Tuesday, October 14, 1997 16:20
Another crummy night's sleep... followed by a really good day's sleep. I am just not a day animal. Days are for sleeping, nights are for prowling... er, working.
I'm trying to drink lots of fluids to ameliorate the mucous production in my lungs, and this is producing the effect that I have to pee a lot. This usually ruins my sleeping patterns, though, but today it has had no effect. I was zombified when I got up; I wish that was always the case. Get up, pee, go back to sleep.
Anyway, I got up about 15:30 for good. Just been doing nothing since I got up, checking mail, drinking coffee, playing with the new kitten.
Last night was the coolest night of the fall so far, and both of the old cats protested the presence of the new kitten by staying out all night. They didn't impress me at all. Karen and I decided to turn on the furnace for a while last night, then turned it off after the house warmed up a bit.
I finally took the Keirsey Temperament Test: I am, right now anyway, an INTJ. I don't know if this is good or not. According to the cumulative data page, about 6% of the people on the net are INTJ, while about 1% in the real world are.
I did get some really nice email regarding yesterday's entry. I wonder if that maybe wasn't my subconscious intention: to get some sympathy, or something. What I got wasn't sympathy, however, but some ideas, which were much more appreciated.
I think that I don't pay enough attention to the fact that I am easily depressed, in spite of the medication, and that I have to do things to combat that. The main thing that I need to do is stay more active, not mope around and allow myself to think about things that I know depress me... reality and shit like that.
Maintaining illusions about yourself and the world is hard, but a necessity if one wishes to maintain a modicum of happiness. And I don't think that I want to go any further into that thought right now.
Ah, the hell with it. I can go there and get back, too.
OK, I did. I didn't say I was going to drag you there with me...
One more day off. As usual, I haven't done much with this week, pretty much wasted it, in fact. I'm really looking forward to my next week off, though, when I'll be going to Texas and see JD and Tyler and Lisa.
O'yeah! Something funny that Eric Rohr sent me...
More tomorrow...
OOPS! I forgot (almost) about the Dinner Party of Uncle Bucks! So here it is....
The meal would be carry-out pizza from Pizza Hut... MMMmmmm!
Guestlist:
These are not necessarily people that I admire, but ones who I think would be interesting. Especially in combination.