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Brotherhood 2.0: March 7, 2007: Stress

2007-03-07 · letter vlog · John · 2:36 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: Nerdfighteria) · mode: Personal update · tags: community lore

John explains his late video by a day of anxiety: three hours at the eye doctor, being told he 'probably' has nothing to worry about, a phone lost and returned, a stress he blames on Dad's cancer, and Sarah's hard master's thesis.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Greeting; feeling unwell after a party; thanks for the Peeps punishment and the fund's roaring start

  • ★ John says he was out late the night before at a friend's birthday party and does not feel very well. — 00:00:03
  • ★★ John thanks Hank for doing a great job with the Peeps punishment and looks forward to its completion the next day. (playful) — 00:00:03 · Peeps, Punishment
  • ★★ John says the Brotherhood 2.0 Foundation for Decreasing Suck Levels Worldwide is off to a roaring start thanks to Hank's inability to eat Peeps quickly. (playful) — 00:00:03 · Foundation to Decrease World Suck, Peeps

00:00:36 — Late video: anxiety, three hours at the eye doctor, 'probably nothing to worry about'

  • ★★★ John says the video is late because he feels a lot of anxiety after a busy day: three hours at the eye doctor, where his eyes were dilated. — 00:00:36
  • ★★★ John says being told he 'probably' has nothing to worry about makes him worry; he would rather be told he is fine. (playful) — 00:00:36
  • ★ On the way home John talked to Hank by phone in a traffic jam, left his cell phone in the cab, and the driver brought it to his house. — 00:00:36

00:01:17 — Phone left in the cab and returned; a bundle of stress blamed on Dad's cancer; eyeball cancer

  • ★★★ John says that although everything worked out and he should be happy, he carries a big bundle of stress he can never get rid of. — 00:01:17
  • ★★ John blames Dad: had their father not had cancer at John's age, John would probably not worry about having cancer. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:17 · Mike Green

00:01:51 — The Yeti's master's thesis and her to-do list; laundry versus the ideology of class; sign-off

  • ★★ John says the big worry in his life is not even his: the Yeti is working on an extremely hard, stressful master's thesis, and he has never seen anyone work so hard. — 00:01:51 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★ John reads Sarah's post-it to-do list: see a picture of Dorian Gray at Butler Library, pay bills, call into question the ideology of class. (playful) — 00:01:51 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★ John contrasts Sarah's work with his own stress, which comes from having to do laundry and the chance of eyeball cancer. (playful) — 00:02:20 · Sarah Urist Green

Humor (significant)

  • The eye doctor told John he probably has nothing to worry about. — 00:00:36

    “If I probably have nothing to worry about, then I definitely have something to worry about.”

  • John voices what he wishes the doctor had said instead. — 00:00:36

    “Tell me you're fine. Congratulations. Good work on those eyes, kid.”

  • After wishing his stress came from calling into question the ideology of class, John names his real sources. — 00:02:20

    “I'm just stressed out because I have to do laundry. And I might have eyeball cancer.”

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Mentioned

Central: anxiety disorder

Also: Butler Library · Foundation to Decrease World Suck · Mike Green · Peeps · Punishment · Sarah Urist Green · The Picture of Dorian Gray · world suck

Also centred on anxiety disorder: My Hairy Ball of Anxious Anxiety · I'm Having a Lot of Feelings · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… · The ANXIETY IS PALPABLE · I Still Don't Have Cancer (and I'm Still Scared)

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