The document of compiled goals can be seen here. Feel free to add yourself if you have not yet done so. If you didn't participate in the past thread(s), that's okay too. You can also join in whenever you like, so go ahead.
Shoutouts, let me know if you wish to be added or removed: blackbootz ButterflyEffect byonic caeli coffeesp00ns Creativity Cumol doesntgolf elizabeth francopoli galen goobster jafle jleopold KARAMAZ0V kleinbl00 lil nowaypablo NSSTomato OftenBen psychoticmilkman Quatrarius thundara thenewgreen kingmudsy kantos
And thanks to rezzeJ for starting the whole mess!
You know what's a bitch? Running a 2000-calorie-a-day deficit and gaining weight. I can temper that a bit by observing that not biking for two weeks because I was living on the surface of the sun caused me to lose 5.5 lbs... while biking (and eating normally - I've been calorie-counting for six fucking years now) 30 miles a day has caused me to gain at least a pound a day. For four days in a row. How you like them apples?
And sure. That's your body adjusting or whatever. And yeah. It's muscle mass or whatever. But fuckin' A. I'm now in a place where eating sparingly enough to lose weight actually causes me to jeopardize my ability to get home. And I've been doing this since may. Shit oughtta be adjusted.
Yeah, yoga. Fuck yoga. Yeah, donate blood. Fuck donating blood. Do a bunch of shit that's dependent on other people getting shit to you. That hasn't happened and oh by the way I'm away from home for more than half the year SURPRISE!
It's difficult getting in the mental space to do any editing when you're working 10 hours a day, biking two, and spending every spare day commuting 8 hours to see your family for 36. Also, fuck these books.
Know what those 10,000 pages tell you? That history is a story of evil fucks being evil to each other, and that victory belongs to the brutal. Also every book is cross-sectional, which means for any given period, you'll go over it again and again and again and again and again because it's like "here's art from 100bc to 50ad" and then "here's religion from 75bc to 120ad" and then "here's politics from 35bc to 155ad" and you get sick to fucking death of hearing of the same goddamn people over and over again and if they're Romans? THEY ALL HAVE THE SAME FUCKING NAME ANYWAY and fuck the Romans. Fuck everything about them. That includes the stoics. Fuck anyone who quotes the stoics, including Marcus Aurelius. Cicero was a stone dick. So was Confucious. So was every fucking asshole in every fucking inspirational quote you've ever shared on Facebook. Fuck them all.
It's been a hard goddamn year. Realizing that donating blood was something that gave an organization something to guilt me about fucking sucked. Realizing that bikram yoga was an excuse to smell the armpits of 30 people in a 104 degree room while listening to Bon Jovi fucking sucked. Discovering that to program an android app I had to learn Javascript fucking sucked.
And kicking my own ass every fucking day in 104 degree heat so that I can be hit by a car so I can gain weight? That sucks the hardest.
Morale is low.