what is currently keeping you sane?

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Maybe your life doesn't make any sense. Maybe it does and you're just getting a raw deal. Maybe you can't even tell what does and doesn't make sense anymore. So many maybes.

What helps you not go on an apeshit freakout rampage? What helps keep you from the depths of the lowest valleys, from not dwelling on the peaks? Activities? Hobbies? Medications? Prescribed or not? Legal or not?

What is currently keeping you sane?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Somewhat ironically - ILX.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

And coffee, obv.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

taking pictures of my toy robots with my new camera, cuz i r a dorkus.

― Jeremy the Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Car-ter!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

big hazel eyes
lots of walking
it's all almost over anyway.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

alesis ion synth i will be purchasing next month
the gf and my serial killer cat

― kephm, Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Personally: A) the boy, B) new digital 4-track.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

of course, it will be humourous(for the rest of us, at least) when A) encounters B).

― Jeremy the Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Sarah, being creative (writing stories and lyrics and music and drawing pictures), having plans

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

CIGARETTES

otherwise i am as close to total freakoutmeltodwnsuicide as i've ever been

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

1. daughter
2. son
3. ILX people who give a shit (four of you. maybe five.)
4. this ZZ Top record

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Not much, at least at the moment.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

love, drugs, hindsight

― ethereal cereal (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Final Cut Pro
2. Chesterfields
3. Xiu Xiu

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Hindsight - fucking SPOT! ON!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it depends on what hind you are looking at.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Final Cut Pro!

Word to the Dean!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

A good night's sleep. I can't overrate it enough. Give me 8 hours of solid, straight-through sleep, and I feel like a million bucks no matter how bad things may be around me...

― Broheems (diamond), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

listening to good music! working on freelance writing gigs! and trying to go out as often as possible!

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

nothing

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Sleep. I've been getting somewhat more active physically again, and am trying to go out dancing at least once a week.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Final Cut Pro! Word to the Dean!

Totally. I guess I should add my iMac to that as well. Those mf'ers are tip top bros.

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Hope of my house move working out, leading to final break with my ex, no more hassle with solicitors/building societies/estate agents and all that, and more money for me after the move.

Old friends and ILX.

But mainly one particular person, who is making me feel loads better about myself, although the odds are probably against this ever coming to anything much.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

It's open to debate that I'm not going batshit insane at the moment. If anything is keeping me from going on a rampage, it's apathy.

― mouse, Wednesday, 19 November 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick, my sisters (ha, well, sometimes), my cat, the rain, flowers & chocolates

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

chesterfields, holla back!

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I really like the new No Doubt song! So, thinking about getting the No Doubt singles thingie that's coming out soon. And, last night I saw the "Happiness of the Katakuri's", that was pretty good too.

Oh, I dunno, I never feel that happy and never feel that sad, maybe it's a curse to be so with the flow.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I seem to stay reasonably sane in spite of often thinking that being nuts would be a lot more enjoyable. Sanity is fucking overrated.

― ChrissieH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

After SEVENFUCKINGTEEN people I work with asked me about "what's up with Michael Jackson?", and seeing it all over the internet, hearing it on the radio, even MY OWN BLOG, INESCAPABLE bad Michael badness, I drive home with that doodledoodledoodledoodle doodleydoo string riff from "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" stuck in my fucking head like an arrow through a squirrel's face, my head on the verge of explosion, my heartbeat speeding up, dementia...taking...total...control...in...5!...4!...3!...2!...1!

turn on TV

*HAAAAAAAALLEEEEEEELUUUJAAAAAAAAAAH!*

It's the Michael Jackson episode of The Simpsons! Puh-raaaaaayz thaaaa looooordah!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

ahahha that is amazing

for me it's the girlysound demos, actually, which i listened to last night while watching the paris hilton footage for the first time, and it just made what was going on onscreen seem incredibly tragic in that 'bad sex happens to everyone' anonymous way

― maura (maura), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Back issues of Artforum, sleep, hot cocoa, a certain instrumental performance major at Columbia.

― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Spending time with my very considerate boyfriend
Still genuinely getting along with my ex-boyfriend (including his attendant cute cat)
Talking to some good friends (especially Bryan)

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

This picture.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 20 November 2003 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.pizzamagia.com/

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 20 November 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

very, very little

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 20 November 2003 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Music's keeping me happy (gawd there's just so much of it out there), but I'm really in no position to say re: sanity. I am more prone to giggling with the slightest impetus these days...

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 20 November 2003 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Cooking, eating said cooking, mentally or physically re-arranging the furniture in my house, buying new clothes for once in my life, and my lovely boy who is ever so patient and gives me hugs.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 20 November 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

the possibility that the future might be better than the present

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 20 November 2003 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

string, chewing gum, sellotape

― duane, Thursday, 20 November 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

yay duane i got yr email

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

but like 34 years late or smfn

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

The thought of my own studio apartment in downtown DC minutes away from everything.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

beer, meds (prescribed)-sort of, ilx, viva la bam

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

the glorious half hour between waking up and leaving for work that i am totally alone

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

fremme neppa venette

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.hellonetwork.com/demo/toysclub/video.asp?speed=hook300

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

mark what was it about, i don't even remeber writing to you

― duane, Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Turning off my PC and going out in the rain to buy something to eat.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

some things that have kept me sane in the past and present: significant other, sleep, st johns wort, guitar, the love of good friends, my mum, lettin' the hair down, favourite songs, walking alone at night.

― still here, Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

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very little, i'm afraid

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 20 November 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha you drunk.

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 20 November 2003 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i not

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 20 November 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Sitting on my balcony in our new directors chairs with the groovy lil side-table bits, drinking cider and watching a magnificent lightning storm with muh boi, cheering like its a football game every time we see a huge lightning bolt shoot across the sky, smelling the negative-ionised air after a stinky hot day.

Man, that was good.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 20 November 2003 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

That's sounds like my idea of bliss if you exchange the cider for wine!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 20 November 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

wine

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 20 November 2003 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

the beta band the beta band the beta band the beta band

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 20 November 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Marlboro Lights

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 20 November 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Yesss, wine, she be a good mistress *sip*

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 20 November 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Still big hazel eyes.

― allyzay, Thursday, 20 November 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

3o hOurs of sleep in the past 3days.
the stash of $1 videos i found last week at cash converters

― kephm, Thursday, 20 November 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha 12 hours of sleep in the past 3 days, muahaha!
The Shins show last night! Twee overload!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 20 November 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Stop me from starting a TS: Chris/Jody vs. Tom/Ally thread.

Heh, genius!

Uh...in my case, a pizza lunch? It's not so much keeping me sane as keeping me from hunger later, and that qualifies.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 November 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the smurfs episode is proof that I no longer have to worry about sanity.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 20 November 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Matt. Poetry. My red shoes.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 20 November 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

nothing after last night. and i'm worried. terribly terribly worried.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 November 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

My girlfriend and my addiction to Battlefield: 1942.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Thursday, 20 November 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

big stonking pints of bitter and yummy food! ahhhhhhhhh pubs i love yiz

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 November 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Who says I'm sane any more? The only thing keeping me from going on a cross-country killing spree is my congenital inability to be a bad girl. And the reports from the DC sniper trials in Virginia Beach.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 20 November 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

My husband. The knowledge that I'm a better person than the cockfarmers I work with, and the hope that I can actually prove this one day. And Tesco's Australian Shiraz.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 November 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

my iPod

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 20 November 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

soup.

― JC (JC A.), Thursday, 20 November 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm gone

― raphael diligent (Cozen), Thursday, 20 November 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Tesco's Australian Shiraz

?!?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 20 November 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

MY MIND
Junior Mints
Beat the Geeks
coffee
MY MIND

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 20 November 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Synchronized cooking, etc.

eww

The thought of my own studio apartment in downtown DC minutes away from everything.

if a place is still being looked for, I can recommend the one I lived in.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 20 November 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 20 November 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

esoj - cheap (£3 per bottle) wine from Tesco supermarket. Not the top shiraz in the world by any means, but cheap and pretty drinkable (i'm assuming "?!?" means that you wondered what I meant?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 November 2003 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

yes correct. does it say where in australia it's from?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 20 November 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

South. It's not very specific, but it is a supermarket own brand. This is the same range, and also OK and v.v. cheap. Cheap but drinkable wine is often the saviour of my sanity and my bank balance.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 20 November 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

eww

― ethereal cereal (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 November 2003 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Nothing. (It's a library, you know, the books are in order, with little numbers on the spine. . .)

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Friday, 21 November 2003 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

1. the sort of meditation that making art for hours allows. even though the art I've been making is christmas cards of lacy [paper & watercolor pencil'ed] pink panties with pop-out frogs in them, and alligators in bathtubs with pull-outs so you can examine the contents of their stomachs.
2. going to sleep at 10pm.
3. right now: ethereal cereal's username!

― soylent greenberg (soylent greenberg), Friday, 21 November 2003 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

The thought of the two hours of potentially bad student short films I will be watching very soon...aaaaah, mediocrity.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 November 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I'll have a nice beer beforehand. And some meat.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 November 2003 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bayofpigs.com/bandphotos/shirts1.jpg

― TOMBOT, Friday, 21 November 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

(from left) Julio, Ronan, stevem and charlton lido feeling the voibe.

― Allyzay, Friday, 21 November 2003 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

WHERE ARE THE CASTANETS

― TOMBOT, Friday, 21 November 2003 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

the omnipotent babies ~ "free jazz motherfuckers (kill u with gunz mix)"

― Allyzay, Friday, 21 November 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

GOOD GOD I'm tired

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 November 2003 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

4. Chesterfields (worth another mention)
5. The musical stylings of Happy End and Numbers
6. Orange Juice

...but I must admit that various codecs, compression markers and DVD Studio Pro are killing me. The cigarettes too, I think.

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Friday, 21 November 2003 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

1) H.

2) S.

3) A.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 21 November 2003 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

My wife, thankfully.

― Rob M (Rob M), Friday, 21 November 2003 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

My boy constantly keeps my head in the right place! phew!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 21 November 2003 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and the thought that I'll soon be eating some bloody food at last.

― Rob M (Rob M), Friday, 21 November 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

the red and yellow leaves on green grass and the yellow leaves, still hanging, against the blue sky that I saw on my walk from where I parked to the library

― youn, Saturday, 22 November 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"this too, shall pass"

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 22 November 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

(not that i really believe it, but i don't believe "love is all you need" either...it's still a helpful corrective when reaching for the razor)

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 22 November 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The feeling that life'll get better now, and this is just one of those years.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 22 November 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i would've said Buffy series 7 on bbc2 but next week it's been bumped by the fucking snooker...

luckily i have avengers dvds...

(i think kate ought to buy HSA a Blackburn Rovers shirt btw) 8)

andy

― koogs (koogs), Sunday, 23 November 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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