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Rainy Times

YoursTrulyYoursTruly
edited August 2011
Hello Portland!
It's a misty ol' day out there, feels very autumnal. I'm glad because it makes my black cardigan look less weird, and I have to wear my black cardigan because I sweat so much when I teach.

Any thoughts on this? I would like to wear something other than black, but my armpit sweat rings are SO EXTREME when I teach that honestly it's not really feasible.

???? Fun Lifetime Project: how to stop sweating when nervous

Rainy day! Cozy times!

I love it!

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  • the_owlsthe_owls
    Wear very loose blouses!
    Wear other dark colors like navy, forest green, brown!

    Teaching is the most stressful and terrifying performance activity. When I teach (which is rarely) I sweat, twitch, stammer, and lose my breath.

    I love the rain today!
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    once and only once I saw a vintage garment that was meant for just this particular ladies' conundrum: where to store underarm moisture? In a convenient underarm-padded blouse, of course, to be worn underneath dry garments.

    Is this why Men wear a clean white T-shirt beneath their collared shirt?

    I love the weather
    Now I can see
    instead of being blinded by the sun and the shadows
    and when I head west and see the trees arranged in order of increasing transparency against a gray background
    I like what I see!
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I want underarm sweat-pads!!!!!!!!!
    Maybe I can invent some out of kotex?
    ugh
    I'm soaking wet
    MY STUDENTS ARE SO SMART YOU GUYS, I WANT TO CRY WITH JOY
    WHAT A JOY
    To teach at a small fancy school!!!!! Holy shit
  • MatthewMatthew
    I have always felt that a clean white T made the problem worse. I "free ball" my collared shirts.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    It was so nice to get a little rain. I miss it when it's gone (but wish it was here a little less in the winter).
  • joeyjoey
    You guys make that rain sound so poetic.
    I woke up this morning and there was a little hint of night rain on the ground but I did not see it.
    I don't have any advice about that underarm sweat... Maybe you have to wear some of that scary typical no-sweat pharmacy deodorant when you teach... Speedstick? Degree? Secret? Teen Spirit?
  • MatthewMatthew
    The aluminum in your pits.

    It rained here. A lot of trees fell down.
  • joeyjoey
    edited August 2011
    Yeah, just put a bunch of aluminum under your arms!
  • MatthewMatthew
    That's what antiperspirant is, aluminum.
  • joeyjoey
    I know. That is why I use only gentle stuff.
    I just liked the cartoony image of Zombie with a bunch of tin foil under her arms.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I literally already wear the most intense aluminum antiperspirant when I teach: NO AVAIL

    imagine if I didn't!

  • Cherry_PieCherry_Pie
    'In the theatre' people wear removable sweat guards in their costumes. They look like shoulder pads kind of and you pin them into the underarm section of the shirt. Very helpful when performing under hot lights!
  • lolololo
    I wish we could go to MLK Fashion Plaza to look for these sweat pads. Are they stored near the butt enhancer pads?
  • joeyjoey
    Zombie, in that case I am pretty sure I know the solution to your problem, but it's sad and you won't like it: quitting coffee.
    I don't mean to be gross but years ago I sweated a lot and smelled really bad. I'd shower and wear deodorant to no avail. I stopped drinking coffee (even decaf) and all that stuff (and more) went away.
    I know quitting coffee is the last thing a lot of people would do when confronted with health and hygiene issues. It's been almost ten years and I still miss it, so I have tiny little sips here and there once in a blue moon. But never a real amount because all the old ailments reappear.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    That's a good point. Coffee makes me sweatier for sure.
  • LelandLeland
    image

    "Coffee or Pit Flood: Which Do You Choose?"




  • flossy_log_ladyflossy_log_lady
    Last week I woke up early, drank some hot coffee, and produced such a sweat that when M woke up and saw me he thought I needed a doctor. Kept asking me how I was feeling all day. Coffee definitely = sweat in my experience!

    But also, why not go guy style and wear the shirt under the shirt?
  • MatthewMatthew
    Quitting coffee is not worth it.

    Maybe antiperspirant is one of those FU corporation tricks. Like you have to wear stronger antiperspirant because you have worn antiperspirant.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    the antiperspirant stops the ODOR but not the SWEAT, for me. My teaching-sweat doesn't tend to be smelly anyway so I don't know why I bother with the antiperspirant. Maybe I think "holy shit if it's this bad WITH it what's it gonna be like WITHOUT it"

    I can't quit coffee and I won't, at least not now. I know you are right but I just won't. I'll take the sweats and the only wearing black in class ANY DAY OF THE WEEK AND TWICE ON SUNDAY before I'll stop enjoying the greatest beverage mankind has ever known.

    I think it's hard for ladies to go shirt-under-shirt because so many lady shirts are kind of loosey goosey and/or flimsy and/or tight, like what kind of undershirt would fit under all of my lady shirts?

    and anyway I sweat through everything. If I wear a shirt with a cardigan over it, I sweat through the shirt AND the cardigan. Shit is serious!!! And only when I teach! Not when I perform or anything else. WTF!!!!!
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    If you have health insurance kicking in, you can get prescription antiperspirant that's stronger. A childhood friend of mine ended up going that route.
  • joeyjoey
    Really?
    The concept of getting your doctor to prescribe you stronger antiperspirant before quitting coffee, even for a short period of time, seems a little crazy to me.
    I mean, even using the traditional aluminum deodorant is a route I wouldn't take before quitting coffee, but that's just me.
    Quitting coffee is not that hard nor that sad. It's difficult at first. You get foggy brain and cranky, which is annoying, but it's mellow as far as addictions go.
    Coffee was such a big part of my life and relationships. Sharing coffee with your person in the morning, sharing coffee with your friends, but then you find alternatives that work.
    My take on it is that if it truly is the coffee that is making you sweat buckets there might be some other stuff coffee is doing to your body that you don't know about.

  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    I wouldn't do it. Just relating an "option". I drink coffee and I don't wear anything under my pits (but I don't teach anything).
  • DeathDeath
    edited August 2011
    I used to wear anti-perspirant, and I stopped, and maybe I'm hallucinating, but it seems like my pits are a lot less sweaty now. I also seem to be a lot less sweaty in my everyday life since I started a jogging regimen.
  • DeathDeath
    Speaking of rainy days...
    I love jacket weather!
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    One thing we are overlooking in the attempt to get me to quit doing one of the few things that brings me completely unqualified pleasure in this crazy life:

    I only sweat like this when I teach. AT NO OTHER TIME. Why would that be coffee-related? I drink coffee every damn day.
  • joeyjoey
    edited August 2011
    Nervousness + coffee = the devil.
    The only times I sweat a lot now are when I play shows.
    Or when I eat a lot of dark chocolate (a lot for me is a quarter of one of those big bars).
    I know I am too sensitive to foods. I am like a walking joke. You can tease me about it.
    But in your case Zombie I am just trying to help since nothing else seems to be working for you.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I'm sure I would feel better if I quit coffee. I know you're right. You should always suggest these things to me, as you're probably right. I suggest yoga to people all the time and nobody ever takes my advice but I'm still gonna do it.

    It's interesting how we decide when something is worth giving up for a greater good, and when not. I have given up so many things (meat, sugar, e.g.) and changed my behavior (exercise, yoga, no afternoon coffee, thinking about "complete proteins" or whatever) but then other things I feel like I just really don't want to. How do we decide??



  • MatthewMatthew
    I followed the advice of doing yoga for the first time this summer. It was flow or something so I was pretty loss both times. I also tried pilates, which I liked more because the instructor was extremely detailed in the descriptions of the poses.

    Isn't coffee supposed to make you live to be really old and happy? There was something like that in that Anne Fadiman article about coffee.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    hooray!
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    p.s. for those new to yoga, I can not emphasize strongly enough how important it is to find a true beginner class--not one of those classes that just say "appropriate for all levels." It's harder to find ACTUAL beginning classes but it's so worth it. You learn so many things that are completely taken for granted in normal "all levels" classes.

  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    As for me, I can't wait for winter to begin. If only I can make it through September and October and get a Mr. Coffee. I will be happy as a clam in the wet sea, with the Mr. Coffee full of decaf.
  • joeyjoey
    RCH, what you say sounds so promising. I am intrigued.
    What are you talking about? Can you not drink coffee? Can you only drink coffee in November? Are you going to the wet sea?
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
    NO WINTER NOT YET PLEASE! LAST YEAR'S WINTER WAS SO LONG AND DARK AND WET AND GAH AND THIS SUMMER (JULY/AUGUST ESPECIALLY) HAS BEEN SO NICE WITH THE CAMPING AND THE SWIMMING AND THE SKATEBOARDING AND THE BIKING AND THE OUTDOOR CONCERTS AND THE HIKING AND THE ETC.

    Being soggy and riding into work at 8:30am can WAIT!
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    I don't know what I Am talking about.

    Do you????
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited August 2011
    but you have to admit that decaf is pretty cool

    It bears the flavor and style of cafe, and yet those who would drink of it will be pardoned from its most cruel punishments.

    Personally I drink about a cup of coffee every day of the work week. I do not believe I am beholden to caffeine. I consume it as one would a dessert.

    It is my fantasy, to have weak coffee at home, prepared in a manner as one might find in a common diner. My grandparents always have two Mr. Coffees happening. One is decaf and one is regular. Isn't that nice!?!?!?!?!?!??????
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    We switched from going to the gym for yoga to doing myyogaonline.com at home. It's better than gym yoga, but probably not as good as expensive yoga.
  • joeyjoey
    Weak/crappy coffee can be really heartwarming and nostalgic. A friend and I once decided to bust open a giant tub of Nescafe she had inherited from her dead grandfather. We didn't have enough money for coffee and it made our month of October cozy.
    I can't drink decaf, it makes my entire body turn acidic. Caffeinated tea does the same after a while.
    I replaced coffee with strong peppermint tea every morning when I had to quit. Now I never really drink things other than water. Holding a warm mug of something is always nice, though.
    I used to drink Inka in the fall and winter months. I loved it, a nice creamy brown drink. But I can't have that anymore either because I am off gluten.
    YOGA is wonderful. It seems to be a great way to prevent depression, which I will need if I continue on with my weird restrictive diet.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Crappy coffee can be so awesome sometimes. A beverage all its own.
  • NickNick
    I love getting crappy coffee from highway rest-stops late at night.
    Usually from an old man in the booth.
    Sometimes a weird biker.
  • joeyjoey
    Yesterday's grey sky seemed loaded with rain but it turned out to be a sham.
    Will it rain today?
    My garden wants it.
  • NickNick
    I think we're in for a sham-filled week, joey.
  • LelandLeland
    "AND GAH"
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