[personal profile] learnedax
So, in the next two weeks...

The United States will select its president for the next four years, and by extension its de facto political paradigm for the foreseeable future.

Boston will go crazy as the Red Sox enter the world series for the first time in eighteen years.

Our not-so-merry band of players will push through fraught rehearsals and bring Macbeth to the stage.

My project at work will deliver its final code release.

I'll start losing my wife to business travel four days a week.

engaging afterburners

I will be twitchy, I will be bloodshot, and if I've still got anything left after November 7th small animals will flee from me. Bring it on.

Date: 2004-10-22 08:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] its-just-me.livejournal.com
Yeah, stress looms on the horizon. If it makes you feel anybetter, [livejournal.com profile] antoniseb is away for 6 months. Four days isn't that bad.

Burdocks. Chocolate. Name the time.

Date: 2004-10-22 02:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anu3bis.livejournal.com
When things get crazy, just let me know.

Re: Burdocks. Chocolate. Name the time.

Date: 2004-10-22 06:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] learnedax.livejournal.com
I think the time is evening, November 8th, or somewhere around then. I seriously don't expect to have much time at all for chocolatey respite until the craziness is overin abeyance.

Date: 2004-10-22 03:01 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] laurion
I'll be right there gibbering with you. I don't have the work project or the loss of wife, but I do have two None of the Above performances (plus new material to learn), and 3-4 days a week of computer rollouts. I took last week off, but other than that I've been on full burn since september....

Maybe we should have a 'no-stress allowed' get together for all the people with our affliction... but chances are we're unlikely to find a day people could make it because we all have so many things happening.

Maybe ex post facto

Date: 2004-10-22 06:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] learnedax.livejournal.com
"Well, when can you fit in a quick scheduling meeting for our no-stress gathering? This is really important, so please try to find the time."

Date: 2004-10-22 03:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] benndragon.livejournal.com
Now I'll have REM stuck in my head all day. You are evil I say, evil!

Date: 2004-10-22 04:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com
Sounds like you'll be bored. I have timewasters if you need 'em.

Date: 2004-10-22 06:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] learnedax.livejournal.com
After recovering, you mean? I might write a novel or something.

Date: 2004-10-22 06:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] herooftheage.livejournal.com
The United States will select its president for the next four years, and by extension its de facto political paradigm for the foreseeable future.

Boston will go crazy as the Red Sox enter the world series for the first time in eighteen years.


Why stress over either of these? There's nothing to be done in either case. You want to take the world on your shoulders, of course you can build stress levels past the breaking point.

I'll start losing my wife to business travel four days a week.

Just four words here: "Bring on the gaming."

I'd start with Knights of the Old Republic.

Date: 2004-10-22 06:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] learnedax.livejournal.com
They are not personal burdens, but they certainly contribute to the state of my environment, which has a strong impact on my state of mind. If there's rioting in the streets every night because the Sox are winning (or losing), it affects me.

Gaming? Hmm, maybe. I think in the short term I'll be bringing on the late nights at the office, but after that there are a lot of things I might get around to...

Date: 2004-10-22 06:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] herooftheage.livejournal.com
They are not personal burdens, but they certainly contribute to the state of my environment, which has a strong impact on my state of mind. If there's rioting in the streets every night because the Sox are winning (or losing), it affects me.

Even there, mostly only if you let it. It's true that if there's rioting where you are, it'll affect you, but other than that, you get some control over how much.

Ray Bradbury used to give the advice that people shouldn't watch the local news, because it mostly consisted of people you'd never associate with doing things you'd never do to people you'd never meet.

There is plenty of pain and misery in the world - enough to swallow you up. I am not suggesting you pretend it does not exist, but that you let go of the parts of it you can't do anything about.

Not that I do that all the time myself, either.

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