Couch 250: An August Couch

LazyRaze · Aug 18, 2024 at 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by ArtleyWilkins

High school English teacher here. (Starting year 40! Woohoo!)

I find the strongest students prefer hard copies. They are attuned to their learning styles and want the ability to physically highlight, annotate, sticky note, etc. They also are aware that they get off task with technology in their hands. I provide electronic links to everything so they have the option to use technology, but honestly, most don’t.

Maybe that means I am a strong student! I can't stand doing my work digitally, I need to write it by hand to feel satisfied

unaluna · Aug 18, 2024 at 08:20 PM

I ordered a fruit party plate from Shipt today. So i got like idk 6 fruits? I ate a few out of each section as i bagged them up for the week.

I replenish one paper product category each week. I am getting so organized! I really do have a great organizational mind - but just theoretically, not practically. I can see what is missing in narratives of manufacturing processes ive never witnessed, but my mail is stacked up from pre-covid.

unaluna · Aug 18, 2024 at 09:44 PM

Lost, here ya go: super cringe!

The ONE thing I?m sure I?m sure?? - YouTube

WarmFuzzySocks · Aug 18, 2024 at 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by ArtleyWilkins

High school English teacher here. (Starting year 40! Woohoo!)

I find the strongest students prefer hard copies. They are attuned to their learning styles and want the ability to physically highlight, annotate, sticky note, etc. They also are aware that they get off task with technology in their hands. I provide electronic links to everything so they have the option to use technology, but honestly, most don’t.

My theater son says the same thing about scripts, it's easier when he can highlight, add pencil notes, etc. He also prefers paper copies of study material for his "harder" classes (whatever harder means to him- he said "like the Shakespeare one" a theater study rather than lit, I think).

I have tried using the highlight-bookmark-notes options in e-reading apps, and there are some benefits to being able to get to a particular place in the text with a click, but I still find the systems overall more cumbersome than being able to flip back to a chapter while keeping your current place marked with your finger. Or being able to thumb through the book looking for that one part.

WarmFuzzySocks · Aug 18, 2024 at 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by stopdog

Oh I want one of those - we only have very very bad sculptures on my campus.

I think they sold them in hallmark stores - you did see them a lot of places in the 70s. That and then in the early 80s - Mary Engelbreit stuff was everywhere

We actually have a stack of turtles sculpture somewhere on our local campus.

LostOnTheTrail · Aug 19, 2024 at 01:16 AM

Thanks, Una.

My word, that is uncomfortable.

LostOnTheTrail · Aug 19, 2024 at 02:40 AM

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Originally Posted by LazyRaze

oooh any advice on how to start working out? I always start, last for a week at most, and then give up on the routine. I'm too skinny, I need some muscle STAT!

Hi,

Figuring out what I wanted from a workout has been a key factor in consistency for me.

Look on YouTube for a start, find a workout that meets your needs and figure out how you can fit it into your schedule.

Hope that helps,

Lost

Lemoncake · Aug 19, 2024 at 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by unaluna

I ordered a fruit party plate from Shipt today. So i got like idk 6 fruits? I ate a few out of each section as i bagged them up for the week.

I replenish one paper product category each week. I am getting so organized! I really do have a great organizational mind - but just theoretically, not practically. I can see what is missing in narratives of manufacturing processes ive never witnessed, but my mail is stacked up from pre-covid.

Well done Una. Small steps still add up.

If it’s already been almost four years and the mail hasn’t been responded to, maybe try to throw out just 5 letters a day.

Jersey 4 · Aug 19, 2024 at 03:20 PM

I got off a little early today. I hope they don’t plan to dock my pay as it wasn’t my choice to get done earlier-it was theirs. Anyways. One would think I would have used the time to be productive but that’s not the case. I came home a flopped on the couch.

LostOnTheTrail · Aug 19, 2024 at 03:26 PM

If they let you go early, they have no business docking your pay.
Sometimes we need to rest - I'm glad you listened to that urge.

I hope the rest of your day is gentle.

Take care,

Lost

Jersey 4 · Aug 19, 2024 at 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by LostOnTheTrail

If they let you go early, they have no business docking your pay.
Sometimes we need to rest - I'm glad you listened to that urge.

I hope the rest of your day is gentle.

Take care,

Lost

Lost..I wish I had your motivation to exercise right now.

LostOnTheTrail · Aug 19, 2024 at 03:51 PM

Thank you.

A hospital appointment where my efforts will be assessed at the end of the week is very much keeping me accountable at the moment.

My life feels like a process within a process within a process these days.

I hope you can find a form of exercise that feels supportive to you at the moment.

WarmFuzzySocks · Aug 20, 2024 at 12:56 AM

Rest is productive.

comrademoomoo · Aug 20, 2024 at 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by WarmFuzzySocks

Rest is productive.

How do you rest? And what constitutes rest?

Rest is something I am thinking about a lot at the moment. It seems like most people have trouble resting because they have busy, frantic lives with lots of commitments and responsibilities. That is not the case for me because my life is quiet, still, solitary.

However, I find it hard to identify rest as opposed to slumping or inactivity. The things which I enjoy and which nourish me (swimming, night walking, reading, journaling, seminars, chess, writing) require effort for me to engage with because it feels like my "easy" state is one of demotivated disengagement (watching films, scrolling Reddit, blah).

So rest is work because it requires effort and what is the difference between rest and leisure? Is there a difference between rest and nourishing things?

LonesomeTonight · Aug 20, 2024 at 08:37 AM

This vacation is not going well so far. Within the first 2 hours of my being here, I got in a fight with my H and parents. Then last night, I ended up in a conversation with H that made me feel so bad that I emailed Dr. T (he sent a supportive response this morning). And D is being super-whiny this morning. And her doughnut pool float that she loves apparently has a hole in it, as it's completely deflated now.

I'm ready to go home, and it hasn't even been 24 hours....Hope we can all turn things around...

LostOnTheTrail · Aug 20, 2024 at 08:39 AM

Hi Comrade,

I think there is a difference between rest and nourishing things.
Rest is anything that gives you a sense of being replenished in some way.

I got an edition of a subscription box a while ago which had information about the seven types of rest.

Similar information can be found here

For me, leisure is linked to fun.

I don't quite know how to explain that, though.

Thanks for the opportunity to go on a research mission.

Lost

comrademoomoo · Aug 20, 2024 at 08:44 AM

The much loved but deflated float is a poetic image. I hope you find some opportunities for yourself so you can have what you need. Holidays and trips can be so intense and fraught with loaded expectations (our own and those of others).

LonesomeTonight · Aug 20, 2024 at 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by comrademoomoo

The much loved but deflated float is a poetic image. I hope you find some opportunities for yourself so you can have what you need. Holidays and trips can be so intense and fraught with loaded expectations (our own and those of others).

Thanks, Comrade. Yes, that is quite symbolic. There are lots of expectations for vacations--going back to my childhood, when we'd spend a week at the beach every year. My mom had certain things she'd want us to do each day and night.

Then there was the need for perfect photos. I'd go down to the beach early with my dad, and she'd say I couldn't go in the ocean and get my hair wet till she came down an hour later and could take pictures. I just have lots of pictures of my D with wet hair because I think the experience is more important than catalog-worthy photos.

I was on the beach with my parents and D this morning for a bit (H went shopping), and that went OK. I'm supposed to have a date night with H tonight, while my parents watch D, and I'm just not feeling it. But maybe we can still have fun.

ArtieTheSequal · Aug 20, 2024 at 05:52 PM

I resonate with the perfect photos thing, LT. every year when my siblings and i were kids we had to take family christmas photos my parents would pick the best one to make into a christmas card. every year it was a fiasco. the 4 of us kids can without fail look at any given year and tell immediately which one of us had been crying. it never failed, at least one of us got yelled and was crying and had to try to put on a perfect smile for the picture anyway.

i hope you have a fun date night!

Jersey 4 · Aug 20, 2024 at 07:37 PM

LT-I hope the date night helps turn things around. I haven’t been on an actual vacation anywhere in lord knows how long BUT I also refuse to go away and stay in the same house with family. Maybe that’s easier said than done when you don’t produce grandkids though? I don’t know. But I definitely never felt obligated to put myself in that position.

On the perfect photos. I used to make sure they were terrible on purpose. When I smile I smile with my mouth closed. (Messed up teeth) but i always smiled with my mouth closed as a child as well. My mother loathed that I smiled that way. So when it came time for the photos- I always made sure I had the biggest closed mouth grin and all my pics were horrible because when I did that my eyes would be half shut and my nose would be wide and scrunched up.

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