Some options...

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...to address the recent tendency of staff members to lock themselves in their rooms, before it turns into an epidemic.

1) Enroll the staff member in some sort of relaxing extracurricular activity. (Yoga? Some sort of meditation? Air hockey?)

2) Declare Funny Hat Day and enforce it scrupulously. I suspect it would be very hard to brood if, say, you saw Jamie Madrox wearing a moose on his head.

3) Reinstate regular visits to Harry's. I'm beginning to think that some of us spend far too much time within these walls.

4) Have a half-dozen of the staff member's favorite students serenade the staff member. Preferably with show tunes.

5) Establish a buddy system. If you detect any danger signs, implement one of the above. If we don't keep each other sane, people, who will?

Any thoughts?

Comments

Hah...

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1) I despise yoga. I already meditate. And after a particular tragic and traumatic air hockey accident in St. Petersburg, I don't find it all that relaxing.

2) ...okay, point.

3) Hey, some of us do go to Harry's of our own accord. Right, Cain? And not just to play 'one tequila, two tequila'.

4) I thought this was about keeping us sane?

5) I have a buddy. She's red-haired and bad-tempered, with a scary addiction to bad coffee and lots of ways to distract me when I brood. And only a couple of them involve show tunes.

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My thoughts are that I'm going to open a bottle of wine and book a massage with the spa recommended by the nice young man at the holistic food store. Then I'm going to spoil my cat and watch the replay of today's Tour de France. I'm sure that with a little practice anyone can pick up the skill.

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

Day out at the spa. I'm for that really. All for that.

Then again, I already do that too.

(And hiya. I'd be Alison. And you have an utterly gorgeous cat.)

[x-vega.livejournal.com]

(Hi, Alison. Flattering my cat will get you everywhere.)

I think spas are vastly underused in this country.

And I think most adults know what they should be doing to take care. It's just the doing it that gets sticky. Bloody Protestant work-ethic and popular angst-culture colliding to worse possible effect.

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(I thought it might. Only of course, it being the absolute truth kinda helps. ;) )

Well, not my fault if they are. I firmly believe in putting them to use.

Knowing and doing - yep, two different things. For mostly everyone really, not just adults.

[x-vega.livejournal.com]

(And here I thought I was only going to like you for your taste in designers.)

Any recommendations?

Agreed. But we're supposed to know better. I just startled Delphine by laughing at that. It's a nice theory.

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(You're very politely ignorign the pink phase, as short as it was. Thank you so much. *g*)

Any preferences as to the type of massage? Because Graceful Services and Haven are the first that come to mind, generally speaking. There's also Oasis and Bliss Soho. I go to D.Esse myself, most of the time.

Well, you know what they say about theory and practice. *g*

[x-shinobi.livejournal.com]

A combination of five and three sounds reasonable to me. Lord knows a little regular socializing never killed anybody.

But how to pick your buddy? Is this an instance where dropping names into a hat is in order?

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First, the idea that socializing never killed anybody that would depend on the nature of the socializing, and the company involved. There's a first time for everything, at the least.

Second, the thought of a 'buddy system' fills me with a dread akin to the one I experience every time paisley threatens to return to the runways of Paris. I have the hideous vision of all of us trudging into Harry's clinging to the "safety line" usually reserved for taking pre-schoolers out for a drag.

Third, wouldn't assigned relaxation give the good people here one more thing to worry about?

[x-shinobi.livejournal.com]

Has anyone ever told you that you do bad things for a young man's optimism?

[x-vega.livejournal.com]

Quite the opposite, usually. Why do you ask?

A doctor's prescription...

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Excellent, point, Scott. And yes, I know, this is Ms Pot talking here. We Doctors Three tend to spend altogether too much time locked up in the scary metal place where people only come if they're unconscious.

How about regular social things? I was thinking of suggesting beer (or chosen beverege) and pizza night sometime in the next week or so, on campus so everyone could join in without the little darlings summoning the Four Horsemen or something whilst we were gone. And Harry's sounds wonderful.

Although I really like the Silly Hat idea. Imaging Monet in one of those hats with the propellor on top is cheering me up no end.

Re: A doctor's prescription...

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Actually, Hank is easily lured out by the use of the proper bait and the promise of a nice fur detangler. Just so's you know. Ask Jamie about the bait itself. He's the one I got the deep fried twinkies from. ;)

Ah, so you two are the culprits...

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You know I'll hold you two responsible for the state of Hank's cholesterol levels now?

And people say my eating habits are unhealthy. *shudders* Deep fried Twinkies? Gah.

Re: Ah, so you two are the culprits...

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Ahem. You ever tried to keep twinkies from him when he's in the middle of a craving attack?

I know better. I like being in one unpretzelled piece, thank you very much!

Re: Ah, so you two are the culprits...

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Ah, but back then it was just the ordinary twinkies. Now you've introduced him to these deep fried horrors, there's no turning back... You've created a monster!

Oh, and Hank? Love you, big fella. You know that, right? No spiking the donuts again?

Re: Ah, so you two are the culprits...

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Hey. You're the mad scientist here, not me! I'm just a singer!

Nyah!

Re: Ah, so you two are the culprits...

[x-madelyn.livejournal.com]

And you're the one they call the Devil Woman... *grins*

Re: Ah, so you two are the culprits...

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

My reputation is vastly exaggerated.

No really, it is. Does most of the work for me too. >:D

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2) I don't see how Jamie wearing a moose hat would strike anyone as out of the ordinary. However the idea of Monet in the propeller hat? Yeah, now that I like.

4) Warn me before that happens, I want to sell tickets.

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I'm all about going out to Harry's. Count me in.