Couch 250: An August Couch

Well done on the exercise Lost.

You’re making good progress.

I appreciate that, Cake.

Thank you so much.

First week of teaching physics in high school impressions: youngest ones are around 16, oldest around 19. Even though you can feel the shift in maturity, I'm amazed at how based and mature all of them are. I also find it hilarious how almost all of them want paper handouts for inclass exercises instead of online. As a person born in 1993, any piece of paper seems so superfluous, even though I can see why it exists. I think it's great though, from my indiviual tutoring students I've heard it helps them concentrate, since the device is not involved.

Overall definitely the most fun I've ever had doing a job so far.

Glad you're enjoying it! I prefer paper handouts for something like that, though, uh, I was born considerably before 1993

There's a link between physically writing something down and retaining it, supported by research.

I can see why using devices would be distracting as well.

Couch Workout Club day 18

Three sets of core exercises, and a walk around a Japanese garden.

I think that has more repercussions than people realize. Ie, why people are so effing dumb nowadays!

Have you seen those men on the street you tube interviews in the u.s., where they ask , if you were born five years ago, how old would you be now? And people answer with their own age.

I haven't, and that is a sobering thought.

That would be me (and I am not even ditzy cute, hard as you might find that to believe). Perimenopause is doing something to me.

Topamax did that to me, altho it kinda corresponded with perimenopause, now looking back. I couldnt even guess Wheel of Fortune puzzles any more until i reduced my dosage. I love benchmarks like that. "Doc, it hurts when i do this!" "Well don't do that!"

I am reading a book (Severance by Ling Ma) with a scene in which an immigrant couple is living in a dismal rental.

One of the things that makes it dismal? Precious Moments figurines. SD’s favorites!

One of the hardest things I ever did as an attorney was sit through a slide show of the precious moments chapel with a grieving mother who, for reasons of her own, found me comforting. My natural subdued affect came in quite handy for practicing the sort of law I did.

What are precious moments figurines and precious moment chapel?

TW for child loss/abuse.

This video is a thorough explanation.

An inlaw of an inlaw has a whole glass curio cabinet filled with these things. Honestly it looked like a pro lifers worst nightmare and scared the heck out of me that they didnt see that. Maybe they did. Idk.

Interesting, as one of the study methods I used for some college and grad school exams was rewriting some of my notes--seemed to help much more than reading them over.

And walk around a Japanese garden sounds nice.

My grandmother went with Hummels, which are maybe also a bit creepy, but nowhere near the same level.

Yeah i think it was the overstuffed cabinet and the ones that didnt fit lying on the surrounding furniture like where the dog could get them. Honestly it was like walking into that Tom Cruise futurama movie.

I hope i dont have a nightmare about it. It was like 30 years ago.

I don't know what to say about Precious Moments. The video said the chapel is not ironic but I am having a very hard time accepting that. Are Precious Moments harmless? They gave me a headache. I guess people will do what they will do when their child has died, but this seems regressive. Is regressive harmless? I don't even know anymore.

I think someone on the Couch yonks ago had an intake with a therapist who had shelves full of the things and decided not to see the person partly because of them.

Heck, it might have been me.

Was it Chihiro maybe? Wonder how she's doing?

Though perhaps it was you and you blocked it out to protect yourself.

... And so Precious Moments become part of the couch's collective unconscious. Who remembers the shelves of Precious Moments? One of us, all of us ... we are the precious moments.

Couch Workout Club day 19

Two sets of core workout exercises before I got sidetracked trying to find my mini dumbbells, and then discovered that they're currently holding something up.

Moo you need to start writing a book.

...crowded into a stuffy glass case, climbing over each others' shoulders in a dazed, frenzied attempt to get near the cracked pane that lets in the slightest wisp of smoke from the adjacent furnace,
a mockery of unrecirculated air.

Um, not sure what that last phrase means! But pretty sure its not good. I had gnocchi dreams last night, which were definitely a change from the usual. Altho im pretty sure i was back at work, trying to hand in my time sheet.

Also joined Cats with jobs on facebook, where you suggest what job the cat has. Fun!

I like the phrasing! Very evocative. Though also sounds like a complete nightmare.

My dreams last night involved going to a very bad concert of a band I like with my new iPhone, and I kept not being able to get it to work. I did actually get a new phone yesterday, as my iPhone SE from 2020 seemed to have become incapable of handling calls. Which was fun when I was trying to talk to Verizon on it about an issue with my order, running through the house going "I'm here! Can you hear me?" I ended up having to use my H's phone.

I'm having to learn to cope without a physical home button--yeah, I'm a bit old-school as far as phones go.

Though I did feel a sense of superiority, as I assumed Dr. T had a pretty recent model--he checked yesterday, and his is an 11. I now have a 15 (was going to do the 14, but due to a deal Verizon had, the 15 cost the same, so why not?)