Couch 179: Even-numbered days in a year

LonesomeTonight · Sep 29, 2018, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by DP_2017

LT

The pic you showed me, I didn't find him attractive at all but obviously everyone has different taste, I'm sure you are not the first or last client of his to think that.

I was so excited to see mine was very not attractive look wise, I thought I'd be safe from feelings, Whoops LOL

He looks different to me in person than most pictures I've seen of him. And ex-MC was definitely not conventionally attractive, yet, like you, that didn't stop me from having feelings for him...

DP_2017 · Sep 29, 2018, 08:55 AM

LT

Personality is way more attractive than looks, at least to me, so it's probably why... and also why with your current T, I would not be really into him... at least from what you've shared.

It's ok though, reminds me of when my friends and I used to talk about celeb crushes and we often didn't agree and would be like, that's ok, we don't like sharing anyway LOL

Lemoncake · Sep 29, 2018, 10:00 AM

and my laptop just died it won't turn on. I've emailed someone asking where to get it fixed but it's 5 years old already

Lemoncake · Sep 29, 2018, 10:08 AM

I picked R based on his profile picture, but it was because he looked nice not 'hot'. Then when I met him I thought that his profile picture didn't do him justice and found him attractive.

Lemoncake · Sep 29, 2018, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by ArtieSwimsOn

*Artie tiptoe to the couch and quietly sits down on one end*

ahem I'm sorry about last night. Pls to forgive me. I think I just had to be 24 again for awhile.

I'm back to being 56 this morning...

There's nothing to forgive Artie and there's no need to apologize for.

*Jumps down onto the couch spreading cooties next to you*

velcro003 · Sep 29, 2018, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by chihirochild

Artie: I’m not as edjumacated as a lotta the couch-peeps regarding Poetry and Literature, but this is a nice one infused with calm and acceptance and vulnerability and an embrace of the things you so desperately want.

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

-Mary Oliver

I love Mary Oliver.

Artie: Just caught up in the shenanigans

Don't beat yourself up for last night. I am sorry you didn't have as much fun as you may have wanted.

And LOTS of people go through what you are going through. There are books on it. And you know a little of my story--so you are ahead of me in some ways.

Sep 29, 2018, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by StressedMess

(((Art))) can I sit by you?

Yes thank you

88Butterfly88 · Sep 29, 2018, 10:20 AM

Sep 29, 2018, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by velcro003

I love Mary Oliver.

Artie: Just caught up in the shenanigans

Don't beat yourself up for last night. I am sorry you didn't have as much fun as you may have wanted.

And LOTS of people go through what you are going through. There are books on it. And you know a little of my story--so you are ahead of me in some ways.

Thanks Velcro. Hugs. I did end up having fun -a lot of fun - once the dancing started and I got all the weird crap outta my system. My head was in a rebellious angry kinda place while waiting for the music to start.

Sep 29, 2018, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by chihirochild

Artie: I’m not as edjumacated as a lotta the couch-peeps regarding Poetry and Literature, but this is a nice one infused with calm and acceptance and vulnerability and an embrace of the things you so desperately want.

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

-Mary Oliver

I love that poem thank you!! I'd never seen it before. Thank you.

LonesomeTonight · Sep 29, 2018, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Lemoncake

I picked R based on his profile picture, but it was because he looked nice not 'hot'. Then when I met him I thought that his profile picture didn't do him justice and found him attractive.

Yeah, my T's photo just made him look warm and kind. But in person he seemed/seems more attractive. He also has a very nice voice, so that might help, too.

atisketatasket · Sep 29, 2018, 10:51 AM

What a shock...student with the “flexible attendance” accommodation (who agreed to email me when she needed to use the accommodation, and has done so only once) is now wondering why she has no points in her attendance grade.

Unfortunately for her I take attendance in large lecture courses with an electronic polling system the university has—so there is a 5-minute quiz on the day’s material at the end of each class. She has not been there according to the system.

Lemoncake · Sep 29, 2018, 11:02 AM

Aaah but clearly she would have known that if she went to lectures...

For immunology they made us write our names down on paper. Psychology they gave us stamps we needed 5/6 for each semester.

Sep 29, 2018, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by atisketatasket

What a shock...student with the “flexible attendance” accommodation (who agreed to email me when she needed to use the accommodation, and has done so only once) is now wondering why she has no points in her attendance grade.

Unfortunately for her I take attendance in large lecture courses with an electronic polling system the university has—so there is a 5-minute quiz on the day’s material at the end of each class. She has not been there according to the system.

Can she lose the accommodation for taking advantage of it? Like if you went to whomever is in charge of granting those accommodations and tell them what is going on? Especially if the student didn’t keep her end of the agreement by not telling you when she needs to use the accommodation?

atisketatasket · Sep 29, 2018, 11:39 AM

The accommodations are granted by the university on a medical professional’s recommendation, so I doubt it. I don’t know that she is taking advantage of it—it is possible that she is completely clueless and not paying attention.

I told her if she can show me notes to prove she’s been in class she’ll get credit.

atisketatasket · Sep 29, 2018, 11:47 AM

I’ve been haunting Twitter lately (I don’t tweet, I just use it to follow the few commentators from both sides whose opinions I have any respect for/don’t raise my blood pressure and get breaking news).

And so I can tell you, Kanye West will now be called YE.

WarmFuzzySocks · Sep 29, 2018, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by ArtieSwimsOn

*Artie tiptoe to the couch and quietly sits down on one end*

ahem I'm sorry about last night. Pls to forgive me. I think I just had to be 24 again for awhile.

I'm back to being 56 this morning...

If we were on a real life couch, Art, I'd giggle and hug you and ask, "How you feelin' this morning?"

Be easy on yourself. Sounds like you had fun. You can be whatever blinkin' age you want to be, whenever you want to be it.

Hope you're not too hungover.

I promise to whisper for while and not bang all the pots and pans.

awkwardlyyours · Sep 29, 2018, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by atisketatasket

I’ve been haunting Twitter lately (I don’t tweet, I just use it to follow the few commentators from both sides whose opinions I have any respect for/don’t raise my blood pressure and get breaking news).

And so I can tell you, Kanye West will now be called YE.

I do applaud your blood vessels in remaining calm under the pressure of reading West's Twitter feed.

The last time I read him.....gosh, I'm not sure I can remember without said blood vessels bursting again.

(The weird thing is I actually used to have a soft spot for him -- largely coz his Mom I think was an English prof? And so, I assumed his persona was largely performance [which I guess is generally true for most folks in the public sphere] and it struck me as somewhat intelligent until well.......the batshit craziness.)

atisketatasket · Sep 29, 2018, 11:59 AM

I didn’t read it—someone I do follow retweeted it.

My favorite followed account is “Daily Death Reminder.”

Sep 29, 2018, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by WarmFuzzySocks

If we were on a real life couch, Art, I'd giggle and hug you and ask, "How you feelin' this morning?"

Be easy on yourself. Sounds like you had fun. You can be whatever blinkin' age you want to be, whenever you want to be it.

Hope you're not too hungover.

I promise to whisper for while and not bang all the pots and pans.

Thanks socks. My head felt full of cotton when I woke up at 5-ish but I went back to sleep til like 7 and then a nice hot shower and breakfast and I'm good.

Finally remembered a dream again too. And of course, t was in it.... I was in a session but not in an office I recognized and I was telling her about a dream, but she was on the phone with a man consulting and random people kept waking through her office and out the front door. Weird.

atisketatasket · Sep 29, 2018, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by ArtieSwimsOn

Finally remembered a dream again too. And of course, t was in it.... I was in a session but not in an office I recognized and I was telling her about a dream, but she was on the phone with a man consulting and random people kept waking through her office and out the front door. Weird.

So you want her undivided attention but aren’t getting it?

Lemoncake · Sep 29, 2018, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by LonesomeTonight

Yeah, my T's photo just made him look warm and kind. But in person he seemed/seems more attractive. He also has a very nice voice, so that might help, too.

Attraction is perfectly normal! I honestly feel you're my PC twin. (more saner and rational though).

NP_Complete · Sep 29, 2018, 12:37 PM

My favorite twitter account: Thoughts of Dog

Sep 29, 2018, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by atisketatasket

So you want her undivided attention but aren’t getting it?

I don't think that's it. I feel like she's very present and giving me her undivided attention during sessions. I think I just drank too much last night. heh

WarmFuzzySocks · Sep 29, 2018, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by atisketatasket

So you want her undivided attention but aren’t getting it?

I thought something similar, that to Art the dream within the dream, and what's happening in her waking life, are consuming all of her attention, but t has other clients and people moving in and out of her attention.

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