magicbeans. nothing if not awkward.

Chris.W called this morning, well, actually early this afternoon, but I was just getting out of bed, with some actual work. A small project, but it's the first work I've seen in about a week. 'I made an effort to get up at a reasonable hour this morning,' I told him, 'but it seems I'm stuck on this off-kilter schedule.' Like I'm getting a jump on west coast time.

'It's not depression is it?' he asked, genuinely concerned.

'No. Just a lack of momentum.' Although the truth of it is, I think there is a little depression creeping in there. There's no doubt that I'm generally happier, or at least more balanced, when I'm busy with work. I haven't been working and, consequently, haven't been doing much of anything else either. Feedback, and all that.

But I did have a little bit of work to keep my mind occupied today.

And I made a long phone call to George, who I chat with online pretty regularly, but I don't really speak with all that often, and I know that he's been feeling some of the same sorts of things recently.

We ended up discussing religion and politics for quite a bit of the time. We're on pretty much the same page on a lot of issues, so it didn't lead to much of a debate, but it's still sometimes fun to bat the big ideas around.