Another I'm bored and chatty post, mostly about Radiohead

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Wow. I feel terrible. I think I'm going to have to judge the "working three days a week" experiment a failure, especially since one of those days was spent restfully watching other people speak during a four hour(!) meeting.

I'm currently watching "Meeting People is Easy", a Radiohead doco I recorded off ABC (Unexpected side effect of Foxtel: recording all that cool stuff off ABC and SBS have I forget to watch) It's so utterly them, a bunch of diconnected half scenes and songs with no explanation or context, often cut off mid sentence. And yet somehow it ALL MAKES SENSE. Back in about 1997 their official webpage consisted almost entirely of mostly white pages with disconnected images and snatches of lyrics, with random words being links to other pages, and clicking in far enough led to strange things, and their merchandise page and "As a reward for clicking this far, have a free t-shirt design saying "Property of the Radiohead Corporation"". I thought it was the coolest thing ever, in my defense I was 17 :D It had an unforunate effect on my homepage which I first constructed around that time, the only real remaining vestige being the scenic route.

I love their music, but I get the feeling I'd find them unbearably intimidating and up themselves in person :) (Well, that and I turn into a gibbering 12 year old girl when I meet famous people, it's terrible) I've never cared much about the musicians who make the music I like much anyway, I get more personally attached to writers. (Although, in the very unlikley event Radiohead reads this but you never know..I LOVE YOU GUYS NO OFFENSE SQUEE FLAIL)

Does anyone else think Thom Yorke looks kind of like John Simm? No? Ok, just me then.

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I was just thinking about that today, actually, it is a bit disturbing.

I think it's a bit like the charity thing you were talking about the other day. CFS forces you to look at the world in terms of 'effort'. You become a sort of accountant of how much effort everything costs and know to the last spoon how much you can afford. So a few years ago, if you had asked that question about standing and not saying anything when you know something to be wrong, I would have cheerfully chimed up and said of course it was wrong, and quoted All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing at you. These days I first calculate how many spoons I wish to devote to even answering the question, never mind if I want to stand up for the issue.

This is where I found some CBT tricks helpful - in learning not to hate myself for having to make these sorts of adjustments.

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I think becoming more aware of and coming to terms with the whole idea of spoons etc means I expend what social justice etc effort I do more thoughtfully rather than inefficiently out of knee jerk guilt. In general I've had to come to terms with not being able to do everything, and once I'm in that mind space it's easier to think sensibly about what I will do.