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Old 03-16-2014, 10:06 PM
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I've only met one FoH member in real life. The guy was pretty successful for his age at the time: he had his own house and a really well paying job.

However, he was always by the most socially awkward individual at any event that I ever encountered him. I wouldn't say he was necessarily a degenerate, although he did once make an undead priest named Lynched because "he was black in his past life."
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Old 03-16-2014, 10:56 PM
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I remember when EQ came out, I was completely awestruck by the great men and women of Norrath who had achieved the highest of quality in character development.
Judging from some of the responses in this thread, it looks like there is plenty of this awe still to go around (whether it is folks in awe of others, or of themselves).

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...those times (grad school was a good example) where I was doing really well in school/research, training (judo/grappling/weight lifting/soccer) 12 hours a week, and could squeeze in 2 nights going out per week.
What the hell were you doing in grad school? I'm jelly of your experience. By the time I got out of grad school, I had about 50 extra pounds I had to burn off.
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Old 03-17-2014, 08:35 AM
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What the hell were you doing in grad school? I'm jelly of your experience. By the time I got out of grad school, I had about 50 extra pounds I had to burn off.
I had a very regimented life and was extremely focused, that's it. I was getting a PhD in physics, and had a crazy advisor (Korean guy) so I had to learn to optimize my time really well. I would wake up at 8AM, eat oatmeal with nuts/raisins, wheaties type cereal with a banana. Get to the lab around 8:45-9 and go very hard with experiments (no email/reading/whatever) until 12-12:30. Eat lunch 1. Work until 4-5. Eat lunch 2. Work until 7, and then sprint out of the lab before my boss could hold me up. At 7:30 (or 8, depending on the day) I would get to Judo, train for 2-2.5 hours. Go home, eat dinner, make lunch for next day and go to bed... rinse/repeat Mon, Tue, and Thu. Lunchtime or evenings, on Fri or Sat, Sundays, and usually Wednesday, I would lift weights hard with 2 other physics grad students for 1-2 hours, usually try to go hard for 1.25 hours only doing functional lifting, no bodybuilding crap. In the fall/spring would play intramural soccer, so I would do 1 less day of weightlifting. Usually either Friday or Saturday I would go out with friends, and once I got a girlfriend (now wife) would go out with her on Wednesdays after judo, and Fri/Sat.

I would try to maximize efficiency in the lab, although it was not easy. I would get behind from time to time, but if I lightened up on my physical/eating/sleeping routine, that was the worst solution. Certain things prevented me from keeping a regimented schedule from time to time, like qualifying exams (if you don't pass with flying colors you get the boot) which I had to study for like 5 hours a day for 5-6 months.

I tried to really rest my brain on Saturdays/Sunday... but that was not always possible... sometimes I had to play catch up on the weekend in the lab. But if I couldn't rest, my brain would just be sapped for the next whole week and I would struggle. I tried as much as possible to make the weekend just about sleeping, eating, and maybe just lying in the grass for 2-3 hours, or sitting on a bench outside, letting the stress dissipate.

However, being extremely focused with little wiggle room really helped me out. I was a machine for a few years... a good example is that I didn't eat any sugar (besides fruit) for like 2-3 years. Then one day I had a piece of cake at a birthday party, and I had to go home and sleep for like 12 hours lol. I ate really clean the whole time... probably only had 2 beers a week or less, and just pushed the pace.

The funny thing though, is that it was one of the happiest times of my life... I felt satisfied in everything I was doing. While the pace was high, I rarely noticed how busy I was because I really loved everything I was putting valuable time into (although weightlifting gets boring, besides deadlifts!). Now, with a kid/married/both of us working... I have less time to focus on me... however I do some squats/lunges with my daughter on my back while we play at the playground. More fun now [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
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Old 03-17-2014, 06:23 PM
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Old 03-13-2014, 02:09 AM
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try livejournal.com
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Old 03-13-2014, 08:49 AM
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try livejournal.com
Was this comment really necessary?

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Old 03-13-2014, 09:42 AM
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Was this comment really necessary?
Not sure someone claiming anyone who managed to do end game content fifteen years ago was some kind of pathetic degenerate deserves defending.
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Old 03-13-2014, 12:07 PM
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Not sure someone claiming anyone who managed to do end game content fifteen years ago was some kind of pathetic degenerate deserves defending.
Meh, the original post seems harmless enough to me. Lots rambling followed by thanking of server staff. Please understand, my dissent is not with the accuracy of the 'livejournal.com' comment, but the appropriateness of it in this specific subsection of the P1999 forum.

It just seems like these days the second someone posts in this discussion forum they are met with a quick jab to the ribs followed by expected cheers from the audience.

The server staff have asked time and time again to keep jabs in RnF where they belong.

My exasperation was not meant to paint Mr. Chewie as the poster child for trolls - he certainly isn't the only one who has fallen in with the current trend on Server Chat.

It seems I am not immune either, actually - and thus I have updated my graphic
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Old 03-14-2014, 04:31 AM
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try livejournal.com
i peed
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Old 03-14-2014, 04:52 AM
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