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What I've been doing
Aug. 30th, 2009 02:13 pmI've had an unusually active few weeks, so decided it was time to sit down and share :-) When I summarised it for the doctor (who treats me for depression) it went something like this:
Well, work went mad and I did all this extra stuff and then I caught swine flu and then work went quiet, so I had some non-sick days off, and then it went horrendously busy again - so basically I'm just here for more pills.
Translation: have been either too flat out or too sick to feel depressed, so really I've got nothing to tell you this time. I did say that I had begun boardgaming at a games club [Eurogames], partly for the fun and social angle, partly to exercise my brain. She seemed to think this was a Good Thing, though I could tell she'd never personally gamed herself.
The New Machine is doing well and I found the bit to click on which made one's email appear. So I didn't do anything to it, it was just updated from what I had previously used!
Still nothing happening with the creative side of the brain, unless gaming is helping to exercise this. Not sure; boardgaming seems to be more logical and analytical angles, though there's a certain amount of psyching out one's fellow players.
Last weekend was largely Rat Room Service [my own and my friend's, plus her rabbit Hoppy]. This one was Home Renovation, i.e. learning to drill holes in lattice. My friend and landlord and I were attaching lattice to the side of the house [it stands on stumps] and I was getting an education in the use of the power drill. One could quite get into this. We also fetched a couple of wine half/casks from the local Better Pets and Gardens store. I'd wanted some for ages to put plants in, and they sell really quickly when they do appear, so one has to be quick. This place knows us well and in fact, I got my $10 discount on their loyalty program today, which was useful. We buy all our animal food there as well, on the Better Pets side of things, though I'm actually happy with my rats as they are.
On books: I've just finished World War Z - An Oral History of the Zombie War where various folks who lived through it tell their stories to the book's author. Like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, it has a shivery real feeling to it, as though these events really did happen in some alternate past very close to our own. My mindset is often affected by what I'm reading, so for the past day or so I've walked about expecting a decayed hand to shoot out from under the house and grab me as I walk past.
I've also concluded that a lot of us are stuffed before we start, if civilization really does fall. This Saturday there was a power failure in my suburb which lasted at least five hours, during which I could not make a cup of tea. Towards the end of that time, caffeine was pretty well all I could think about. Yeah, take my caffeine, anti-depressant and hot showers away from me and I'm half feral already!
Well, work went mad and I did all this extra stuff and then I caught swine flu and then work went quiet, so I had some non-sick days off, and then it went horrendously busy again - so basically I'm just here for more pills.
Translation: have been either too flat out or too sick to feel depressed, so really I've got nothing to tell you this time. I did say that I had begun boardgaming at a games club [Eurogames], partly for the fun and social angle, partly to exercise my brain. She seemed to think this was a Good Thing, though I could tell she'd never personally gamed herself.
The New Machine is doing well and I found the bit to click on which made one's email appear. So I didn't do anything to it, it was just updated from what I had previously used!
Still nothing happening with the creative side of the brain, unless gaming is helping to exercise this. Not sure; boardgaming seems to be more logical and analytical angles, though there's a certain amount of psyching out one's fellow players.
Last weekend was largely Rat Room Service [my own and my friend's, plus her rabbit Hoppy]. This one was Home Renovation, i.e. learning to drill holes in lattice. My friend and landlord and I were attaching lattice to the side of the house [it stands on stumps] and I was getting an education in the use of the power drill. One could quite get into this. We also fetched a couple of wine half/casks from the local Better Pets and Gardens store. I'd wanted some for ages to put plants in, and they sell really quickly when they do appear, so one has to be quick. This place knows us well and in fact, I got my $10 discount on their loyalty program today, which was useful. We buy all our animal food there as well, on the Better Pets side of things, though I'm actually happy with my rats as they are.
On books: I've just finished World War Z - An Oral History of the Zombie War where various folks who lived through it tell their stories to the book's author. Like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, it has a shivery real feeling to it, as though these events really did happen in some alternate past very close to our own. My mindset is often affected by what I'm reading, so for the past day or so I've walked about expecting a decayed hand to shoot out from under the house and grab me as I walk past.
I've also concluded that a lot of us are stuffed before we start, if civilization really does fall. This Saturday there was a power failure in my suburb which lasted at least five hours, during which I could not make a cup of tea. Towards the end of that time, caffeine was pretty well all I could think about. Yeah, take my caffeine, anti-depressant and hot showers away from me and I'm half feral already!