I realized today that one reason I don't practice "mindfulness" more is that with it comes the realization that I am physically uncomfortable a lot of the time
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Interesting observation. As someone with fibromyalgia, I can definitely attest to the dissociation. Only problem is, when you tune out the hurt, you also tune out the pleasure, which wracks havoc with my libido, much to the unhappiness of my dear husband /TMI
Unrelated: my dear friend (that I ended up not editing for after all) has published both an e-book and hard copy version of her pr0n. For your amusement:
This is a different one (that I thought she had already published, but apparently not). She published the vampire thing at the same time, which is silly because she has no clue how to market herself. She just made a FB page for her pen name, made her friends sign up, and just keeps saying "buy my book" and "share this everywhere" because she thinks that's how social media marketing works. I've tried to explain to her that she isn't supposed to sit back and wait for us to sell it for her. She has to actively work at this. Post and pray doesn't work. Not for artists, not for musicians, not for writers. She really should have talked to the supposed publisher that showed supposed interest because this is going to bomb like whoa, and she's already counted her chickens.
Sigh. As Elvis Costello put it, "Some people can't be told, you know; they have to learn the hard way."
It would be interesting to talk sometime about publicizing one's fanfiction and whether social media marketing is simply in bad taste for that. I admit I don't know how social media marketing works (despite working for a company that does a Twitstream about it) but I do know that any obvious (or even detectable) effort at self-marketing other than posting a notice about your work is much frowned on.
That's a good suggestion. I'm actually on lisinopril, and today was the breaking-point as far as pretending I can tolerate it is concerned. (I kept running out of a conference room to cough my lungs out.) I will contact my doctor tomorrow.
You know, I never noticed that Aleve caused stomach upset, but now that I do, I realized that you're absolutely right. It does! I just never made the connection!
The headaches/sinus pain comes and goes. It's not debilitating, but I do have to tune it out. But that leads to more tuning out of things.
I have been feeling much better over the past week or so. Ensuring that I go to bed early enough has made a big difference. Add "staying up late" to the list of things I keep trying, hoping that this time it will come out differently ....
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Unrelated: my dear friend (that I ended up not editing for after all) has published both an e-book and hard copy version of her pr0n. For your amusement:
https://www.createspace.com/4109104?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026
I have no idea if it's any good. I am afraid to read it, although really, it can't be any worse than 50 Shades. Can it?
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I notice her blurb doesn't indicate that it's about vampires or sex, thus depriving her of two big draws.
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It would be interesting to talk sometime about publicizing one's fanfiction and whether social media marketing is simply in bad taste for that. I admit I don't know how social media marketing works (despite working for a company that does a Twitstream about it) but I do know that any obvious (or even detectable) effort at self-marketing other than posting a notice about your work is much frowned on.
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Tonight was a mostly successful CPAP trial, so I may be making progress. Got to figure out this condensation issue, though.
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You know, I never noticed that Aleve caused stomach upset, but now that I do, I realized that you're absolutely right. It does! I just never made the connection!
The headaches/sinus pain comes and goes. It's not debilitating, but I do have to tune it out. But that leads to more tuning out of things.
I have been feeling much better over the past week or so. Ensuring that I go to bed early enough has made a big difference. Add "staying up late" to the list of things I keep trying, hoping that this time it will come out differently ....
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