In no particular order:
It’s been snowing for a few hours now. This is clearly against the rules. It’s spring!
“Hypomanic? Absolutely. But Oh So Productive!” by Benedict Carey (NYT):
In recent decades, scientists have found that bipolar disorder is widely variable, and that its milder forms are marked by hypomanias, currents of mental energy and concentration that are less reckless than full-blown manic frenzies, and unspoiled, in many cases, by subsequent gloom.
New research helps explain how people with manic or hypomanic tendencies navigate the small triumphs and humiliations of daily life, and provides clues to how some of them quickly shake off the emotional troughs that their ambitious natures should make inevitable.
I haven’t won the lottery or anything, but it is with a great deal of shock that I realize more than twenty years have passed since I purchased non-portable equipment for playing music. Needless to say, that equipment has since gone on to the electronics hereafter. When, over the past few months, I have made forays into stores that I thought would sell decent stereos, I did not have much success.
I therefore call upon the wisdom of the blogosphere to recommend particular models of stereo equipment, including (but not limited to)
Clap! Clap!
Let the advising begin!
For Rana, and the rest of us who fight this particular fight:
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And I have lived that kind of day When none of your sorrows will go away. It goes down and down and hit the floor, Down and down and down some more. Depression! But I know there’ll be some way, When I can swing everything back my way, Like skyscrapers rising up. Floor by floor, I’m not giving up. I’ve been beat up. I’ve been thrown out, |