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Real-life Rants; Vent here.
Topic Started: Jan 9 2008, 03:44 PM (22,204 Views)
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Too bad@$$ to have a FACE?! Maybe...
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*DEEP breath*

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SANDVICH MAKE ME STRONG!
"Listen well! I'll stand on top of all living things! I am now a new creature that cuts open the future!"
"Weakling, Weakling!"
"It's useless useless USELESS!"
"WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!"
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*Continues TF2 reference*

ME AND SANVICH ARE COMING FOR YOU!!
"I believe that the human spirit is indomitable. If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams is something you will not achieve within your own lifetime. The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death."
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*Bang...Bonk Bonk Bonk*

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(Lol, ok, it was funny let's stop with the references before we get too off topic XD)
"I believe that the human spirit is indomitable. If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams is something you will not achieve within your own lifetime. The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death."
— Monty Oum
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UNLESS ITS A FARM

Anyways, I can't sleep. I've tried everything: counting sheep, staring at computer screens to make my eyes tired, running in place, punching myself in the face, you know, the usual stuff. Just. Not. Happening.

Halp.
"Nothing... a shadow is nothing. It is merely a question not yet answered. We only fear the dark if we have no means of lighting our way.

Death comes to all, Morningstar. The world turns, the dawn comes... and under the light of the sun I shall slay giants."


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I just _____ in the _____.

(Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brotha', I hurt people.)

Aaaaanyway, I have always had trouble getting to sleep ever since I was little. I often sleep in an extra 1-2 hours, which doesn't help, I don't have a very active lifestyle and, unlike most people, I can actually feel myself going under which, for some reason, causes me to panic and wake right up again. I can be really sleepy and then, ten minutes later while brushing my teeth, feel like I can run across the walls.

One of my tricks is to repeat a word over and over in your head "ironically, my word happens to be 'mantra' " I have a very active imagination though, and my thoughts can keep going visually, playing like a silent movie, from there I imagine painting over the scene with a paintbrush until it's a large, uniform color (again, my color is purple for some reason) if you find yourself straying, immediately go right back to it. It's basically a trick to bore yourself to sleep.

Most of what I've read says to be more active duing the day. You might have a lot of unspent energy that your body still wants to use. Try some pushups or something, just don't do it any later than an hour before going to bed.

Another problem could be the heat, I don't know where you live, but even up here in Idaho it's been stifling. We haven't run an air conditioner of any kind for the past 2-3 years every summer. Usually I can't go to sleep because I'm too hot.

I would reccomend sleeping without any sheets over you, but I always feel like I have to have some kind of substancial blanket weight on me. I found out recently that I just crave it being over my arms for some zany reason, so that's all I do.

Stripping down on your clothing helps more than you'd think. I'd reccomend sleeping naked, but I have never lasted long doing that before reaching around in the dark to pull something on. I'm not a particularly dainty girl and my legs sticking together, all sweaty, can keep me up too. My preferred clothing of choice is a very thin, silky, spaghetti-strap top with knee-high pants. Of course if someone of your manly caliber were to wear a similar nightly regalia, it would raise some eyebrows. Try wearing some very loose shorts in a thin material. If you have the same problem as sticky legs as I do (get your mind out of the gutter!) then have a sheet over one leg to separate the two.

I took a cold shower last night about 10 minutes before going to bed (enough that it gave me goosebumps. That, coupled with my open window during a particularly mild and near-stormy day, helped me stay cool enough that I could go to sleep within a reasonable amount of time.

Reading for an hour before bed helps me too, I've noticed. I makes me wind down and focus on something rather than my thoughts going everywhere.

I've been keeping my bedroom windows open all day while keeping my door closed, it lets a breeze through and let's cool night air in before I go to bed. I never sleep with it open though becuase the outside world makes too much noise for me.

Noise is another problem. My family have used 'white noise' to block out other sounds we might hear so we can sleep. A radio playing static is one, but my favorite is a box fan running on high.

Another thing I read once that seems to work for me is to keep your bed exclusive to sleeping. Don't read while sitting on your bed, for example. That way, your brain knows that particular area is for sleeping only, and when you're there, your brain will know what to do.

I've heard that counting sheep can be counterproductive. Math and numbers tend to wake the brain up, rather than make it fall alseep.

Never, never nap during the day, no matter how tired you are.

Set a time when you can't drink any more caffinated drinks or even anything particularly sugary, like soda in general. My cutoff limit is 6 hours before bed. I've experimented and found I can drink something with caffene and it keeps me wired at least that long.

I've read stuff about eating, but have not found that to affect my sleeping habits.

Get only 8 hours of sleep. I know I say I sleep in a lot longer, but I pay the price. Even sleeping an extra 30 minutes can throw me entirely out of whack.

Of course, then there are some times when you just plain can't get to sleep, those you have to struggle through and hope you get back to normal soon.
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Jul 22 2010, 11:12 AM
Of course, then there are some times when you just plain can't get to sleep, those you have to struggle through and hope you get back to normal soon.
This is what that was, Beffy, though those are some good tips. I'll have to remember some of those, or maybe just be less of a lazy ass. ;)
"Nothing... a shadow is nothing. It is merely a question not yet answered. We only fear the dark if we have no means of lighting our way.

Death comes to all, Morningstar. The world turns, the dawn comes... and under the light of the sun I shall slay giants."


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You know what I really hate in music today? I mean really, really hate, with a burning passion hotter than a thousand suns? People who enunciate their "R"s.

I started to notice this disturbing trend a few years back with the rise of emo (which is a disturbing trend in and of itself), and it has continued unabated ever since. For an example of what I'm talking about, give a listen to Avril Lavigne:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGXYAJoDWCk&feature=avmsc2

You hear that? No, not the weasel being tortured, that's Avril singing. I mean the crisp, clear way she pronounces her "R"s. THAT IS NOT THE WAY YOU SING! You're supposed to sing almost like you have an accent. Even if you're from, oh I dunno, Delaware and speak perfect Newscaster English, you should be singing like you're from the South (apologies if people from Delaware actually have a distinct accent; it was simply the most generic place i could think of). "Car" should become "cah," etc. And it's not just the "R"s either. Perfect pronunciation is all over the place ("I"s are another good example). Which would be fine, except for the fact that in music, correct pronunciation is, well, incorrect.

Let's listen to Death Cab For Cutie doing the same thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbqtuFemMOE

Now I know that a lot of people like this stuff, but to me, it sounds like he took singing lessons from a speech coach (in addition to sounding like he has yet to hit puberty, but that's a whole other rant). It sounds unnatural, alien even. It sounds like a black/hispanic comic's parody of a white guy.

Now let's listen Mr. John Mellencamp to see how it's done:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h04CH9YZcpI

See there? Jack and Diane are two American kids growing up in the "haht-land," as opposed to "heart-land." And Jackie's gonna be a football "stah." You see what I'm talking about here? Doesn't that sound more natural, less forced?

For something a bit more recent, here's the Chili Peppers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb5aq5HcS1A

Imagine how that song would sound if Anthony Kiedis was was pronouncing every word as crisply and clearly the way Ben Gibbard does (I had to go to Wikipedia to learn his name)? Think about it for a second. How weird would it sound? How awful would that sound? How badly would you want to kick his ass?

I don't know what started this whole perfect pronunciation movement in music, or why anyone would ever think it sounds good. Do they just not have an ounce of soul in their bodies?. Or is it that most emo bands have never actually heard music prior to putting their group together (entirely possible). Or maybe they do it because it just sounds sadder (which it most definitely does). But whatever it is, it needs to stop.
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Deadeye '17, eager to move on from the slow-motion train wreck that was last year.
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So I left my Alliance guild on WoW.

Feels great to be out of a den of snakes, just because I've done ICC hordeside doesn't mean I am REQUIRED to carry people through it on alliance-side. That and I was getting fed up with the bitterness and fang-bearing even though it has been nearly a year since a number of us went horde.
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I just _____ in the _____.

Okay, so this has pissed me off for quite a few months now, almost to Wargarbl proportions.

I've been having the problem of moving my pictures and stuff around in Deviantart, through a combination of my own supidity and Deviantart's own arse-ness, I've recently lost some work in some kind of Limbo.

How it works:

In my Gallery I choose Edit.
I select the picture I want.
I move it into a subfolder (comics, written work, etc)
I then remove it from my Featured section.
It doesn't show up in either one now.

Now, this is really weird, because it still technically exists.

If I go into the Submit dropdown and choose Manage Deviations I can see them in there! I've tried Storing and un-Storing them. I really, really don't want to have to resubmit anything either because I like the chronological order they're in.

Pleeeease, is there any way to fix it? I'm even willing to give my password to one of you guys if it's easier just to fix rather than explain.




Edit: Okay after scouring through the FAQ I finally found it. The keywords were terrible and I had to play a guessing game as well as scroll and read through all kinds of crap that didn't pertain to it.

Sheesh.
Edited by beflexor, Aug 12 2010, 08:48 PM.
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