How's Everyone Feeling Right Meow?

[Jesster]

Is merlot a feeling? I'm feeling merloty...

I could use some of that right now.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Feeling tight, right, and bright ... good afternoon, nice dinner of leftover smoked chicken, lotsa guitarin' (I've got happy fingers (), enjoying what's probably the last night of an Indian Summer. A cold front rolling in tomorrow, I reckon I'll be having chicken stew tomorrow ... but for now I'm enjoying a warm evening on the porch.

[Expired]

Hungry.

[Edwardo Piet]

Musical and sanguine.

And hanging out in AF's Slack

[Aroura]

Exhausted.

I need to learn how to say no, and I already lost my train of thought.
Um. Right, don't be guilt tripped. I need sleep. His need to unwind (with a gory horror flick) every night starting AT my bed time is not MORE important than my need to be well rested so I can take care of my duties the next day. 5 to 6 hours of sleep is not enough. I don't get to sleep in like he does. I have a hard time keeping my temper and anxiety under control with so little sleep every night.

I desperately need a nap. I'm so tired it hurts!

[Edwardo Piet]

To go along with the feeling musical. I made a new song:

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Pretty good.

[Edwardo Piet]

Feeling especially fascinated by the following quoted text from the transcript of the video linked below:

Now, the two selves bring up two notions of happiness. There are really two concepts of happiness that we can apply, one per self. So you can ask: How happy is the experiencing self? And then you would ask: How happy are the moments in the experiencing self's life? [...]What are the emotions that can be measured? And, by the way, now we are capable of getting a pretty good idea of the happiness of the experiencing self over time. If you ask for the happiness of the remembering self, it's a completely different thing. This is not about how happily a person lives. It is about how satisfied or pleased the person is when that person thinks about her life. Very different notion. Anyone who doesn't distinguish those notions is going to mess up the study of happiness, and I belong to a crowd of students of well-being, who've been messing up the study of happiness for a long time in precisely this way.

The distinction between the happiness of the experiencing self and the satisfaction of the remembering self has been recognized in recent years, and there are now efforts to measure the two separately. The Gallup Organization has a world poll where more than half a million people have been asked questions about what they think of their life and about their experiences, and there have been other efforts along those lines. So in recent years, we have begun to learn about the happiness of the two selves. And the main lesson I think that we have learned is they are really different. You can know how satisfied somebody is with their life, and that really doesn't teach you much about how happily they're living their life, and vice versa. Just to give you a sense of the correlation, the correlation is about .5. What that means is if you met somebody, and you were told, "Oh his father is six feet tall," how much would you know about his height? Well, you would know something about his height, but there's a lot of uncertainty. You have that much uncertainty. If I tell you that somebody ranked their life eight on a scale of ten, you have a lot of uncertainty about how happy they are with their experiencing self. So the correlation is low.

https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahnema...anguage=en

[c172]

I managed a cold.

[Edwardo Piet]

Feeling truly fucking epic.

Sappsolutely plendid.