Bad world. No biscuit.

[triskellian]

I'd like to add my sympathies to the huge pile accumulating at the feet of the <name of company belatedely removed> people, whether you've still got a job or not. I was made redundant a couple of years ago, and it sucked, and I was told by my former colleagues that working in a post-redundancy company sucked, too. I hope you're all OK.

I spent a large part of yesterday afternoon and evening disproportionately freaked out over the death of a cyclist yesterday morning, just down the road from smiorgan's office. To which he cycles most days. I know that one accident doesn't make his journey any less safe than it was last week, but, but...

And then, I had the worst wedding-anxiety dream yet, last night. This was the first one featuring the actual day, and it was in great detail. smiorgan had vanished, the bridesmaids were in revolt, my house was full of people I didn't know, and something terrible had happened to my dress. And that's just the start.

The worst thing about this continuing series of dreams is that I'm actually not anxious about the wedding. I'm not even particularly anxious about the various arrangements we haven't yet arranged. But my brain evidently thinks I should be being anxious, so it's taking advantage of that realworld/dreamworld crossover thing to project a whole other set of emotions onto me.

Yes, I'm aware that it's ridiculous to be writing about my brain as the enemy.

While I've been writing this, colleagues have talked about broken sleep, unusually quiet roads (oversleeping commuters?), nightmarey children... From a practical point of view, I believe that bad/odd stuff clusters, but from a theoretical point of view, it doesn't seem to make much sense...

But I'm rambling, so I'll stop.

Comments

[triskellian]

Ah, but that could just be another bad thing, rather than a cause (in the case of general minor bad stuff; of course, as you say, it is at least a partial cause of specific bad stuff).

But I'm not looking for a mystical reason, and I'm not sure I'd believe in one if I found it. I'm fairly happy with the bad-and-changeable weather as a reason for most of the little bits of bad stuff.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Heh, that's got to be worth a doctoral thesis in sociology or psychology - "effects on the incidence of bad stuff of weather, stock market prices, changeability of weather and volatility of markets".

[triskellian]

<grin> Bloody depressing to research, though. Catalogue all the bad stuff that happens to anyone you know, and plot against weather. Possibly a good way to lose friends ;-)

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't be valid research if it was people you knew. Although this is Sociology we're talking about here.

[triskellian]

So you get a random bunch of volunteers to tell you about all of their little annoyingnesses? It'd be more interesting if they all knew each other, cos I think these things feed off themselves within social groups...

More rambling ;-)

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

More rambling ;-)

It can't be that bad, there hasn't been a GIP (GIC) yet... :-)

Bunches of random social group volunteers then. Might be a bit hard to get a group of people to all volunteer though.

[triskellian]

Ooh! Ooh! I want a 'rambling' icon!

Bunches of random social group volunteers then. Might be a bit hard to get a group of people to all volunteer though.
Indeed. Hence original theory of using people you already know ;-)

[nevecat.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Kindly remember what forum you're discussing this on...people regularly whinge about all manner of annoyances to total strangers!

[triskellian]

Heh. You have a point ;-)

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

Whinging about annoyances to strangers and filling in a daily questionaire with all the details, including the ones you don't want to talk about are different kettles of haddock.

(hmm, actually quite like this Icon)

GIC

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

Hmm, how about this...

(I know, not very graphicy but I have work to do...)

Re: GIC

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

Or if you want a silly pun...

Re: GIC

[triskellian]

That's the kind of thing I was thinking of, in fact ;-)

[zandev.livejournal.com]

Somewhat ironically though, I'm usually quite happy when shares fall in price. I figure that saving for retirement I'm going to be a net buyer of shares, so cheap shares are a good thing. :)