Humor comes from pain.

I just fall asleep for no reason. I crack open a book for five minutes and all of a sudden I'm yawning and my eyelids can't stay open and I end up reading the same sentence over and over again without realizing it cause I'm completely zoned out and then I physically need to take a nap.

We need to change our diets or something. You eat a lot of bread like me?

I'm sure my diet is garbage but I also suspect that just working a garbage job that saps my energy is more to blame cause it saps my energy to do anything else and I was eating garbage when I was reading books too.

One thing I tried to do when I had exhausting jobs was to read in the morning before I went to work so if there’s a limited amount of mental expenditure available I tried to make sure I used it for myself before it was stolen from me.

You’ve spelled out your schedule. Plain and simple you need to work less.

Right before the epidemic I'd fallen into a routine of heading out two hours before work to the Hardee's down the street, getting some food, and spending the rest of the time reading in the dining room before going to BK. I kind of loved it cause my Hardee's has great windows for sunlight and really miss it now.

Mawfukka do you know where I live? Working less means less money. I pay $900 a month just for rent.

I get it.

God these forum awards stress me out so much. I can never bring myself to fill one out due to not wanting to hurt anyone's feelings/simply not being able to choose ONE person for most of the categories. Plus it just brings back memories of similar awards threads on a couple message boards I frequented in my mid teens which were always rife with chaos and treachery.

Same for me (minus the anxiety). I have an easier time focusing on non-fiction books, personally. And also physical books as opposed to the PDFs I hoard on my laptop.

I really liked this article I read a while back that talks about the poor attention spans of those of us raised by the internet: https://www.motherjones.com/media/20...-unbreak-them/

I for one desperately need to get better at just focusing on ONE SINGLE BOOK/pdf/super long article at a time as opposed to 10+ at once. When I try, my brain is like "?? ? Not!!! enough!!! stimulation!!!! need ALL information at ONCE!!" (plus, having racing thoughts nearly 24/7 makes quieter activities difficult unless it's something like bird watching)