Daily Report - Tuesday March 24

[radiantfracture]

I slept so badly last night that today felt like a loss. I've been eating pretty thoughtfully for me, but today I ate a bag of Cadbury mini eggs for dinner. The sugar is really the only thing that revived me.¹

I thought about trying to sync up my journal entries with Pepys' for the same days, but I couldn't find any inspiration in his accounts of this particular spring day.

However, I did find out more about being a pod contact for the mutual aid network, and I think I can do it. Tomorrow I'll print some flyers if the office is still open.

I picked up a new planner from Good, the co-working centre where I took the Creative Work course. Good is now shut and dismantled, turned into an ordinary dwelling, with the lovely owner, immuno-compromised, living in seclusion with her partner. I brought them some seeds, but someone else had already left a much more impressive gift of sherry and toilet paper, so I felt a bit upstaged.

We exchanged a little talk and the planner from an appropriate distance.

She expressed a longing for mini eggs, which is how I came to pick some up and then, in sleep-deprived lack of willpower, eat them all. I will say -- I really enjoyed crunching them up in handfuls. Visceral. Mammalian.

LB says Nyquil cut right through her insomnia last night, so I think I'll try that tonight. I still have some left over from when I had the gross virus in January and believed that likely to be my worst encounter with contagion of the year.

Yet another of these funny shifts, large and small, to think about starting a new planner, filled so differently from the last one.


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1. I do not need any information about why this is a poor nutritional choice. I am aware.

Comments

[cmcmck]

If you enjoyed it, it was a good nutritional choice,especially in these times! :o)

[honigfrosch]

I second that. Sometimes a lot of sweets is what we need in times of stress and as someone who has his own issues around food & eating, I would not want you to beat yourself up over this.

[anne]

Joining the chorus of "it was a good idea." It made you feel better physically and mentally when you needed it.

[asakiyume]

I get you with the eggs. I also get you about the upstaged thing... I know someone on my town's select board (governing body), and I sent her an email yesterday asking her if there was something the town could do to thank our frontline people like the supermarket employees, and she replied that they were talking about it but that in the meantime people could write letters to the local paper, social media, etc., and I know that, but part of why I want the town to do stuff is so that the sense of the words of thanks being from scattered individuals or small groups is replaced by a sense of the whole town doing it--precisely because then it's not about the giver but about the gratitude. I mean I still think it's absolutely good for people to express their personal gratitude, but that **is** personal, you know? Whereas if the town, collectively, says thank you and backs it up with financial support of some sort, then it says that **everybody** is grateful. And I feel like that's good because many people may have huge gratitude but not necessarily have a way with words or a lot of personal funds to make a personal gift.

[mrissa]

I am sometimes so frustrated with the Internet's Need To Be Helpful, that you should even have to put such a disclaimer on. Of course you do, I've lived on the internet a long time myself, you did have to put that last disclaimer on, but really, why can't other people just ASSUME it, HONESTLY, OTHER PEOPLE.

[sabotabby]

No judgment. Eat whatever you can/want to. I've been considering what kind of snacks I crave, but apparently food is...not a major driver for me right now, beyond getting excited over fresh vegetables. Go me. I did make my chickpea peanut butter chocolate chip balls, which satisfy the limited cravings I have been getting.

I think this is a symptom, come to think of it. Normally I stress-eat. And I am stressed.

Mmmmm and aaahhhhhh ....

[agoodwinsmith]

The *real* question which needs thorough investigation is *why* poor nutritional choices not only taste so good, but are sooooo enjoyable while occuring.

[highlyeccentric]

Sugar is important for brains. A teacher told me so.