It is worth noting, after that last entry, that I am feeling better. I had definitely fallen into a depression well - perhaps caused by exhaustion, frustration, or unbalanced intestinal bacteria* - but I think I've found the way out ( Read more... )

Good: now at two weeks of workouts and 187 pounds (a record) at least before having take-out Chinese yesterday. I finished Planetary and read some more Delta Green: Denied to the Enemy. I started Summerland. No iced coffee or lattes from the coffee shop for a couple weeks, too.

Neutral to goodish: I got a new phone and got it set up, mostly. I ( Read more... )

Oh but I feel tired.

The lines about introverts needing time to recharge socially have been repeated so often as to sound like jokes, but that's where I am at. Stuff (sometimes multiple stuff) every single night last week. Trying to wind up Pirates while thinking through Cthulhu.

( I had an idea on my RPG character, so once more, let me tell you about my character. )

November was a rattling old wooden roller coaster of a month and it has left me with the splintery legacy of a chest cold that I can't quite seem to shake ( Read more... )

Everything is a food metaphor with me ( Read more... )

AM

- call Home Depot about Haul Away
- Phenol extract and chill HJs
- Haircut?

PM
- Spin down HJs and let dry
- TR prep

Evening- Team Rocket game ( Read more... )

I am not so good at sitting back and trying to recover. Today I did taxes and still went to class, though I didn't do any labwork. I did some tidying and dishes, too. But the taxes were the main thing. I had really been worrying about them, but it didn't seem to be as bad as I thought ( Read more... )

In one of the Discworld books, Pratchett addresses the idea of golems and the words in their heads that make them alive. He also draws a fairly skillful comparison between the literal words on scrolls that the golems have and the power of rhetoric within a group. (The book I'm referencing is called Feet of ClayI am beginning to suspect that I ( Read more... )

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I have been listening to this, to try and hate winter less. Maybe it's working ( Read more... )

Beer talk ( Read more... )