well first I’d take an extension cord to goodwill

No if I was completely set for life I would still wanna be a nurse. I’d do like one shift a month maybe one shift a week at most but I don’t think I could do without the satisfaction of helping someone. I’d also probably pick and choose how I got to do it more. I’d do a lot less stuff that’s more characteristic of the institutional system and take more time to actually talk to people and try to help them with specific stuff instead of just providing three hots and a cot and my main method of keeping them from stabbing each other being invading their privacy. I actually got to sit down and de-mat someone’s depression hair last week and it was soooo nice I almost never have time for that anymore.

am I already scheduled for a shift? I make that hourly.

it’s funny because I’m AFAB but NB with a husband and I’m the one who gets the man-flu.

I think I would last a little longer than average. And I only say that because the more power I get handed the more anxiety I get and I think it’s the people it doesn’t make anxious that are the scariest. I also burnout quickly though and I don’t handle everybody being mad at me very gracefully.

I certainly do!

Not sure if this is what they’re talking about, but vampires are frequently depicted as having to stop and count large numbers of small things. So if you’re being chased by one you can throw out salt or grains of rice or seeds or whatever and they will have to stop and count it before they continue pursuing you. Or you can attack while they’re preoccupied too I guess. That’s where you get the count from Sesame Street.

oh this one is a fav of mine but I was raised redneck so

got hubs one because I couldn’t afford a steam deck for his birthday. he loves it. I never see him play it at home (I think because the actual computer is here) but every once in a while he’ll mention having played x or y retro game and he has covered the ENTIRE thing in Simpsons stickers.

so you can study stuff and do coursework but you gotta make it really easy to do accidentally. when I got a paper to write I would make a google drive folder with the project outline and a template for the paper including a reference sheet. I would lazily look up sources occasionally and add the pdfs to the folder and easybib / citation machine them into the reference section by doi. at that point it would be a matter of when the paper would get written, not if. the dopamine would just hit suddenly when I’m having an IBS shit at 2am and “oops. I wrote a research paper.” I accidentally wrote so many papers while shitting. one time I set all of it up and went to bed and turned out one of the group members was also ADHD because when I woke up she’d accidentally done the whole thing while I was asleep. 10/10 method.

been thinking a lot about this lately. especially Plato’s allegory of the cave. pretty sure when you go around that corner it’s just another cave but with it’s own little fire in it. there’s no actual way out. they’re all just more caves. that’s all you get.