Speed it up a notch...

[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.

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[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.

[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...

[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.