Losing an Hour
Posted: Sun 26 October, 2014 Filed under: Depression, Domestic, SAD Leave a comment »And now – well, at 2am – the clocks go back, and we welcome GMT back into our live.
In some ways, I’m quite happy about this – mainly because my body clock has been absolutely knackered for the last few weeks, so with any luck this will help reset it.
Creativity Locked
Posted: Thu 29 May, 2014 Filed under: Depression, Domestic, Five Year Plan (now Ten), Health, Insomnia, Project 42, SAD, Words, Writing Leave a comment »Over the last couple of months, my creative side has felt like it’s completely locked up. I don’t particularly know why – although I suspect it’s linked to feeling constantly tired, burned out, and unwell.
After this weekend, I’m making some changes again – mainly employment stuff (of which a bit more tomorrow) but also a few life-based things.
With the new job, I’m aiming to limit myself to work-based stuff just in work hours. With the last couple of jobs they’ve been coming home with me, and it’s been sitting in my head. I suspect that’s been a mistake. It’s certainly put me in a position where a lot of the time I don’t even want to look at a computer while I’m at home – although again that may be down to also feeling depressingly run-down – so I’m currently hoping that if I limit myself a bit more workwise, I might have the time and inclination to do other stuff when I’m back at home.
It could also be that I’m going through a bit of a depression dump. It wouldn’t be the first time that I get affected like that once the days have started getting longer. I can deal with – and fight – the seasonal depression of long nights and grey days, but once the days get longer I lower my guard, lower my resistance, and sometimes it just hits hard for a while.
I’m hoping I’ll find some ways to reset myself a bit over the next couple of weeks, but we’ll see.
Shortest
Posted: Sat 21 December, 2013 Filed under: Depression, Domestic, SAD, Time, Weather 2 Comments »Today, December 21st, is this year’s Winter Equinox – the shortest day of the year. And about damn time too.
Today, the sun will be around for 7h 44m 14s , even if it doesn’t feel like it’s that long. Tomorrow’s only one second longer, but by the end of the year the sun will be setting after 4pm, and the day will already be five minutes longer, at 7h 49m 32s. It’s not much, but it’s an improvement.
In six months time, the day will be 16h 44m 24s, a full nine hours longer. I know that’s nothing in comparison to Tromsø (for example) where December is truly dark and June is completely lit.
All the same, knowing that today is the shortest day is a reason for celebration, and keck-all to do with the oncoming Festering Season.