Reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder!* It’s totally a thing!
I walked out of work last night at 4:02 PM into a Florida late-winter evening, which means a temperature of 80 degrees F, and so bright your eyeballs fry down to little hard marbles inside your head.
For as long as I can remember I have felt this way – That first blast of light and heat makes me close my eyes, and my first instinct is to literally lay down wherever I am and go to sleep. It’s a strange response, and I didn’t really think about it much until last night. Maybe it’s going from the darkened office environment to the bright outdoors, and my melatonin, seratonin, or dopamine levels are thrown off so something suddenly goes into overdrive and manufactures more of something else. That’s why I drop like a Battle Droid without a Command Ship.
Admittedly, it’s been a tiring week – I’m still investigating why the police were in my neighborhood Sunday night. I’m not some curtain-twitcher on a crusade to make young men pull up their pants; rather, I’m only concerned if there is reason to believe that my house or someone else’s might be struck by a hail of bullets or the flying wreckage of an exploding meth lab. These are valid concerns, given my neighborhood history.
Still working on some upcoming posts, though! Check back next week for posts about my violin and I, and comparing Don Bluth’s classic An American Tale with the bloody, violent BBC America show Copper.
Stay tuned, and have a great week!
*Normally I avoid WebMD because on that site, all roads lead to cancer. Got a headache? Cancer. Got a sore back? Cancer. Did you pull that band-aid off too fast? CANCER. Problems with your transmission? CANCER!!!!!!
Wow, I didn’t think any vampires hung out in the Sunshine State. You’re some kind of next-generation evolved vampire.
Oh we’re here! We’re the most angsty of the vampires because everyone’s constantly at the beach or theme parks and we have no ancient graveyards to hang out in. 😀
At least you get to visit the retirement communities and hang out with the folks you knew forty years before.
Lol – love how you managed to find the perfect animation for your post 😀
Ha ha, thanks! I tried to find the actual scene from SW:Phantom Menace where the Battle Droids all drop at once, but alas. This one works just as well! 😀