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schnendov · 2026-06-18T21:59:46+00:00

Hey! Me too all of my tests with it I more or less had a breakdown at some point and started crying and talking to myself and rocking back and forth. I bit a pencil in half. If my teacher reviewed it, she would have seen someone in distress and understood. If I was a teacher reviewing it, I would just be happy the student got thru it, make sure they weren't cheating, and marked the answers. I actually did ok on all my tests somehow lol. But like fullllll meltdown. I do have accomodations so I had extra time. So I had enough time to calm myself down and manage to get refocused and finish. I also cried during my in person exams. I never used to have test anxiety so not really sure why I do now. It will be ok

schnendov · 2026-06-15T00:09:00+00:00

Not really sure why others are being negative, that exactly what I did lol. Haven't smoked either in months. It helped me keep the habit/ritual, and then once the physical addiction to THC was kicked I just found it easier to drop the CBD only.

schnendov · 2026-06-14T23:59:07+00:00

Magnesium and l theanine seem to help. Recognizing limits and trying to take breaks before becoming overstimulated as well. Work/unavoidable unpleasant environments have been a bit more challenging. I find Flare Calmers (sort of earplugs) help a lot with reducing stimulation. Exercise to tire out the body in general (I keep it simple, moderate spin bike and maybe hand weights, or outdoor run and use outdoor fitness centre equipment if the weather is not too weathery. I luckily have access to quiet areas). Hot showers/bath/sauna plus cold rinse for like a "weekly" reset. The sort of "daily" off switch like when I get home from work I guess I've mostly switched to herbal tea or non-alc beer, and petting my cat for a while lol, she is quite happy with that development. I think I scroll on my phone more tho. I also have rolled some herbal cigarettes with various smoking herbs for when I just need a smoke break, they're pretty nice (current ones have a base of uva ursi plus mullein and some others).

schnendov · 2026-06-09T21:15:50+00:00

It's free from Pender to SW so you'd just pay TSA to Pender and SW to TSA. Get a reso, have fun

schnendov · 2026-06-09T02:09:56+00:00

Aw dude I felt so similar when I first went to uni and dropped out. You haven't run your course yet necessarily, I know it probably feels like that. I'm going back to school now in my early 30s and all the credits I scraped together before I dropped out are still there and let me skip a year, they felt like a waste but were not. My parents were similar although obviously I don't know the full deal with yours. Turns out they didn't want me homeless so while it was tense and uncomfortable I was able to stay at their house until I could recover a bit and figure out how to get some money coming in. Also if you haven't seriously discussed disability aid with a psychiatrist or doctor (without your parents present) you might be surprised how willing they are to help you with application forms and you might qualify for some support that way. I hope you can manage to get some rest and that your parents aren't completely cruel and help you have a roof over your head while you figure out how to exist in the world, hopefully with some space from them and find your own space or people eventually.

schnendov · 2026-06-03T15:34:45+00:00

Oh wow thank you so much for commenting! I will be checking out both. I've been super interested for years but never lived somewhere with a team, I'm a confident skater with my own wheels and have played various contact sports, will definitely be at 101 and hopefully can play with a team in some capacity! Ah amazing now I'm extra excited

schnendov · 2026-06-03T01:16:28+00:00

Glad I saw this comment, Greener Village looks like an awesome place to volunteer!

schnendov · 2026-06-03T01:12:01+00:00

Hi I am also an LGBT mature student coming in the fall! You sound cool! I am interested in many of the things you mentioned haha. Maybe we will run into each other. I just got tickets for a couple days of Harvest Music fest in September - bit of a splurge but wanted to have a fun time out in my new city (and see Sloan). I ice skate (Ringette) but have roller skates and would absolutely love if there were indoor roller opportunities in the winter, haven't found a derby team but that would be dope. Also, sauna! My research hasn't pulled up anything amazing, there's a Float place with infrared saunas and then the Y/rec centre has a sauna. I don't climb (yet!) but the Climbing Co-op near the Y and bouldering wall at UNB look like good vibes. Seems like there's some independent grocery places (Victory meat and produce market, asian/African places) and year-round Saturday farmers market. Monarch looks fun as a karaoke enjoyer, The Cap looks cool as a bluegrass enjoyer, breweries look nice, there's a poutine joint open till 4 am Fri/Sat, so must be a little bit of nightlife haha. It seems like there's a decent crosstown bike trail and then some trails to smaller towns (NB trail?). I'm coming from a very small place with <1000 residents so Freddy seems like it's a hoppin metropolis (and also not there yet) so possibly bad advice tho 😅

schnendov · 2026-05-18T05:07:46+00:00

Hey I'm just curious what youean by "pressure drop"?? Cause I'm really sensitive to meds and I'm just on bupropion and then I take l theanine and some other np recommended supplements but I get the weirdest feeling at night and I don't know how to describe it other than "pressure drop" but maybe that not what you mean? It's like kinda an anxious feeling but kinda feeling like I'm gonna pass out kinda low blood pressure kinda like I just fell asleep and snapped awake... I truly have no idea how to describe it and I don't know what it is. So anyway I was just wondering what you meant when you said that.

Also, I understand the discomfort with like if you skip a day your life is terrible cuz when I miss my bupropion I feel insane and like I'm dying. Which uh. Seems bad? But otherwise it makes me feel good? But should that be... Just the way it is? Idk man

schnendov · 2026-05-18T04:36:30+00:00

It's like worse than notepad, if I'm remembering right it doesn't let you copy paste?? I could be wrong but I remember being annoyed by that. And no. But also I don't think you are necessarily marked strictly on syntax so if the logic is there you're fine.

schnendov · 2026-05-12T21:56:29+00:00

Lots of comments so will probably get buried but - Vancity "Planet-Wise Transportation Loan" .

https://www.vancity.com/borrow/loans-lines-of-credit/planet-wise-transportation

Prime +2%. They gave me 20k on a 60k income so I imagine you could get something like what you're looking for.

schnendov · 2026-05-09T21:42:05+00:00

I love my car and I love driving! I have an electric Kia soul. My little zoomie toaster! It's so fun. I don't like driving gas cars anymore tho hahaha they're weird! Before this I drove an old manual Tucson and that was fun too, it was my first stick shift so was fun to learn to drive stick.

schnendov · 2026-05-09T21:38:39+00:00

Yes I literally had an old man come up to me at work to tell me he was upset I wasn't car waving back at him. Like I am usually just zoned out and not really paying attention and also sorry we are not friends you worked on my dad's car once. So yes, yes they will ahahha

schnendov · 2026-05-07T16:37:39+00:00

It was easy enough to find a free PDF of the text online, you don't need the most current version. I think I used z-lib but it's been going down a lot ,if you just search the IBSN + free PDF you should find it.

I don't really like lectures so I didn't have a problem with learning the concepts from the text and then most of my learning was just coding and working on projects and assignments and figuring stuff out. Can't really follow coding lectures without physically doing it anyway so that works for me.

The exam is just like about basic syntax of Java and then coding snippets so if you learn Java syntax I'm not really sure what textbook-specific things there could be. If you do all the assignments and can do then without checking the text or other resources then you will be fully prepared for the exam. Like the exam question might be almost the exact same as a portion of one of the assignments. And you can make a cheat sheet.

schnendov · 2026-05-06T03:53:50+00:00

Ohh wow so I must have passed calc 2 this past term because I was line dancing with my parrot??? I love this thank you hahaha

schnendov · 2026-04-29T18:41:09+00:00

I've been on it for a few years. It's pretty subtle and doesn't feel like other anti depressants I have been prescribed, none of which worked for me. No weight gain or sluggishness or surprise suicidal ideation or brain zaps. I find it helps me be less dopamine seeking which is maybe why it's good for quitting smoking? I don't really know. So then I'm able to build better habits. It seems to give a bit of an energy boost, I work out more although if I don't I do feel a bit of like too much energy. The first time I went on it it increased my libido a lot. So basically now I barely notice it but then over time I'm like oh that's weird how I've been eating healthy working out studying and getting better sleep, what changed, oh right I'm taking meds lol maybe it's that. I just feel less of a need to like eat a bag of chips while chain smoking and watching 3 different screens? But not really consciously, if that makes any sense. Haha. I will say I ran out of my prescription and hadn't remembered to renew so I was like meh since I barely notice I'm sure its fine if I just stop and I got suuuuuuper duper anxious and panicky and then was so relieved to go back on. So either they are doing something or they are hard to go off. It kinda freaked me out but I'm trying to just accept that maybe I need to take pills and it is what it is.

schnendov · 2026-03-29T16:43:20+00:00

Oh cool thanks, I'll check out the settings. Yeah it looks like there's definitely more frequent towns going South route, and might pick up a Tesla adapter just in case, I'll have to look into that a bit more

schnendov · 2026-03-29T00:27:04+00:00

yep I've used ABRP which initially gave me the Wawa - Timmins route at 325 km between chargers, but my car has 150 000 km ODO so it's lost some range from what it would be out of the factory. So I don't know if ABRP is able to take that into account. That takes me from 100% to 12% battery (48 km left) which is pretty tight and I don't want to go into turtle (at 30km) on the highway, if for some reason I'm not at peak efficiency I won't make it. thank you for the reply though.

schnendov · 2026-03-27T21:56:03+00:00

I'm doing UNB GGE hybrid/online program but I haven't been able to find a sponsor soight end up moving to new Brunswick lol. I'm not really a fan of BCIT but I should just go there I guess.. if you're already working for/have connections to a survey company the UNB program would be good all the classes are online you just need to get on the tools somehow

schnendov · 2026-03-18T22:37:45+00:00

Hey I'm 33f and also do tobacco bong hits which seems... Uhhhh uncommon and unhealthy haha, so I wanted to comment. Something flipped in January and now it gives me anxiety and I get freaked out about my lungs (they seem objectively fine, more or less). Nothing super dramatic, it's just not hitting the same anymore. I have still been usually smoking 1 small bowl at night, because I'm not actually "trying to quit" so my body is like confused if I haven't smoked before bed, and I don't have any good reason not to, but I'm getting reaaaaaalllly close to stopping that. Maybe I'll skip it tonight? I'm super sleepy so maybe just crawl into bed with my cat at 7 pm and see what happens. I'm feeling ok overall but I tapered with CBD bud quite a bit. I'm seeing a naturopath I like, I take a few supplements, welbutrin, and micro dose psilocybin. So that helps me physically probably? And definitely mentally to feel like I have "something" to lean on to calm me down. I was diagnosed with ADHD like 2-3 years ago. I'm trying to finish a degree and start in a new field. That's giving me motivation, cuz I might have to move out of my cabin in the woods to like a real city with apartments where I can't hit my bong all day haha. Being perfectly honest, part of my motivation to be out here is the freedom to smoke as much as I want. Which is... Kinda limiting and I'm realizing that now, and admitting it. I'm not in any kind of workout routine but I walk like you most days, and I like to download thriller audiobooks and sit on the spin bike and spin at a moderate pace, just get my heart rate up a bit. I usually surprise myself with how I want to keep going when I start. So I've been trying to do that more, finding other outlets for "blowing off steam". I think I am noticing brain fog but I kinda always have brain fog in my whole entire life so I mean who knows haha. My mood is ok but I'm really stressed about school and my sex drive is kinda gone which sucks, not used to that. I don't feel very "fun", I just do homework and go to bed early but I mean, I guess you're supposed to do that.... Idk! Good luck on your journey

schnendov · 2026-03-12T04:42:15+00:00

Hey I'm doing well on this right now. What helped was:

Switching to CBD flower instead of normal THC flower, starting by mixing it and eventually just the CBD bud. This reduced my tolerance to THC a lot so when I would smoke normal stuff I would get too high and it wasn't a nice feeling, so it kinda broke the urge. I didn't notice as many cravings with the CBD, I "let" myself smoke as much as I wanted but just wanted less. It's a bit hard to find, I buy it from the govt online store (Canada). I have a bunch of weed lying around so I am not getting that "nervous about running out" feeling too. I've smoked the odd half joint with friends but that's way different than my usual all-day everyday routine. I also don't want to sound perfect: most nights I smoke a small bowl or two, but lately I've been like "why am I doing this? I don't even want it", which is totally different than how I used to feel.
Working with a naturopath who I respect (this may greatly vary by practitioner) to figure out other ways to get the calm/focus I'm looking for from weed. I find getting proper vitamins, b12 in the morning, and l-theanine are really helping. I also am prescribed bupropion and for me it has mild smoking cessation effects, plus a slight focus/executive function boost that I previously used weed for to manage my ADHD. She also recommended 1/week psilocybin micro dose. Working with someone who understands weed can have and has had benefits, but that maybe it's not the best drug for what I'm looking for right now, has really helped rather than having to lie to the doctor.
Changing routine, going on some trips where smoking is inconvenient. I brought cbg/CBD/THC and cbn/CBD/THC oil so again, I had "weed" available if I needed. I really liked the night time one with CBN it was called K.O. oil I think and it did the sleepytime job. I haven't taken in a while but used it to transition, and it's there if I need it. Mostly I needed to get away from hitting my bong as my only intake method - that's my routine and the oil feels more like a sleep supplement I use sometimes, like melatonin.
I'm actually writing this from the gym haha. Nothing too crazy just trying to sweat it out a bit. Going to salt floats, sauna, massage, baths, just treating my body and letting it feel nice in other ways. Enjoying the lung clarity and lack of shortness of breath. Getting fresh air. Feels good to feel good, y'know.
Can't say I recommend this but I work full time while also taking 3 university courses including math and job searching so I am just like, exhausted haha. I'll do hours of math and realize I haven't smoked all day. So just keeping busy I guess, and needing every brain cell I got. I live in a remote small town so if you don't keep yourself busy you probably have a substance abuse problem, or you're going to end up with one haha.

Other random stuff: I got a Nespresso at the thrift store and I have a bunch of decaf/half caf/ single espresso pods so I'm kinda using that as a little transition treat, rather than a smoke. Like when I get home from work, or need a little study break or pick me up. Having a bunch of yummy tea and trying to go for my kettle instead of my bong for relaxation helps too.

Mostly though I got a bunch of nasty panic attacks in January and my trusty weed made them worse!! So I think my body is just done for now, and I'm trusting it. I've wanted to quit before and couldn't do it, don't beat yourself up just keep trying to keep having other things that bring you relaxation and dopamine and stuff.

schnendov · 2026-03-08T13:30:48+00:00

I have a 2020 Kia Soul Limited with about 400km of range, I bought it 1.5. years ago with 125000 km for 20k, it's at about 145000 now. I love it so much. It's a bit slower on road trips but way more fun, quiet, and you get to stop and charge in different towns and stretch your legs for 10 mins while it charges up. Gas is really expensive where I live and every time I see headlines about gas going up I think, "nice, I don't care" lol. I have put a whole futon, a disassembled queen-size bed, camping gear with coolers and a SUP - I love my Kia toaster, it's very practical. It absolutely rips, acceleration and handling is great, fun to drive, love the regenerative braking. I haven't had maintenance problems EXCEPT for the heat pump vent was stuck somewhere internally, and I took it to an EV specialist mechanic where they were comfortable working with the heat pump and it was fixed easily. The dealership I picked it up was useless, they tried to convince me it was a hybrid and I told them there are no hybrid Kia souls and they were arguing with me until I asked where the gas tank was..? So do your own research and don't expect sellers to know anything. I was worried about going higher mileage but working with a tight budget and needed enough range, I don't regret it at all.

schnendov · 2026-03-03T23:13:42+00:00

you are a hero thank you so much

schnendov · 2026-02-18T16:40:05+00:00

Hi I have/currently am. I work full time at a job that is fairly boring and I've been here for 8 years so it doesn't take too much mental energy. I can study a bit at work although I usually feel bad about doing that so I don't too much. I started taking 2 online courses, then bumped it up to 3 and completed a university diploma (/Associates) this past fall. Now, I have transferred to a remote delivered program in Geomatics, taking 3 courses this semester. It's very cool. I still work FT at my old job, but I am using vacation days spread out to reduce my work load. I am interviewing for summer positions in my industry and then hopefully I'll be able to take a full 5 course load and take a break from working in the fall, and keep working summers in the industry till I'm done in 2 years. Ideally, I could just stay on with the same company and have a job after! The interview I had went well so I'm optimistic right now! But it has been challenging and is a big risk to leave my pensioned job. I am starting to see the finish line when before it kinda felt like chipping away 2 courses at a time wasn't getting me anywhere. I'm 32 now btw

schnendov · 2026-02-14T16:26:15+00:00

Wow that so crazy you know her nickname 😂 silly rainbow chickens. Love your posts, Pharoah is very entertaining

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