Eggplant sandwich, good rice dinner, sleep problems, otherwise gloomy weather, gloomy day [Tue 27]

 It's 9.35 in the evening of the next day, and I'm only eight posts behind the schedule. If I do four more posts today, and I do have the time to do that before my bedtime that I'm moving to 11 just for today, I'm going to be caught-up ish. Three more days for this week to end, I can play catchup at the rate of a post a day. The work posts are gone, didn't write anything yesterday and didn't write anything today, that's because I've not been following the checklist. Jeez if only I had a 'meta checklist' where the requirement was for me to go back to following my checklists it'd be pretty wild. Should put that in Google calendar, seems like not a bad idea.

I don't have any photos from this day. I didn't do much, didn't leave the house, and felt not too good in general.

I got up late because as you will remember I went to sleep pretty late, and the sleep-awake cycle was totally borked, nothing I could do about it. Got up and straight to laptop, such headache all day long. Did some searching and figuring of things, which was productive. When I was being unproductive tried forcing myself to write but couldn't. The problem was that I had the gloomies: the lack of good sleep, hunger, and general sadness due to the crap weather had taken away my spirits.

The meeting with the eap person was not very well-directed, though they did tell me to focus more on the meditation apps, so at least there's one place where I have external motivation for improving myself.

Lunch was good, it was amazing actually for a day that was otherwise disappointing. A goddamn discovery or an invention, if I may say so myself. I was so excited by it in fact that I called N in VA after I ate, and we discussed in detail on what I ate, bringing this up because the original recipe was hers. So if you will remember, all I have been eating and will be eating pretty much all of this week is the eggplant stew I made on Monday because i made too much of it and there's no way to get rid of it in an ethical manner. Also I like it very much and it would be offensive to throw it away.

Anyway so for lunch I didn't want to make rice, so I just toasted up some bread, heated the eggplant stew, which was not very watery, and got some parmesan powder out. Put a BIG heap of the 'stew' between the slices of bread, dumped a bunch of parmesan powder and ate it like a sandwich. It dripped a lot, but I used the bread to scoop the eggplant. Don't mean to be braggy, but yum! It was great, it was like an easier and lower-end version of the eggplant parm, I should be making it a lot more often! N told me I should be making green beans too, great, great idea.

For dinner I cooked up some rice, with saffron bits, made the saffron tea myself, bay leaves, tomato in the rice cooker, butter, and black pepper. The rice itself was so fragrant, the eggplant on it was perfect. Or actually, I probably didn't even need the eggplant, the rice was great by itself.

Didn't go out on walks or anything after work because I napped. And then had rice. And then watched tv for a bit. Then came to my room and twitter [the last time because it's blocked everywhere else] and youtube. Sat down to write but couldn't because I was just so goddamn tired. Told myself I was too tired to write and would be more productive the following morning when I was more fresh. The last part was true, but write I did not. Went to bed at 10.25, slept at 11/11.15 maybe.