Burnout

It's not that I'm losing interest, per se, but I just can't keep up the rate of moral outrage I had going in the first weeks after the election. I don't want to read the political websites anymore. I don't want to post and post and post here, not accomplishing anything, just screaming my frustration incoherently.

At the same time, I don't want to stop writing here, so this blog may take a bit of a turn, and become more personal. Hope nobody (heh) minds.

Things that went wrong today, before 10 am:

• one pair of glasses, snapped in half at the bridge for no apparent reason
• one meeting with a client, forgotten and missed completely
• one cup of coffee, spilled all over a coworker and her desk

I also learned that runny yolks and egg sandwiches and clean arms/shirts/desks/cats do not go together, but that was later in the day.

Things that went right:

• one boss, taking the meeting for me and not killing me later
• one blizzard warning, lifted
• one afternoon, full of intensely satisfying spreadsheet diddling (wow, that ended up sounding a lot dirtier than I expected)
• one cat, purring in my arms