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solipsistnationFive questions from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bouncing_leaf:
1. If you were to chart your moods, what would the chart look like? You
pick the time period (typical day, typical week, whatever.)
Imagining a vertical axis of general mood, where the bottom is mopey and maudlin and the top is manic and excessively happy, I would say it usually starts off when I wake up generally hopeful and trending upward. I like the morning drive usually, so a slight upward trend could be observed until 11:30 or so, when I coffee crash and get a little slower and sadder. Lunch and seeing people at lunch cheers me up again, then, although the mood slope heads downward again until the drive home, which is another little spike, modulated by the news on WBUR. Home again, it depends on how things have been modulated during the day, but it tends to head upward until about 9, when begins a slow slide downward into maudlin, which continues until I go to bed.
Once asleep, my mood becomes unknowable and occupies a space not graphable on any chart you could visualize.
Repeat this for the work week. Weekends, it depends too much on what's going on.
There's an overall downward trend in the winter, upward in spring, and general highs in the summer and fall.
2. Does/did the stuff you have recently gotten rid of occupy some sort of
internal space as well? If getting-rid-of has freed some mental or
emotional space, what's that like?
Yes, it does and it has. I find that the lack of stuff lets me feel generally more free-- I had accumulated SO MUCH STUFF that it had turned into a massive mental weight. The knowledge of the piles of junk in the basement was like an anchor, keeping me from being able to do anything.
I've been getting rid of other things, too. Giving stuff away, selling things, throwing things away, generally reducing clutter. It's neat to give stuff away, too. Gave some useful things to people who will actually use them. That's a pretty good one too...
3. Is there any (reasonable, not fantasy, we're not talking extra limbs
here) permanent body modification you'd consider? Piercing, tattoo, etc?
Yeah, but this guy has already done it. Something like that, though. Or the last panel here. I actually would like something around my hands like that-- a thick dark band or something. I guess hand tattoos wear off, though...
Otherwise, no piercings or heavy body mods... Just line art.
4. What's some stuff you've wanted to do for a long time but haven't yet?
I encourage you to make a big list if you have a lot of items. Rack the
brains and see what you dig up, not just one or two items.
I'd like to return to london, and visit other British folks I'd like to meet.
You know, this is an odd realization, but there's not a lot coming to mind. I've done a lot of things already. There are things I'd like to do again, certainly. But goals? I'd like to get better at guitar. I'd like to go back to Seattle for a while. I'd like to take a train cross-country again. I'd like a long vacation to read.
I guess what I want most is to take time for myself and figure it out from there.
5. Name five ways that you express yourself that do not directly involve
words. For example: "poetry" is out, but "cooking" works, and by "not
directly" I just mean you don't have to cook in silence. If you are
having a hard time thinking of five, go for ways you haven't tried yet
that you might like to try.
How about hand gestures? 8)
There's always music, too, and since I can't sing and play (and since I write lame lyrics), there are no words there.
Otherwise, I tend to be very very verbal. There are a few ways I express myself wordlessly that I'm not going to mention in a public post (you can ask if you really want to know), but those are certainly a minority.
I do feed good things to people I like, thus expressing my affection for them through the gift of food...
bouncing_leaf:1. If you were to chart your moods, what would the chart look like? You
pick the time period (typical day, typical week, whatever.)
Imagining a vertical axis of general mood, where the bottom is mopey and maudlin and the top is manic and excessively happy, I would say it usually starts off when I wake up generally hopeful and trending upward. I like the morning drive usually, so a slight upward trend could be observed until 11:30 or so, when I coffee crash and get a little slower and sadder. Lunch and seeing people at lunch cheers me up again, then, although the mood slope heads downward again until the drive home, which is another little spike, modulated by the news on WBUR. Home again, it depends on how things have been modulated during the day, but it tends to head upward until about 9, when begins a slow slide downward into maudlin, which continues until I go to bed.
Once asleep, my mood becomes unknowable and occupies a space not graphable on any chart you could visualize.
Repeat this for the work week. Weekends, it depends too much on what's going on.
There's an overall downward trend in the winter, upward in spring, and general highs in the summer and fall.
2. Does/did the stuff you have recently gotten rid of occupy some sort of
internal space as well? If getting-rid-of has freed some mental or
emotional space, what's that like?
Yes, it does and it has. I find that the lack of stuff lets me feel generally more free-- I had accumulated SO MUCH STUFF that it had turned into a massive mental weight. The knowledge of the piles of junk in the basement was like an anchor, keeping me from being able to do anything.
I've been getting rid of other things, too. Giving stuff away, selling things, throwing things away, generally reducing clutter. It's neat to give stuff away, too. Gave some useful things to people who will actually use them. That's a pretty good one too...
3. Is there any (reasonable, not fantasy, we're not talking extra limbs
here) permanent body modification you'd consider? Piercing, tattoo, etc?
Yeah, but this guy has already done it. Something like that, though. Or the last panel here. I actually would like something around my hands like that-- a thick dark band or something. I guess hand tattoos wear off, though...
Otherwise, no piercings or heavy body mods... Just line art.
4. What's some stuff you've wanted to do for a long time but haven't yet?
I encourage you to make a big list if you have a lot of items. Rack the
brains and see what you dig up, not just one or two items.
I'd like to return to london, and visit other British folks I'd like to meet.
You know, this is an odd realization, but there's not a lot coming to mind. I've done a lot of things already. There are things I'd like to do again, certainly. But goals? I'd like to get better at guitar. I'd like to go back to Seattle for a while. I'd like to take a train cross-country again. I'd like a long vacation to read.
I guess what I want most is to take time for myself and figure it out from there.
5. Name five ways that you express yourself that do not directly involve
words. For example: "poetry" is out, but "cooking" works, and by "not
directly" I just mean you don't have to cook in silence. If you are
having a hard time thinking of five, go for ways you haven't tried yet
that you might like to try.
How about hand gestures? 8)
There's always music, too, and since I can't sing and play (and since I write lame lyrics), there are no words there.
Otherwise, I tend to be very very verbal. There are a few ways I express myself wordlessly that I'm not going to mention in a public post (you can ask if you really want to know), but those are certainly a minority.
I do feed good things to people I like, thus expressing my affection for them through the gift of food...