of 60-hour work weeks, especially if people might start expecting you to be there at 8pm every day. But you don't need to get your lifestyle set the way you want it after a fortnight!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 29 June 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

I HAVE THE WINTER STIR CRAZIES
dear lord make it end

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:19 (twelve years ago)

I'll see your winter stir-crazies and raise you "I have lived in Mississippi for 11 1/2 consecutive years" crazies.

― Dr. Alfred P. Falfa (WilliamC), Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:21 (twelve years ago)

awful
i am listening to wildlife noises super loud in an effort to remember what it's like to be outside

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:26 (twelve years ago)

i just moved closer to the window so i could see the sky and trees more clearly ;_;

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:28 (twelve years ago)

last time i had this i was in alicante for a week on hols, nothing suited me, drove gf mad.

― the right to beef at (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:29 (twelve years ago)

i guess it'll get better, i should stop complaining. someday not too long from now the sidewalks won't be covered in an ice floe of dog urine slush.

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:30 (twelve years ago)

Advice from a pro agoraphobe: open the windows, and/or have pretend smoke breaks where you stand outside for 10 minutes breathing deeply.

― dry rub come save beef (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:35 (twelve years ago)

SO MUCH SNOW. Everything is closed! I'm going nuts. May try to venture out in a big just for the hell of it but I'm going nuts. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:36 (twelve years ago)

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