Even when I had a job I hated weekends. The aftermath of growing up with a goal oriented father.

For me relaxing is sweating from hours of whatever labor was for the day. I don't understand how I could stop, or even slow down.

I might begin with the Star Wars sets...I've washed my hands of that fandom.

Is that so? Why did you forsake the fandom?

I'm the same. However I am in the city so there is barely any nature around at all. I don't know what to do with my free time which is why I'm pursuing a job in the legal field. Long hours researching and doing paperwork. It is more of exercising the brain and consuming large amounts of information, trying to make sense of it and besting others.

Growing up in the city, it actually feels very abnormal to be around nature. I actually was afraid of grass brushing against my ankles when I was younger, since it reminded me of being bitten by bugs ( I have very strong reactions to mosquito bites). We would go visit my cousin in the countryside and I would basically jump around in the fields because I couldn't stand being touched by grass.

I'm ambivalent about urban areas. But I suspect a different kind of isolation prevails there. Well, I get bitten by bugs, and scratched by brush. But I get to see the night sky so clearly, with only minimal photopollution.

The same reason for just about any other, the absence of left dominant characters. In real life its one in ten at most, in fiction its less than zero.

I'm on the outskirts of the city, so I do get to see the stars from time to time. There is a designated star-gazing field near my area.

Have you ever lived in an urban area? The isolation in the most crowded areas of the city is that everyone is so desensitized to "weird" things and busy that no one will pay you any mind. We have performers on the subway daily and many homeless. Most people are so busy rushing about that hardly anyone will pay you any mind if you are wearing a unique outfit (very many unique people here, for example we have the Naked Cowboy).

Its common if you live in a large apartment building that you will not know your neighbors at all and the small delis and bodegas are being swallowed up by large chain supermarkets. My professor used to work at a deli that had to close down because their monthly rent was $100,000! There is very much a continual pressure to work harder and do better than others, otherwise you will get lost in terms of your career.

My isolation is rural, to say the least. I'll give you an analogy, we've had running water for five years now. I've lived here for nearly thirty. For a time our existence was questioned, and an investigation allegedly stated "there is nothing there". It turns out they searched a different location.

That sounds a lot like where I used to live, actually. Middle of nowhere, Podunk, Minnesota.

That's cool. Working on the weekends can be lame, but at least you get Friday off.

Wow that sounds like a surreal news story. That's funny lol

I hope I will be able to experience living in different places. Sometimes the city is very suffocating. For a while I used to dream about living in the desert. One of my friends wants to live on a boat without any technology. We actually do have people living in boats docking in the city - since my city is an island basically.

I do live out in a desert. In a relatively isolated area, but the suburbs creep closer every year.

I don't get Fridays off, I have Saturday and Sundays off lol

Do you live in a more populated area now? Are you up to anything this weekend?

How does it make you feel to see that it's slowly changing and becoming less isolated?

My neighborhood used to be a fishing village. Growing up, I've seen them demolish 2 homes from my block and now those are two apartment buildings with at least 12 apartments each. The family diner is also now a 5 story apartment building. It's crazy.

Hello! I'm trying to get myself out more in the forums. How're you all today?

Hello, dear! I'm doing well!

Yeah, I live in a city. I'm seeing the IT movie this weekend, pretty much right after work tomorrow. Then spend the next two days recovering as I am petrified of clowns.

Hey! How's it going? I'm just staying home today and chilling with my family :)

Haha I understand that. I saw It on the TV randomly as a child - I feel like I was too young for that at the time lol I've sworn off horror movies ever since. The most I can do is horror manga

This IT I have been told, is how the movie was meant to be. The previous was just a made for TV thing. It matters not to me, I swore off movies about ten years ago.

"How am I?" I am unable to answer without more specific information...I'm a machine that way.

Dismantling LEGO sets for my niece's collection...I'll need a bigger tub now.

I'm a chicken when it comes to scary movies and I've heard this movie is truer to source as well, so I'm anxious.

I guess, The Blob from the 80's did quite a number on me. I've only seen it once. But I've had nightmares about them until I stopped dreaming.

It sucks, some think it'll be all gone before the century is over.

The 80's Blob is one of the first scary movies I ever saw. It's not scary now but as someone who still has an active imagination, that kind of thing is unsettling.

The last nightmare I had was Blob themed. This one was less picky about what it ate, and even had the habit of not finishing its victims. It was set to music too, Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums by A Perfect Circle. In particular the bridge saying "Go back to sleep".