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Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 04-20-2004, 10:33 PM:

Ok, odd topic I know. Just wondering what everyone does to calm their nerves.

I'm starting cosmo. school on Monday and I'm nervous as all hell. Usually to calm my nerves I paint my nails or take a really long shower (basically pamper myself). Back home I used to take long drives along the backshore looking out at the ocean but I have no ocean here, only a big lake. [Big Grin]

What do you do?

Posted by Richard Greco (Member # 2032) on 04-20-2004, 10:35 PM:

[sex]

usually helps

I like to sit outside on a nice day and read

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 04-20-2004, 10:40 PM:

Go for a walk with my wife.

Look at the stars together.

Watch television together with our dog curled next to us.

Work in my vegetable garden.

Write our daughters in Boston and Florence.

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 04-20-2004, 11:04 PM:

Common now Rach, there isn't all that much difference between the Ocean and Lake Michigan.... Heck, you can't see the other side without being in an airplane......

Since I moved to Salt Lake City I have not had the need to calm myself down, SLC has a relaxed slowed down pace [sleep]

as compared to the Midwest area and no one is at each others throat out here. But for relaxation I usually ride my Harley from Park City to Kamas and then down the Mirror Lake Highway through the High Uintas to Evanston, Wyoming. I have breakfast there and then ride back the same way [thumbsup]

. Or... There is always plenty of wonderful hiking up in the mountains, chasing rattle snakes in the desert [Eek!]

, or digging up geodes along the Pony Express Trail. Simply, theres so many neat things to do out here that no one ever thinks about being tense.

Mark

Posted by Jack Ondracek (Member # 1466) on 04-20-2004, 11:10 PM:

Grande Marnier.

Ends the day just right! [thumbsup]

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 04-21-2004, 12:05 AM:

Mark wrote:

quote:
SLC has a relaxed slowed down pace as compared to the Midwest area and no one is at each others throat out here.

Haha, try the East Coast!!!

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 04-21-2004, 12:12 AM:

Last time I checked, Chicago was still in the mid-west. Mark didn't live on the east coast, you did! [Razz]

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 04-21-2004, 01:05 AM:

I get a great deal of satisfaction out of leafing through my movie poster collection or watching favorite movies or listening to favorite music--I definitely feel better afterward.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 04-21-2004, 01:46 AM:

Consume a liver-bustingly large gin & tonic;
Put a few more holes in a dartboard I modified with a picture of Tony Blair in it, hoping to score a direct hit on that very irritating nose;
Play a few rounds of 'Kaboom - The Suicide Bombing Game' and 'Tony Martin's Vengeance UK'
Read a shit lit novel;
The next time I hear someone having an inane mobile 'phone conversation in public and/or inflict an annoying ring tone on me, entertain fantasies of inserting it in a part of their anatomy where the sun doesn't shine;
Drink another G & T.

Posted by Peter Kerchinsky (Member # 1098) on 04-21-2004, 04:58 AM:

Rachel
I've found the perfect way to calm my nerves......
I meet up with a few fellow projectionists at the local watering hole, drink a bunch of cheap beers and discuss with them what's bothering me. Usually I leave that favorite watering hole feeling a hell of alot better.
Like Walter Houston said in TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE.....
"you got something up your nose, blow it out Dobbs"
Seemed like good advise at the time and good advise right now.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-21-2004, 05:06 AM:

Ya know Rach... I agree with you. I relax by painting my nails too. Especially while soaking in a milk bath. It does get expensive at $2.58 a gallon for a 54 gallon bath, but gosh darn it! It is a real turn on! Hubba Hubba!

>>> Phil

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 04-21-2004, 06:04 AM:

Usually to calm my nerves I close my eyes and picture Phil in his milkbath. [Eek!]

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 04-21-2004, 06:50 AM:

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-21-2004, 08:52 AM:

I go shooting.

Sometimes I get out the .3006 rifle. Other timess it's the .22. My favorite is the air rifle because I don't have to drive all the way to the range to use it.

It doesn't matter what you shoot, really. If you want to shoot spitballs out of a soda straw or shoot darts like Leo, it's the same effect. The whole point is to narrow your field of concentration down to an area about 2mm in dia. and several feet/yards away then try to place your chosen projectile in that spot.

Posted by Floyd Justin Newton (Member # 1316) on 04-21-2004, 09:33 AM:

I just go for a good, deeeeeeeeep sniff of formaldehyde... that
usually calms everything down!

fjn
Local 294 Ret.

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 04-21-2004, 10:01 AM:

quote:
Last time I checked, Chicago was still in the mid-west. Mark didn't live on the east coast, you did!

I was trying to say if he thinks the Midwest is bad, he should try the East Coast!!! [Razz]

quote:
Ya know Rach... I agree with you. I relax by painting my nails too. Especially while soaking in a milk bath. It does get expensive at $2.58 a gallon for a 54 gallon bath, but gosh darn it! It is a real turn on! Hubba Hubba!

I had the feeling you'd pick on me about my nails comment! You can have the milk bath to yourself, at what I make right now it would take me 22.83 hours to be able to afford your 54 gallon bath! Plus, I don't have a tub... [Eek!]

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 04-21-2004, 10:25 AM:

In the old days it was "wine women and song" now it is "brawds booze and ballads" [Smile]

I ind a good bottle of red wine sitting in a chair in front of the fire and a good book very relaxing

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 04-21-2004, 10:38 AM:

quote: Floyd Justin Newton
I just go for a good, deeeeeeeeep sniff of formaldehyde... that
usually calms everything down!

fjn
Local 294 Ret.

Kodak eliminated the use of formaldehyde stabilizer in the ECP-2 process over 15 years ago (we improved the magenta dye). Maybe that's why projectionists are more "stressed out" these days, without their "sniff" of formaldehyde? [Wink]

http://www.kodak.com/country/US/en/motion/about/chrono4.shtml

quote:
1988
EASTMAN Color Print film, 7/5384. Modified to Eliminate need of formalin in stabilizer. Process ECP-2B.

Posted by Steven Privett (Member # 718) on 04-21-2004, 11:23 AM:

To calm my nerves I send my children to their grand parents house. To calm their nerves, they send them back.

Posted by Will Kutler (Member # 770) on 04-21-2004, 12:59 PM:

LOL Floyd!

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 04-21-2004, 02:37 PM:

I take a drive and play some favorite music.

If I'm REALLY tense, no music.

Relaxing/talking/whatever with my wife is the best way however! [Big Grin]

Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 04-21-2004, 02:44 PM:

Spending the afternoon watching a film in a old movie palace. If the movie sucks at least you can look at the architecture of the theatre. [thumbsup]

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-21-2004, 04:15 PM:

I pick on Phil. Try it! [evil]

Posted by Will Kutler (Member # 770) on 04-21-2004, 05:22 PM:

I bombard Phil with Jenna Jameson! [Big Grin]

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-21-2004, 05:25 PM:

Yeah right, Mr. Head-Cheese moderator! You have me shivering in my boots I'm soooooo scared! Oh please Grand-Poo-BAH, be kind to me and spare me....

And yes Will, that is cruel and the usual punishment you always seem to bestow upon me.

Rach: I'll send you a gallon of milk via USPS ground to get you started.

>>> Phil

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 04-21-2004, 10:53 PM:

I'll hold you to that! At least I'll be able to soak my feet since I'm going to be on them ALL day, they are going to be hurting! [Smile]

Posted by John Scott (Member # 520) on 04-21-2004, 11:42 PM:

Good luck at Martin's, Rachel.

Posted by David Favel (Member # 1125) on 04-22-2004, 02:21 AM:

What happens when you get a desk job, do you go home & soak your arse?

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 04-22-2004, 10:50 AM:

Thanks John, when you come back to visit you'll have to get your hair cut! [evil]

Well, I sit on my arse all night long and sometimes I wish I could soak it, especially when I get stuck in a damn folding chair. Telephone surveying is not good for active people...luckily I'm not!

But Phil, I'll need a couple more gallons to soak my far arse! [Smile]

Posted by John Scott (Member # 520) on 04-22-2004, 11:05 AM:

Rachel,

Don't tell me you also are working at Leede too!

I worked there for a couple of years during breaks when I was in college.

Are you still working at the theatre as well?

BTW, I might actually take you up on the haircut the next time I'm home which will probably be for my sister's wedding next fall.

Posted by Paul Cassidy (Member # 951) on 04-22-2004, 11:31 AM:

In NZ it's "Rugby , Racing and Beer" and not necessarily in that order [beer]

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-22-2004, 02:50 PM:

John, that haircut will cost you a member picture.

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 04-22-2004, 02:58 PM:

When Brad is stressed out, he calls me at 4 AM, just after I've fallen asleep. [Razz]

Posted by Dominic Espinosa (Member # 2122) on 04-22-2004, 03:12 PM:

I'm not completely sure what calm is...I think I felt it this morning when I woke up just before my cat began clawing my leg...

Anyhow, I enjoy driving around, altho not so much now that I commute, I get my daily fill [Smile]

. I play poor quite a bit when I can though, it's a great activity because it demands concentration which usually helps take your mind off of whatever's been bother you.

Of course if you're looking to relax and not do much of anything, there isn't anything better than kicking back in a nice comfortable chair with something good to drink and a good book. If you hadn't guessed I have to be doing something, I'm not usually content with sitting and starring at the wall..
But, enough of my rambling...back to business!

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 04-22-2004, 03:49 PM:

Yes, I'm at Leede...calling and calling and calling... [Smile]

And no, I'm on a break from the theater biz against my will, I kinda got laid off, kinda. It's a very odd situation but I didn't get fired! [Big Grin]

Brad, maybe I'll take a pic of John if he ever comes to see me IF you send me a Film-Tech T-shirt! [Razz]