Are You Fine?

Can I at least have a Hebrew National hot dog?

Well...I suppose. They're seven years old, but help yourself.

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I wasn't really fine when I saw this poll ... since then I think I've figured out that caffeine was doing me in. 3-4 hours of the work day in the worst possible mood then bam, it's over and I'm fine. And the culprit was apparently a pot of green tea.

As long as words are available, I'm fine. They often aren't.

let me qualify what I just said about "worst possible mood"

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I know you not fine, but how you doin'?

I'm feeling more fine than I was when I started this poll, but that's only because I have yet to notice the slavering beast crouched behind me. I mean, okay, obviously I've already noticed it, but it seems so invested in catching me off guard that I'm trying to maintain the pretense of ignorance. What has the world come to if we can't extend a small kindness to the thing that is soon to devour us, I ask you.

This is quite fine. Quite fine.

Nevermind Are You Fine, the real question is What’s the Latest

Okay, weird, I felt an urge to revive this because I've been feeling a little less fine of late and didn't realize that I'd initiated this almost exactly a year ago. Maybe the season induces a dip in one's fineness quotient. But it's kind of like all of the constituent pieces of me are on this slow drifting path away from their core and with a degree of vigilance I'm able to snatch them before they get too far and pull them back into place but it seems like the pace is picking up a bit these days and the odds increasing that one or more of these pieces will slip through my fingers before I can get a firm grip and, well, what happens then? And it feels a little more every day like other people are heading in this same direction so it's not even like I can utilize the unassailable centeredness of others as a point of focus. It feels like the heat death of human civilization and identity, a very slow and nearly imperceptible yet incessantly progressive process. But if you turn the music up a little louder, maybe utilize one of the many screens at our disposal to look at something busy and flashy or maybe involving cute little animals, it's still somewhat easy to pretend that things are fine and that I am fine, as well. I'm pretty sure that's someone else screaming, not sure who.

I am foine

I know you fine, but how you doin?

good good

I want to say I'm fine but I really should check with myself before speaking on his behalf.

was fine, am fine

im great thanks

― flaneur brayin (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 16:42 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

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most of my life is the struggle to get to a point when I remember that I'm fine

“How you doing”
“I’m fine”
“Yes you are”

I told an acquaintance to go fuck a live bear yesterday and got aggro with an Executive at work today.

I am not fine.

I dunno, a mind capable of conjuring up 'go fuck a live bear' would seem to have some hidden reserves of fineness that its user might not immediately recognize.

good wingmanning for that bear IMO

When I'm the least fine it's when I reflect on the fact that I am part of nobody's "core" friend circle- at best maybe an arm and a leg inside of one or two as far as I can tell? End up pity-partying pretty hard over that subject. Otherwise super fine!

Irl looooool at DJP

maybe he was hinting at playing Striking Vipers.

Lol DJP

I realized about three days ago that I am, for the first time since 2013, fine. I have been fine for most of August. I am thrilled that I am fine. If I can make it to the end of the day without a cigarette, then I’ll be past the frustrating phase.

The silver lining about being not fine for so long is that being fine again feels amazing and incredible. I ran 5km today. I’m nearly done arranging all this Julius Eastman for two harpsichords. I am renting a Jazz Chorus today for no reason. I did the fancy tooth care ritual instead of the normal brush and spit.

I am as fine as I was one or two or three or six years ago, which is to say not; the core problem is that the things that would have to happen in my life for me to be fine again are never going to happen, and there are still several decades left in which I will still be aware of that

Ba-bump

I am more fine than I would have expected to be on this particular date but I am less fine than I would like to be. There's like this shadow of a panic attack hovering just at the periphery of my vision and it keeps creeping just a little closer before backing off again. I wish it would stop fucking with me, if I'm perfectly honest.

Pretty sure, even if all goes relatively well and smoothly, it's going to be at least a week before I'll be able to declare myself truly fine.

How about you? Are you fine?

I’m hanging in there. election + going through all these paperwork hoops starting a new job has got me pretty wired. Feeling pretty vulnerable. I’m ok, though.

I feel strangely calm, partially because I've finally started writing again, but mostly because I know that whatever happens in the next 60 hours will happen no matter what I do.

more irritable than usual and incapable of my best concentration, but that's just because of the election.

Was gonna say, you know there's a general sourness of spirit when the generally sanguine likes of you and clemenza start to get overtly rankled 'round these parts.

just listened to the matt mcconaughey episode of maron, so to quote the man himself and borrow his legendary turn of phrase: "I am fine."

i'm fine. don't want to be at work tho

congrats on the new job brimstead

I just ctrl-fed "foine" and decided I need new jokes

There are plenty of dad jokes available, guaranteed to be endlessly recyclable.

Hungover on my day off...getting really tired of losing time / days to sleep when I could be enjoying my time off. Also left a wheel of brie on the counter overnight

ty map <3

glad to be (virtually) around all you fine folks in this fucked up time <3