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Oi chapsticks,

hows everyone?

I had my first vaccine shot on Friday, was sick as a dog on Saturday and felt like I had the worst hangover on Sunday.

Am now left with a slightly sore arm, but glad I got the vaccine.

Relative calm now before the storm that is the Masters dissertation
 
irishstu said:
Oi.

Sounds very similar to my experience, wok. Did you get the AZ one?
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Indeed I did. Not looking forward to the second shot.

Of course, you can leave it up to Boris & Co. to get the least effective vaccine with the most side effects :facepalm:
 
I've heard if you get the AZ one, the second dose is usually fairly side-effect free. However, the Pfizer one is better for the first dose, but worse for the second one.
 
I had the AZ a few weeks ago. Felt fine that day and most of the next until I touched the area I was injected and suddenly my arm was a bit sore there. That lasted for a day or so and I was a bit tired but the tiredness may well have been down to too much bloody work going on at the time rather than the jab.

Good luck with the dissertation Wok.
 
I didn't have any issues with either jab. That being said I've felt generally tired since going back full time after Easter. I wonder if there's any link? Nothing major, just needing a coffee to get me going in the morning, napping etc...

My parents are due their 2nd doses in the next few weeks do I'm glad about that. :thu:

Anyways I'm quite drunk listening to my cousin's dance show, Rangers get to lift the league trophy tomorrow and my bro and and really good mate are coming round tomorrow night so it's a good weekend on the cards.
 
wok said:
Got extra uni funding through finally, so one less thing to worry about. Now I only have 8 papers to finish before next Friday :lol:
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8 papers :messedup: I thought you were doing motion graphics.... dafuq they have you writing all that lot for :messedup:

And congrats on the funding, that's great news!
 
Got my Dutch vaccination invitation as apparently I'm some sort of risk group :facepalm: no idea based on what, but hey ho. Seeing as they're doing 1977 - 1981 here at the moment, it's not worth traveling or getting some papers proving my "risk group" status, probably going to be my turn in a few weeks anyway.

Other than that, life's been boring, slowly started seeing some people again as cases country-wide dropped below 200 for the past 3 weeks and Helsinki has been surpassed when it comes to incidence rate. Teaching myself OpenGL and GLSL, having quite some fun and I hope it can add some new dynamics to my work.

Generally feeling a bit unsatisfied. Life's alright, new house is great, but I just keep waking up grumpy and going to bed feeling like I've done fuck all useful each day :facepalm:
 
ColourofFire said:
8 papers :messedup: I thought you were doing motion graphics.... dafuq they have you writing all that lot for :messedup:

And congrats on the funding, that's great news!
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I have to write a couple of proposals and some reflective reports. The main one being the dissertation proposal. I have done all the design work, for the next three months I will be working on my Masters dissertation/thesis
 
wok said:
I have to write a couple of proposals and some reflective reports. The main one being the dissertation proposal. I have done all the design work, for the next three months I will be working on my Masters dissertation/thesis
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Good luck with that. MA thesis is a proper pain in the ass, but quite fun at the same time.

Let me know if you want me to read something for you :)
 
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ColourofFire said:
Got my Dutch vaccination invitation as apparently I'm some sort of risk group :facepalm: no idea based on what, but hey ho. Seeing as they're doing 1977 - 1981 here at the moment, it's not worth traveling or getting some papers proving my "risk group" status, probably going to be my turn in a few weeks anyway.

Other than that, life's been boring, slowly started seeing some people again as cases country-wide dropped below 200 for the past 3 weeks and Helsinki has been surpassed when it comes to incidence rate. Teaching myself OpenGL and GLSL, having quite some fun and I hope it can add some new dynamics to my work.

Generally feeling a bit unsatisfied. Life's alright, new house is great, but I just keep waking up grumpy and going to bed feeling like I've done fuck all useful each day :facepalm:
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Welcome to middle age :embarrassed:

Seriously though, the whole (middle class Western) world is going through some variation of covid induced listlessness. There was an interesting article in the NYT a little while ago https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/mind/covid-mental-health-languishing.html
 
pmc100 said:
Welcome to middle age :embarrassed:

Seriously though, the whole (middle class Western) world is going through some variation of covid induced listlessness. There was an interesting article in the NYT a little while ago https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/mind/covid-mental-health-languishing.html
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I always get this shit around this time of year, but yeah, this year it's different. Usually it's the bog-standard chronic depression joy of wondering why the fuck you aren't happy while there's about 53502553232 things to be happy about. Which I usually manage by just diving way too deep into something new. It might the languishing. Might also just be the usual combined with a bit of actual burnout, last few months have been madness, I didn't have a spare moment to just relax without having the pile of stuff I should/could be doing nagging in the back of my head. Now that it got a bit less busy I actually have to decide myself what to do every once in a while instead of just blindly rushing through to-do lists :embarrassed:
 
ColourofFire said:
I always get this shit around this time of year, but yeah, this year it's different. Usually it's the bog-standard chronic depression joy of wondering why the fuck you aren't happy while there's about 53502553232 things to be happy about. Which I usually manage by just diving way too deep into something new. It might the languishing. Might also just be the usual combined with a bit of actual burnout, last few months have been madness, I didn't have a spare moment to just relax without having the pile of stuff I should/could be doing nagging in the back of my head. Now that it got a bit less busy I actually have to decide myself what to do every once in a while instead of just blindly rushing through to-do lists :embarrassed:
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I picked up hillwalking and cycling. Not because I like it that much, but to stop myself from sinking into languish depression and total apathy. The alternative would be getting drunk all the time, but I somehow think that wouldn't be the best solution
 
I need to get back on the fitness wagon. Buying a pizza oven, beer machine and second fridge just for kegs and wine during lockdown wasn't the healthiest of ideas :grin:
 
I had signed up for the Edinburgh Marathon for May 2020, which got postponed to September 2020, then postponed again to 30 May 2021, but it's been changed to a "virtual" one (nothing virtual about it--you still have to run it, but without support). You can defer the entry to 2022, but I'd promised to do it for charity (SAMH), and I know a lot of charities have lost out big time recently, so I decided to go ahead with it. It's been a really good thing to stop me turning into a ball of lard.
 
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I had signed up for the Edinburgh Marathon for May 2020, which got postponed to September 2020, then postponed again to 30 May 2021, but it's been changed to a "virtual" one (nothing virtual about it--you still have to run it, but without support). You can defer the entry to 2022, but I'd promised to do it for charity (SAMH), and I know a lot of charities have lost out big time recently, so I decided to go ahead with it. It's been a really good thing to stop me turning into a ball of lard.
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Awesome! Are you planning to do a full marathon, or a half one? And are you going run the entire thing, or you planning to take your time completing it?
 
wok said:
Awesome! Are you planning to do a full marathon, or a half one? And are you going run the entire thing, or you planning to take your time completing it?
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I'm doing the full marathon, in one go. You're free to do any route you want, but as it happens, I'll mostly be following the official route apart from the first few miles. Not really on purpose; it's just the route I would've chosen (out along the coast past Portobello, Musselburgh, Longniddry, etc., then back to Musselburgh). So anyway, I'm hoping I might end up seeing some other people running it, although I'm being a lazy git and starting out two hours after the "official" start time of 8am. Hopefully plenty of others won't be in a huge rush to start it so early.
 
irishstu said:
I'm doing the full marathon, in one go. You're free to do any route you want, but as it happens, I'll mostly be following the official route apart from the first few miles. Not really on purpose; it's just the route I would've chosen (out along the coast past Portobello, Musselburgh, Longniddry, etc., then back to Musselburgh). So anyway, I'm hoping I might end up seeing some other people running it, although I'm being a lazy git and starting out two hours after the "official" start time of 8am. Hopefully plenty of others won't be in a huge rush to start it so early.
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Good luck! I did the half marathon 4 years ago (same route along the coast) and I barely managed, so a whole marathon is way beyond my capabilities.
 
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