Those Temporarily Flying Discs!

I'm coming up on my breaking point. This used to happen all the time in college, when I'd only see my then-wife-to-be roughly once a month. About two weeks after each visit, I'd reliably begin getting anxious and unhappy. Mood swings and a depressed attitude were common as my subconscious slowly came to terms with the fact that I wouldn't be seeing her for a while. So it was, and so it is; I'm getting stressed about little things and subconsciously avoiding stuff that could make me feel better. Just calling her, for example, would definitely cheer me up, but I tend to avoid doing so (perhaps out of a sense of resentment?) at times like these. I'm crazy, I know! It's important to keep that in mind, and to work to counteract that insanity.  Because let me tell you:  madness is a bad scene.

On Saturday I finally had the time to just be by myself and unwind a bit; the first such time since my wife left!  It was absolutely wonderful.  I celebrated by finally getting myself to eat right and even working out, which was a very good feeling.  I can't really remember what I ate (food that I don't cook myself is just so boring!), but it was pretty healthy.  Eating right, for me, is pretty difficult and takes a lot of willpower.  I'm definitely a supertaster, and that means delicious foods are, to me, incredibly delicious.  I tend to overeat when I'm not being really careful, which is a Bad Thing.  I think I've gotten around this dilemma, though, by keeping very little food in my house that can be eaten without preparation.  It's working so far!  Also, I printed out a picture of me back in high school, when I was the very image of unmitigated hotness, and I keep it in my pocket as a form of inspiration.  I can turn back time, I know I can!

Fish update:  Cormorant and γ are on top of the world.  I changed their tanks today and only mildly traumatized them in the process!  Their feeding schedule has been somewhat irregular, though.  They're supposed to get two round meals a day (pellets), but you know...fish are slippery creatures, and especially adept at slipping a guy's mind.  So sometimes they get one.  But I think it's good, since it'll keep them nice and lean!  Look at me, I'm even getting dieting inspiration from my fish.  We're all in this together!

Summer job update:  the end is, sadly, in sight.  My boss, having just finished a solid year of litigating, is ready to take a break, and that means there won't be much work for me to do.  So he's going to set me free a full week before my last year of school starts up!  I still three weeks left there, though, and my wife will be around for at least one of those.  She hasn't really worked out the rest of her schedule for the summer (remember, being a teacher, she gets summers off), but I'm sure, based on precedent, that it will mainly involve finding excuses to avoid spending time with me.  Just kidding, haha!  Hoho heehee.

The apartment is still intact, except for two problems.  The first is that I really need to vacuum, because my belly button lint is seriously all over the place.  Secondly, I've gotta find some way to pay this electric bill.  My wife claims she left a check for me to use, but checks can get up to all sorts of crazy business, like being used to pay some random guy from craigslist for 224 stacks of Pogs.  Not that I did that, or would ever do that.  But, you know, some people like Pogs.  Don't judge.