We read Ripley's Believe It or Not and the Guinness Book of World Records instead of Wikipedia. Urban legends were rampant. Everyone lived in constant fear of "the gum disease gingivitis".
nemo
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90s kid introvert here.
I would hop on my bike of a Saturday morning, explore the town for an hour, hit the library, come home a few hours later with as many books as I could fit in my backpack.
I'd stay up late learning to code from paperback manuals, save my games to floppies and swap them with friends at school or make my brothers play them.
I ran a year-long pen-and-paper fantasy wargame with my friends from the Scouts, I'd spend an hour every week tabulating the results of everyone's orders and updating the map.
Bullet Journal — the original method described by Carrol, not the fancy spread-and-decoration bullshit. Write everything down as it occurs to you, indicate whether it's a note or a to-do with different bullet points, and at the end of the day decide which tasks to put in tomorrow's notes and which to discard. Date each page and list the page number in the index of it contains long-term notes (eg. quite from a contractor, birthday present ideas).
It's easy, it's fast, and it doesn't break if you forget to do it for a day or two or two hundred.
No, I live in Chicago, the city that's the answer to 90% of questions that sound like "where should I live if I want X, Y, and Z" unless X, Y, or Z was "mountains".
curl it up under your chin like the statue "The Thinker"
I was in a train station, a woman was looking for her skateboarder son who was supposed to be waiting for the next train. He wasn't there.
I answered a ringing payphone, just like in the movies.
What do you mean by "feigned happiness"? Cheerfulness?
Because I know unpleasant people that are happy that way, and depressed people who are very cheerful. Happiness is something you have, cheerfulness is something you do.
Though in my experience, being cheerful tends to help other people feel better and helping others makes me happy.
This is the thing that getting a prescription to Buproprin has helped me with the most. Seems like it would be small but it's life-changing.
This is the @poVoq@slrpnk.net alt, right?
IIRC that is a synonym already; and Factor » Product isn't a pun, just the what the words literally mean.
way less than a bus pass, even