hummingwolf | Feeling Better

Things that help my mood: Breezy, sunny spring weather (not too hot). Methylphenidate (for focus and energy). Good, nutritious food (for energy and pleasure). Good dark chocolate (Ghirardelli's "Midnight Reverie" was on sale, and has been a delicious blessing). Listening to Solas performing "Darkness, Darkness" until the mood is beaten into submission. Most importantly, the fact that this is not day ten of an intense migraine is making me much happier than I was earlier in the week (though there is still a bit of residual pain which might well be enough to make an ordinary person cry).

Things that do not help: Waking up before five in the morning and not getting back to sleep. Sure, the blue-and-pink striped sky at dawn was a lovely sight indeed, but, as a general rule, I prefer not to be awake early enough to see the sunrise this time of year.

Things that turn the brain in odd directions: The DVD with the films La Jetee and Sans Soleil did not help the mood I was in, precisely, but it made me feel as if the mood had a part to play in the general surreality of life. DVD review by an appellate judge(?) here, for the curious.