i am feeling fairly low right now

I have felt better. I was supposed to go to the czech republic for three month's study from next week. I dislocated my left knee on friday. it looks less likely now. plus a bunch of other stuff. overloading, yeah.

Maybe take a nice walk. If it's not too pollyanna-ish, think about your blessings. I admit I don't know you too well since I am new on IL*, but you seem to have a fine honey of a boyfriend and some fab, giddy new purchase you made with your credit card.

And if that advice was too pollyanna-ish, think of the most absurd and hilarious thing to make you laugh.

Sometimes visiting cruel.com or disturbingauctions.com does it for me.

ok i think the first genuine low of my entire life is a-comin'

and it ain't great

sympathy/zings plz

at least the ytmnd is gone

you can almost always get past the shitty parts. my early 20s were super shitty (attempted suicide of father, siblings in foster homes, poverty, etc) but I'm past them now! so keep your chin up.. cook to distract yourself :) (It was you I was talking food with, right? Hope so)

maybe it's something u ate

xp

DO: stay up late at night alone listening to Blue by Joni Mitchell.
DON'T: get shitfaced and walk around North London singing I Know It's Over by the Smiths at the top of your lungs

that is the sum of wisdom i have for you from when i was your age

awwww, but skip "Little Green" and "My Old Man," they make me want to off myself. Make a playlist and replace those two tracks with "Free Man in Paris" and "Raised on Robbery" for a sad-but-not-gonna-kill-myself effect.

i dunno see, cos the really sad songs are the ones that help the most, and there's something soothing about Joni songs even when they are bleak. and you're not going to kill yourself over a sad song, even if it feels like you might at the time. probabaly not. worth the risk, i'd say.

jaggs, say it ain't so

it was me, ffm. and while i haven't suffered hardships like yours, my brother was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes today, and that alongside the feeling of being gradually disconnected from things that matter (college rush starting without me, gf thousands of miles away, unemployment and gradual realisation of unemployability in all but the most exclusive and competitive sectors), and this fucking sore throat from hell, is messing shit up in my head

if i have a saving grace, it's the tendency to let ppl know i'm not right be a fkn cry-baby

to quote the final line of sartre's "huis clos", right, let's get on with it, shall we...

hey i like "blue"! "carey" is one of the happiest songs ever fwiw

I dunno.. tell that to the creator of Gloomy Sunday!

I'm definitely with you in finding comfort in Joni's bleakness.. I skip over Little Green any chance I get, though. Raised on Robbery has the bleak but also will keep you bopping!

and "my old man" might be the best song on the album ("a case of you" notwithstanding)

oh man dude definitely not trying to one-up anything! just giving examples in case people thought I'd broken a nail/failed an exam and thought I had any right to say anything. very sorry about your brother, that's terrible and I know how bad news can amplify anything else going ho-hum into oppressively shittily. sounds like you need a distraction! thank god for ILX!

(Definitely LOVE My Old Man but wasn't sure if sadness was due to a significant other in which case it can be kind of deadly.. had a hard time when my boyfriend left the province on work and I realized that the frying pan really was too wide (for my single person's omelette)

haha! that should be a song-title. "I realized that the frying pan really was too wide (for my single person's omelette)" :D

nah i wasn't remotely accusing you of one-upping me at all! you were being very helpful in providing a context. if anything i felt guilty for bumping the thread when nothing truly dreadful has happened yet. :)

but yeah thank god for ilx and tbh ppl shd be able to bump this sort of thread for whatever, just that i feel the wings of something dark brushing me with a little more urgency than usual

typified by somewhat irritable and blunt conversational tactics, some crass ILX posting (my attempts to weigh in on the US elections were of the "OMG FUCK THIS" nature when everyone was being all sophisticated) and appalling writer's block

writer's block

http://www.carolinestreasures.com/images/answered_prayers.jpg

ilx's most outspoken athiest in prayer shocker

i can't even think of a good counter-zing :(

i can't even spell atheist

i can't

yes you can! I thought of a zing for you while I ran to drop off some mail. you said your significant other is thousands of miles away.. how the HELL do you find shirts with sleeves long enough for you? zing!

also: diabetes: cooking challenge!

yes i will bake him a candy cake pizza tomorrow ;_;

and that is a good, close-to-home zing ;____;

I'm here for you bro

yes and you are TENS of thousands of miles away ;)

my attempts to weigh in on the US elections were of the "OMG FUCK THIS" nature when everyone was being all sophisticated

is this genuinely your interpretation of what went wrong when you tried to post on that thread?

but I have long arms too! where do you live anyway?

i live in london, england, so get stretchin'! :D

oh, and caek, that's a very reduced expression of what went wrong. a more expanded one would take into account the probably hypocrisy of slating the US media in comparison to our own, the horrendous timing of having a stupid rant on the day of a delicate debate, and the fact i'm a limey retard, but tbh i'm not rly in the mood to go into details on why i wound up a few yanks

well that's lucky, if you get lonely and have a thousand pounds or so you can call up that Billie Piper girl!

if i had that thousand pounds i would fly to berlin right now, pork my gf a bit, then come back and get mahself some proper music lessons

actually all that thousand pounds would do would delay the point at which i'd have to get a job. as things stand that point is close. but not imminent. give it a month.

also thank heavens for best friend who called to give chin-up advice/idle chatter. u r appreciated.

pork my gf a bit

You're such a old romantic.

berlin isn't far louis, it costs about 30 fucking quid to get there.

then go to panorama bar and many suns will rise at the same time.

yesyes but going to berlin = mind off the neverending jobsearch

i'm gonna do it at some point in the next 3 months, though, so any advice on which clubs to go to/sights to see is welcome!

and yeah i have a very cuddlestein mountain approach to love n stuff as you can probably deduce

go a few times, it's incredibly cheap! there are sales on now, it costs about as much as my train to work in the morning.

make stew and listen to curtis mayfield

xp - what is up w/you and birds?

before you listen to lj, hoos, you should confirm if that sentence is "british" or not

i need a computer break tbh

been here at the coffee spot for 6 hours

maybe go to a park and read or some shit

take a walk

on the upside my gf just invited me to thanksgiving with her fam which is ^_^ a big deal ^_^

gobble gobble

go and buy a dinner suit!

they will be v. impressed

roll up in my funeral limo driving uniform

see how many posts you can make on ILX today

ha - on the upside - i will never have to deal w/thanksgiving with the soon-to-be-ex's domineering mormon grandmother ever again

dodged a bullet: at least it was only one grandmother

its just like a big deal cause she's gone on before abt how she doesn't introduce dudes to he fam cause its never really been at the level of 'this is somebody who's gonna be in my life for a min yall' before so like

its a thing

aw

: )

aw

: )

met my gf's mum for exactly 2 seconds yesterday XD

anyway HOOS i too recommend the outdoors, although if it is w/ book i entreat that you keep an eye out for our feathered friends

:(

:) instead is my pro tip.

Feeling yr pain but on the plus side it's Friday and we still have terrible lax licensing laws.

yeah doesnt help that all my friends live two hours away and im too poor to go see them regularly

The art of talking to strangers in pubs is a useful life skill imo

Should be taught in schools

Also, remember Phil Brown is somewhere pushing a lawnmower around right now and worrying about how he's gonna clear his tab at Tanfastic.

The art of talking to strangers in pubs is a useful life skill imo

really?! people do this?

Not many do it well!

Phil Brown still getting paid because its cheaper than firing him supposedly?

Can't afford a tan, can't afford to go to the pub, only job prospect is a part-time stint at Tescos. Man I wish I had some good drugs.

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We do it oop North, lex. I'm led to believe the rules are different in London.

Not true

After all, there are plenty of Northeners in London

yeah if noodle was try and pick up a twink in london he'd have to be an mp

I think even Londoners occasionally meet people they've never met before, sometimes in places where alcohol is served.

Where is London?

Somewhere just south of Sheffield iirc

not sure I follow you.

Can't afford a tan, can't afford to go to the pub, only job prospect is a part-time stint at Tescos. Man I wish I had some good drugs

life coach answer is to take up running, and there are cute girls that work in tesco too sometimes fyi

talking to strangers in pubs is an all-island tradition over here obviously. it's how i met my grandfather iirc

I don't know if if 'cos I'm getting older but I find myself striking up conversations all the time these days.

I know it's cos I'm getting drunker

last weekend i met some strangers because they'd been in the same pub as me the night before, then they were in a queue for a club i was going to on saturday. the club was full so we began talking to them and went for a drink. this is pretty rare though.

"really?! people do this?"

Dude yeah! I didn't do it, but ppl came up to me and chatted. Not in my town tho. But like in Amsterdam they wld.

depends on the pub & the clientele, doesn't it?

Yeah. I guess so.

though I suppose there are far fewer unconverted pubs around these days, so could see how Lex may have thought the art of random conversation had been lost

anyway has hoy squared cheered up since drawing barcelona, that's the question?

eh. i went for a walk and it started raining; the place i went to didn't have what i needed even though it was supposed to and couldn't tell me who to get in touch with to get it; now i'm having lunch.

if messi snaps a tendon in the next hour i should be fine tho

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