~~~SANDBOX 77~~~

you guys
http://i40.tinypic.com/118j9tj.png
i am so scared

even the little squigglies next to 77 look scared

inner ear boner!

- looked at my checking account today. :(:(:(
- but paycheck gets deposited tomorrow. can't believe how much i spent this week, tho.
- one of the regular volunteers at my workplace is this woman in her late 40s, sweet as pie, probably autistic? (on more than a few occasions i have walked into a room and she starts telling me about something that happened to her, beginning in the middle of the story and talking about people/things i don't know anything about.) anyway, today she came up to me while i was working at my computer and told me how she always enjoys seeing me because "your face helps me calm down." considering i've been anything but calm this week at work, it was super-nice to hear that.
- jules dassin double-feature tonight was great (rififi/topkapi)

have spent the ilx downime chillin with my step-ish sister who's over with my dad. She's ok for an american tbh

Anyone ever see something that looks like a drop of light dropping down from a doorframe?

OMG yes I get this sometimes!

should not say anything bad about our new Amaz0nian overlords but
- got email from them y/day telling me that 4 things I'd ordered last week for Christmas would not be arriving until mid-Jan
- thought this was kinda weird/annoying since all 4 still listed as "in stock" "eligible for free super-saver delivery by 24 Dec"
- panicked, ordered new copies via their mktplace, did not cancel originals for fear that in a week I'd get the same email about the new orders, wishing to hedge bets that something might actually arrive before Christmas
- now both sets have been dispatched ffffuuuu etc

so neat hearing about floaters upthread. i always had the exact same thing, with the same reasoning that i was probably seeing air, & eventually figured out they were scratches. they reminded me of roads on street maps, i guess because a couple intersected or kinked in certain ways. the 'magnetism' of how they drift, like a jerk in tandem with whatever weird turning-satellite-style readjustment your eye is making, is really something.

god can't believe so many people rub poop into their eyes YOU ALL ARE SO GROSS

i used to think they were the souls of dead people :/

i always thought they were bacteria, which for all i know is the case tbh

George Whitman is dead??? Aw, I knew he was ailing but that's so sad. Always wanted to stay at S&Co.

i used to think they were the souls of dead people :/

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My bff in second and third grade (we moved to a new school and then moved again - I was not a fickle child) had a whole conceit wherein eye floaters were angels, and one in particular, named Maybe-Maybe-Not, would talk to us a lot.

I can also unfocus my vision to the extent Jesse described upthread.

I cannot make that whooshing sound when I yawn, but I can press on my tear ducts and make my eyeballs squeak loud enough that people in the same room but not sitting next to me can hear it.

Those are my only talents in this world. ;_;

these are important skills for the 21st century workforce!

"Ellison, we're going to need you to unfocus your vision and then make that whooshing sound on your temple as much as you possibly can, to be frank. Any chance you can stay late tonight?"

an opening for assistant eyeball squeaker w/ career path towards executive eyeball squicker just opened up, please submit your resume ASAP to HR

Anyone ever see something that looks like a drop of light dropping down from a doorframe?

Why from a doorframe?

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv4q8aYQJB1qg39ewo1_500.gif

Re: light dropping down from door frames - http://m.io9.com/5868098/in-the-short-movie-light-los-angeles-is-overrun-by-viscous-blobs-of-oozing-luminescence

just spent too much time pruning my fb after switching over to timeline

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-TaiLWIzCHU/TLGVCBr0SWI/AAAAAAAADPg/7vm5zpwYHqw/s1600/edward-scissorhands_l.jpg

l-r: timeline, markers, timeline

woooooooo!!!!

oh, sorry. i was thinking i was the first to rediscover the sandbox. now i see that others were enjoying the sandbox literally 15 minutes ago

Anyone ever see something that looks like a drop of light dropping down from a doorframe?

OMG yes I get this sometimes!

Glad I'm not the only one! I've no idea why it's from doorframes, it just is. Usually from an open doorway into a dark room, I see something dropping very fast. I've checked for water lots of times and there's nothing there.

It sounds like it's a reflection, or light through a gap between the door and the frame, when the door is not perfectly straight and vertical. As you move the light reflection (or view through a gap) slides up or down.

No, it's an open doorway, usually the open side so the door isn't there. It's probably something similar though.

As of August 2011, Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn was attached to direct the remake of Logan's Run with actor Ryan Gosling attached to star.[18] Refn and Gosling had recently worked together on the 2011 thriller Drive.

Oh sorry you meant an actual doorframe? I thought you meant just the light looking that way: I'll get a thing in the corner of my rght eye where a vicous blob of light will pulse down the very far right of my vision, a little as if it was in fact light shining thry a crack in a door - but I can see it in all kinds of random situs, not just when looking at a door.

Are acid flashbacks really a thing or is that like the whole "seven times and you're legally insane" hallucinogen mythos?

they are really a thing!

tho i think it's more like a vivid memory suddenly encroaching on present reality

I'll tell you why I ask: back when I used to do a lot of hallucinogens, I would often see animals scurrying around in my peripheral vision. It happens once in a great, great while now, but not even remotely with the frequency or intensity that it used to (notably once asked someone what their dog's name was only to be met with a blank stare and "I don't have a dog..."). I always chalked it up to drugs, but then I started to post about it vis a vis light in doorways and wondered if I was just going to sound totally crazy.

I've never had a vivid memory suddenly encroaching on present reality, though (thankfully. I would probably not handle that well). Just peripherally scurrying critters.

peripheral creatures, i am familiar
i think hallucinogens taught me a lot about how time/space and memory works. i mean, in a really unscientific way.

- it has been raining all day and for part of the day i feel like i did nothing, because i was tired but also just a bit bleah, like, i actually watched four or five episodes of The Unit (i know i know; i have a thing for this show) on netflix and in between did work/"work". and ate noodles. and felt horribly lazy.
- but then pulled myself up and did some reading but not any tidying which is what i kinda need to do
- and then a friend said we needed to go rock climbing and we went and it was AWESOME and i feel ALIVE again. it had been two weeks since last climbing, which is wrong and makes it more difficult to warm up but i did hard things and now my arms feel like they can hardly deal with holding a mug of tea but it's all A-OK :)

Oh sorry you meant an actual doorframe? I thought you meant just the light looking that way:

Me too. Now I get it.

xp Acid flashbacks, PTSD flashbacks--any extremely vivid experience will give you flashbacks.

The wind sounds insane out there! Lying in bed listening to howling and leaf tornadoes outside.

it is frosty and slippy and slidey and my lil bro pushed me up the steep hill on our road, not in the car or anything i just set myself and he pushed me- neighbour's kid wanted to try it but we were rushing for work mebbe later kid ok

already posted this on chicago thread, but just found out i made it to final round of interviews (with two other people) for a cool job in Chicago!! the interview will be sometime during the next 2 weeks, and i'll get the final decision on Jan 9 (and then would start out there in late Jan, if i got it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6v6QRTSyLQ

This is awesome! Your job was making you really depressed and it seemed kinda hopeless and you deserve better!!! Gl gl gl

Yay ZS! That's awesome!

*pumped!*

man, have you guys seen the new facebook timeline? a friend of mine just switched over to it, and holy shit, this scares me. i'm going to have to comb through my history because i know there are BILLIONS of things that wouldn't be so great to share these days.

Contrary to what I expected, I actually get happier and happier about deleting my FB page as time goes by.

i might just delete everything older than 2 weeks old. i don't want to look back through all this shit

i would give the last 5 years two thumbs down

way down

i still don't have the timeline and i don't know why