Sunday is depressed and hibernating
Feb. 15th, 2026 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatI'm hoping that this is just allergies and I'm not actually coming down with anything? Hard to know. But my throat feels scratchy and I'm more fatigued than usual. Also having issues focusing on things.
Just finished watching the Springsteen bio-pic, "Deliver me from Nowhere" which is about Springsteen's bout with depression while writing and producing the album's Nebraska and Born in the U.S.A. It's a weirdly comforting film - in that it shows how depression can kind of hit anyone from anywhere and you can be pulled out of it. And how it seeps through the cracks, and is always a battle. Springsteen was lucky - in that he was able to find help and hope to pull him out of it, and much of his depression was tied to unresolved childhood parental traumas. Also the album he almost killed himself trying to create and get produced, Nebraska, was in fact a hit.
Kind of inspiring in its own way. I also like Bruce Springsteen's music, which probably helps. And alas, I kept drifting off to sleep during it, which means I may not sleep tonight.
Question a Day Meme - February catch-up
13. What’s the weather like today? Is it about average for the time of year?
It's currently snowing and 34 degrees F, and yes, this is typical for this time of year in NYC.
Just when it was beginning to melt.
14. How many flights of stairs would you consider walking up in a building, or do you always take the lift/elevator?
Right now? I try to take the elevator whenever possible. Bad knee. But, it's not always possible - so at least twice maybe three times a day commuting to and from work - I'm climbing four to six flights of steps. Stupid city is into steps.
15. Have you ever considered how you would leave your home in an emergency?
Probably through the front door - since the fire escape is just scary.
16. Do you own your own washing machine in your home, or do you use a laundry service/laundry room in the building or a launderette?
It's an apartment complex - so there's a laundry room in the basement with four washers and three industrial size dryers - that we share with people in 81 other units. Amazingly enough that is actually possible - partly because some folks send it out, and not everyone is around all the time.
Just finished watching the Springsteen bio-pic, "Deliver me from Nowhere" which is about Springsteen's bout with depression while writing and producing the album's Nebraska and Born in the U.S.A. It's a weirdly comforting film - in that it shows how depression can kind of hit anyone from anywhere and you can be pulled out of it. And how it seeps through the cracks, and is always a battle. Springsteen was lucky - in that he was able to find help and hope to pull him out of it, and much of his depression was tied to unresolved childhood parental traumas. Also the album he almost killed himself trying to create and get produced, Nebraska, was in fact a hit.
Kind of inspiring in its own way. I also like Bruce Springsteen's music, which probably helps. And alas, I kept drifting off to sleep during it, which means I may not sleep tonight.
Question a Day Meme - February catch-up
13. What’s the weather like today? Is it about average for the time of year?
It's currently snowing and 34 degrees F, and yes, this is typical for this time of year in NYC.
Just when it was beginning to melt.
14. How many flights of stairs would you consider walking up in a building, or do you always take the lift/elevator?
Right now? I try to take the elevator whenever possible. Bad knee. But, it's not always possible - so at least twice maybe three times a day commuting to and from work - I'm climbing four to six flights of steps. Stupid city is into steps.
15. Have you ever considered how you would leave your home in an emergency?
Probably through the front door - since the fire escape is just scary.
16. Do you own your own washing machine in your home, or do you use a laundry service/laundry room in the building or a launderette?
It's an apartment complex - so there's a laundry room in the basement with four washers and three industrial size dryers - that we share with people in 81 other units. Amazingly enough that is actually possible - partly because some folks send it out, and not everyone is around all the time.