25th June 2010, 11:09 AM
Speaking as someone who is (a) probably about to join the dole queue, (b) in a financial mess, and © seeing a counsellor who thinks I am pretty well depressed (I try to deny this fact... keep telling myself it's just a passing phase or just a sign of the times)... I for one really need a bit of levity . Maybe it is a burying-head-in-sand or even 'elephant in the room' mentality and, yes, there are very important things to discuss and a real need to sort them out. The conversations on this thread may seem a bit frivolous to some, but at the moment any sort of escape from the doom-n-gloom helps.
I still dream of the heady day that I (personally) and archaeology as a whole finally gets out of the mess... where I actually have a steady job, a roof over my head, enough food in the cupboard and, hey, enough get to buy a decent bottle of malt (now and again). In the mean time, I try to stay positive (not easy when you've apparently got depression... see, still in denial) and get by with a good pint now and again. BAJR hosty... don't give up on the fight to make things better. Somebody needs to do something. As for this thread... Remember, depression is not a laughing matter... but laughing is a way of beating depression.
I still dream of the heady day that I (personally) and archaeology as a whole finally gets out of the mess... where I actually have a steady job, a roof over my head, enough food in the cupboard and, hey, enough get to buy a decent bottle of malt (now and again). In the mean time, I try to stay positive (not easy when you've apparently got depression... see, still in denial) and get by with a good pint now and again. BAJR hosty... don't give up on the fight to make things better. Somebody needs to do something. As for this thread... Remember, depression is not a laughing matter... but laughing is a way of beating depression.