{"id":15483,"date":"2017-03-02T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2017\/03\/02\/15483.html"},"modified":"2017-03-02T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T03:37:00","slug":"mood-swingy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2017\/03\/02\/mood-swingy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mood-swingy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the plus side:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Recently acquired a lovely glass Klein bottle.<\/li>\n  <li>Warm sunshine and blue skies have lifted my spirits every time I've gone outside in the daytime the past few days.<\/li>\n  <li>Trees are blooming in my neighborhood, thousands of tiny pink blossoms.<\/li>\n  <li>Plenty of songs that I like have been coming up on my random-order music playlist.<\/li>\n  <li>Bought a Blu-ray of <cite>Arrival<\/cite>, and DVDs of <cite>Dangerous Beauty<\/cite> and <cite>Cradle Will Rock<\/cite>. Also bought a couple of games: <cite>San Juan<\/cite> and <cite>Red November<\/cite> (cooperative game about a bunch of gnomes trying to survive on a submarine that's falling apart) and <cite>Takenoko<\/cite> (gardener grows bamboo, panda eats it).<\/li>\n  <li>Watched the movie of <cite>Ballet Shoes<\/cite>, which is almost as good as the book, and better in a couple of ways.<\/li>\n  <li>Got to see Kam recently.<\/li>\n  <li>Got to see Sumana recently.<\/li>\n  <li>Got to see Karen recently.<\/li>\n  <li>Got to play boardgames with friends last weekend.<\/li>\n  <li><cite>Logan<\/cite> has opened, and I hope to see it soon.<\/li>\n  <li>Figured out a way to productively address concerns that some colleagues have had over one of my work projects, and have been making progress on that.<\/li>\n  <li>Have now labeled 12,000 digital or digitized photos; only about 23,000 left to go.<\/li>\n  <li>I got out my typewriter the other day to write a note to a friend, and I left it out on the table, and it makes me happy every time I see it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the minus side:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>There've been like six times in the past week when I've realized that some task that I had been only vaguely aware of was suddenly due immediately. They've all been things that I would have had plenty of advance notice for if I'd been on top of things, but I wasn't, and suddenly it was the last minute and I had to scramble to get things done on time. I've managed to get almost all of those things done so far, at least to a minimum degree of competency, but they've all been more stressful than they had to be.<\/li>\n  <li>All of my tech seems to be mysteriously failing in a variety of ways. (Though that's significantly improved since a week ago; I did coax various devices into working a little better.)<\/li>\n  <li>I've been having an even harder time than usual dealing with email, both work and home, in a timely way; exacerbated by my literally not having seen several time-sensitive messages. (One of them got automatically marked as spam; the others I apparently just didn't notice even though they were right in front of me.)<\/li>\n  <li>My sleep schedule has been kind of wonky lately.<\/li>\n  <li>I'm not making progress on any of my big long-term projects other than the photos.<\/li>\n  <li>The anniversary of my father's death is next week, which is probably a significant part of why I've been tense and anxious lately.<\/li>\n  <li>And then of course there's the national political situation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I'm not nearly as stressed or as distressed as a lot of my friends, and I have much less reason to be. But I have nonetheless had several bouts of mullygrubs lately.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the plus side: Recently acquired a lovely glass Klein bottle. 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