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Check out the app Run Kaizen/Kaizen (I do their blogs). It's better than other apps for really aiming to beat PBs as it simplifies your training load, while calculating everything around your target time. It gives you a very accurate (more than other apps) race prediction. I know this sounds a bit salesy—I can't stop! My writing is normally better than this I hope (I am so tired). I am not trying to actually sell it to you, but I use it and it's useful. There's a free trial. I'm a believer in it as much as anything. It's not my main job, but a side thing I do because I like the app. Working with Kaizen really got me into running, and I echo the statements above about it being so good for mental health. I have half an eye on the Madrid marathon in April. The app is still young, but it's the brainchild of an uber keen sports scientist. The next update has some important new features. In a couple of updates I think it's going to be quite special.

After my dramas (that I wrote about in the relationship thread), I had a bit of a bleak tumble over Christmas and my dad (a retired GP) finally won the battle to get me onto antidepressants. I went to the GP, did the test but was borderline depressed and ended up on 50mg of sertraline, and I've been on it since just before new year. The first two weeks were rough—and starting them just before new year was a massive error as the second of January was probably the worst day I've ever had—delayed hangover, tiredness, coming up on sertraline, feeling directionless and lost, home alone—I've never ruminated so awfully and constantly. Happily though it was my lowest point. I leant into running (which I'd been building up over the previous month or so) and got back on the job hunt. I also came to accept that my ex was a weirdo and that it was nothing to do with me. The sertraline, imo, started more and more making me feel as if I didn't give a damn about her. It just created this sense of ambivalence in me, and it was enough to get me going again alongside everything else. I sent out loads of job applications and got picked up by a couple of recruitment people, who very quickly got me a couple of job offers. I accepted one, and left Madrid last week to move to Devon, where I'm now a copywriter. Sertraline has ultimately helped me get my life back on track—it's been one tool among a lot of other tools, along with good support from friends and family, and treating myself as well as possible. I do feel it though, I think. It's slightly keeping me a touch more ambivalent about a lot of things, but I'm still capable of all the emotions, so it's not bad. Still, I'm going to try to speak to the GP again soon with the aim of tapering off it. I also found out that half the people I know are on it for a variety of reasons. For me, it's been amazing honestly. Six, five, four, three months ago I couldn't imagine feeling normal again, but now it's all good. I'm happy to sing it's praises to anyone. I wonder if you're feeling extra weird as your body adapts to the higher dose?

He was awful for long periods! He looked hopeless.

Ironically, I'm actually more interested in the books now. I might try to do the second one and on as audiobooks. The overall idea does sound interesting.

I'd argue it didn't show over tell. It just didn't try to dramatise anything at all! Because it didn't have the space. People just say the plot then the scene ends. Onto the next one, then the next one. That's not good dramatic writing. For the record everyone I watched it with thought it was a massive drag too.

I'm getting the impression this film is incredibly Marmite. Everyone I went with was bored to tears. And I am not someone limited to easy popcorn films—I consider myself as someone with a pretty broad taste and capable of extreme film nerdery. From an actual 'dramatisation' point of view I found it to be all spectacle and no soul. And maybe I said it before, but this is exactly what happens when there's too much plot to cram in.

I'm developing a theory that if you know about the books and the overall story then this 3 hour Hans Zimmer music video is enjoyable. If you don't then it just feels like hollow nothingness. No argument could be made that the characters are well developed. There's a scene where Zendaya and Rebecca Ferguson have an argument. It lasts about a minute, they discuss the story's central theme, and neither of them have spoken or had a scene together at all, or at best to any significant or memorable degree. 99% of the sequences in the whole film last about two minutes max. It's like a big summary/montage of an actual plot. Character development in these films has been removed entirely because there's way too much to fit in. For me it started with promise but never got engaging once.

Nope. It's so boring. Just like the first one—none of the characters have any personality and it was impossible for me to give a damn about any of it. What a waste of time and effort. Entertainment rating: 0/10 for me. I'd rather do anything else than watch either of these two films again. I'd rather sit in a cold waiting room for three hours.

I thought he was looking his old self in the last game.

We've been shit recently until Ramsey came back. I think he's been a significant part of the turnaround (smashing the worst team in the league doesn't count the same).

Not every game! In our bad period he was misplacing a lot of passes. But when he's good I agree.

Steve Bannon was clapping along to the end of democracy speech on the previous page too. Truss is the biggest grifter of them all. What a prick.

They stamp in Madrid too.

Not the McGinns though. I know what you're saying, but I bet there are loads of other examples.

Every pass is actually beautiful.

This isn't true at all. I just wasted two minutes checking. Maybe it meant to say 'unbeaten' in London (I saw draws against Brentford and West Ham before I stopped!) Edit: ah maybe I'm wrong. I read it as in London. (Because it's in the away form thread).

How did we line up with all the necessary changes? I missed the game.

I agree, and I'm disappointed to be moving in a direction opposite to your logic. It's out of necessity really. After dramas (as per the relationship thread), I needed to sort a better job out. The first good job that I got is back home, so here I go.

Gah I just got a job in the UK, so I'm heading back imminently after 8 years in Spain. The €3 wines were pretty tasty last night. Last time I was in the UK I bought someone a £8.10 small wine.

Ffs.

Noooo.

Name and shame! But yeah, I hate how knee-jerk people can be.

Surely for about 40 mins in total? Neither of them have been around much.

I think people are being harsh on Cash. And Emery has played him at RB loads this season—Konsa being out isn't a weird mathetmatical equation that needs huge changes to the team.

City have played two games less than us. They're quite good at winning games too, so I don't think this is a 'bird in the hand' situation. We're not going to win the title, but they might.