getting to be that time
Oct. 12th, 2022 09:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cathywI wish we could "fall back" the first week in October instead of the last.
Mostly because, now that I'm getting up in the dark, I can feel the seasonal depression kicking in. It wasn't too bad the last couple days when it was sunny in the morning, but today, overcast but only pretending to rain, I just want to curl up in a blanket and drink tea.
(If I were working from home today, I could curl up in a blanket, drink tea, and still work. In the office, drinking tea is fraught, because it requires mask removal. My workplace is Mask Optional right now because the lagging metric tells me there will be a hospital bed for me if I become seriously ill, which means nobody else is wearing one, which just increases the need for me to because I do not want to expose myself to other people's germs unnecessarily.)
(It's also too hot for a blanket in the office even if curling up in a blanket in the office were acceptable. I need to obtain a fan I think. Also I cannot close the door and turn half the lights off; I am required to be socially available as well as productive. I'm lucky to *have* the door.)
I got a therapy light last year that has enough lumens that my pdoc says it will likely help. I just need to find a place to set it up and start using it I think.
Mostly because, now that I'm getting up in the dark, I can feel the seasonal depression kicking in. It wasn't too bad the last couple days when it was sunny in the morning, but today, overcast but only pretending to rain, I just want to curl up in a blanket and drink tea.
(If I were working from home today, I could curl up in a blanket, drink tea, and still work. In the office, drinking tea is fraught, because it requires mask removal. My workplace is Mask Optional right now because the lagging metric tells me there will be a hospital bed for me if I become seriously ill, which means nobody else is wearing one, which just increases the need for me to because I do not want to expose myself to other people's germs unnecessarily.)
(It's also too hot for a blanket in the office even if curling up in a blanket in the office were acceptable. I need to obtain a fan I think. Also I cannot close the door and turn half the lights off; I am required to be socially available as well as productive. I'm lucky to *have* the door.)
I got a therapy light last year that has enough lumens that my pdoc says it will likely help. I just need to find a place to set it up and start using it I think.
Lights
Date: 2022-10-14 01:12 am (UTC)But every November (more or less) I buy a new lamp or light strip and add it to my general lighting. It always helps, and I wonder how I got by with so little light before. Then the next year, I do it again. And it helps.
Brains are weird and I own a lot of lamps.
Re: Lights
Date: 2022-10-14 03:55 pm (UTC)Re: Lights
Date: 2022-10-14 04:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-15 06:09 pm (UTC)