Re: STRESSFUL (was:  stressful)
  By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Wed Aug 26 2015 20:06:52

 NB> I can all too well imagine...    Guess he turned at least some of
 NB> that stubborn to good use for himself... :)

  Yeah, it worked out in his favor, if nobody else's.  ;)

 NB> Have you totally lost contact with those other friends...?  Or can you
 NB> still call (or email) them if you really need their perspective...?

  Well there are a couple of main ones in particular that I still keep in very
close contact with.  People in my inner circle I've never really let drop by
the wayside.  I've got plenty of experience moving around, and good people, in
my experience, are just too rare of a gem to just let fall by the road.  The
problem is that some of them aren't the same as far as good text communication
as most of them are.  It's a shame, but hopefully I get to visit the ones that
aren't as good at text communication soon.  I'd do the phone calls, but I
absolutely loathe them.  Regardless, I should probably set apart a little bit
of my day for that now and then, though.

 NB> Desperate can get you in trouble, you know... ;)  Admittedly, sometimes
 NB> there can be decent people to meet there.... but generally it turns out
 NB> to have been a mistake...  :)
 NB> Meatmarkets of just about any sort can be problematic anyway... 

  Oh I'm well aware, and 95% of it is from personal experience.  So far I
haven't given in to any of those urges.  I actually met somebody that I hit it
off with really well, with an _amazing_ amount of similar interests, as well. 
The problem was that once I started realizing how well we were clicking it, due
to a conversational faux pas, ended up reminding me of my last serious
relationship and it really squicked me out.  We fell into a different
communication pattern, and I'm not sure if we're going to meet or not now, but
I guess that doesn't matter a whole lot since it kind of makes me think that
I'm not ready right now.  Not sure if she's in the plain old friends market or
not right now.  :P

 NB> Eventually the stars will all be in place and it will happen...  ;)

  Yeah I wish I had more of a budget for improving the quality of life for D &
myself right now, but at this point my accounts are flagged as 'no unnecessary
expenses' until I've got a paycheck guaranteed coming in again.

 NB> It would have been nice to get Deschain into it... but it will come when
 NB> it comes...  :)

  Indeed.  The endless cycles of life.

 DAG>> We got to the church to socialize and are making it about 50% of
 DAG>> the time now, though, at least.
 NB> And that is progress...  :)

  Yep.  When things were down we missed about three weeks, though.  I'm really
looking forward to going tomorrow, though.  Should be fun.  :)

  -D/K
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