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Mental health 

On the one hand I agree with the observation from Rebecca Solnit that despair is a valid feeling but it's not an analysis

On the other, I *feel* pretty strongly like I want to die sometimes and sometimes the feeling is too intense to really *analyze* it

@ivan @nasser oh no Freddy! Lots of love to him and hope for a speedy recovery

School, anxiety, school anxiety 

Anyway I think I'm pretty well useless for the rest of the day from the cortisol of this non-update, goodnight

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School, anxiety, school anxiety 

@karengregory either way this goes I'm probably going to have a nervous breakdown? But not until like, November.

@ken oh my goodness I'm so sorry Ken that's a lot of stress to have on top of heartbreak, fuck

School, anxiety, school anxiety 

School starts August 29 this is utterly deranged

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School, anxiety, school anxiety 

@danhon honestly why not I've tried a lot of angles here but not that

School, anxiety, school anxiety 

The entire point of doing a PhD was to get some stability and in the absence of that this all starts to feel pretty pointless!! Maybe it is time to walk into the sea

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School, anxiety, school anxiety 

Found out I will have to wait one more week to learn whether I am funded for the fall semester and my anxiety is so bad I briefly considered dropping out just to have some certainty, ha ha ha

Feel like getting a PhD does actually mean you're a Certified Freak

@teamseaslug @inquiline@union.place there's some cool shit with vampires later on but you mostly got it

Making a live action movie that feels like an anime (eg John Wick) is OK

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This applies to pretty much every attempt to do live action versions of anime, I guess

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Watching Ghost in the Shell and it is amazing anyone thought doing a live action adaptation was necessary

@inquiline@union.place apparently economists don't have to read Capital, I am still annoyed about this

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