Weird

How very Halloweeny - I have spent my entire day feeling a little spooked.

Apparently I am more stressed than I realised. I hate it when that happens. Because arguably, it's better to know you are stressed so you can just deal, instead of waking up in an inexplicable panic with a dark ring around your mouth. Normal people get dark rings under their eyes. When I get stressed I get it around my mouth. It's not pretty and no amount of moisturizer is going to make it go away.

The weird part (besides it sneaking up on me) is that there is nothing NEW on my plate. Yes, I am in a state of flux, starting to think more seriously about my thesis and the practicalities. And applying to PhD programs in 2 months. (Because I am just such a sane person when I apply to schools.) And finishing the quarter, yadda yadda. I THOUGHT I had this under control.

Now that I have been alerted, I am craving crap like chicken pot pie and apple brown betty (oh Domestic God, I need you!). But since my body had decided it doesn't like the gym, I can't really justify piling on the calories in some futile attempt to quell the Stress Monster. Looks not unlike Cookie Monster, but his fur is dingy yellow like something puked on it. I deal with what I can and obsess about the rest.

In good neighbor news, I finally saw the Missing Girl, who is fine. She was just out of town for a while. But she thought it was sweet that I checked up on her.

on Pandora: "Up at the Lake" - The Charlatans