^^^ Probably depressingly, given that he's, y'know, filing taxes, which is depressing. I mean, I have no problem with taxation in principle, but it's not exactly super happy fun times...
^ A little harsh, but yes, cooling it a little would be good. Let your thoughts condense a little.
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
^^ oh sorry >_< I'm posting too much. Like when I used to do like 3/4 of a page all by myself in the trash heap! (which was really fun btw) ok I will stop and wait my turn sorry
Probably depressingly, given that he's, y'know, filing taxes, which is depressing. I mean, I have no problem with taxation in principle, but it's not exactly super happy fun times...
I am still a worthless leach on my parents' necks right now, so I haven't really had to deal with filing my own yet, but I did once help them with some tax-related paperwork for their business back in the day. It was... numbing.
I would have a job if there were anything in my area that wouldn't send me into fits after a few hours. I interned at a small bookstore a while ago, but I was going through a depressive episode at the time and ultimately fled. In retrospect, I feel really bad about that...
I'm mildly pissed off right now, because apparently in this family getting your phone run over by a car gets you a new iPhone 5 while those of us who actually take decent care of our phones can't get new ones until the contract runs out. >:(
My grandfather, Carl Gustave NicetrybutIamnotgoingtotellyouhisname was mayor/governor/whatever-the-equivalent-is-in-a-valley and he single-handedly turned a full treasury into debt.
He turned the wells into plumbing; and instituted sewers. Absurdly overbuilt, absurdly spacious sewers. Stopped the deaths from bad water (typhoid and other diseases).
I was rather disappointed as a little kid to learn that my grandpa was responsible for the sewers; when I'd hoped it was libraries or museums or schools or something awesome like that.
This is relevant now because since summer 2012, we've been in a massive drought and water is rationed. The rains of May and April were supposed to replenish the water, but they didn't.
As part of his pension, my grandpa gets free water; since he is the reason that everyone else has running water.
You see, he was bald, and he liked to wear a green suit; so the local newspaper drew him as an alligator, calling him Gator Gus. The Sewers were, in a way, his brainchild, so that means that since the Sewer is the parent of the sewer alligator, Gator Gus is the grandfather of the probably-fictional alligators in the sewers.
Of course, when he was in a triumvirate with Larry notgoingtotellyouhisnameeither or Mortimer yeahrightnowayyou'regettinghisnameoutofme, they were Larry, Mo, and Curly (a joking reference to my grandfather's baldness and a pun on his name Carl. Carl=Carly=Curly).
Sredni Vashtar, People tell me that even longtime leeches can become contributing members of society eventually. Also, while I cannot speak to your parents, some people actually get a lot of value out of caring and providing for their children and stuff like that, so I would not feel completely guilty as long as you are grateful and do not become complacent. The fact that you referred to yourself as a leech suggests to me that you are not taking the financial support for granted, so I guess at worst you are halfway there.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I am still a worthless leach on my parents' necks right now, so I haven't really had to deal with filing my own yet, but I did once help them with some tax-related paperwork for their business back in the day. It was... numbing.
I thought this would be the year I'd have to file, since I worked in 2012, but because I made so little money last year (I worked for about 7 weeks at a little over minimum wage) I didn't actually make enough to be required to file.
Which was kinda funny, 'cause Dad was all like "damn, let me use your 1098-T for deductions, then!"
"Feels like his current situation is too demanding on him, but not sure how to say no. Looking for some sort of escape or release from the situation."
Your Stress Sources
"Unfulfilled hopes have left him feeling uncertain and even a little fearful about the future. Needs to feel secure and avoid further disappointment; fears he will be looked over, lose his position, or lose respect. Has little hope that things will get better in time and his negative attitude leads him to place impossible demands on others or to compromise or bargain."
Your Restrained Characteristics
"Tries to participate and involve himself in things going on around him; however, avoids conflict and arguments to reduce stress and tension."
"Although he is able to find contentment through sexual activity, he feels hopeless to change his problems and difficulties and continues to make the best of what he has."
"Struggles to make his demands clear, but feels ignored. Feels resentful, but acts as if he doesn't care, doing what is necessary to keep peace."
Your Desired Objective
Is in need of immediate rest and relaxation. Longs for peace and a sense they are understood. Feels he has been treated unfairly which makes him angry. Cannot stand to stay in an environment in which he is treated unfairly and with no consideration for his feelings.
Your Actual Problem
Disappointed because his hopes have not come to pass and he fears coming up with new goals will only lead to further disappointment. These conflicting emotions lead to a feeling of anxiety and depression. He tries to escape into a peaceful and calm relationship which offers encouragement and protection from further disappointment.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The novelist shows his exuberance either by an exhaustive analysis of human relationships, as in Henry James, or of social phenomena, as in Tolstoy. The Menippean satirist, dealing with intellectual themes and attitudes, shows his exuberance in intellectual ways, by piling up an enormous mass of erudition about his theme or in overwhelming his pedantic targets with an avalanche of their own jargon. A species, or rather sub-species, of the form is the kind of encyclopaedic farrago represented by Athenaeus' Deipnosophists and Macrobius' Saturnalia, where people sit at a banquet and pour out a vast mass of erudition on every subject that might conceivably come up in a conversation. The display of erudition had probably been associated with the Menippean tradition by Varro, who was enough of a polymath to make Quintilian, if not stare and gasp, at any rate call him vir Romanorum eniditissimus. The tendency to expand into an encyclopaedic farrago is clearly marked in Rabelais, notably in the great catalogues of torcheculs and epithets of codpieces and methods of divination. The encyclopaedic compilations produced in the line of duty by Erasmus and Voltaire suggest that a magpie instinct to collect facts is not unrelated to the type of ability that has made them famous as artists.
Comments
^ ok :)
This is what happens to Earthlight in a drunken state
It's no big deal
They were the most adorable things; and I had this urge to go hug them and go "MY BABIES!!!!!" and not let anything hurt them, ever.
But, then again, those are the guys who eat piranhas as a staple of their diet.
Then again, humanity probably has made them endangered or something.
Imi's over there!
Also, lots of people leech, it's the American way
And a diamond for everyone else I guess. <>
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Should I?
I'd like to read it.
My grandfather, Carl Gustave NicetrybutIamnotgoingtotellyouhisname was mayor/governor/whatever-the-equivalent-is-in-a-valley and he single-handedly turned a full treasury into debt.
He turned the wells into plumbing; and instituted sewers. Absurdly overbuilt, absurdly spacious sewers. Stopped the deaths from bad water (typhoid and other diseases).
I was rather disappointed as a little kid to learn that my grandpa was responsible for the sewers; when I'd hoped it was libraries or museums or schools or something awesome like that.
This is relevant now because since summer 2012, we've been in a massive drought and water is rationed. The rains of May and April were supposed to replenish the water, but they didn't.
As part of his pension, my grandpa gets free water; since he is the reason that everyone else has running water.
You see, he was bald, and he liked to wear a green suit; so the local newspaper drew him as an alligator, calling him Gator Gus. The Sewers were, in a way, his brainchild, so that means that since the Sewer is the parent of the sewer alligator, Gator Gus is the grandfather of the probably-fictional alligators in the sewers.
Of course, when he was in a triumvirate with Larry notgoingtotellyouhisnameeither or Mortimer yeahrightnowayyou'regettinghisnameoutofme, they were Larry, Mo, and Curly (a joking reference to my grandfather's baldness and a pun on his name Carl. Carl=Carly=Curly).
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Genocide averted!
Sorry, Proctor, you can call off the orbital strike.
Wisdom.
People tell me that even longtime leeches can become contributing members of society eventually. Also, while I cannot speak to your parents, some people actually get a lot of value out of caring and providing for their children and stuff like that, so I would not feel completely guilty as long as you are grateful and do not become complacent. The fact that you referred to yourself as a leech suggests to me that you are not taking the financial support for granted, so I guess at worst you are halfway there.
Fossilmaiden,
i dun wanna die
Your Existing Situation
"Feels like his current situation is too demanding on him, but not sure how to say no. Looking for some sort of escape or release from the situation."
Your Stress Sources
"Unfulfilled hopes have left him feeling uncertain and even a little fearful about the future. Needs to feel secure and avoid further disappointment; fears he will be looked over, lose his position, or lose respect. Has little hope that things will get better in time and his negative attitude leads him to place impossible demands on others or to compromise or bargain."
Your Restrained Characteristics
"Tries to participate and involve himself in things going on around him; however, avoids conflict and arguments to reduce stress and tension."
"Although he is able to find contentment through sexual activity, he feels hopeless to change his problems and difficulties and continues to make the best of what he has."
"Struggles to make his demands clear, but feels ignored. Feels resentful, but acts as if he doesn't care, doing what is necessary to keep peace."
Your Desired Objective
Is in need of immediate rest and relaxation. Longs for peace and a sense they are understood. Feels he has been treated unfairly which makes him angry. Cannot stand to stay in an environment in which he is treated unfairly and with no consideration for his feelings.
Your Actual Problem
Disappointed because his hopes have not come to pass and he fears coming up with new goals will only lead to further disappointment. These conflicting emotions lead to a feeling of anxiety and depression. He tries to escape into a peaceful and calm relationship which offers encouragement and protection from further disappointment.