#to do his chore of whitewashing the fence bit

[laryna6]

So, one of my health conditions that causes the fatigue has a go-to medicine for treatment. I was on it for awhile, but I aged out of my parents’ insurance, and the pharmaceutical company used patent fuckery to keep people from making generics, so it was way too expensive for me to afford and once I got state insurance the state insurance was ‘we’re not paying 900+ a month.’

My new med person used some kind of medicine coupon info site and found that one grocery store chain’s pharmacy would give it to you for $23 a month if you handed them this coupon he printed off for me.

So yeah, this witchcraft is apparently a thing, and holy shit. So many things that I’d plan ahead in journal as ‘this is going to be the big project for most of the day’ actually take about five effing minutes and you can be on to the next thing if you don’t have to spend hours trying to boot up your brain so you can force your body into submission and make it get up even as it bitches that it is Dying and Needs To Lie Down.

I did enough things that it did legitimately get kind of taxing and I was woozyish in there even keeping my water intake up. But like, I got all this done on six hours of sleep, too?

Wow, it made me miss when I was only dealing with depression and I’d cross ten things off my to-do list in one trip to campus.

But like, Getting Things Done is A++, no wonder the brain rewards us with the good shit. ‘I had a problem! I now no longer have a problem! Look at all these things I no longer have to give a fuck about (for another week in the case of cleaning/laundry, but)!’ And getting to feel Competent is great for the self-esteem.

Anyway, I highly recommend Getting Shit Done when you can, and keeping a journal where you note down the stuff you did to make sure your brain gives you credit for your accomplishments. In addition to the serotonins, the dopamines are important to mental health, important enough that people who retire and suddenly find themselves without Shit To Do and can’t find other Things To Get Done are the demographic most at risk of suicide.

Someone said that ‘there’s no such thing as lazyness’ and honestly that’s 100% correct. Human brains are wired to love Getting Shit Done, so people who are just pleasure-seeking aren’t going to lie around doing nothing. Doing Nothing is unnatural for humans, so if it seems like we just don’t ‘want’ to do things, There Is A Reason. Sometimes it’s ‘I’m busy crossing ‘recharging the batteries’ off the checklist’ and sometimes it’s the disability that takes more people out of commission than anything else other than actual death.

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Tom Sawyer [ENTP]

UNOFFICIAL TYPING by isfjmel-phleg

Extroverted Intuition (Ne): Tom has a wild imagination, not always for the better. He not only is a trickster, but can think up new ones every time. He finds his rather prosaic life dull compared to the adventure stories he reads, so he makes every effort to play out the world of fiction in real life. And he’s not content to imagine on his own but incorporates his friends into his adventures (whether they want to or not), usually organizing them into some kind of robber/pirate gang. In any new enterprise, he takes the lead. He can’t decide which career path to follow: there are so many glamorous options, and he wants to try them all, though he finally settles on being a pirate—until the next idea comes along to distract him. His sense of drama results in elaborate efforts to play sick, selecting just the right moment to return to St. Petersburg to attend his own funeral, and invoking every dungeon trope he can recall when he and Huck plot to help Jim escape imprisonment. The latter plan gets gradually more and more elaborate, since he’s so bent on having an adventure that he completely ignores common sense.

Introverted Thinking (Ti): Tom backs up his wild ideas with his own unconventional system of logic and strategy. He finagles his way out of whitewashing a fence by using a clever tactic of psychological manipulation to persuade other boys to do the chore for him. He can invent an explanation for any possibility, even without external evidence. No one says any incantation over bread thrown into the water to locate the drowned?—clearly they say it to themselves. So what if he hasn’t got a treasure map—there’s bound to be something amazing buried in his neighborhood. In contrast to Huck’s more straightforward, practical solutions, he’s the strategist of the pair, plotting every angle of their imaginary adventures, figuring out how to get into No. Two, and deducing where Jim is held captive and concocting the jailbreak scheme. He can be disdainful of others’ emotions—tormenting Joe for homesickness when they run away to be pirates, and later angry with him for his weakness in sentimentally writing Becky’s name in the sand. He tends to be so impressed by his own cleverness that he doesn’t consider how his schemes will affect others, such as how much his running away would hurt his aunt. He even puts Jim and Huck through all the jailbreak nonsense solely so he himself can have the fun of an adventure.

Extroverted Feeling (Fe): Not only can Tom be easily affected by others’ emotions, but he’s good at affecting theirs in turn. He knows exactly how and when to amuse, annoy, and otherwise manipulate Aunt Polly emotionally. Whenever she treats him in a way he considers unjust, he imagines melodramatic scenarios in which he denies her forgiveness before finally dying and making her sorry—and he’ll wallow in this “agony of pleasurable suffering.” The sight of her distress at his alleged death does bother him a lot, but although he pities her, he still feels sorrier for himself and opts to delay his reappearance for his own convenience. He’s conscious of what others think of him and loves admiration; he glories in every bit of attention he gets after finding gold and after getting shot. When he meets Becky, he immediately shows off in all sorts of ridiculous ways in order to impress her. He’s very open and vocal about his feelings for her, and although his Ti tactlessness gets the better of him sometimes, his immediate response is to try to talk her out of being upset. The sight of her crying bothers him, and he tries to make amends though he’s not sure how. And her criticism hurts him a lot, though he tries not to show it. His Fe is at its best with his friends: for instance, he’s concerned that no one is glad to see Huck when they return “from the dead” and insists that his friend be given the same welcoming treatment as him and Joe. And he’s willing to self-sacrifice for Becky’s sake, such as the time he took her punishment for her at school—even if he was just as impressed with his own nobility as she was.

Introverted Sensing (Si): Tom’s usually not good with mundane things like details. He struggles with memorization because his mind wanders. But he does have definite, if immature, ties to tradition. He insists upon following custom when getting “engaged” to Becky, and even though he doesn’t see the point of kissing, it’s a required social norm and must be followed. He takes a by-the-book approach (literally) when leading his friends in their literary-inspired adventures. Every romanticized detail, he insists, must be carried out to the letter and without question, even if it’s utterly ridiculous, since authors of books clearly know best. And as much as he’s attracted by adventure, he finds himself getting sentimental about home when he runs away, and when he’s lost in the cave.