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Author Topic: What do you do to calm your nerves? Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 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. What do you do?  |  IP: Logged Richard Greco Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1180 From: Plant City, FL Registered: Nov 2003 posted 04-20-2004 10:35 PM                     usually helps I like to sit outside on a nice day and read  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 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 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 . Or... There is always plenty of wonderful hiking up in the mountains, chasing rattle snakes in the desert , 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  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 04-20-2004 11:10 PM                        Grande Marnier. Ends the day just right!  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 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!!!  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 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!  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Peter Kerchinsky Master Film Handler Posts: 326 From: Seattle, WA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 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  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Fuentes Mmmm, Dr. Pepper! Posts: 1168 From: Corpus Christi, TX United States Registered: Jan 2004 posted 04-21-2004 06:04 AM                     Usually to calm my nerves I close my eyes and picture Phil in his milkbath.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-21-2004 06:50 AM                         |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Floyd Justin Newton Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 559 From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged

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