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Today I felt the exact inverse of the customary "hooray, summer on the way" feeling.

― Ronan, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

I have decided to coin a new phrase that better describes the weather here and that is: March comes in like a lion and goes out like an asshole.

― Jenny, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

that is a shame. warm weather is nice.

― modestmickey, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

then again, sometimes so is cold weather.

― modestmickey, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

all depends on the person i guess!

― modestmickey, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

been feeling awful lately

― and what, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

different strokes for different folks, so they say, right?

― modestmickey, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

its summer pressure is what it is

― 600, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

christmas pressure is fine cos you don't have to do anything but sit on your ass and eat chocolate. summer pressure sucks. other peoples optimism is seriously painful right now.

― Ronan, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, I thought you felt the opposite because the weather was not nice.

Still, I don't like summer and often get opposite day seasonal affective disorder about halfway through it.

― Jenny, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

The weather is nice today! I don't wish it was bad, I just wish it was nice and I was on a beach alone, and deaf blind and dumb.

― Ronan, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

or a dog, that'd be nice.

― Ronan, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

being stuck inside a building with little to no real sunlight is a lot more depressing during summer than winter, innit?

― modestmickey, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

dogs. definitely nice.

― modestmickey, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

The one thing I hate about Spring is when your useless hormones kick in and you just wish they would go away and leave you alone. :-(

But I'm trying really hard *not* to be negative at the moment.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

being stuck inside a building with little to no real sunlight is a lot more depressing during summer than winter, innit?

are you in prison?

― Ronan, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

i'm excited about this summer, but there's definite "summer pressure" as i make my plans and sort out my affairs. it's good nervous energy, though.

― get bent, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

The thing about summer pressure is... you don't really need to feel it! Just take a book and sit somewhere, surely?

― Matt DC, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

its been grey and rainy for the last 3 days

― and what, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

ronan, a step or two up. an office.

― modestmickey, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

Spring lets me know that in 3-4 weeks I will be COOKED ALIVE the moment I step outside. I am used to snow until April, new climate is superior but I am far from accustomed to it.

― Abbott, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'm often negative because to not find flaw with the situation would mean there was nothing left to work towards. Does this make sense?

― blueski, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

i am a "glass half full" kind of guy.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

you should fill the other half too [s]

― 600, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

some of my post went missing, perhaps i drank it

― 600, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

you should fill the other half hoo [s] aka the steendriver

― and what, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

half full of air?

― blueski, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

half full of BILE

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

half full of nuvviejuice

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

i wish i had said bile. DAMN.

― blueski, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

i'm surprised this thread was so popular.

― Ronan, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

i'm in one of those snow until april places. snow during april, as well. a few years ago, they even had snow on graduation day, which was at the beginning of june. BAH HUMBUG!

― Maria, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

To me, that sounds great maria!

Summer would be okay if it never get warmer than 18 degrees. I should move to La Paz.

― jel --, Monday, 2 April 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

It was supposed to snow here this week, but now they are just calling for 35 degrees F and lots and lots of wind.

― Jenny, Monday, 2 April 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

I often find this time of year oddly depressing. The long evenings always make me feel like I should be doing something with my life, or having the kind of fun other people have.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 2 April 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I was Richie Benaud so I could have summer all year long. But then I would be a man. And old. So maybe not.

― Hard like armour, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

I like sunshine and being light longer during the days. But as the temp. grows, so does my dread. Last night we turned on the AC for the first time. So it begins. . .

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

How come dread? Just for similar reasons to what everyone else has said?

The thing about summer pressure is... you don't really need to feel it! Just take a book and sit somewhere, surely?

I was thinking of taking a book and sitting somewhere isolated, for as long as possible! No offence Matt but those are the words of someone who doesn't have to take a book and sit somewhere to avoid summer pressure!

― Ronan, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

yea i think matt is misunderstanding what summer pressure is

How come dread?

summer in tx is a little different to summer in dublin;)

― 600, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

Is it something to do with not wanting to wear shorts?

― Sarah, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

ah ok, weather dread!

― Ronan, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Still, I don't like summer and often get opposite day seasonal affective disorder about halfway through it.

-- Jenny, Monday, April 2, 2007 11:19 AM (Yesterday)

Spring lets me know that in 3-4 weeks I will be COOKED ALIVE the moment I step outside. I am used to snow until April, new climate is superior but I am far from accustomed to it.

-- Abbott, Monday, April 2, 2007 11:32 AM (Yesterday)

I often find this time of year oddly depressing. The long evenings always make me feel like I should be doing something with my life, or having the kind of fun other people have.

-- The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, April 2, 2007 2:33 PM (Yesterday)

OTM, all of youse.

This spring I'm doing a little better, but I remember the first day it was 75 degrees and sunny last year, and I had a little emotional meltdown. I was walking down the street from the store, trying to get home and I could barely hold back the tears. I was better once I was inside, where I took a nap.

All winter, even when I was shivering in the -10 wind, I said to myself, better this than 95!!

Spring just reminds me that the horror of summer is coming.

3 cheers for Fall.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

This spring I'm doing a little better, but I remember the first day it was 75 degrees and sunny last year, and I had a little emotional meltdown. I was walking down the street from the store, trying to get home and I could barely hold back the tears. I was better once I was inside, where I took a nap.

this is pretty much exactly what happened me yesterday.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

I thought summer pressure = the self-imposed pressure to be OUT THERE DOING STUFF all the time, and not letting it pass you by and all that?

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

not always self imposed

― Ronan, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

mine is predominantly self-imposed, its also intangible and undefinable, and can actually be to the detriment of being IN HERE DOING STUFF

― 600, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Finally, a support group for people like me.

I think the roots of this are in my grade school days when I lived in Montana, far, far away from any friends, so summer meant hanging out around the house with NOTHING to do but be miserable in the heat.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

600 otm.

today, though, i am not feeling summer pressure, but fuckin' freezing wind from the urals. teach me to live in east anglia's windy city.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

i just don't have the energy to do anything at the moment plus i seem to be plagued with bad luck or at least the absence of good luck. all my friends are excited about trips to europe and festivals and camping on beaches and what not but i just cannot be bothered. i suppose i will regret this when i'm older. i feel like i'm "wasting" something.

― rio natsume, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

yeah I understand the concept of summer pressure but never really feel it (see above comments re: weather). Once summer's in full swing my only thoughts are survival. the older I get the worse I am at handling heat. And as with most weather globally, our summer's keep getting worse and worse.

That said I feel a bit of urgency to enjoy the outdoors as much as possible before the heat is unbearable - tubing, boating, fishing, fence-building must be done in the next two months OR ELSE!

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

My car had frost on it this morning!

― kingfish, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

But I'm trying really hard *not* to be negative at the moment.

haha kate another way of putting that would be "i'm trying really hard to be positive at the moment"

it's like the apocryphal story of the factory that had a sign above some steps that went down to the basement, and it said "watch your step". the factory had an average of one accident on the steps every year. at some point, the sign was changed to say "don't fall on the steps" and the next year, 40 people fell down the stairs.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

No, being positive is a step too far for me at the moment. I'm just trying not to be too negative. Though yes, ha ha, accidentally funny.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

This is really yanking my chain at the moment. I know this woman who is barely an acquantance (ex gf of my bf's friend/bandmate, have only met her twice). She's always had such a bitter, negative view of everything. Things always have to be criticised, looked at in a bad light. There is always something that will go wrong.

Of course since her partner left her earlier in the year she's been even more of a miserable cow. Last week, happy with my new haircut I posted about it on LJ, and she says "of course it's gong to go all fluffy and retarded looking when you wash it".

This week, when letting all my perth friends know we'll be in town to see them, instead of saying "yay look forward to it!" shes all "you ARE aware of how far out in the sticks that suburb is arent you? R never went ANYWHERE when he was living there, good luck with that".

I basically want to give her a verbal dressing down, because frankly I dont care if I offend her - shes not a friend really - but I can't bring myself to be rude. But I'm sitting here irritated as piss at her RELENTLESS negativity! ARGH!

I just wanted to vent I suppose.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:02 (seventeen years ago)

That does get wicked maddening – makes you wonder how they ever made any friends in the first place!

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:06 (seventeen years ago)

She's always had such a bitter, negative view of everything. Things always have to be criticised, looked at in a bad light. There is always something that will go wrong.

remind me again why you post to ilx??

― freek-a-luriqua (and what), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:08 (seventeen years ago)

you know what

who cares?

I mean that in the nicest possible way - she sounds v lame and not worth expending any thought or emotion on. if anything you should only feel sorry for her that she's obviously not v happy. don't be dragged into her negativity. it doesn't need to affect you. let it wash over you

― conrad, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:11 (seventeen years ago)

well that's obnoxious, i bet that affects her relationships pretty badly.

― Maria, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:15 (seventeen years ago)

You wanna explain what you're on about Ethan? I'm plenty positive on this board if you'd care to look.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:17 (seventeen years ago)

Wait, I think I've misread what you're saying. Never mind. Busy day at work.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:17 (seventeen years ago)

And to get back to things, yeah, its a bit sad - her partner of 8 years has left her and I kinda feel a bit sorry for her, but she weirds me out. I suppose I am wasting energy letting it get to me considering I barely know her, but she's tried to buddy up to me and R since her breakup (understandable I guess) and I'm a bit uncomfrtable with that, but I feel like I am being uncharitable :/

― Trayce, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:19 (seventeen years ago)

hay trayce! i just meant ilx is full of people who have bitter negative views and criticize everything!

― freek-a-luriqua (and what), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:24 (seventeen years ago)

just tell yourself that they're a complete loser and that's why they say such stupid things. that's how i deal with reading things written by people that would otherwise make my blood boil

― Minister for Compression Issues (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:25 (seventeen years ago)

Yah E I figured that as soon as I hit submit LOL I'm a bit stressed out today soz =)

Jim: haha, I think even her actual friends are realising that about her at this point :/

― Trayce, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 03:26 (seventeen years ago)

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