oh, the sound will bring me home again

[doginnighttime]

If someone can tell me how to stop chewing on my hangnails, PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO IT. (Just make sure your suggestion don't require any kind of work ethic or will power, because I have neither.)

Also, I suppose an older story of mine is going to be in an anthology about werewolves. (Which ups the count to 2 published shorts this year, which

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[bladderwrack]

This suggestion requires neither work ethic nor will power! Get a pair of slant-edged nail clippers and cut the hangnails off rather than chewing them off. It is effective! The downside to this is you may eventually end up getting freaked out about the idea of travelling /without/ said nail clippers. (I am assuming you chew your hangnails because they are annoying and not because you get some kind of perverse pleasure out of it; if the latter, then idk.)

[doginnighttime]

Oh god, I think I do get some kind of pleasure out of it. At least, I think it's a coping mechanism to help me deal with the anxiety I get from consuming copious amounts of tea/coffee/refined sugar/etc.

Perhaps I need to address the underlying problem... :-(