Can I just say, and I'm just being honest...

[Longhorn]

And you stare at me
In your Jesus Christ pose
Arms held out
Like you've been carrying a load

You're staring at me
Like I need to be saved

Arms held out, in your Jesus Christ pose
Thorns and shroud
Like it's the coming of the Lord

You're staring at me
Like I'm driving the nails...

[Longhorn]

Look, I get it. Holidays. Family. Tradition. I really do understand. But this is 90% arguing for you and 100% exhausting pain in the ass for me. This is not quality time. This is toxic and stressful. No one is having a good time. No one will feel good after all this food. It's all downsides and no fun so why the fuck are we doing it?

(P.S. I would complain much less if you got me some booze)

[brewer]

Look, I get it. Holidays. Family. Tradition. I really do understand. But this is 90% arguing for you and 100% exhausting pain in the ass for me. This is not quality time. This is toxic and stressful. No one is having a good time.  No one will feel good after all this food. It's all downsides and no fun so why the fuck are we doing it?

(P.S. I would complain much less if you got me some booze)

A tradition of despair and pain. Makes sense, now hit me!

[Kernel Sohcahtoa]

CIJS,

I remember Thanksgiving of 2014.  During this day, my family was away doing their own thing, and I ended up spending the day by myself.  Now, this was actually not a bad thing for me, as I'm very introverted: I often find solitude very energizing and relaxing.  Thus, on this day, I pulled out my trig book (I had been teaching myself trig and was nearing the end of my studies) and started working examples and problems on my dry erase board.  In particular, I was tackling some trigonometry concepts (perhaps De Moivre's theorem/products and quotients in trigonometric form or learning how to find complex roots), and I recall that this was actually a very fun, enjoyable, and relaxing time: I was immersing myself in the beauty of ideas and didn't want to pull myself out of the wonder that had consumed my mind.  Hence, upon reflection, on that day, I enjoyed the companionship of trig ideas; this enjoyment eventually culminated in me gaining more of an interest in mathematics and building up the confidence, motivation, curiosity, and audacity to teach myself calculus.

Live long and prosper AF members and anyone else.

[Fireball]

CIJS,

I remember Thanksgiving of 2014.  During this day, my family was away doing their own thing, and I ended up spending the day by myself.  Now, this was actually not a bad thing for me, as I'm very introverted: I often find solitude very energizing and relaxing.  Thus, on this day, I pulled out my trig book (I had been teaching myself trig and was nearing the end of my studies) and started working examples and problems on my dry erase board.  In particular, I was tackling some trigonometry concepts (perhaps De Moivre's theorem/products and quotients in trigonometric form or learning how to find complex roots), and I recall that this was actually a very fun, enjoyable, and relaxing time: I was immersing myself in the beauty of ideas and didn't want to pull myself out of the wonder that had consumed my mind.  Hence, upon reflection, on that day, I enjoyed the companionship of trig ideas; this enjoyment eventually culminated in me gaining more of an interest in mathematics and building up the  confidence, motivation, curiosity, and audacity to teach myself calculus.

Live long and prosper AF members and anyone else.

CIJS, I admire that you are so motivated to self study so much mathematics. I did a little of that on the side during my studies at university, and during my "career", though that was mostly electromagnetic scattering and propagation. Hard shit to work on, yet so beautiful, at the same time. When I taught high school math, I got a real sense of the beauty when solving problems for the students (and on my own time, for that matter).

Nerd admission time- I studied matrix theory during the summer between my junior and senior years in high school.

[Thumpalumpacus]

You will learn one day to separate stress from love, and express the two emotions differently.

[brewer]

You will learn one day to separate stress from love, and express the two emotions differently.

Unless you love stress, but that just makes you sick.

[Thumpalumpacus]

You will learn one day to separate stress from love, and express the two emotions differently.

Unless you love stress, but that just makes you sick.

Not the case here. I just ain't a dump.

[Pat Mustard]

I'm stiff all over. Fucking lazy bolloxes didn't turn up for the match tonight, and I ended up being the whole of the full forward line.

I was running all over the place.

This is the thread for venting, correct?

[Thumpalumpacus]

Correct.