I’m not feeling all that well today. I slept about 7 hours of broken sleep last night. It’s not a terrible amount of sleep by any means, but I’ve noticed that I’m the type of person who needs to sleep well in order to function adequately. Consequently, my mood has not been the best today, and I’m having a bit of trouble concentration on work. However, I think given everything I was able to accomplish today (i.e. submitted two manuscripts), I have the buffer to take the afternoon off to recuperate. Since I worked a bit this weekend as well, I think I deserve it.
It’s strange when I think about when I get into these moods. My mind immediately goes into topics that it shouldn’t. Like the fact that I’m still single at the age of 36, that I’m still considering going back to school for architecture, that I still haven’t saved enough money to buy a house, etc… etc… These are all things that a mature, reasonable adult would realize are not big deals and addressable in the future, but in my current mood, I tend to fixate on them. Is it depression? I’m not sure. I don’t think it’s necessarily a disease so much as it is a byproduct of the path that I’ve chosen which has had me deviate from the more traditional one that most people take. In the grand scheme of things, I think that’s perfectly alright.
The Ivory Tower 
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