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heckthepolice2 wrote (edited )

Ya boi's off the meds! Get hype to probably realize they were actually the only thing keeping me from having another nervous breakdown. But hey, at least I feel shit now. Turns out most of what I feel is rage.

I started work on Monday. Or rather I started navigating the Kafka-esque bureaucracy that this university requires one to get through before beginning work. I was fortunate enough to join at exactly the time when they're switching over to a new system that doesn't work at all so that's great. In terms of my actual job it's mostly getting paid $8 an hour to do a whole lot of not much (mostly just reading papers and trying to make sense of FDA biomarker requirements). I think the hardest task in my workday is catching the train in the morning. So, strictly speaking, I guess that's a pretty sweet deal. Hard to feel much enthusiasm for it, though.

I think I'm gonna try and start a Burning Wheel game soon. One of my ideas is to take Umberto Eco's Eternal Fascism and have an empire in the game that just does every aspect of it super literally (like, the state is ruled by a literal death cult)

I am starting to consider shaving off the beard that I have spent the last year lovingly cultivating and that scares me a little bit

Damn I had a lot to say this week I guess. Sorry for all that

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existential1 wrote

I can relate to the job in school part. In grad school I got paid about $8 an hour to "work" in the uni laundry room. Really, I just sat at a desk and read for 8 hrs.

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