wispfox

This whole "having a libido" thing in mid-winter is weirding me out. Even if I do approve of overall improved mood due to sleeping and anti-depressant pills. And even if I am still ridiculously and frequently tired and sleeping poorly. Additionally, it causes funny posts. I blame cuddling. And scent. I really am very cuddle and scent-oriented.

Less than a month! Good thing. My right wrist is not entirely sure if it is willing to be happy with me again. Probably partly because mid-winter means poor sleep. And insufficient sleep.

Eventually I will actually get around to posting about the magazine/notebook/computer-ish object I would like to have existing. But first I need to have more hand-happy in order to organize my thoughts better and flesh them out in writing as thoroughly as they are in my head. Also, I blame my research basics class for the concept appearing in my head while I was dreaming last semester, and then spending the rest of the night and following morning fleshing it out. jasra experiences some really interesting pieces of how I think, just by living with me. ;)

With the goal of me not being on the computer for a couple months in order to significantly improve my wrist health, and not being horribly bored at home because I can't use the computer, I am to be leaving for Australia on March 18th, and returning on May 17th.

This means that I will a) not be reading mail or LJ, b) not be able to answer my US phone, and c) not be here. (reading of mail will only happen if I borrow someone else's hands to do it)

I will remind again before I leave. :)

Parrots
Originally uploaded by wispfox.

Was in Melbourne, VIC, Australia for a month in February 2006. Yes, it's taken me this long to upload to Flickr. Deal. :)

Click on the picture for a whole bunch more pictures!

Some of the trees are having the beginnings of new leaves, and some plants are starting to have bits of green poking out of the ground. This, combined with it being reasonably clear out (except last night, so stargazing did not happen) helps cope with the loss of my hour this morning.

Also? I appear to be completely stuck in defaulting to looking the wrong direction, first. My brain apparently _really_ likes looking to the right first, regardless of lifelong habit of looking left first. Weird.

I am strangely charmed by using my treo to get online (including ssh! Yay pssh!), even if the fact that both my net and landline being down is immensely annoying (hopefully will be fixed tomorrow).

Also. Not wanting to leave Australia is not the same as not wanting to be here. I loved it there, but I don't dislike it here, and my life, at least in the near term, is in Boston.

I appear to mostly have stopped feeling like a foreigner in my own country (indeed, in the area of my country in which I've spent most of my life). Which is nice!

Starting to manage to look the correct direction when crossing streets, although it still feels odd. I'm going to be amused if it takes as long to fully adjust back as it did to adjust in the first place. :)

My status reports are now daily blogs. This amuses me _immensely_.

My brain _still_ wants me to look the opposite way when walking. And, when tired enough, _even though I didn't drive there_, it pokes me to make _sure_ I think I'm driving on the correct side of the road.

(Conversations go something like this:

"Hey. You sure this is the right side of the road?"

"Yes! Everyone else is driving here, so shut up!"

"Just checking...")

Was really quite alert yesterday. Until a couple of hours after dark. Then, I had to leave a meeting early because I could _NOT_ stay awake. On the plus side, either it takes quite a bit longer for the evil lack of light to affect me than for lots more light than I'm used to to affect me (may have been the extra light and new and nifty place and people and being with australian_joe for lots of time, but may have been an actual reasonably lengthed vacation for the first time in years. Difficult to say, but I was definitely far more energetic than I've been in a long time), or the fact that I'm taking two different OTC anti-depressants and doing my light box every morning is sufficient to counteract winter-but-not-the-worst-part-of-it. Dunno.

Mew! Still pretty energetic, actually. I think that vacation may have helped counteract having been burnt out by my job a couple of summers ago.

It wasn't too difficult to drive on the right side of the road (even if my car did have no battery power at all when I tried to start it), probably because I didn't ever drive there, but I'm having a hell of a time _walking_ on the right. No idea if I'd look the correct way when walking, either.

And I keep trying to look at the previous day's webcomics, rather than today's, since I had to do that for a month (which confused me pretty regularly).

People are actually asking if I'm glad to be back at work. Is anyone ever glad to be back at work after an extended holiday? I guess if the holiday was boring, or something...

Apparently me not being at work makes things far too quiet. This amuses me, since I thought most people _liked_ quiet when trying to work. (the response this comment got was 'but not _all_ the time!')

I really do have utterly no direction sense. Didn't notice - in either direction - that the sun was more north or south than I was accustomed to, even when people pointed it out. Heh.

A few more pictures, random assortment.

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