The List for the 2018-19 Season: Episode 1

[burd]

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Three weeks in on classes and I am doing well. Professors say I'm actively participating in class, and for being as green as a pine tree in the field of social work, once I sit down and put some thought into my work, the coursework isn't that bad. Anti-List.

Good for you.

[MissThundercat]

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Good for you.

Yep. Doing well on my assignments too.

Mama Wendy is on the Anti-List too. I met her last May when she came to Out On the Lakeshore as a Center Coordinator, someone to manage the books and the social media accounts. I didn't think too much about it when she was brought on, but we started talking, and our relationship bloomed. One day, I caught a nap on a center couch, and in typical Mom fashion, she told me to go home and go to bed. When I got into that car accident in September, her response was "where are you and do you need me to come get you?" Two days later, on my birthday, she greeted me with cupcakes at OOTL. When that "trans erasure" memo came out in October, she texted "I have your heart and soul. Always, Amber Marie!" She's done a really good job of reeling me back in when my mind gets too dark, too negative. She calls me part of her family. She buys me coffee. She's a wonderful human and I'm kind of ashamed to be in her presence, actually. But there's something about a mother's love that brings me back to the present and makes me wonder why I was even upset...

[MissThundercat]

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Getting all As in grad school: Anti-List.

Having really supportive professors and classmates: Anti-List.

The fact I have so many adopted Mamas is on the Anti-List.

[burd]

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Line-dried laundry is on the Anti-List.

[MissThundercat]

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Severe mid-foot arthritis is on The List.

[/B]The fact that I'm still running and doing all this amazing stuff with severe mid-foot arthritis is on the Anti-List.

[jen]

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I was 95% recovered from a concussion. 95! I mowed the lawn. Could watch baseball on TV. Was planning on going back to work this week. Almost there. And then I bumped my head on a tree (full contact gardening, I guess). Now I'm back to square one. Eff this sh**. On The List.

[Kepler]

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Our cats, for reenacting the chariot race from Ben Hur in our bedroom at 4:42 in the morning: the List.

on a Saturday: the Anti-List.

[burd]

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Our cats, for reenacting the chariot race from Ben Hur in our bedroom at 4:42 in the morning: the List.

on a Saturday: the Anti-List.

I love those qualities that make cats cats.

[The Sicatoka]

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Anxiety at work is on The List.

Anxiety at home is on The List.

[Kepler]

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So you're fine with anxiety on your commute?

[The Sicatoka]

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So you're fine with anxiety on your commute?

What's a commute? I work from home.

The problem with working from home? You're always at work.

[dxmnkd316]

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A lot of people designate a specific room as their work room. They don’t take personal stuff into the room. They don’t take work stuff out of the room. There is a literal physical separation between work and home.

[leswp1]

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A lot of people designate a specific room as their work room. They don’t take personal stuff into the room. They don’t take work stuff out of the room. There is a literal physical separation between work and home.

And do the out of office message on email for non-work hours.

I haven't worked as an NP for a few yrs now but I found toward the end that people struggle to set boundaries now that there is an ability to access work via email and phone 24-7. People would answer work calls (when not on-call) at ridiculous hours, do email when they were at home, etc. Some interesting research about the dopamine rush when things are accomplished that made it equivalent to chain smoking. You light up (look) without thinking and then think afterwards- Oh poo, I was going to wait.

Same thing with sleep- somewhere in the last couple of decades people stopped thinking it was necessary and started to think it was optional- They work at night and do 'just one more thing'- that messes with the ability to initiate and maintain sleep= to the point where they are sleep deprived= feeling like crap, being less efficient,

[The Rube]

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A lot of people designate a specific room as their work room. They don’t take personal stuff into the room. They don’t take work stuff out of the room. There is a literal physical separation between work and home.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Keep it separate. For your health, and your performance.

[MissThundercat]

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I dropped out of my remaining race schedule for the year. Anti-List for several reasons:

1. My right foot is so messed up right now and will probably require surgery to repair any of it. Not running will definitely allow my foot to heal.

2. In the past, there was motivation aplenty. Felt like there was something to prove. This year, it feels like I can't be bothered to get out the door to train.

3. Grad school. This really needs to be a priority.

4. Finally, it's not fun right now, and I said if it wasn't fun, I was going to drop. Well, it's not fun, and so I'm dropping out.