Today is World Mental Health Awareness Day, so in an attempt to honor that and generally shine a light on the subject, I’m going to talk about my own mental health a bit. This is of course dependent on the idea that I am capable of talking about anything for “a bit,” which given my […]
A word, here, about things looking up. Some good news, finally. I had not mentioned it publicly as such, just spoken to a few people about it, but my mother went back into the hospital this weekend. She’d been having some trouble for a while now. After making some frankly unbelievable strides early on in […]
A word, here, about changing your perspective. I got new glasses last week, and because I am a decrepit old man I actually got two pairs of new glasses. One of the reasons I set up my home office the way I did, with multiple monitors, was that I couldn’t see my laptop screen. This […]
A word, here, about paying close attention. I had a whole thing planned for today. As I went to bed last night I was thinking what a good mood I was in, and then I remembered that Thursday is payday, and how the last two Mondays before payday I’ve been miserable. I had theorized that […]
A word, here, about maintaining standards. For whatever reason I have fallen into full-on stalling mode on all of my various endeavors the last few days. I’m not sure what the story is there. Could be moving excitement, could be my traditional self-sabotage, could just be that I’ve felt vaguely awful for four or five […]
I am in such lousy shape that I had to cancel Quizo tonight. I mean aside from the lousy shape I’m in generally; my guts went into open revolt around 5AM and that’s been a lot of the day since. I had initially assumed it was something I ate, but stumbling across a symptom list […]
Not much from me today, unfortunately. I woke up with a minor twinge in the middle of my back that I put down to the catch-all “sleeping funny on it,” but a trip to Costco and a visit with the kids later and we are now in “anything but laying flat is super-painful” territory. Ten […]
A word, here, about thinking things through. I had my first in-office medical visit of the plague era this morning. It could have gone better. For a few years now I’ve had this thing with my left ankle. It started out as tendinitis, and with some treatment and orthotics it more or less went away. […]
A word, here, about familial obligations. My parents will find out on Monday if they’re going to be able to come up to the shore this summer, and in what is a fairly shocking turn of events, I am REALLY hoping they are able to. The main question is whether or not my mother is […]
A word, here, about health. Something I alluded to a few days ago was that over the last year I had improved my physical health… I don’t want to say “impressively,” for literally no reason besides the fact that my reflexive self-loathing is at its strongest when dealing with things I am successful at.* Let’s […]