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Re: A quick question
« Reply #15 on: July 16, 2005, 03:56:38 AM »
Editing makes me daydream, but it's focused daydreaming, having to do with what I'm working on. Except when I get bored or distracted by something in my personal life, then I daydream (or ruminate, rather).
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Re: A quick question
« Reply #16 on: July 16, 2005, 07:40:57 PM »
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I'm not entirely sure what I do but I collect a paycheck every month and I'm pretty sure it's not allowance, probably because my parents don't give allowance. Also I spend my days in a strangley lucid daze...


So your job is being a lab rat for experimental drugs?
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Re: A quick question
« Reply #17 on: July 16, 2005, 11:25:25 PM »
Being out in nature tends to make me daydream of Fantasy-ish stuff.  Like seeing the mountains in Provo, or hiking through the interior of Tahiti.  Things like that.
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Re: A quick question
« Reply #18 on: July 17, 2005, 04:29:04 PM »
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So your job is being a lab rat for experimental drugs?


well I do ussually end up as the test subject for my mothers new theories on how certain chemicle compounds can improve/ impede brain function... I'm actually serious this time, I've taken all sorts of things because my mom wants to know "what's this gonna do?"
eg: concerta, ritalin, welbutrin, seratonin, Dhea, melatonin, methylphendidate,zinc, BGH... etc.
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Re: A quick question
« Reply #19 on: July 17, 2005, 07:57:47 PM »
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Re: A quick question
« Reply #20 on: July 17, 2005, 08:02:48 PM »
Being bored.  Not just bored for a little while cause you're not doing any work, but being really bored.  The kind of bored that can't be achieved after children.  The kind where you have nothing pressing to do, nothing coming up, and no plans for the immediate future.  It also helps when nothing is on TV and you're sick and tired of playing video games.

That's when you're mind really starts wondering.  Of course, it takes much too much work to get yourself to that position.
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Re: A quick question
« Reply #21 on: July 17, 2005, 11:33:13 PM »
Actually, I find the worst kind of bored is the boredom that occurs when you DO have something pressing to do, like a report on Walden, or a lawn to mow within a certain time limit.
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Re: A quick question
« Reply #22 on: July 18, 2005, 03:05:31 AM »
see I never ever get bored because I'm always too busy being me, IE the weirdest thing since weirdman drove his weirdmobile to weirdville and stayed at the weirdison inn and then had the weird continental breakfast... his eggs were a little weird, but then again all hotel eggs are kinda skeazy.
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Re: A quick question
« Reply #23 on: July 19, 2005, 06:29:23 PM »
I wrote a short story one time about a 'magician' who was battling an evil wizard.   The wizard was trying to cast spells on the protagonist, and he was parrying and countering with spells and actions of his own.

In the end, he decides to 'channel' and ask a wizard even greater than he.  The story then flips to a guy calling tech support.  He describes the problems he is having (which correspond to the 'spells' the evil wizard was casting) and what he was doing to try to fix it (which again correspond to his actions).   The tech support guy helps our poor and (we now realize) somewhat moronic protagonist, and he is able to defeat the evil wizard (gets his computer to reboot).

Anyway, sometimes I think those that use technology anthropomorphize the technology they use as friends and foes.   Their laptop is their sidekick, their PDA is a superhero tool...  etc. etc.

Just my random thoughts.
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Re: A quick question
« Reply #24 on: July 19, 2005, 08:17:20 PM »
I wrote a whole paper on "science as magic" for my Science and Literature class.