Ah. Yes. Good things.

[kaberett]

1. I am nervously and tentatively writing a sonnet. It is the first stab at a sonnet that I think might end up complete; might end up any good.
   
2. I spotted the panic and the unreason and I did not defeat it, but I fought it back (for now; for now) and built the foundations of a wall against it; I recalled that I decreased my anti-depressant dose as of Monday, and should keep an eye on whether to bump it back up next week.
   
3. Two friends visited for afternoon tea; one I had not seen in any real sense in well over five years, and one I had not seen for several months. The former I am delighted to have reconnected with, and we're having tea again in about a week's time; the latter I am glad to have seen again, and I taught him how to wrestle hedgehogs use double-pointed knitting needles.
   
4. I had lunch with my mother, and we talked about ourselves and the clan and statistics and INFINITE SUPPLIES OF FROGS and I felt calm and loved.
   
5. The tulips she gave me when I received the PhD offer are dried and curled and beautiful.
   
6. I found the wherewithal to file a lot of paperwork, and in so doing I discovered one of my favourite chocolates, which I thought I'd finished.
   
7. I finished a delightfully pulpy fantasy novel, and I have the entire rest of the series to go (Lisa Shearin's Raine Benares series, for the curious; I picked up the second in the series from the library this time last year, and have finally got around to starting from the beginning).
   
8. I showered. This was more difficult than it sounds, and has been for several days, but I did it.
   
9. I have been able to provide specialist assistance to several people today - partly through being in the right place at the right time, but also because of some of the vast array of things I have learned over the past five years. As always when I notice myself being competent - notice myself having expertise - I am baffled and not a little grateful.
   
10. I have been Plotting, and the first of the results are starting to trickle in through the letter box. (It was one of those "put together a care package for under £30, GO" 3am moments the other day; what can I say?)

Comments

[untonuggan]

\o/ Good things. Hee, wrestling with hedgehogs/double pointed needles. <3 Go you for teaching your friend!

[kaberett]

Yes! Dude already knows how to knit on straights, but hadn't met circs/DPNs before - I've sent him off with some rainbow acrylic I was never going to use and a set of DPNs to practise with :D