Couch 249: The Self Care Couch

How long did it take to pass?

I remember when I was in therapy I told the therapist
“You don’t actually care. You are just here to make a buck”
Her response was that “I’m sorry you feel that way”. I saw red when she said that and walked out of the session.

I printed this out and gave it to the one I hired:
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/wp-c...nus-comics.jpg

Honestly I can't remember - I was going through menopause when my person had one of her earlier rounds of cancer and that period is a kind of blurry still. I guess it would have been waxing and waning for a year or so.

@ art what were you thinking of getting as a birthday present?

I'm thinking about ordering myself the series Mom on DVD. I love that show and can't find it in reruns anymore (on the channels I get, anyway).

I’m watching mom right now on CMT but I have that channel through Hulu Live.

Speaking of Mom, I’m currently watching the episode where she starts Law School and in the beginning the professor said something along the lines of “At the end some of you won’t be here” and he threw the book down on the desk.

I immediately thought of Stopdog during that scene. The professor on the show is not mean. He just doesn’t sugarcoat.

This is how I was taught and, while not exactly fun, quite useful for the practice of law:

I cant believe i never saw that movie. I was certainly aware of it. I had these horrible blinders. Not for girls, not for italians, not for me.

I would not have survived two minutes in that class

I feel like I’ve seen that movie. Maybe in bits and pieces but it looks familiar.

They made a tv show after the movie - I think houseman played kingsfield there too - "you come in with a mind full of mush and you leave thinking like a lawyer"

The character of Kingsfield was not warm and fuzzy but neither was he mean

Timothy Bottom(s), wasnt it? Boy that name would get cancelled in a hurry nowadays.

Probably telling about the difference in our personalities is that when I saw it -It made me want to go to Law School even more.
I guess kind of like people who watch war movies and want to go be soldiers. Or that one therapist I hired who despite being Jewish, said she wanted to be a nun after watching the nun's story because everyone had to love nuns and she wanted to be loved.

I think they're still putting on a Midsummer night's Dream

I went to an online poetry reading tonight given by a poet whose classes I have really enjoyed.

Poetry can be heavy, but I didn't expect a foray into my most triggering topic.

Hugs, Lost....

So, I was in an elementary school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in 5th grade and played Titania. A guy I had a crush on was Bottom, and they had him in a papier mache donkey mask. So my 5th-grade self had to stroke the mask and proclaim my love for him. It was an experience.

Yikes, LT!

What kind of age is 5th grade?

In the United States fifth grade is usually 10 years old or 10 to 11 depending on when birthdays fall. Good for having students do stuff like that – children are not nearly as incapable as people treat them – in the United States at least I think we infantilize children way too long

Well thats why my chilluns are homeschooled and we dont cotton to strokin bottoms unless its with a switch.

A preview of MSF 2025. Sorry im tryin not to freak out after the supreme court stuff yesterday. The older i get, the gladder i am.

Oh yeah I'm glad I'm old.Of Course I've always been glad I'm old so there is that. Right now I'm balancing out giving my old dogs a pill that makes them comfortable but is also able to destroy several of their organs – I want them comfortable and they're old so how much longer are they going to need to use their organs versus don't hurt your dog with dangerous western medicine

I don't look at the news, way too depressing these days. Can you give a capsulated version of what happened for dunces like me?

I think I was...11? I mean, it was OK. Just sort of funny to think back on...

Also trying to not freak out about the Supreme Court stuff...

Thanks to the Supreme Court.....we're screwed.