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Monday, January 05, 2004

Feeling: Blue and hungry

Listening to: Madonna's Music



The first Monday of the year, and as expected, I’m feeling the New Year blues. It’s not really a bad thing; I sometimes call these episodes a “spring-cleaning” for my soul—complete with a bit of hand-wringing and self-pitying and being paranoid for the uncertainties and unknowns of the year ahead, while I watch a lot of DVDS or Oprah, read the books I’ve bought over Christmas (this year it’s Haruki Murakami’s The Elephant Vanishes and Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend), do a thousand drafts for the short stories in my head, eat pints of ice cream with a lot of Oreo cookies, or clean my apartment till the marble tiled floors gleam. This depressive bout is like a 24-hour flu: it strikes without warning, leaves a bitter aftertaste on the tongue, and disappears after a really good cup of coffee. Bad thing is, I’m off caffeine for the year. Which means I will be “incapacitated” for a bit while I grapple with the doldrums. And the mountains of return email I have to face. Not to mention the prospect of going back to work this afternoon after the long break. (Break? What break?)

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