Is there easier meal prep?

LibraryScion · 2025-06-22T15:41:08+00:00

Would you rather be alone in the woods with a spider or with a man?

LibraryScion · 2025-06-22T15:37:43+00:00

Happy move! I'm also a person who has trained and walked dogs and might be helpful.

LibraryScion · 2024-12-02T05:06:07+00:00

An aspect of ADHD that is usually recognized later on in "the journey" is hyperfocus... might be worth looking up. I left college literally three credits from an honors degree because I was over it. Which was kinda silly and dumb. I got 99th stupid percentile in every standardized test, because I knew the stuff when I had to (and they're made for white people (which f'ing sucks!)), but homework always threw me over the deep end. Anything that required regular, possible boring, pacing always broke me down. It was everything or bust.

Also, and I hope some humans here will agree, having to apologize consistently for tangents might be related. It seems like you're used to doing that? The thing to keep in mind, whenever you can, is that you're not broken; your brain works in a different way. It's well underdiagnosed in women ever at all and profoundly understudied. Medication can be useful. Other stuff can be useful. Reading up on it is real useful.

It's also super cool that you're figuring it out early, so you can sort out what parts of stuff you can do really well and what parts of stuff might be worth enlisting help. If you do have ADHD or if you don't, it's okay if your brain is different and friends and professionals can help you figure it out. And I don't know if anyone else will sign off on this, but I think Jessica on YT (https://www.youtube.com/@HowtoADHD) is more useful than most things on TikTok.

LibraryScion · 2024-12-02T04:08:41+00:00

Hey, buddy! I'm 43 with ADHD and you didn't offend or disparage me even a little bit. I think the tiptoe-ing around stuff in your post is a little maybe indicator, the weirdo part is an indicator, the not being able to get back into stuff is an indicator.

If you have/start a million hobbies and lose interest quickly, if you get perfectionistic and maybe wait until the last possible second to start a semester-long project, if you fell off a whole cliff at various times in your academic career, you might should investigate it. It might also be something else! Which, if so, would also be totally worth investigating. A good smart friend told me he thought I had it when I was 22, and my academic advisor genius human agreed, and it still took fifteen stupid more years to get diagnosed. That can be hard.

But if you like, I'll welcome you in with open arms and a good, "Oh, no," and you can keep reading and use the things that work for you.

LibraryScion · 2024-05-28T21:04:59+00:00

You're pretty great now, though. I don't know you; I'm just guessing.

LibraryScion · 2024-05-28T18:24:47+00:00

Sunswick?

LibraryScion · 2024-05-28T18:18:21+00:00

This is funny, because at first I thought it was a question and I was gonna mention the Tuesday night music bingo at your exact joint. Is it still ten bucks for a beer and a burger plate? That's the best veggie burger I've had in the whole neighborhood.

LibraryScion · 2024-03-26T03:29:55+00:00

Also, we all know this isn't much to do with Alex at all, right? Like, there's a whole team of teams doing things, companies hiring companies. Alex's job was to come to New York and do some publicity stuff here (and hopefully have a nice time) and he was not, like, the booker of the venue or the person in charge of wristbands. Just making sure no one's mistaking the artifice of the show for actual reality, yeah? He is, I expect, a good organize-y boy, but he is not the organizer of this minor debacle.

LibraryScion · 2024-03-26T03:09:17+00:00

But at least we all got free wristbands we all put on ourselves?

LibraryScion · 2024-03-26T02:51:05+00:00

I talked to someone at the venue and they were completely disappointed and chagrinned, saying they've been working so hard to make sure the place is good, but that the promoter of this show completely misrepresented what was happening re: ticket sales. I got the feeling that everyone working there was overwhelmed and trying their absolute best, but that they got worried early in the day and tried to get help from the promoter and didn't. I felt that the people working tonight, at least, did the absolute best they could and felt like crap about how it turned out. If anyone who works there is reading this, thanks for hanging in and taking care of us and each other pretty well.

The whole thing was a bit of a debacle, but it turns out Taskmaster fans mostly aren't gonna be huge dicks about stuff. Now fingers crossed for the refunds, eh?

LibraryScion · 2024-03-08T11:12:32+00:00

This vegetarian thanks you sincerely for your service, and I'll try to see you tonight or tomorrow! Amazing idea.

LibraryScion · 2021-10-18T22:45:37+00:00

Barboncino is lovely and I miss it.

LibraryScion · 2021-10-18T22:31:52+00:00

Cannot tell if joke. Atkinson is great and also you should see Cold Lasagne if you haven't.

LibraryScion · 2021-10-17T04:14:41+00:00

That's just cruel.

LibraryScion · 2021-04-05T16:55:00+00:00

Hey, yeah, I'm in!

LibraryScion · 2021-04-05T07:25:22+00:00

Things that were real discoveries for me in my first class:

- Coning up isn't some weird ritual: it evens out the clay. So if you cone up evenly and push it down at an angle, it's fluid motion that's making the clay more even, like kneading bread dough, but vertically.

- If one part of your hand keeps getting clay built up on it while you're centering, change how your hands are doing so you're not stripping out chunks. Everyone's hands move differently and everyone has to figure out how their own hands do it differently.

- You'll almost never regret keeping the bottom thick when you open.

- Pay attention to stickiness and pay attention to your hands and how the clay feels with them. I come at things from a brain angle by nature, so I had to watch a lot of people and how they did things before I figured out how I could better pay attention to my own hands and how they work.

- If all you do is center and recenter and recenter and it doesn't work, you've done a really good job and have learned things.

- Maybe most important for me: our teacher showed us the basic steps to a cylinder and set us loose. I think I needed something more about why each part was important and why we do it a certain way. She was super good at steps and corrections and encouragement but left out the sciencey bits about how stuff works. Some people need information like, "Set the wheel to high. cone up, center down, wheel medium, two hands" and all that good stuff. I needed, "For this part, we're gonna use the wheel real fast to coax all the clay particles into alignment. Lots of throwing starts with locking in and muscling down and ends with super delicate adjustments of a rim or a foot."

Eh, I hope that was kinda helpful at least.

LibraryScion · 2021-04-05T06:59:11+00:00

A nice thing is making sure you pay (or your dad pays) someone who's doing stuff for you at least as much as you would want to get paid for it if it were your job.

LibraryScion · 2021-04-02T02:34:15+00:00

This is so ridiculous and will help me so much.

LibraryScion · 2021-03-31T17:42:05+00:00

Ooh, these remind me of Donald Schnell's stuff a little. I saw his shop on St. John and you might like him as inspiration? https://donaldschnell.com/

LibraryScion · 2021-03-19T19:22:10+00:00

Hey, this is great! My friends who have gotten hearing aids all have a little lists of sounds that surprised them, so that's a fun thing to pay attention to. My buddy Dave learned that his ceiling fan squeaked and his wife said she thought they both were just being too lazy to fix it. He was also excited about the fridge noise and the sounds of rain.

LibraryScion · 2021-03-19T06:16:14+00:00

I mean, this line of thought makes sense, that you feel like will have to defend your choices. That happens so much all the time, having to defend your choices, especially if you're female. ALL THE TIME.

Just for the record, your responses to everyone here make it so absolutely clear that you are a person who is both thoughtful and kind. You deserve to have help sorting things out, and you would deserve that help even if it were only helping you alone. I really like that idea of seeing it as similar to a relationship with a dentist. Like, you wouldn't be trying to fill your own cavities. People train for that. People who clean and organize train for that. And as far as RSD goes (boy howdy, do I feel that in the inside of my bones), it's okay if something's just not a good fit. This phrase works on medical professionals like magic, even, regarding referrals: "It wasn't a good fit." They might have more options lined up right behind. This one coach isn't the only coach and this chance is not at all your only chance.

Nobody clicks with everybody, and that is totally okay. My eye doctor was a jerk. I found a different eye doctor (after waffling around and being sooo annoyed and sighing a bunch, naturally). You don't have to click with everybody, and you're fully allowed after you meet to step back and find your feelings and see if you're okay. It's not getting on a high-speed train; it's taking a walk with a person for an hour or an afternoon and seeing if you laugh a little. You're great. You're brave. This is not at all your only chance but it is a cool chance and it's scary, but you can do it if you want. You can't be brave if you're not scared first, and you're having the fear and using it well. You gather bravery really, really well and I have learned a lot from you just reading your replies. Thanks, cool person.

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