5-5:10pm: Tell us a story from today…. Be sure to react to each other.
5:10-5:30pm: Parts where Lawson connects to and speaks to you.
5:30-5:50pm: How could this book help with an idea for the final essay this semester?
5:50-6pm: Close… now what? What do you want from Lawson? What do you hope to see?
ASSIGNMENT: Finish the book by end of next week. I’ll be doing check-ins in the meantime. PLEASE do not take this lightly or dismissively. I will expect a demonstration that you’ve read and are generating ides from the book. USE YOUR JOURNAL…. Note crazy, reaching thoughts, note everything. Be more of a Human and less a student.
How’s everyone doing?
It was creative day inside and outdoors…with more creativity(art) later.
Nice! What kind of Art?
I’m painting a fish… I paint with watercolor
Love art, watercolor is one of my favorite things to use.
Me too! Thats what I do!
Hello, I’m doing well. How about yourself?
Busy day. All good!
Hi! I’m doing pretty decent today, how are you doing?
Doing well, thank you! Enjoy the conversation tonight, Lily!
Hi! Im good how was your day?
Hey! Hows it going? Im doing great!
All good on the Mike side…
Hey, I’m good how are you
Doing well. Enjoy the conversation tonight!
Good afternoon, I’m doing good, how are you? I just got out of work right when it started raining and got all wet because I forgot my umbrella, but it felt to good coming home to a warm bed.
Doing well. Good to see you!
I’m doing good, it’s been a chill day.
pretty productive day.
Honestly a bit stressed, my wife was confirmed to be in a classroom with someone that tested positive for COVID (College of Marin, not SRJC). Trying to just take things day to day until we know some more information. Glad that the book has been exciting to read at the least! How’s your day professor?
All good. Sending positive thoughts your way…
Appreciate it!
praying for a negative test coming your way!!
Hi everyone! pretty chill day, just finished cooking for my family and excited to be here!
PATRICIAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Good to see you!!!
Happy Monday!! I’m doing good! you guys?
NINAAA!!!!! How’s it goin? How’s the fam? did your sister email me???
Did she email you? She didn’t tell me anything, I cant ask her right now because she sleeping lol. But It’s going good, the fams good, my brother started football again so he’s super excited. How’s your family?
All good. Little crazy, but that gives me something to write. Don’t wake her, I’ll message her later. 🙂 Thanks for being here!!!
Everything has been perfectly decent today. Not too exciting but not bad whatsoever
hey,
I had a creative day did some art and went for a walk instead of sitting down on my computer all day which was a nice change.
What kind of art did you do?
I drew a face used pencils and chalk. It was really fun haven’t drawn in a while.
Nice! keep it up!
oooohh what kind of art? 🙂
hello hello!!
How has everyone’s day been?? mine has been a relaxed start of the week, trained my horse and taught the donkey how to fetch a stick… they are interesting animals.
Hi KC… would you mind changing your profile to reflect your full name please, so I can give you credit? Thanks.
will do
wow, that’s really cool. Must be fun.
Oh that sounds wonderful! How successful were you at teaching the donkey how to fetch?
doing well my book final came
finally came
NICE!!
hell yea! hope you enjoy it and it’s worth the wait
Hey Professor how are you today! Today has been the typical Monday with school, and a lot of cleaning
All good over here!
Hey everybody! my day was all over the place. Spent the morining surfing then came home to see someone had crashed into our front yard and taken out one of the telephone poles.
Well the surfing part sounds fun….sorry about the drama though
So jealous…. I wanna go surfing!!!!!
Same!!!
Surfing part was great, a little cold but great nontheless
Thats crazy, had the same thing happen to a friend, they had to build a cinder block wall in front of their home!
Oh my goodness, glad you’re safe!
Hi Guys! I woke up early and was on the job as soon as it was light. Work today included re working a coy pond. So it was a little messy and sorta smelly but its creative outdoors work I enjoy. Spent the afternoon re working( ok, re writing the response paper), and went on a solid run with my handsome dog. No I’m here! Yay!
Sounds busy and productive!
It’s been a normal Monday for me. I had work early in the morning then math class shortly after and now I’m here lol.
Hey guys! Not a crazy day today but I did have a fun conversation with my friend I’m staying with up here in Seattle. We talked about how greedy Americans can be basically just how the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Hunger, water issues, deforestation, etc. Besides the Debbie downer convo I’m happy to be back in class!
How is Seattle?
well, cold and rainy but I’m sure that’s no surprise haha. I’m having a good time exploring the beautiful environment and coffee shops sprinkled around. I spent some time up in the space needle and gained some much needed perspective. Overall having a fantastic time, thanks for asking!
It cold and rainy her so glad you are getting out and about and seeing the world and new perspectives.
How’s Seattle?
Really fun, it’s kind of nice being a tourist during the COVID times so I can compare the city now to how it used to be. I must say I sort of like it more now in its quieter, less crowded state.
Honestly it was a case of the mondays for me. Slept through my alarms and I bolted to work where gremlins (kiddos) were waiting to just try my patience at 7 am with zero caffeine in my system. haha
Ugh. I feel your pain. Gremlins haha
Thanks for being here. Have fun tonight..
I slept through both of my alarms as well. Luckily I woke up 10 minutes before my class started
Today was a pretty mediocre day. I woke up with my cat laying on my head then worked on some school work, played guitar, cleaned my room and now i’m here.
Do you play any music covers on your guitar? Or make your own melodies?
I enjoy playing songs from the 60’s, 70’s etc. I enjoy playing The Beatles songs the most out of any band though.
After a several hours of zoom classes and doctors appointments, my boyfriend and I were feeling drained. In an attempt to liven ourselves up, we went out in the rain to play with the dogs. We’re lucky enough to be on a small farm in the forest set a part from the rest of the town. Even though life has never been so slow, I feel like this is the busiest I have ever been! Our 10 minute break to play with the animals in the rain was the perfect reset to freshen my mind and to remind me why I am doing what I’m doing.
Thanks for coming tonight!
Happy to be here!
That sounds like a lot of fun. Thanks for the idea might do that sometime when it starts raining where I am.
10/10 recommend running in the rain every chance you get
Honestly would LOVE to live on acres, it makes me think that its freeing than living in a suburb
Definitely more freeing! Downfall is that this is actually my boyfriends house and I get to go back home to Oakland tomorrow lol
Happy February. Have you enjoyed the rain? I’ve been grieving and mourning for the last couple of days. Clarity isn’t so clear. But, I am fine, breathing, and scribbling.
(hello)
Doing alright today, had a brief stint overthinking too far into the future and stressing myself out about things that may or may not even happen. But I realized a bit sooner than usual that doing that to myself does more harm than good and I would be much better off focusing on today and what I am currently dealing with, and take life as it comes instead of stressing over what it could be dishing out to me.
man, you can definitely spiral down the rabbit hole with that one
Today was a pretty packed day, very productive though.
I had an interesting day a challenging day of zoom sessions. I needed a break from all the screens inside so I ran around in the rain with my girlfriend and my dogs. I think we enjoyed it more than the dogs did.
Today was hard. Today I felt accomplished for getting out of bed and opening my windows. I sat crouched on the back porch for a long time. Thinking about the lichen that had fallen off the oak trees around my house. Lichen only grows like .25 inches a year, and the bigger pieces are probably older than I am. That’s so cool. The earth just, goes about its ways. Even with people and their issues and their moral quandaries.
Small accomplishments are very important, even getting out of bed. And that’s a cool fact about lichen.
Hit me with those passages and quotes, y’all….
I remembered I was supposed to be in my philosophy class mid workout this morning. Luckily I was able to join late and I will be able to make up the class but that wasn’t very responsible of me! It was an innocent mistake but still. I guess I need to get used to my new schedule. I’m considering getting a planner to help but I worry once I adjust to my classes in the coming weeks I’ll get too lazy to use it.
I used to have the same problems/ideas about the planner. Try to use your journal for “to do” lists every morning at the very least. It helped a lot with my scheduling and procrastination and I’m sure it can help you too!
Pretend you’re good at it
you beat me to it haha
Jenny Lawson just makes me wanna talk shit. Especially in “George Washington’s….”
I find myself being a little bit more mouthy as well haha
Why?
Because there’s people in my life that on the regular cross my boundaries and I’m kind of fed up, and it’s like Jeanny gave me permission to talk back.
As someone who struggled with both ADD and insomnia, I highly cracked up at the part of Rory the cowboy raccoon. I’d often be running around the house looking for things to entertain myself with. (eventually resulting in, in my opinion HILARIOUS sketches featuring fruit.)
Nice!
I think this might’ve been one of my favorite stories so far. I loved that it started off with her having no arms and then spiraled into the amazing story of her trying to convince her cats to stay still long enough fir her to take a picture.
Another fun comment is “feeling excessively Stabby”
lol
“Don’t make the same mistakes that everyone else makes. Make wonderful mistakes. Make the kind of mistakes that make people so shocked that they have no other choice but to be a little impressed.”
I like that one a lot too
YES!!! What does this make you think?
“After all, I was a bit crazy. And I didn’t even have to pretend to be good at it. I was a damn natural” (pg. 50)
That was a really good chapter. I like how sums up that tap chapter with that sentence
chapter: my phone is more fun to hang out with than me
quote: that madwoman is me. The calls are coming from inside the house.
I can humbly relate to the paranoia my mind can create late at night. lol
So many can!! So perfect for the world we live in now.
yes, same here.
“Mentally ill. it’s a phrase that once scared me, but now I wear it like an old jacket, comfortable but ugly. It keeps me warm when people look at me as if I’ve lost my mind. I haven’t.” I talked about this in my paper as well but this was such a powerful statement for me. It showed how she puts this hardship on display and isn’t scared to let people know. It is also a way to empower others who may suffer from mental illness as well by telling them that they shouldn’t be ashamed of themselves.
yes very much!
I love Lawson’s notes when she waits for her sleeping pills to kick in, I feel like there hard to understand, but I get what she’s saying. “I was worried that if I ever asked to see the dog-food-eating pharmacist the other pharmacists would stop giving me drugs.” this story made me laugh so much and I kind of relate cause I get really curious then get shy or anxious.
Great quote here, and I love your accompanying thought.
The dog-food-eating pharmacist is one of my favorites so far. I wish she would’ve asked him WHY!
yes, me too
” One side light and magical. Always seeing good. The other side bloodied, stumbling. Never quite able to keep up.” This whole paragraph was great. comparing her foot steps with life, was a pretty cool metaphor!
The obvious stand out for me came when she spoke of her friend’s advice to pretend you’re good at something. Taking that first step has long been the most difficult part of any process for me, with my anxiety always seeming to get in the way of beginning even things I believe I would enjoy or be good at.
I agree with this very much, when I read that line, “pretend you’re good at it” my eyes widened in realization. Our confidence really does come from within and comfortability in any situation is completely up to how we choose to feel. If you just act like you’ve been there before you’re bound to feel much more comfortable. Fake it till you make it!
“But frankly I do sort of wonder how people taste”
I’m not even going not lie I have thought and still wondered what humans taste like. Not saying I want to try because I would never eat a human.
I get a sense of desperation mixed with decision in her writing… especially in the Sleep Disorder essay…
a very manic desperation
“So none of us are unique in being unique because being unique is pretty much the least unique think you can be, because it comes naturally to everyone. So perhaps instead of ‘BE UNIQUE’ we should be saying, ‘Be as visibly fucked up as you want to be because being unique is already taken.”
love this
Love this!!
“Mentally ill. It’s a phrase that once scared me, but now I wear it like an old jacket, comfortable but ugly.” Being comfortable in her own skin. Seeing what makes her her and living in it comfortably knowing everyone can see and have their own opinions. Being able to go through life without caring what others think and feeling safe while doing it.
Oh you stole my quote hahaha
lol
FEARLESS.
“Mentally ill. It’s a phase that once scared me, but now I wear it like an old Jacket, comfortable and ugly.” pg 45. I think it’s absolutely great that she has accepted herself and owns it now.
“So maybe ‘crazy’ isn’t so bad after all.”
I’m not sure if crazy is…