Junk Etc., PhD

Curious and fallible.
Health professional.
Sometimes researcher.
On a bizarre trajectory guided by strange attractions.

@SkeletonYoga

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The most important moment in your life is this one.

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First date at the Leafs game tonight? Sitting behind the Leafs bench? Looking very tidy. Nice.

Now stop talking. Just shut up. Can you hear yourself? You’re blathering. Listen instead, to her. It’s what she wants.

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The sounds of humans eating turns my stomach.

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Laura Petrie's Avocado-Peanut Butter Dip
1 Avocado, pitted/mashed
1 Tbsp Smooth Peanut Butter
1/4 Tsp Yellow Mustard
1 Dash Cayenne Pepper
1 Tsp Honey
1 Lemon, juiced
Salt & Pepper to taste
Blend smooth all ingredients. Adjust amounts/add other ingredients. It will never be good.

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The moustache. Like the mullet. Never one’s best look.

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Cats are great.
They’re self-cleaning.

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The smell of warm paint in the stairwells at work reminds me of time spent in playgrounds.

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define labile: liable to change; easily altered; tending to alter quickly and spontaneously; unstable

uses: technical, chemical, psychological

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original monster. wow. so gross. like so gross.

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The purpose of working constructively with suffering is to provide the self with something to do. It is fallacious to assume that suffering diminishes owing to that activity or that learning how to mitigate some suffering will prevent it from occurring.

[Junk Etc., PhD @veraciouslyme]

And the little can looked up at the big bottle, full of awe, wishing that it too might one day be so full of energy.

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Truth is expensive and fiction is very, very cheap.

Most information is not expensive.

Therefore, most information is fiction.

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“Your emotions are like a car engine. Some people idle low, others rev high. Learning to control the gas pedal doesn’t mean changing who you are—it just means driving smoothly” -chatgpt

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“People talk and give input to others in various positions. Everyone is interlocked in some way. Make sure what they talk about is your work, not your personal shit.”

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Growth: Not all the time but anytime.

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Best thing about a gap? Having one.

(Says a potentially unwell version of me.)

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Maybe you don’t need treatment; maybe you need a different life.

Maybe you wouldn’t need to drink, if you had another life.

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Being the odd one out is hard when you’re a kid; it implies and then affirms you are the one no one actually wants to be around.

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Perhaps the freedom in dying is the not having to try anymore.

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I suppose the popcorn shrinks by half?

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Cultural ignorance: not everyone speaks NFL.