SHINY* I TELL YOU.

Last Saturday's lesson: Even if it's been three years since you last had your pupils dilated, do not allow it to happen on a sunny day after a fresh snow.  Heavens, the burning.  The world was SHINY.  SO, SO SHINY.

Life's continued to look up since my last post.  I don't know what it is, whether it's mostly hormonal, or a domino-effect of external input mixed with the weather, or what it is exactly that sends me tailspinning, or headed back up (it must be a combination), but woof.  I'm very glad to be on the light side again.

I told my mom about my grad school-ish thinky thoughts this weekend.  She got kinda quiet the way she does when I bring up this sort of thing, and I could tell she was a little worried, but she denied it and claimed indigestion.  (Although she did admit she won't be mentioning it to my worry-wort father.)  I'm terrified of the job market myself, but I really can't stand not going for it, so going for it I am.  Because seriously, the idea that I have somewhat of a plan, and that my life hasn't already come to a tragic dead end has, as one might imagine, been seriously helping my outlook on life.

I've been managing to get up a bit earlier the last couple days, as well as doing better about going to bed earlier.  Yay!  Not "on time" per se, but better.  Roomie!J has a new job which requires her to be up and in the bathroom at about the same time as I usually am, which has me motivated to get up earlier, so I can at least get started and get my things out of the main bathroom before she climbs in the shower.  If I can get really motivated, maybe I'll get up even earlier and make use of the hour between when R!K leaves for work and when R!J gets up.  Maybe.

I deactivated my facebook account last night and, after spamming my followers with the best of what was left in my draft folders, logged out of tumblr.  Both sites, while offering benefits that I will definitely miss, also routinely leave me feeling aggravated -- the internet is really amazing at bringing out the worst in people.  Also (the fact that I'm blogging right now aside), I'm hoping it'll help me focus better at work.  I'd gotten to the point where I'd be compulsively checking my tumblr dashboard pretty much constantly.  I'm happy to have cut myself loose, and if by Easter I don't really miss them, I'll probably stay away.

*Like J.J. Abrams was directing my entire life!  SHINY!