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All the best people are classicists...
I had dinner with my best friend of, gosh, nearly eight years a few weeks ago, and she was enjoying teasing me mercilessly (as she always does), about my eccentricity (my term) or "rampant contrarian pretentiousness" (hers ( Read more... ) -
Currently I feel a bit like Teiresias
Last year, during the Being Lancelot phase of my life, I was way too depressed to function independently. We're talking it taking about half an hour of my mum or dad talking to me to get me to leave the house, being put on watch by my mental health services, ceasing to feel hungry or to feel any desire to get out of bed. It was pretty scary, both ( Read more... ) -
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I have noticed in the last few years how much the tone in which I talk about my past freaks people out. I will be telling what I think is just a funny/mildly self deprecating story about my past, or school, or, frequently the interaction between school and family, and people will try and very politely tell me that what I'm saying is HORRIFYING and ( Read more... ) -
I am actually Clive Durham
I am having a crisis of faith. I just don't know what faith is actually having a crisis. Can you have a crisis in your faith in yourself as a good and kind person? -
Still more on boring personal development
My depression is pretty bad at the moment. In fact, it's probably a case of "My depression from 2011-12 has not gone away, it just got more manageable/I started distracting myself more". It doesn't help that I'm being hit by bank charges every month, don't know my exact plans for September and need to sort them out (either an Access course plus an ( Read more... ) -
Returning to one of the themes of 2013, apparently...
I've been thinking, again, about loneliness. I think something we forget about depression is that the reason it's so pernicious is it taps into feelings which we remember for other reasons. A host of my friends have just graduated, either as actual doctors (my immediate peers) or Bachelors of Arts (my younger friends from school). There's one ( Read more... ) -
General check in about life and stuff
Realise I haven't posted in a while. Had a bit of a mental health blip after the breakup, combined with quite bad health issues which are still requiring tests/analysis ( Read more... ) -
The adventures of a small, chaotic and tactless Dawnish Earl. (Empire Froth mark 2)
Having managed to finally drop character completely, nearly a week post event, I would like to say that Empire was amazing. And present the traditional froth list:
The Good:- Gawain being so inept with life and especially romance that he takes advice from ANYONE, including Yseult, when she tells him he's not being glorious enough.
- Related: the ( Read more... )
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Empire Event 1: Much delayed froth post
So. It is in fact almost already Empire E2, and I still haven't posted the best things about Empire Event 1. In an attempt to recover keen, here they are:
The Good:- Discovering that I/Gawain can sing songs in multiple parts/voices, and using this as a defining hook for the character
- The perfection of the "circular dance of PD fest larps" as I and a ( Read more... )
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And he can offer nothing but... well, it was life.
Alex broke up with me last Tuesday. It was both unexpected and not (unexpected but probably imminent? Unexpected but likely to be an issue ( Read more... )