Couch 141: The Inversional Hexachordal Combinatorial Couch

I thought it was rather t-like as well haha

That is a fabulous idea!!

Of course I could deal with the feelings.
"That is ridiculous. Stop it or keep it to yourself. That will be $125."

Ok Bob Newhart. "STOP IT!" lol

I have studied their ways enough to fake it.

I just looked at my online class and the instructor commented "Excellent characters, and a strong relationship between their flaws. Well done." on my one-paragraph character sketches of my protagonist and antagonist for assignment #3. Go me! Going to start Lesson 4 now...

Ooh Lesson 4 is "Act 1: Hook, Backstory, and Trigger" now we're getting into the juicy stuff.

I know - it is pretty easy to do. And of course, there is also the sort of nod and sincere look.

You guys are making me look at t in a whole different light. Well, that plus the way she's been turning invisible lately.

eta: maybe invisible's not entirely the right word. maybe it's like that glass wall i was seeing her behind awhile back? like it's gotten thicker?! I don't know.
Maybe I'm the one that's changing and it's not her at all. Who knows.

the shadow knows.

bwahaha

the shadow... oh i crack myself up

Hey art - maybe your next story could be about a therapist who drives her clients literally nuts? Partly through her superpower of invisibility?

A variant to the nod sincere look is this pout thing that my T does. It's his "oh, you're saying a sad thing" face. You could add that to your repertoire of faking it.

Now there's an idea!!

An interesting way to find out my t will be out of country for two weeks this summer: his wife posts a link to their go fund me account to raise support for a short term mission trip he is going on with his daughter.

Lucozader with the Derren Brown shows did you ever look for clues? Were you one of the slightly sceptical ones?

I admit I don't get go fund me at all.

I have a quite a list of things I don't quite see the point of.

Stupid potential tornado.

Finally heard from my lawyer...I should be divorced mid-late July, depends a bit on the judge and the court schedule.

SD, what if there was a go fund me to gather up all the therapists and send them to live on a remote island in the Pacific? Would you contribute?

hehe. (8 characters)

I get donation pages for worthy causes.. somebody sick and need help paying bills, service trips, etc.. but I have seen pages to find honeymoons.. and I think that is just ridiculous. You can't afford an extra event trip.. then do something you can afford!

I have asked current T to stop doing the following things (the word fake may have been used a few times) --
- Stop making sad "Aww" faces (and actually saying "Aww")
- Stop complimenting my intellect (I know exactly how smart -- or rather not -- I am)
- Stop swiveling her chair to the direction I'm looking in
- Stop telling me pointless stuff like she's there for me / cares about me blah blah

Her responses have mostly been that "It's unconscious" and she'll "try" to not be so annoying.

Unfortunately, my list only seems to grow longer after every session.

I should say that her most redeeming quality has been putting up with my obnoxiousness -- I'm not sure $125 an hour would be enough for me to do the same.

I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one who has told T to "STOP IT." In one session he made a really weak attempt to normalize my transference toward him and I just looked at him and said, "of course you're normalizing." He shrugged his shoulders and basically said "I tried."

Toward the end of my being in school, students were starting to advertise their personal "living expense" gofundme pages... wait for it...

On the school bulletin boards. For other students to donate to.

Whaaa

When t and I were talking the other day and I had that realization about myself - she made some comment about "I've been going along with you" on what I'd said about h in the past. I'm not sure how I feel about that. It sorta kinda almost sounded like her saying "I was just listening to you, it's not my fault you didn't know you had a part in it." I don't know if I'm explaining that right. It just seemed like a weird thing for her to say if she suspected otherwise. Like okay miss smarty pants, why didn't you help me figure this out BEFORE NOW?!

I know I'm changing. I'm different. But it can't be all me. She's being different too I swear.

She says "Aww" to you? What are you, a very cute, gurgling baby?

You are a saint just for dealing with that.

Maybe you two are kind of like going through the initial stages of living together, like where everything about your partner is annoying? And eventually she'll remember to put the toilet seat down and not drink right out of the OJ carton and things will start to seem better?

My apartment has precisely nothing on the walls. None of the places I've lived ever have, and I quite like it that way.

But I just got a really hairbrained idea that maybe I could go to the craft store and pick up some heavy paper, guache, mod podge, and brushes and recreate Matisse's "The Parakeet and the Mermaid" on my wall.

Not sure if I'd go authentic and do the cutouts or just paint the shapes directly. Either way I'd need something heavy-ish to mount on. It seems a little crazy.

I haven't painted in forever but back in high school the big decision was conservatory auditions, design school portfolio, or... psychology degree. You can all snigger, go ahead. I went with the psychology plan and then dropped out and transfered to a conservatory.