Blue Saturday

i like a long film if the longness is part of the vibe but if its just a 90 minute idea that got out of hand it annoys me. on the other hand, if you're in the cinema then the lack of conversation removes the need for a swift drink, as you say, and then at least after there is something obvious to talk about

Ooh, going to a film is a really good idea. Because you're right, you don't need to talk. And when you do have to talk, hey, you can automatically talk about the film you have just seen.

Avoid too much gin, have fun on your not-a-date!

so much of my problem drinking was wrapped up in "how can i feel comfortable in this uncomfortable social situation" btw so my medical advice is compromised

xxp That's a good point but suggests this evening is the wrong way round as the talking portion of the evening is before the film and after the film I suspect there will be scuttling for our respective nightbuses

I might be a little bit ADHD (person who endlessly complains on this thread that they can't concentrate at work in inventing neurological reasons for same shocker) but I am highly suspicious of any films which are more than 100 minutes long, which basically means all films made in the past decade

BB I keep reading your display name as part of your post and thinking how you are going to be standing around at a small viking rave with a bad foot. Can you go to the party, say "oh I'd love to stand and chat but MY LEG", and plonk yourself down on a chair or other convenient leaning post and make people come to you? or is that not likely to be appropriate/successful?

BATH CHAIR

THANK YOU.

I firmly believe that nearly all movies should only be about 90 mins long. Going to see one today that is 2 hrs. 9 mins and while I want to see it a part of me is already thinking that that's just a little too long for me. I get so antsy!

like i said, if you are an art movie where nothing happens with looooooong slow shots of people staring moodily into the distance then the longer the better but if it's a genre flick then 2 hours = get tae fuck

LOL, no, I am not going to be DJing at a viking rave with an injured foot, but TBH that sounds like a v v BB thing to be doing.

It probably would actually be totally OK to plonk myself down on a chair at party and say "ow my FOOT (the gout, gout*)"

*it's not actually gout, but this is funny as it is a wine and cheese party

But the big problem is actually the travel. There is a significant walk at the other end which would mean either arriving totally bad tempered and in pain, or else taking 3 separate busses right across London on a Saturday night, and really, no.

Films over 100 minutes long = this is for DVD. I was just talking to my Mum about this, like, I can no longer stomach having to go to a theatre and sit through a film and not be able to pause it to go to the bathroom, or refresh my drink or get dinner or basic human needs. There's a reason long gigs have intervals between movements or support/main band. 90 minutes tops for how long I can hold my attention.

x-post YES YES bath chair!

Especially if accompanied by Charles Ryder lookylike to push it through Hackney. With an armadillo on a string. This would be excellent.

I can no longer stomach having to go to a theatre and sit through a film and not be able to pause it to go to the bathroom, or refresh my drink or get dinner or basic human needs.

YESSSS. Netflix has killed my ability to sit through a movie tbqfh. I'm going to need my drink refilled and a smoking environment and at least one bathroom break, AND it would be good if I could text and read twitter on my phone and pause the movie when I saw an interesting article.

DJ-ing while being held aloft on a Viking shield?

My apologies to movies and everything but my brain is just not made for their presentation model.

I suppose it's funny how films have been getting longer while the average film watcher's attention span has been decreasing

(allegedly, according to clickbait pseudoscience articles everywhere, and also the anecdotal evidence of my own alt and tab keys having no print left on them)

Kind of explains how most big movies have tended more and more towards 'whoa!!! awesome' set pieces every 5 minutes at the expense of plots that make sense.

(No film. Film had sold out and we hadn't booked and there wasn't anything else on for ages so everyone went their separate ways. Kind of... relieved? Dinner was OK though, nice to see people but I felt a bit out of it. Hope everyone else's evening is going OK.

Now, what to do with this mental energy I've built up...)

((In search of lost time))

(((I think I have missed your reference but I suppose it's ironic that I will spend tomorrow bemoaning that my weekend disappeared and I didn't do STUFF and yet I had 3 unexpected bonus free hours this evening which I spent on the sofa reading ILX instead of doing anything. maybe that's what you meant but I don't think it is)))

i was gonna watch Rashomon with Joel but we're both just vegging doing surfy net shit i guess

nah what the hell i nagged him

??? I'm not sure what that reference is about now. How odd. I don't think I was saying you were particularly Proustian - oh yeah, the idea that you had psyched yourself up to see people, then those hours were just "lost".

Or maybe the lost chord.

I post very odd things when I'm half writing a ~story~ and half posting on ILX.

not doing overdue work, thinking abt article, wishing there was some way to work out whether i feel unhappy (in general) because i'm bad at my job and don't like it, or whether i feel bad at my job and don't like it because i'm unhappy (in general)

i mean in some ways it doesn't matter, but if it's fixable at all then it makes a big difference which

Unemployed ATM, but thinking about my recent work gigs, it's been that I didn't like the jobs, so I was disinterested, so I was bad at them (transpires that I can't force myself to be good at something I dislike), so I was unhappy.

Yeah, I feel like that might be the case here, but I can't think of anything else I'd rather do, and I'm not sure in my current state I'd be able to give more of myself to anything else either. My current task is interesting on paper but I've been putting off looking at it for ages and I don't quite know why. Fear of criticism?

Benziger article seems to be basically a plug for various services e.g. her book Thriving in Mind which as far as I can tell goes 1. find your MBTI type, 2. ???, 3. profit. Still kind of interested in seeing if it has a more fully featured stage 2 but I just redid an MBTI-alike and got something I've never got before (ISTP, think I've been all 4 permutations of IN** before but never not been IN) which doesn't sound like me at all, so my hope of fixing my brain via MBTI is not currently too high.

(I guess I got S on the MBTI because
0. article made me think "maybe I have misunderstood my strengths/weaknesses, must not blindly click my usual answers"
1. failure to do background reading for work task led me to pick all the "I hate book learning" answers
2. avoided any reason-over-emotions answers because pissed off lately at people who think their emotions ARE rational logic - one of the questions was "My actions are frequently influenced by emotions" and I do not even believe anyone who ticked "No" for that. you are not Data from Star Trek
3. answered questions about "everything I do is planned meticulously" negatively bcz, well, I spend hours going over and over all the possibilities and not making a decision until I have to go, fuck it, time to get out the door and improvise

but no, I am not a cool-in-crisis skydiving firefighter, I am a risk-averse decision-avoider who goes to pieces in a crisis and all sorts of non-crisis situations too)

yes, whenever I do one of these tests and get to the 'do you plan things in detail' type questions I need an option for 'yes, but I still manage to screw up'. the way these things are formatted, are you better at empathising or rational analysis, spontaneity and inspiration or organisation and rigor, doesn't seem to leave a space for people who are crap at all those things.

guys, i see a satisfying career opportunity here. between us we shd be able to develop the ILX Crap Personalities model, which works out which crap personality you have and then tells you to give up and lock yourself in the house playing video games

Seems like too much work. I'll just sit here in the house playing video games.

Fatigue vs Attention Deficit
Despair vs Mania
Nihilism vs Inability to compromise

need 1 more, whip up a few questionnaires, cracked it

questionnaire is the single word i have most trouble spelling i think

dunno why i am feeling the Philip Seymour Hoffman thing so much, perhaps it speaks to my sullen nihilism. then again he was within 12 months of my age so.

i am supposed to be doing last minute homework and every time i look at an NVQ evidence sheet my eyes defocus and my head shuts down

technically it's not homework when you're at work but you get my meaning. christ i would love a big bag of sulphate about now.

Absent-Minded vs. Obsessive

or is that too close to fatigue vs. attention deficit?

went for a good long walk with a friend yesterday that ended with us trudging thru muddy twilight, felt good, especially when we came across a pair of white-bummed deer gadding about in the dark - Roe i'm guessing

so i'm not anhedonic yet. just trapped in a gleefully anhedonic world.

xp sarah that's good enough dammit, i was thinking of something similar re: carelessness vs perfectionism. plus it's armchair psychology, two concepts being near-identical is kinda the point nicht war?

"aren't 'wish it' and 'want it' really the same thing?"

need to alter either "absent-minded" or "attention-deficient" to avoid a clash of As. maybe change "attention-deficient" to "irritable" or "hyper"

so, the correct response to the Vague-Ell Type questionnaire is to stare blankly at the paper for half an hour then bin it whilst weeping curses

well, in our questionnaire one can be a FOND

"Your type is Horse with Black Bile rising, beware the colour green, lucky number is 15. Avoid working with people."

"You will take a long journey over water but you will still be a moany oaf at the end of it."

"FONDs are good at producing detailed systems which they know will never work because they don't have the energy to fight with people any more"

"Avoid working with people."

Save time and print that on every single results sheet.

'Steely Dan are over-rated' vs 'Steely Dan are under-rated'

I dunno if liking or disliking slow jams is really useful here

OMG, Noodle, I totally want to take this personality test now. DO IT DO IT DO IT, this is the best thing ever, the Vague-'Ell personality index.

Write a short funny book on this in the exact parodic style of management, and I'm sure some publisher would take it on, either as parody or not realising it wasn't real!

This could be as wildly unsuccessful as, well... OK, it would probably sell about as well as "Crap Towns" but I would totally buy the fuck out of it and give it to all my (future) bosses.

Liking or not liking slow jams = Urgent & Key, imo.

I'm going ~out on the town~ today with another ILX0r but please please please make this be a thing!

Social drinking affects my work productivity more than drinking alone
(Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Neither Agree or Disagree, Agree, Strongly Agree)

The only thing more pointless than my job is my existence
(Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Neither Agree or Disagree, Agree, Strongly Agree)

I enjoy watching soap operas because the characters have more serious problems than I do
(Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Neither Agree or Disagree, Agree, Strongly Agree)

slightly reinstated apparently :/

and my ability to turn up for work hungover didn't last so long

i hate doing this to myself. i hate not ever being able to do this to myself.

opening up 4 or 5 Youtubes of the same track at 20-30 second intervals makes some pretty great drones yo

we should do the crap personality inventory

yeah we shd do, how did i not put Procrastinator as a type?

need to snap out of the zombie torpor first

need to snap out of:

nothing looks solid, there is a sheet of glass between me and outside, i can't bear to talk to most people, i'm counting time off in my head constantly, can't bear to go to sleep at night, work doesn't want me to have any time, business going on, dead lifeless world all around, miss my children's constant presence, timetabled, parcelled up into sleep and snatches of inconsequential timewasting and work work, got the creeps from all the wellmeaning creeps around me, not buying into whatever i'm sposed to be buying into, loss of addiction = loss of contact with people i actually do like, nooooooothingness, life = over, out of lives, let things crumble, obligations gonna wind up dying like i lived in debt and unreliable, if i keep going here i can nearly imagine the way OUT but then i remember the way out isn't real if there's nothing to live on with it, endgame, used everything up and stop now

i dunno why what's okay for other people isn't okay for me, must be my own special spoilt failure, pitiful excpt u know fuck that pity

for a bomb that would infern my world and leave everybody else's intact fo them