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This can't just be me surely? (lazysoci.al)
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[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Executive dysfunction represent!

[–] ExecutiveDysfunction@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'll do it tomorrow...

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You get so far as thinking about actually doing it?

[–] ExecutiveDysfunction@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

I'll do that tomorrow.

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't remember this episode of Twin Peaks

[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

Let's do a perception roll then.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Phew, and I thought they were men in bear costumes

[–] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago

"Weeks"

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

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

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

With the added anxiety about not having done it.

[–] crawancon@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Only weeks? Amateur.

[–] eighty@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

what is making appointments?