If Music Could Talk

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?

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.

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.

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.

revbob wrote: ↑

09 Feb 2019, 6:11pm

I sometimes find it hard to be myself when I'm not by myself.

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.

revbob wrote: ↑

09 Feb 2019, 11:37pm

Where are youuuuu?!?!?!?!?

Flex wrote: ↑

09 Feb 2019, 11:46pm

You coming north to Colorado at all?

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.

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.

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?

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