Ah, crap, I caught a cold or flu or something.
All week I've been dead tired and in a mental slump and couldn't figure out why until I realized I really hadn't been keeping up with my daily writing routine. I spend a good hour each day just mentally dumping onto digital paper or even real paper depending on my mood, but for about a week and a half I just stopped.
It's no wonder I have a cold today, I've been neglecting my mental life a bit too much.
It's great to be here, but the weirdness of stress at work is interfering with things. The company I work for is in a strange position financially, which is surprising considering it's size and all, and as a result everyone around me is stressed out, bitter, angry, confused ... Myself, I'm not any of those things, but I have a tendency to take on the emotional states of people around me. Empathy? Hardly ... In any case, it's quite literally made me ill. I got some kind of bug from someone at work and just need to rest, now, I guess.
I feel like I've been resting all week, but guilting myself over the lack of activity. Hey, it's not all peaches and pie on "vacation".
So, note to future self: don't quit your writing.
Already battered by one hurricane this month, I feel very sorry for that whole country. If you check your weather maps, you'll see she's up to get a one-two punch from 2 more hurricanes at the same time. Henriette on the west coast is poised to smack up Baja, and the already category 5 Felix is just about to run aground, alas, not on Mexican soil, but damn well close enough in Honduras. South America is pwned.
Global warming? Sorry, don't believe in that phrase anymore. Climate change? Yea, that's the ticket.
Not to say we're all escaping from this. A wee little category 1 typhoon, good ol' Fitow, is just spinning it's way towards Japan at the moment. Looks like we'll get a drencher come Thursday. I'll keep you all posted. Should be, uh, fun?
I'm still not sure how to properly pronounce the name, though. fee-tao? fitOH? I wonder where the name originated ...
