it's not all bleak

[poodah]

Despite my whining about meds and weight gain, I just want to say all is mostly good in Poodah-land. This weekend the weather was gorgeous and I started it volunteering at NASA on Friday night. Saturday I went to a birthday party on the patio of Il Pirata with a group of fun folks where I got to eat a cupcake baked in an ice-cream cone (what a great idea!). I then spent the rest of the day and into the late at Yuri's Night at NASA Ames where I saw airplanes doing tricks, pretended to interact with science, listened to the tail end of an Amon Tobin live set, and hung out with good friends. I also acted as DD and got to watch Jeff get drunk and silly. He wasn't so very drunk as I managed to walk away butt unscathed by drunken slaps. Sunday was study day and I managed to get some studying done at the Mission Bay library near my house. And in the evening I slapped together some sort of pasta dish, did laundry and cleaned the kitchen--all of which made a very hungover Jeff exceedingly happy (mostly that I didn't ask him to help me with any of it). Notice how your home is the cleanest right before something is due? For me it's a Micro midterm on Tuesday.

And this morning I feel clearer in my head than I have felt in weeks. I think the lithium is working itself out of my system.