Thursday 22 December 2005

Pic of the day: Cheers! Yeah, right. (Screenshot from the anime Midori no Hibi.)

Fast forward

I may have mentioned this already, I have surely thought about it often enough. For years I have known that change causes stress and a higher risk of illness and, for some reason, accidents. Even planned, welcome changes like moving, marrying or getting a new family member will cause great stress, just not quite as bad as their negative opposites. The one thing that seems to help offset it is more than usual sleep. (The brain spends this in REM mode, from what I understand.)

Well, I'm moving, involuntarily, to a smaller and less attracive place. And if anything, I get less sleep than usual. This is bound to be a bad thing for my health.

On the bright side, I don't have the stress of preparing for Christmas. I largely ignore it. I am just sorry Christmas falls on a weekend so I don't get more days off from work. I could have needed that. Then again, I could always have needed that.

I have now come to the time when I wash chlothes all the time. I have also put aside some that have holes which cannot be sewn without patches. Nobody patches clothes anymore even for everyday use. Patched clothes are bought at higher price in youth shops. So I guess I am not going to patch them. Besides, even after throwing those away, I probably have enough clothes for a couple decades. Who knows what the world will look like by then. Not to mention what I will look like.