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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Executive dysfunction represent!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You get so far as thinking about actually doing it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'll do that tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't remember this episode of Twin Peaks

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The owls are not what they seem. Sometimes they're bears.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Let's do a perception roll then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Phew, and I thought they were men in bear costumes

[–] Unforeseen 19 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

With the added anxiety about not having done it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

and all the ramifications of not doing it on time, or the quality of life improvements it could offer that you suffer through.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

“Time isn’t real” - what I tell myself while experiencing time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

what is making appointments?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Only weeks? Amateur.