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Sorry, just a bit of humor to try cheer you up.

I'm glad you can get help from such folk.

My bad too, being daft in VC's thread. But I hope it made you laugh VC

Of course! All the best threads end up completely off-topic

Agh... I wanted to call them again, but I can't because my Dad is in the same room as the phone. Curses.

...just caught this.

Don't force me to post a bunch of lame graphics in an attempt to cheer you up.


I really, really hope you feel better soon.

Hey again VC, how you cruisin'? Having just gotten through some distressing times of my own, I sympathise. And don't times like this kick hell out of the theory of Aspie-as-emotionless-robot?

Here, from Mother Wit, is a rather nice meditation. It is meant to be part of a relaxation exercise, but I've found it useful in catharsis, especially if you visualise the troubles and pain in your life as the things that are going up in flames.

As a photographer you have skill in observing and capturing what's important in the world around you. You bring grace and beauty to this place. I wish you well.

That gets me thinking about Lloyd Alexander.

Hope you're doing ok, VC.

So-so. Some parts of the day sail by, others drag out very slowly with large amounts of misery. My life is all up in the air at the moment.

I think our lives are always kind of up in the air.

At least it feels that way to me.

When I was 19 or 20 I entered into a major existential depression and nearly offed myself over it.

Then a couple years later I "got religion" for a bit. It was nice to have some stability and reasons for a leaning toward objectivity. But never satisfying. Not like it was supposed to be. Not when it's my nature to doubt, question and poke holes in things. Not much can make sense for long under that sort of scrutiny. I'm sure many if not most of us here operate similarly.

So I've abandoned that ideology as well. Just very recently, though it was a long time coming. A matter of being honest with myself and jumping out of cognitive dissonance.

But I'm finally not depressed over the fact that nothing makes much sense. Sort of made a bit of peace with the human condition, I suppose. Still not satisfied, but at least the questions no longer have that deadly urgency they once did.

Anyhow, I don't know if that actually relates to anything you're going through, but I felt motivated to share a bit, so hopefully it doesn't offend.

Like anything around here stays on topic?

I'm tired enough that I read that as Suicide Hotties. Kinda fit the pics.

I called them again, but this time they were useless The person I was talking to was really condescending, making me feel like I was being silly getting so upset about it all. But, just after I'd hung up, a random passer by saw me crying (I was at a bus stop at the time)and he talked to me instead, and... it helped a lot. I think I've got the crying out of my system, for now at least. Still feel bloody awful about it all, though.

I am usually around til 1 or 2am on msn if you ever need to talk, and I check my hotmail regularly.
Happy to listen if you ever get this way again...know how it feels when there seems to be no-one out there.

What on earth were they thinking, putting someone like that in charge of something so important?!

Well, I'm glad the other guy was of some help at least.

Thanks for the offer, Graelwyn. I think I've done all the venting I need to for the time being (I have *one* WP member in my MSN list, and I bet they're sick of hearing about it all ), now I'm mostly kicking myself for being so stupid. Regret's a bugger.

Yeah, the aftermath of these things can really make one feel a right plonker