Gang of Culprits
Well it looks like something is up with me. Yesterday I felt cruddy again, right up until the lady-friend visited me. And today I feel cruddy too.
I've decided that the problem is a physical one. I honestly can't think of any good reason to not feel all that well. I thought for a moment yesterday that I'd forgotten to take my medicine. I honestly sometimes can forget if I've taken it within minutes of actually taking it. Something about doing the same damned thing every day, in the morning, when I'm groggy, makes it hard for it to stand out in your mind. It's like trying to remember what you felt like the minute you walked out to your car in the morning.
I had no pet symptom - not shocks - so I know that can't be it. And I surely took it this morning. Nothing much has changed in any direction for me since Monday, so I guess it's physical.
One possible culprit: I went to the gym yesterday morning, before work, because it was the only way I could finagle it. I was kinda going in there feeling wiped.
Another possible culprit: exercise volume has gone up. With this latest workout I've been going three times a week, not two. I just finished my second week of it, and maybe a 33% bump in physical activity is a bit hard on me. Since my body feels more or less fine - no crazy soreness or anything - I'm going to keep on trucking and see what happens. One bit of good news: this is day one of a two day break, so hopefully I can bring my baseline levels back to normal, if that's what it is.
Possible culprit 3: I remember a doctor once telling me that you can be sick without knowing you're sick, that you can catch something to such a mild extent that it can make you feel off without ever feeling classically "sick." I favor this explanation.
P.C. 4: Warm weather? This starts to get into that fuzzy mental territory. The weather has been kinda haywire: a fat thunderstorm yesterday, some unseasonably warm weather. I mean I guess, but I don't like that explanation. I'm sensitive to seasons, but I don't like the idea of being THAT sensitive, and besides, I've been... um... weathering things just fine, considering.
P.C. 5: some cluster of things. Maybe all or some of them. Doubtfully none. Guess I just need more information.
The mind is the seat of a complex system loaded with intangibles. The mind itself is a sticky widget, so it's no surprise that I can't tell where it's coming from or why. Patience, Willow.
I've decided that the problem is a physical one. I honestly can't think of any good reason to not feel all that well. I thought for a moment yesterday that I'd forgotten to take my medicine. I honestly sometimes can forget if I've taken it within minutes of actually taking it. Something about doing the same damned thing every day, in the morning, when I'm groggy, makes it hard for it to stand out in your mind. It's like trying to remember what you felt like the minute you walked out to your car in the morning.
I had no pet symptom - not shocks - so I know that can't be it. And I surely took it this morning. Nothing much has changed in any direction for me since Monday, so I guess it's physical.
One possible culprit: I went to the gym yesterday morning, before work, because it was the only way I could finagle it. I was kinda going in there feeling wiped.
Another possible culprit: exercise volume has gone up. With this latest workout I've been going three times a week, not two. I just finished my second week of it, and maybe a 33% bump in physical activity is a bit hard on me. Since my body feels more or less fine - no crazy soreness or anything - I'm going to keep on trucking and see what happens. One bit of good news: this is day one of a two day break, so hopefully I can bring my baseline levels back to normal, if that's what it is.
Possible culprit 3: I remember a doctor once telling me that you can be sick without knowing you're sick, that you can catch something to such a mild extent that it can make you feel off without ever feeling classically "sick." I favor this explanation.
P.C. 4: Warm weather? This starts to get into that fuzzy mental territory. The weather has been kinda haywire: a fat thunderstorm yesterday, some unseasonably warm weather. I mean I guess, but I don't like that explanation. I'm sensitive to seasons, but I don't like the idea of being THAT sensitive, and besides, I've been... um... weathering things just fine, considering.
P.C. 5: some cluster of things. Maybe all or some of them. Doubtfully none. Guess I just need more information.
The mind is the seat of a complex system loaded with intangibles. The mind itself is a sticky widget, so it's no surprise that I can't tell where it's coming from or why. Patience, Willow.