Something Bothering you?/Daily Doldrums

[Shrooblord]

And me. Black-smoke emitting cars too.

[Adsolution]

Not really anything too horrid, but at the moment, I'm home schooled and behind on my work to the point where I'll have to do some crunch-time to get caught back up. On another note, my grandmother is living with us at the moment and she smokes a fair bit (outside of the house, but the scent is on her and it's carried through inside the house), so I'm freaking out about cigarette exposure. As well, as I have a lingering feeling of discontent, that won't go away. Sometimes, it's not there or relatively low, and other times, I feel like an emotional wreck.

Second-hand smoke is only something to be even a little bit worried about if it's fairly intense, regular exposure. If someone has difficulty around cigarette smoke in general, whether it makes them feel dry, stuffed or coughy, it's just an immediate reaction, it's not actually dangerous in the long term any more than it would be if you didn't have that reaction.

I grew up in a kind of scummy urban area, so the scent of weed, piss and smoke I don't mind at all - inhaling large amounts of smoke doesn't really make me cough either. My aunt was a heavy smoker, and whenever she picked me up from school she'd always have granola bars I could eat in the glove compartment, so I actually associate the smell of cigarette smoke with tasty granola bars!

Car exhaust though is so thick there's no way you can ignore it. You'd probably faint if you inhaled a full gulp of CO. I don't usually completely hold my breath though, if there are a shitload of cars around, I'll just tilt my head upwards a bit to take a breath.

[Shrooblord]

Ah yes, the streets of Vancouver smell of more weed than the streets of Amsterdam do. Go figure!

[Adsolution]

Amsterdam is so clean, really!

But oui, if you hang around the East-side of Downtown, actually not too-too far from where you were staying (maybe a five minute drive), the scent and the air is always there, and strong.

[Shrooblord]

Haha it was already more than present on the Drive and Victoria alone. x)

It's funny how at home I came to feel in Vancouver after only a few weeks. I almost feel like I've lived there for considerably longer. I guess I owe that to curious holiday-goers' exploration trips.

[saerleiya]

It's funny how at home I came to feel in Vancouver after only a few weeks. I almost feel like I've lived there for considerably longer. I guess I owe that to curious holiday-goers' exploration trips.

I felt the same way for Seattle, actually (well I only stayed a week). the climate is very close to Brittany, and I also came there during holidays when the weather was probably my favourite (sunny/cloudy, 17-22 °C, a bit of wind).

Car exhaust though is so thick there's no way you can ignore it. You'd probably faint if you inhaled a full gulp of CO. I don't usually completely hold my breath though, if there are a shitload of cars around, I'll just tilt my head upwards a bit to take a breath.

Lots of people don't even know that by using AC while driving, even if the space is close the air coming from outside contains all the pollution, kinda. Better not use it, unless it's really hot, which is understandable.

[Shrooblord]

Haha I never even thought about that. That's almost comical, it's so sad. Want some fresh air? Here, have some carbon emission in your face!

[saerleiya]

Part of it is filtered, yes, but not asbolutely everything. That's why air coming from AC is not completely clean if you are stuck into a trafic jam XD.

[Shrooblord]

We do always shut off our engines in heavy jams.

[saerleiya]

That's not what everybody is doing. And remember that most people forget their vehicles is consuming a lot of energy while stopped but with the engine running.

[Shrooblord]

Uhuh. Hence turn off the engines, we do.

[saerleiya]

Something French people don't do: we usually put the lever in to the dead point and leave it like this. Nobody ever told me to completely stop the engine when stopped at traffic lights or in a traffic jam.

[Shrooblord]

I'm pretty sure nobody ever told my dad to do so either, but that's basically common sense, right? Don't polute if you don't have to. You have to polute while driving, you don't have to while you're not.

[Master]

Hmm, I've seen the odd car turn off in a jam here, we tend to also if it's deadlock. Otherwise it's just neutral and handbrake on.

[Adsolution]

No one does that here. People would probably assume that your car's stalled if you turned it off on the road.

[MLII]

my braces have been tightened

they hurt like a bitch now and i couldn't enjoy my food properly.

also my teacher assigned homework via our online system and didn't tell anyone in the lesson and i've just taken 30mg of codiene and i am v tired so fuck him i'll just pretend nobody told me

EDIT: further clarification: he assigned it last week and it is due tomorrow but i,,, can't,,,

[Shrooblord]

Don't worry mlee - your teeth will probably be fine again tomorrow or the day after at worst. Is this the first time they tightened it? It should get progressively better each time they do. Will hurt like hell for a while but I remember that on my very last time, by the time I had reached home (about 50 meters away lol), I already noticed nothing of it.

[iHeckler9]

I topped up my phone and got a reward for it on my laptop. The reward: A gourmet card thingy entitling me to a discount at a fancy restaurant of my choosing. I decide to use this to treat Domi on our next date. However, I can't book a table, even though I waste about 21 minutes of my life waiting for them to pick up their phone. So I decide to print the voucher off and hope it works if I show it to them on arrival. Of course, my laptop isn't connected to a printer so I go on the big, slow, ugly computer in the other room. For some reason I need to log in with a "membership number" that they didn't give me in the first place. I try and re-enter the code on the Vodafone website but it says that it's already been used.

The date's tomorrow.

[Earth Gwee]

I've been having trouble with a creative partner of mine. We want to collab on a web comic. We've decided that he is head writer, with some suggestions from me, and I'm head artist, also with suggestions from him. But for a long time he's been running on a mindset that the character must be completely designed before writing the story, which is not what you should do. I've repeatedly told him this. And even when I disagree on certain physical traits that I feel won't work for a character, he takes it as me shooting his ideas down. He continues to worry and overthink what a character should look like and gives every trait a purpose, which he shouldn't do since this is supposed to be a relatively simple story. He insists on plot points that shouldn't be, which also bothers me. He is extremely adamant on his own ideas that any criticism only causes him to defend his ideas rather than consider why some of them just won't work when writing a story. I want to work with him. I've tried. And I know he wants to work with me too, but he has no collaboration experience nor professionalism about the whole thing. It's driving me crazy. It honestly makes me want to pick up the few characters I've created--the two main ones--and leave him to work on this project himself and do whatever he wants with it unless he's willing to listen to me. And right now he's not taking my criticisms to heart. He just continues to defend his ideas even though they just don't work and I've told him at great length why they wouldn't work.

[Adsolution]

But for a long time he's been running on a mindset that the character must be completely designed before writing the story

That really doesn't make any sense, at all. Have you brought up something along the lines of a certain setting or events that take place in the story possibly influencing the design of the character? Would he not see that as valid for whatever reason, or would he have what he believes to be a stronger counter-argument for everything?

He continues to worry and overthink what a character should look like and gives every trait a purpose, which he shouldn't do since this is supposed to be a relatively simple story.

Quite. It's honestly great to think of a reason for everything, but especially in the case of a simple story, of course there are going to be elements of their personality or appearance left unexplained. Why does the character have a scarf? Maybe it was given them by their grandmother on their tenth birthday, but does the audience care? Are they going to demand a reason as to why the character is wearing a scarf? Will the unexplained scarf leave audiences as perplexed as they were during the ending of 2001?

Your partner sounds extremely uptight and illogical, I'm assuming that's something you only discovered about him after you began collaborating?