368A — Is it easier to stay, is it easier to go?
Today was pretty good. Like yesterday, I was perturbed by thoughts and random wakings throughout the night (1:42 AM, for one). I woke up at around 8:30, which I perceived to be a reasonable time to get up, but something inside me felt like it was dying, and, after some extended period of time spent reading and listening to things on my phone, I determined that it was probably reasonable justification for me to go back to sleep for a little while, to see if it was recoverable. I woke up again around 11 and began reading again, feeling much better physically. At this point, my failure to get up was a simple function of my laziness, which does need to be curtailed significantly. Eventually, I rose from the dead, got ready, then read for a while longer before having a relatively light lunch. I read for the brief period after lunch that always seems to be very depressing, and then headed to a coffee shop where I met a friend. We talked about her summer and my summer and all the things w...