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by Arcadia
Wed Aug 18, 2004 4:40 pm
Forum: coping
Topic: This quote
Replies: 6
Views: 291

Most definitely. I also think most people have an inbuilt desire to cut corners. I went through the same dilemma as you are considering now when I was doing my foundation course. Most of my friends quit, it was incredibly difficult, I held most of my classmates in disguised contempt, and my tutors w...
by Arcadia
Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:15 pm
Forum: coping
Topic: This quote
Replies: 6
Views: 291

That's exactly what the quote was about and actually, what teh book was about. He wants to kill himself because he's got himself into a bad situation and can't motivate himself to change that bad situation, or to cope with it. Another big deal for this doctor is discovering that the leader of his pl...
by Arcadia
Tue Aug 17, 2004 3:00 pm
Forum: coping
Topic: This quote
Replies: 6
Views: 291

This quote

I recently read a book called "Now Wait For Last Year" by Philip K Dick. Most of the book is about a suicidal man who is doctor to the leader of the planet, during an interstellar war. (The leader is also suicidal). The doctor also has a wife who has become psychotic due to drug use. At the end of t...
by Arcadia
Sat Jul 31, 2004 7:47 pm
Forum: coping
Topic: Hobbies
Replies: 16
Views: 695

I used to love knitting and cross stitch and making bracelets when I was younger, maybe I should take them up again...and the kitty ears thing sounds fun I think gobbolino's charges £20 for a kitty ear hat! ooh and Isaw this really nice wool in hobbycraft, snowflake yarn (apparently gets used in fal...
by Arcadia
Wed Jul 28, 2004 8:16 pm
Forum: coping
Topic: Hobbies
Replies: 16
Views: 695

Hobbies

With no college, no full time job, the boyfriend out of the picture and my best mate in America - and most of my other mates working fulltime(and therefore unavailable during the day)/ broke / scattered all over teh country. Also I can't get drunk or do other similar activities *hem* so basically th...
by Arcadia
Wed Jun 30, 2004 9:35 pm
Forum: coping
Topic: stupid little happy things
Replies: 595
Views: 67317

cuddles
crisps
sex
reading
clubbing, while sober
life-affirming music, like punk
shopping
making hairpieces
new hair extensions
phone calls