Tyrphanax

Yeah man, just vent away. Helps to write stuff down.

Just focus on getting better for now. It would be much harder to focus on this if you were out on your own where you feel like you “should” be now. Shit a lot of people don’t have their lives together until they’re well into their 30s these days. I probably won’t myself. But you’ll be further ahead on the journey of mental health than a lot of people who get out on their own early, believe me.

Don’t worry about how you feel like you should be doing, just do the best you can do for you.

Uhh…

http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/954593

I think you just got schooled?

DuracellEnergizer said:

Tyrphanax said:

That whole cantina scene was silly to me. Boba just wrecking shit and making a huge spectacle of himself while completely losing his cool is #NotMyBoba.

I agree. I’ve always pictured Boba as the SW equivalent of The Man with No Name – calm, cool and collected.

Exactly. That’s exactly what Boba Fett is to me. He doesn’t always have to kick your ass to have kicked your ass.

Lord Haseo said:

Boba was actually better in the comics than he ever was in the OT. Tracking the Millennium Falcon was cool but other than that Boba was about as lethal as a Storm Trooper in ESB and ROTJ.

Eh. Boba to me was never about killing everyone all the time just because. To me it was about the threat that he could.

That whole cantina scene was silly to me. Boba just wrecking shit and making a huge spectacle of himself while completely losing his cool is #NotMyBoba.

I think a combination of the old Marvel run (the hunting down of leads and a long quest) coupled with his reaction to learning the name in the new Marvel run would be best.

I feel like the way it was handled in the new Marvel run was just a lame excuse to shoehorn Boba Fett in because he hadn’t been in much of the new canon yet, and Boba wasn’t great in those issues.

Live-in care is a definite possibility. Maybe bring that up with the family?

Also… might be best to suggest your family start getting that power of attorney figured out because there can be a lot of headaches if it isn’t.

I feel like revealing Vader as Vader at the end of ROTS was a mistake. They should have gone with a more proto-Vader look. Doing it that way, they could even have salvaged the father reveal in some way (Anakin is sent by the Jedi Order to kill the Emperor and his ‘new apprentice’ and instead falls into a trap laid by the Emperor to make Anakin his new apprentice and we fade to black and later in the film Obi-Wan is dispatched to rescue Anakin, but by then Vader is there and tells him he killed him).

I like to think that Vader is being promoted throughout the OT, since in the beginning he’s definitely subservient to Tarkin to whom Vader is a novelty tool to wield, then by Empire, Vader has been given the largest Star Destroyer in the fleet to hunt down the Rebels and Skywalker personally with guidance from the Emperor himself, and in Jedi he’s the Emperor’s right hand man. And his suit’s level of polish (both literally and in terms of design) reflects (pun!) that.

I’d say a weekly visit is decent enough.

Don’t beat yourself up. You’re doing a good thing by visiting, but you can’t be expected to sideline your life and happiness to care for her.

Hah!

darth_ender said:

Tyrphanax said:

56-59

Tyrannosaur.

The reveal is honestly a bit anticlimatic here, I feel like the goat bit in the movie really adds to it, as does the slower buildup. Regis is also a bit anticlimatic in the draft, the book was much more interesting. It’s interesting to see Crichton continually referring to the Rex as “he”, as well.

Again I’m pretty sure Wu even acknowledged they do that in spite of the fact that all the dinosaurs are female in the scene where he describes how they ensure that they are female. Maybe it was Regis who describes it. Can’t remember. Anyway, sounds like chrichton really wanted to follow his book as closely as possible.

Yeah, Wu (I’m pretty sure it’s Wu) mentions that even though they’re all female that they tend to refer to certain dinosaurs (like the Rex) as “he”. I just found it interesting that Crichton did that himself while writing the script.

Hopefully you don’t cut yourself on all that edge.

moviefreakedmind said:

Patience is key, but medical professionals say that it’s extremely unhealthy for family members to be the caregivers of relatives with severe dementia.

I could agree with this. My mother had to take care of her mother after she had a massive stroke, and it was one of the most obvious stressful and destructive experiences of her life, to the point where I could clearly see the effects.

Love you, Frink.

Great advice in the last three posts. I have nothing to add that wouldn’t just be repeating what they said.

Keep fighting the good fight, everyone!

Was it a g-g-g-g-ghost?

Working out is really nice, and I don’t know why I ever stopped.

I know you’re all following this thread religiously, but it seems that my source has failed to update their page with today’s batch.

Just as things were starting to get exciting in the story, too.

Hopefully tomorrow will bring more!

Ah, dementia is a shitty thing. I’ve dealt with it with both of my grandmothers now, and especially one of my grandfathers who had incredibly severe Alzheimer’s.

It’s difficult, very difficult. Especially if you knew them before the dementia set in. Some people might not understand your annoyance with the illness, but it’s a perfectly normal thing for it to drive you up the wall (though you do have to remember it’s not their fault and while it’s okay to be annoyed about it, it’s not cool to be mean to them for that reason).

There’s not much advice I can give other than to be patient and to honestly just distance yourself as much as you’re comfortable with and as long as it doesn’t put undue strain on your relationship with your family. At this point in time, she is not your responsibility and it sounds like with your grandfather, uncle, and parents living with her, she has plenty of a support structure around her.

Feel free to vent away here or our Emotional thread. It always helps.

Fuckin clowns.

As I’ve said before, your “worst day” is still your worst day, even if someone else has had an even worse day than you ever have. Don’t beat yourself up because you feel like other people have it worse (not to belittle your problems, Darth Lucas).

Your meds won’t start kicking in for a few weeks, so you’re probably just having a rough day or two. That’ll always happen. It happens to all of us! You could be experiencing some reverse-placebo effect where your anxiety about the new dosage makes you feel like its not helping, too. Just stick out the next few weeks until it has a chance to actually take hold.

The thing about OCD is that it’s an irrational thing. You know the truth, you know you don’t actually need to go through your rituals, you know where you stand on theology and your opinions are concrete and you don’t need to keep debating it, but you can’t help yourself. That’s just the way OCD works. Just try to avoid the situations where you’re obsessing and if you find yourself in one, do your best to get out of it. But don’t beat yourself up if you can’t, because you can cause hopelessness doing that, and that’ll make it worse. Just try again next time.

Writing always helps me, and so keeping a journal is a great idea, especially because you can record your thoughts in the moment and show them to your therapist without forgetting details and whatnot. Great idea!

You’re fighting hard, and you’re doing a good job of it. Keep it up.

Darth Id said:

I enjoy the way TV Freak does nothing but insult and deride people, but when the tables are turned he froths with base profanity and tries to shout everyone down by asserting some irrelevant personal experience that he believes gives him the moral high ground.
If someone calls him an “ugly Gungan,” he’ll be all like: "TRIGGER!!! OPPRESSOR!! My Grandmother was a Gungan, and she DIED! In like, the holocaust!!! F@^ you you f&^%ing $#^%@$#^%@$#^%@$#^%@$#^%@*!!!
In fact, he’ll occasionally interject that way even if someone calls JarJar Binks an “ugly Gungan!” because he’s such an irrepressible umbrage-taker. It’s all quite random and delightful.
All-dishin’-no-takin’. Textbook bully.

I don’t really remember a time when Frink was ever a dick to someone after they shared a personal story about why they don’t appreciate certain words or references uttered in their presence.

Yeah, it’s never fun when life shits on you all at once.

It’s good to vent, believe me. I’m a big venter, and it always helps me to not suffer in silence. Don’t apologize!

Ugh that’s rough dude. Do you go in regularly?

That’s good at least.

I just used to fly off the handle when I was in my teens, and it’s embarrassing to look back on.