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JoseUnidos wrote:
08 Feb 2019, 6:10pm
Slightly serious question Doc - how do you manage anxiety in relation to teaching? Do you approach teaching as a performance (like, playing the role of a teacher) to give you some distance, or something else?
That's exactly it. I have zero problems standing in front of all those kids and yapping away because I just slip into the role. Nothing conscious, it just happens. Hell, I generally feel more relaxed when lecturing than just hanging out with my mind.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 Feb 2019, 6:16pm
JoseUnidos wrote:
08 Feb 2019, 6:10pm
Slightly serious question Doc - how do you manage anxiety in relation to teaching? Do you approach teaching as a performance (like, playing the role of a teacher) to give you some distance, or something else?
That's exactly it. I have zero problems standing in front of all those kids and yapping away because I just slip into the role. Nothing conscious, it just happens. Hell, I generally feel more relaxed when lecturing than just hanging out with my mind.
I curious and really struggling to understand, what really bugs you out? I've met you and sensed no apprehension.
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BostonBeaneater wrote:
09 Feb 2019, 2:07am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 Feb 2019, 6:16pm
JoseUnidos wrote:
08 Feb 2019, 6:10pm
Slightly serious question Doc - how do you manage anxiety in relation to teaching? Do you approach teaching as a performance (like, playing the role of a teacher) to give you some distance, or something else?
That's exactly it. I have zero problems standing in front of all those kids and yapping away because I just slip into the role. Nothing conscious, it just happens. Hell, I generally feel more relaxed when lecturing than just hanging out with my mind.
I curious and really struggling to understand, what really bugs you out? I've met you and sensed no apprehension.
Well, I won't get into things here in any detail, but some situations, locations, and people just kind of set me off and I become in my mind the insecure, marginalized loser I was growing up in a shithole town. And in a weird way, becoming more confident and "successful" in other ways has made me more apprehensive about slipping into those unwanted situations, so I default to avoiding some stuff (esp. anything related to Sask.) to better control my limited environment. But I'm mostly a functional weirdo. :twitch:
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Feb 2019, 7:28am
BostonBeaneater wrote:
09 Feb 2019, 2:07am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 Feb 2019, 6:16pm
JoseUnidos wrote:
08 Feb 2019, 6:10pm
Slightly serious question Doc - how do you manage anxiety in relation to teaching? Do you approach teaching as a performance (like, playing the role of a teacher) to give you some distance, or something else?
That's exactly it. I have zero problems standing in front of all those kids and yapping away because I just slip into the role. Nothing conscious, it just happens. Hell, I generally feel more relaxed when lecturing than just hanging out with my mind.
I curious and really struggling to understand, what really bugs you out? I've met you and sensed no apprehension.
Well, I won't get into things here in any detail, but some situations, locations, and people just kind of set me off and I become in my mind the insecure, marginalized loser I was growing up in a shithole town. And in a weird way, becoming more confident and "successful" in other ways has made me more apprehensive about slipping into those unwanted situations, so I default to avoiding some stuff (esp. anything related to Sask.) to better control my limited environment. But I'm mostly a functional weirdo. :twitch:
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revbob wrote:
09 Feb 2019, 6:11pm
I sometimes find it hard to be myself when I'm not by myself.
In a completely different context—he was wearing a man girdle—Paul F. Tompkins once related being completely alone, yet also completely mortified.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
09 Feb 2019, 7:28am


Well, I won't get into things here in any detail, but some situations, locations, and people just kind of set me off and I become in my mind the insecure, marginalized loser I was growing up in a shithole town. And in a weird way, becoming more confident and "successful" in other ways has made me more apprehensive about slipping into those unwanted situations, so I default to avoiding some stuff (esp. anything related to Sask.) to better control my limited environment. But I'm mostly a functional weirdo. :twitch:
OK, this I understand.
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I drove to 12000 feet today and burst a blood vessel in my eye.
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Worth it.
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Where are youuuuu?!?!?!?!?

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You coming north to Colorado at all?
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revbob wrote:
09 Feb 2019, 11:37pm
Where are youuuuu?!?!?!?!?
Albuquerque, NM! The eye thing happened today at Valles Caldera.

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You coming north to Colorado at all?
I won’t this trip. I’m here three weeks for work. However, my new gig will involve quite a bit of travel so I’m sure I’ll roll through Denver at some point.
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BostonBeaneater wrote:
10 Feb 2019, 12:47am
I won’t this trip. I’m here three weeks for work. However, my new gig will involve quite a bit of travel so I’m sure I’ll roll through Denver at some point.
heck yeah. Come on out and we'll go to one of those concerts revbob keeps wishing he was here for.
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Flex wrote:
10 Feb 2019, 12:49am
BostonBeaneater wrote:
10 Feb 2019, 12:47am
I won’t this trip. I’m here three weeks for work. However, my new gig will involve quite a bit of travel so I’m sure I’ll roll through Denver at some point.
heck yeah. Come on out and we'll go to one of those concerts revbob keeps wishing he was here for.
Styx?
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BostonBeaneater wrote:
10 Feb 2019, 12:55am
Flex wrote:
10 Feb 2019, 12:49am
BostonBeaneater wrote:
10 Feb 2019, 12:47am
I won’t this trip. I’m here three weeks for work. However, my new gig will involve quite a bit of travel so I’m sure I’ll roll through Denver at some point.
heck yeah. Come on out and we'll go to one of those concerts revbob keeps wishing he was here for.
Styx?
phish
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Flex wrote:
10 Feb 2019, 12:56am
BostonBeaneater wrote:
10 Feb 2019, 12:55am
Flex wrote:
10 Feb 2019, 12:49am
BostonBeaneater wrote:
10 Feb 2019, 12:47am
I won’t this trip. I’m here three weeks for work. However, my new gig will involve quite a bit of travel so I’m sure I’ll roll through Denver at some point.
heck yeah. Come on out and we'll go to one of those concerts revbob keeps wishing he was here for.
Styx?
phish
With you start a two band tribute band with me called Phishstyx?
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