[Mentalist]

Slow Ben, on 03 March 2016 - 04:01 PM, said:

Are you upset because your uppers are too muscular or you're calves are underdeveloped?

Because calves are tooooough. And joining a gym just for calves would be pointless. There's basically a few variations of the same exercise- calf raises. And use heavy weight, light weights and calf training dont mix. Theyre used to light weight training, its called walking.









Theres a damn chance of rain here every...damn..day...for at least the next 2 weeks.

Both, I guess. I play soccer, I swim twice a week, and now I started doing squats (mostly for my knees and ankles, cuz my joints take a beating when I play). I don't drive, so I walk lots-basically everywhere I can get to w/o taking transit. Once the snow and cold's gone, i'll be starting to bike again.

So ionno. My calves always felt strong-w/o me doing anything extra for them. But now that it seems my upper legs are getting bigger, i'm thinking I need to work on calves as well.

As an aside: i've never been into body-building/lifting weights. The reason I kind of started to get healthier is b/c 2 falls ago I picked up a groin injury that took forever to heal b/c I switched jobs to a more desk-y setting, my commute became 2h/day longer, and due to season change I stopped swimming. When I finally recovered I realized that 27 isn't the same as 19 and I actually need to put some regular effort to stay in shape. So the stuff I do is purely for keeping myself conditioned and able to keep playing soccer.

Edit: also the fact that my job involves me spending most of my days reading life stories of people who suffer from chronic pain made me kinda paranoid about succumbing to a disability. So I tend to push back against any injury, ensuring to stay active.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 03 March 2016 - 05:45 PM

[Abyss]

Tsundoku, on 03 March 2016 - 09:20 AM, said:

Maark, on 02 March 2016 - 03:32 PM, said:

Watching Dexter is helping.

The irony is not lost on me.

You know what else would help?

Sit down in a comfy chair, or lay down in bed.
Close your eyes.
Tense all your muscles, and slowly relax them all in sequence from your feet to your head.
Do this 3 times.
Picture this:
you pump out 3 high quality books in a decent timeframe and gets shitloads of fans.
Then, you find other pursuits and delay the fuck out of book 4.
Use every excuse in the book, and invent a few new ones.
Revise, revise, revise.
Delay book 5 even more because you didn't like the lukewarm response to book 4.
Blame everything and everyone else but yourself.
Lather, rinse, repeat until you cark it without leaving any notes.
Cue worldwide nerdrage, meltdowns and riots on an epic "Canada lost the Stanley Cup" scale.
...

Also, change your name to MaRRk.

[Traveller]

Haven't seen the cat since yesterday eve. Not like her - she's been gone for a day once before, but it's still got me wondering what she's up to, and looking out for her every five minutes.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 03 March 2016 - 05:42 PM

[Mentalist]

Traveller, on 03 March 2016 - 05:42 PM, said:

Haven't seen the cat since yesterday eve. Not like her - she's been gone for a day once before, but it's still got me wondering what she's up to, and looking out for her every five minutes.

Look above and behind- it's probably watching you.

[Tiste Simeon]

Mentalist, on 03 March 2016 - 05:46 PM, said:

Traveller, on 03 March 2016 - 05:42 PM, said:

Haven't seen the cat since yesterday eve. Not like her - she's been gone for a day once before, but it's still got me wondering what she's up to, and looking out for her every five minutes.

Look above and behind- it's probably watching you.

I know I am!

[Maark Abbott]

Abyss, on 03 March 2016 - 05:38 PM, said:

Tsundoku, on 03 March 2016 - 09:20 AM, said:

Maark, on 02 March 2016 - 03:32 PM, said:

Watching Dexter is helping.

The irony is not lost on me.

You know what else would help?

Sit down in a comfy chair, or lay down in bed.
Close your eyes.
Tense all your muscles, and slowly relax them all in sequence from your feet to your head.
Do this 3 times.
Picture this:
you pump out 3 high quality books in a decent timeframe and gets shitloads of fans.
Then, you find other pursuits and delay the fuck out of book 4.
Use every excuse in the book, and invent a few new ones.
Revise, revise, revise.
Delay book 5 even more because you didn't like the lukewarm response to book 4.
Blame everything and everyone else but yourself.
Lather, rinse, repeat until you cark it without leaving any notes.
Cue worldwide nerdrage, meltdowns and riots on an epic "Canada lost the Stanley Cup" scale.
...

Also, change your name to MaRRk.

No way mang

[Abyss]

Tiste Simeon, on 03 March 2016 - 07:15 PM, said:

Mentalist, on 03 March 2016 - 05:46 PM, said:

Traveller, on 03 March 2016 - 05:42 PM, said:

Haven't seen the cat since yesterday eve. Not like her - she's been gone for a day once before, but it's still got me wondering what she's up to, and looking out for her every five minutes.

Look above and behind- it's probably watching you.

I know I am!

DOWN IN FRONT!

[Arthur Dayne]

Abyss, on 03 March 2016 - 05:38 PM, said:

Also, change your name to George MaRRk.

Fixed that for you.

[Gust Hubb]

Solidsnape, on 29 February 2016 - 03:56 PM, said:

Gust Hubb, on 29 February 2016 - 02:35 AM, said:

Thanks all. Yeah, it boils down to what Mezla was saying. There are certain battles to fight and others not to. She fortunately called in all her churchy friends and they did almost everything. I helped a bit, breaking down the playhouse and getting rid of the scraps, cleaning floors and fridge, etc. But the main thing was that emotional abuse. She always used to say she detested emotional blackmail, and now she turns to it. Gods, I want this hell to end.

Next battle in the ring is financials where we fight over the massive credit card debit and jointly filed taxes for this last year.

She has pushed me over the edge though. I am bringing in a lawyer, as soon as I find one and get a loan to pay the retainer. I have no money to do so on my own.

Again, thanks all. Trying. Trying not to get fucked.

She has Churchy frineds?
Really?

She is religious. It's tough being an atheist.

[Gust Hubb]

I know that it is just an eval, that doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme, but I hate evals.

Got my last rotation eval where it talked about me not speeding up on reviewing slides (even though I did, even the fellow [between an attending and resident] who spends more time with me than the damn attending giving my eval) and was kind of meh otherwise. This after asking for lots of feedback and mentioning I AM FUCKING GOING THROUGH A DIVORCE YOU TURDS! Life kicks you while you're down, and then rubs you in the dog shit it stepped in during the beating.

This post has been edited by Gust Hubb: 04 March 2016 - 04:03 AM

[Maark Abbott]

Briar King, on 03 March 2016 - 10:56 PM, said:

Damn can someone please take out Kim yet? Surely someone sane is over there the world can live with.

We'll get her with that Kanye.

[amphibian]

Briar King, on 04 March 2016 - 02:44 PM, said:

These seats at hospital are so shitty. They are gonna have to roll me out to truck along with old man. Ugh he hasn't even went back to start yet. It's gonna be a long morning.

Finally atleast back here in room but he still has stuff to do before hand. Chair is slightly better in here though not much.

Grr surgery is now 2hrs behind schedule.

3 hrs...

4 hrs!!! Motherfucker I'm almost in tears hurting so bad in these shitty seats. Told us surgery was set for 9 and now it's almost 1!!!!

If your father is already past the doors to prep, go wait in the car. It's what I did this morning for a family member's dental surgery. The car seats are usually 5x more comfortable, plus you get used to walking around now and then to check on the progress.

This post has been edited by amphibian: 04 March 2016 - 07:08 PM

[EmperorMagus]

Briar King, on 04 March 2016 - 08:02 PM, said:

5 hrs. They just came in to get his sig to be put under. Told us he was next case finally and that was about 30 mins ago. He's not happy at this wait. I'm leaving to go let the dogs out when he goes back .

I remember waiting in hospitals for my grandfather's surgery, it is not fun. I hope it's not anything serious at least.
Also, the wait in hospitals is grating, I suggest lots of Caffein or some LSD to take the edge off.

[amphibian]

I strongly suggest that nobody do LSD in a hospital if you are considering doing LSD.

The environment is too monotone and grim to give a good experience, plus the potential experience is too fun to confine to one place.

[Puck]

Had a long talk with my mom, thought things were going well when she declared that she believes flight MH17 never happened. Because a russian book says so. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

[EmperorMagus]

Puck, on 04 March 2016 - 09:44 PM, said:

Had a long talk with my mom, thought things were going well when she declared that she believes flight MH17 never happened. Because a russian book says so. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

I'm asking this seriously.
What does she think about The Donald?

[HiddenOne]

EmperorMagus, on 04 March 2016 - 08:12 PM, said:

Briar King, on 04 March 2016 - 08:02 PM, said:

5 hrs. They just came in to get his sig to be put under. Told us he was next case finally and that was about 30 mins ago. He's not happy at this wait. I'm leaving to go let the dogs out when he goes back .

I remember waiting in hospitals for my grandfather's surgery, it is not fun. I hope it's not anything serious at least.
Also, the wait in hospitals is grating, I suggest lots of Caffein or some LSD to take the edge off.

The most evil attempt at subversion ever, it would be like tying a bag of angry rats around your psyche and lighting it on fire, while the Grim Reaper dances on your soul

[worry]

I hope your pop gets through everything okay. And you're right, your sister's excuse is pretty lame.

All that said, I gotta say this is one of my all-time favorite sentences.

Briar King, on 04 March 2016 - 08:43 PM, said:

She says diarrhea hit her last night and she doesn't want dad to catch it.

[amphibian]

HiddenOne, on 04 March 2016 - 10:12 PM, said:

The most evil attempt at subversion ever, it would be like tying a bag of angry rats around your psyche and lighting it on fire, while the Grim Reaper dances on your soul

It wouldn't be that bad, it would just be really boring as there's not much to do for a healthy person who doesn't work at the hospital to do in the hospital. The entire experience there is pointedly not for that person.

This is assuming you don't go wandering into the cancer wards or morgue and incinerator area.

[Mentalist]

Puck, on 04 March 2016 - 09:44 PM, said:

Had a long talk with my mom, thought things were going well when she declared that she believes flight MH17 never happened. Because a russian book says so. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

lol. "Вата" detected

I have pretty much cut all dinner-table politics talk ever since my grandparents came to live with us (about a year ago now). Because there's no reasoning. If there's ever anything my father and I need to talk about, we have to do outside my grandparents' hearing range.

My mom is safely apolitical though.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 04 March 2016 - 11:50 PM