Here's the link to an interesting description of depression from NYTimes.  IIts long, but worth the read, especially for people living/ coping with loved ones with depression.

I'm feeling better today after a midnight trip to Berkeley to see and sleep with max for 6 hours before work this morning.  Thank god for Lexapro, or things would be so much ( Read more... )

Its been a long, sleepless day, and I'm left at the end missing Jennie.  I've been listening to music from highschool again, and really, that's just dangerous.  It's been a pretty good day, I just miss her.

I've done a couple things this week that people have appreciated, and its made me feel really good.  Since I usually post about things making me feel crappy, I thought I'd share.

Last weekend, I picked up a rat cage off freecycle, hoping that it would be bigger than the one I've already got (it houses 3 rats... we have 2 now, but I know we'll get ( Read more... )

This is going to be hard to write.  I'm going to guess that it wont be particularly easy for anyone to read, either, so if you want to give this one a miss for the sake of your sanity, please do ( Read more... )

Placebo effect or not, its kicking in.  I've been in a good mood all of today, and got a lot of stuff done in the art lab today.  More and more I'm noticing that art provides a good incentive for me to go into Sacramento each day.  I look forward to doing my work there in a way that I haven't been looking forward to lecture (even the lectures I ( Read more... )

Why am I not sleepy yet? I took my half a pill at 7, just like I was supposed to. It should be making me tired by now. I refuse to believe that my brain adjusted in 24 hours, that's just ludicrous. I managed 8.5 hours of sleep last night and felt so much better. I'd like a repeat performance, I'm sure I've got it in me, with the sleep debt I' ( Read more... )

I went to drop in counseling at Psych Services yesterday.  They put me on the wait list (the guy I spoke with said they would try to prioritize me, but it may take a few weeks before I can get in to see anyone).  I requested Dr Boyle as my psychiatrist, because when I had him before, he seemed pretty well informed and actually cared about getting ( Read more... )

So.

I've been stressed and a little depressed lately.  School has ramped up to mid-term levels of intensity, and I'm feeling really behind on everything, even though I'm not really.  I just had the first exam in Linguistics on Monday, and as each day goes by, my confidence in my performance goes down bit by bit.  My quizzes for Arch Lab have gone ( Read more... )

So much and so little going on.

Bonnie, my maternal grandmother, is continuing her audition for the crazy house by casting out of the family my cousin's wife.  Stupid.

Saw "Pirates Dos" yesterday with my mom.  As I am a huge fan (not stalker... only because he lives in France) of Johnny Depp, I was surprised to discover that the part that turned me ( Read more... )

Puntos to you who catch the reference.

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This weekend I realised just how completely lonely I am, and have been for quite a while.  It isn't anything new, in fact, I have in the past been so used to the feeling that I don't even notice it sometimes.  Sometimes....

And then sometimes I have weekends like the one just past, where I can't contain ( Read more... )