Blue Monday

Today didn't really feel like a weekday. It completely lacked that "get up and go" attitude that puts people into a working mindset and flushes away the last of those great regenerative feelings you have on lazy Sunday mornings. As far as Mondays go, today was stellar; rich in optimal slackitude.

I have good days and bad days. As nice as today was for a Monday, I have to put it in the Bad Day pile. I just feel kind of blue, and I don't know what set me off. It feels like it's a combination of a number of things. I'm reading Sperm Wars, I just watched Juno, and I just picked up the Ocarina of Time in Ocarina of Time tonight. What do all of these things have in common? Damned if I know, but they're all things I'm crossing off of my To Do list and they've all put me into a bitter, nostalgic funk that, if I stay the course, will probably go away in a day or so.

This afternoon, I considered stepping away from any kind of writing duties for awhile and effectively going "off the grid" as my friend Joe puts it. I don't really know what purpose that would serve. I don't really know what purpose anything serves, to be honest, but I feel that I should take some time to reflect when I find myself in a reflective mood. Then again, I'm also jumping from one task to the next so frequently that I'd probably give an ADD child a run for his money. Eventually this will all sort itself out. Until then, I'm going to batten down the hatches and drown my sorrows with a tall glass of my old friend "reading before bedtime". What shall I read? Probably Sperm Wars.