u/Oileanachannanalba

Edit: I do light therapy, but would like to actually change that schedule.

Hi all,
For the last seven years, I have been unable to sleep at night and can only sleep during the day. No matter how much I try, strict routines, countless different medications, I have never been able to solve the problem. I am also diagnosed with autism, and have been told a delayed melatonin release is very common in autistic individuals. Before 2020, my sleep was basically the same but I was in school, and got so sleep deprived I could no longer continue. I've tried so many different meds, including "heavy" ones, anxiety ones, even some primarily prescribed for alcohol withdrawal... they have little to no effect. At best, they work for 5 days before I get used to them. Again, I was told autistic people usually require higher dosages, but they do not change my sleep schedule, just make the sleep much heavier when it finally sets in.

I am very lucky that my employment allows me to choose my own hours. But soon winter will come again and I will never see the light of day, making seasonal depression even worse. I need a lot of sleep (commonly 10-12 hours) and dream of being able to sleep during the night, to have a schedule where I could see daylight and not want to go out at the coffee shop when it has already closed. I wonder if anyone struggled with the same, if they found a medication that work, or any other trick? I've done the "no sleep during 24 hours" too, many times, but no matter how dead tired I get I will only fall asleep in the early morning.

Thank you!

Hi all,

I have just realised that, upon moving from my room at O' Shea North Forth House on 28/08, I left three very dear and rare pieces of clothing behind, which I had specifically put aside not to forget them 😭 Anyway, I suppose everything must have been sorted and donated by now, and I wonder if any student who participated in the sorting/donation knows which charity shops have received donations from O' Shea? Hope is very slim, but I thought I would try. Thank you!

Hi all, my little cousin sent me a voice message today telling me about her back to school day, through her Vietnamese-speaking mum's Instagram. She speaks French and Vietnamese natively and I wanted to be able to tell her something in Vietnamese along the line of "I hope your back to school day went well, I think about you often!" as her mum does not speak much French and I'm sure she would be delighted.

Could anyone help with this and a phonetic pronunciation? Thank you so much 😊

Hi all! I have submitted a paper proposal to a journal I really value (French literature) and was pleased that it was accepted. The editorial guidelines were only communicated afterwards, however, and the maximum character count is 27,000, which I guess must be 3000-4000 words. I have already spent two months revising and editing the paper, and am still sitting at 30,000 characters (4780 words). I feel like cutting anymore text would denature the paper. Out of curiosity, I sampled a few of their past publications and they ranged from 27000 to 34000 characters. Do you believe it is worth asking if they might consider the slightly longer paper, or might that be considered unprofessional?
Thank you kindly!

Hi all! I have submitted a paper proposal to a journal I really value (French literature) and was pleased that it was accepted. The editorial guidelines were only communicated afterwards, however, and the maximum character count is 27,000, which I guess must be 3000-4000 words. I have already spent two months revising and editing the paper, and am still sitting at 30,000 characters (4780 words). I feel like cutting anymore text would denature the paper. Out of curiosity, I sampled a few of their past publications and they ranged from 27000 to 34000 characters. Do you believe it is worth asking if they might consider the slightly longer paper, or might that be considered unprofessional?
Thank you kindly!

Halò a h-uile duine!

Tha mi a' leughadh bàrdachd le Màiri Nic A' Phearsain an-dràsta, gu h-àraid "Nuair bha mi òg". Anns an rann seo, chan eil mi a' tuigsinn an dàrna seantans:

Toirt na mo chuimhn' iomadh nì a rinn mi

[Nach faigh mi 'm bann gu ceann thall mo sgeòil,]

A' falbh sa gheamhradh gu luaidh is bainnsean

Gun solas lainnteir ach ceann an fhòid [...]

Chunnaic mi mòran eadar-theangaidhean gu math diofaraichte air loidhne. Tha mi ag iarraidh eadar-theangachadh litireil mar tha e dèantach. Mòran taing!

Halò a charaidean! Tha mi a' lorg airson cuideachas; dh' ionnsaich mi beagan Gàidhlig nuair a bha mi aig oilthigh o chionn sia bliadhna, agus tha cuimhne agam gun robh mi a’ strì ri "that". Do you have any resources on how to use "that" in sentences in all tenses?

Mòran taing 😊

I am due to present at an international symposium tomorrow, which lasts from June 17th to June 19th. Because of limited funding, I made arrangements to travel to the country late on June 16th, so today, and leave by midday of June 18th. Today, I received a message from the organisers saying they had reshuffled the program and I discover that I am now due to present late on June 19th, whereas I was supposed to present in less than 24 hours originally. I am not supposed to be in the country on June 19th. Do organisers just assume we can afford to be there three days in a capital city? Have you ever encountered a situation like that? 😞

Anyone knows what the construction work around Old Kirk on Holyrood Road for the last three days is about? I live just next to it and the noise has been terrible, making it very difficult to study and hold online meetings during this exam season. While I will just go elsewhere from now on, it's frustrating to pay so much rent to not be able to study in my room... But that's the reality of living in any city. I am curious to know if anyone knows how long it will last and what they are doing, as it is an interesting process to watch nonetheless.

I've been watching the original FF series and have been getting into new episodes lately. At first, I thought it was a coincidence that every episode of FF II I watched heavily focused on the intervention of a psychic. But tonight I'm on my 6th or 7th episode where a psychic is the star of the show - it's repetitive, and is not even subtle. I see other people commenting on that here and there, but I wondered if we have more info on FF II's production? Is there an agenda? The narrative structure, with the psychic getting involved and interviews of police force members commenting that they did not believe at first "but where open to anything at this point", then saying they were pretty much convinced at the end of each episode, is oddly reiterative. Or did I manage to stubble upon a sample that is not at all representative of the whole series?