Recovery
God caffeine is such a nasty drug. We had some tea after dinner at our friends' on Saturday night (they're Indian & her spiced tea is astoundingly good) and have been struggling with exhaustion and sleep cycle disturbances ever since - J is even having vision troubles at work today. Glad not to be hooked into that addiction anymore, but I'm always shocked at what happens to my system after a long while without it. And yet...sometimes I evidently find it's worth the trouble. Though I'm usually so pissed at myself afterward.
Whether or not you buy into astrology, astrologers often say useful things, which is probably the biggest part of why people like it. Here's a tidbit from astrobarry that seems to apply to me especially well today:
"Using this week's eclipse (and her stalker, Saturn) as our inspiration, then, it's probably time to cut the crap. How much do our myriad offenses against perfection-the cluttered desktops, the wobbly thighs, the unbalanced checkbooks and dusty gym memberships, the unrequited crushes and unfinished bits of creative genius-really matter? Or is it merely easier to pathologically parrot these same self-sabotaging lines of hypercriticism than to actually apply them to solving real problems, in a manner that doesn't leave us feeling unworthy?"
Amen.
Whether or not you buy into astrology, astrologers often say useful things, which is probably the biggest part of why people like it. Here's a tidbit from astrobarry that seems to apply to me especially well today:
"Using this week's eclipse (and her stalker, Saturn) as our inspiration, then, it's probably time to cut the crap. How much do our myriad offenses against perfection-the cluttered desktops, the wobbly thighs, the unbalanced checkbooks and dusty gym memberships, the unrequited crushes and unfinished bits of creative genius-really matter? Or is it merely easier to pathologically parrot these same self-sabotaging lines of hypercriticism than to actually apply them to solving real problems, in a manner that doesn't leave us feeling unworthy?"
Amen.