preworry

reesetee Well, it sounds as though you're perfectly healthy, then. :-) Dec 31, 2008

Telofy Often I simultaneously preworry that I'm not worrying enough about the worrisome, and that I'm worrying too much and thus jamming the unworrying process, without the two preworries annihilating each other (or themselves?).
But I don't recommend that approach. Dec 30, 2008

chained_bear Well, you can worry about it, but you sure can't preworry about it anymore. It's too late! Nov 26, 2008

Prolagus Well, as compared to one year ago, I'm both worried and wordier. Nov 26, 2008

mollusque C_b, should we be worried that worried is an anagram of wordier? Nov 26, 2008

bilby Don't preworry. Be prehappy. Nov 25, 2008

reesetee Worrylet? That implies smallness. All worry is huge. Nov 25, 2008

whichbe I'm preworried that a postworry could start as a worrylet but then develop into full-blown regret. Nov 24, 2008

mollusque That sounds like postworrying. Unless you're worried about doing it again. Nov 24, 2008

sionnach *is worried about possibly having contributed to the explosive decapitation of yarb elsewhere on site*

enveloped by feelings of vulpine guilt Nov 24, 2008

reesetee Chained is right. If you don't properly preworry, then you end up postworrying about not having worried enough, and you waste precious worrying energy worrying about something that should have been worried about sooner.

This, not surprisingly, worries me. Nov 24, 2008

chained_bear Bilby, you obviously don't understand preworrying.

Mollusque, you have to worry twice as much, plus worry about all the things you haven't yet thought about preworrying about. Nov 24, 2008

whichbe I just preworried this might be an insidious meme waiting to happen. Nov 23, 2008

bilby *rescues mollusque with a J-curve* Nov 23, 2008

mollusque I rolled a six and landed on learning curve, which explains why I was supposed to preworry. *Slides down curve and exits left.* Nov 23, 2008

bilby If someone arrives at preworry without preworrying, I think the job is pretty much done. Mollusque shall now proceed to worry and stay there until he rolls a six. Nov 23, 2008

mollusque C_b, if you worry about two things at once, do you have to worry half as long or twice as long so that each gets its quota of worrying? That is, is worrying synergistic? Nov 23, 2008

chained_bear You should have worried about that before, mollusque. Now you have to worry harder because you didn't preworry about randoming this word.

Wait. Now I'm worried about using "randoming." Nov 22, 2008

reesetee Now you're in for it. Nov 22, 2008

mollusque Uh oh, I just randomed preworry. *Worries* Nov 22, 2008

reesetee See niche worrying. :-) Jan 12, 2008

sonofgroucho This is one of my greatest failings. Jan 12, 2008

mollusque Love it! Jan 12, 2008

chained_bear This is what I, and several family members, do regularly: worry about things well before they need worrying about. Just in case you have to worry about them later--preworrying lets you avoid the rush.

We've been saying it for years, but I never thought of listing it until I saw premorse on freerice.com and thought I knew what it should mean... Jan 12, 2008