To be frank, I've felt terrible these past few days, which is why I haven't been posting lately. A sudden recurrence of extreme cold coupled with gray and overcast days has really done a number on me. I have felt especially low, in a shut-the-curtains-and-live-in-a-cave sort of way. I thought the worst of winter was past, but it hasn't. Not quite yet.
I bring this up to explain not only a lack of recent posts but also make a post point. I am definitely a sufferer of Seasonal Affective Disorder (or "SAD", perhaps the most appropriate acronym ever constructed). When the weather is cold a sunlight is scarce, it hits me. Hard. One of my coping mechanisms has always been drinking coffee, of other hot beverages. This month, my options have been severely limited, and it shows.
Even as I write this, feeling better than I have in the past few days, I feel utterly drained and barely functional. It's as if I were running on auto-pilot, my brain functions providing pre-programmed responses. Coffee is not the problem here, or a lack thereof. But it may have been part of the solution. Soon enough, it will be again. Just three more days, folks.
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