greenmangostudio

This happened literally an hour ago and I am currently weighing weather its easier to apologize or just hand in my resignation. I had a brutally long day. The kind where every "quick call" somehow becomes 45 minutes, every task is urgent until a more urgent task shows up, and by 6pm you're not really a person anymore. You're just a Slack notification with a heartbeat. On top of all that, I had to send a pretty important email to my manager asking for approval to attend a conference abroad. Not a casual "hey can i go?" either. This one had budget justifications, flight estimates, hotel costs, why it benefits the team, what learnings I'd bring back, all the corporate vocabulary you need to convince someone to let you leave the continent on the company's dime. So naturally, I decided this was the perfect time to multitask. My girlfriend called while I was still drafitng it. We're pretty new, still in that sickly sweet honeymoon phase where y...

To start this off I’m aware this was a really dumb decision and what was I thinking. The day started normal I was with my boyfriend and his family was downstairs. We were bored and decided that it’d be fun to take some edibles. I believe these ones were only 10mg. We both smoke flower, e cigs, etc . (I had just taken like a 2 week tolerance break). After smoking a little bit we decided to take to gummies each and then we decided to try shrooms. I’ve never done either of them but my bf has. I don’t remember anything after that but apparently I was talking to myself, running outside (it was severely storming last night too) I cut up my feet bad and then apparently threw up all over my boyfriend s floor. I also went to to his dad and started saying nonsense and then I walked into his mom’s room. That’s it! TL;DR I took way too many edibles and shrooms for my first time and humiliated myself in-front of my boyfriend’s family. (Sorry for spelling mistakes English is not my native la...

Obligatory this happened a few days ago. So I've been a drummer for about 20 years and I've never taken it too seriously. Over the years I've had a few different electric drum kits and the latest one was a low-end kit purchased a few years ago. Lately I've been going pretty hard into lessons and I decided to buy a nicer drum set as I was playing a lot more. I mostly buy music items from Sweetwater and they are known for their candy when you purchase an item. The last two times that I'd ordered something from them the candy selection left a lot to be desired. I mentioned this to my sales rep and he let me choose which candies I got. Cue the fuck up. I love taffy and Bit-O-Honey, so I requested these instead of the gum and root beer barrels I had been getting. So the other day my folks came over for dinner. Pretty basic stuff, and I had put out a bowl with the candy that came with the drum kit. Sweetwater had literally sent me six bags of candy and I wasn'...

I wanna preface this by saying I would never do this intentionally and it continues to haunt me although it actually happened weeks ago. I have come to confess my (extremely unintentional) sin. I was driving to work one morning recently. There’s a turn i make at a light and there are often homeless people hanging out near this intersection, and often they will walk up and down the line of cars with their signs or offering to wash windows. Sometimes I’ll buy them food nearby or give them some cash, but if I have nothing to offer and they look my way, i at least look people in the eyes, smile, and acknowledge their presence. On this morning, a man I hadn’t met before walked next to my car and looked in. I turned and smiled and waved as he passed. We locked eyes for a moment per usual. However, at that very moment, the song “Doses and Mimosas” by Cherub was blasting on my cars stereo, and I had been singing along, as it is one of my faves. Unfortunately, at the moment we locked eyes...

So, I had this friend come over for the first time and it was kinda unplanned, we were just walking around and figured we'd hang out at my place. At that point I'm only really thinking about the old socks on the floor, or my messy desk, and one specific thing isn't coming to mind. We got there, went to my room and I started showing him around. Then I caught him looking at something on my nightstand. Important context, maybe a little graphic (sorry). I like to read at night before going to sleep, and my attention span is all over the place so it can be a little frustrating instead of being cozy and relaxing. So what I do is while I read, I suck on a toy. Like, a dildo. For some reason keeping my mouth busy really helps me focus and I haven't found anything better. Also I just like doing it but that's besides the point. So what I caught my friend looking at on my nightstand was the book I was currently reading, with my toy shoved in it as a bookmark. It's purp...

Colleagues, i have been thinking about this and wondering!!!!, I don't want to self disclose about my experiences but Is there an evolutionary or psychological reason why our brains seem to prioritize awkward memories over ordinary daily experiences? I've often noticed that a small social mistake from childhood or an embarrassing comment made years ago can resurface in incredible detail, while routine events from just a few days ago fade almost completely. What processes in the brain influence this difference in memory retention? Do emotions such as shame, anxiety, or fear strengthen the encoding of certain experiences, making them easier to recall later? Additionally, how do factors like repetition, novelty, stress hormones, and personal significance affect whether a memory becomes long-lasting? I'm curious about the roles of the amygdala and hippocampus in this process and whether remembering embarrassing situations may have offered any adaptive advantages throughout huma...