Categories: annals-of-a-rock-nerd, news-from-depressionland
Tags: sunshine, grey, Solitaire, timewasting, mum rock.
Date: 21 June 2010 16:01:29
I just can't believe how utterly my mood is dependent on the weather. This morning it was sunny - and I felt good and got some things done. This afternoon it was grey again (like most days for the last - oh, about a year) and I messed about playing Solitaire (which I still call Patience - surely Solitaire is a peg game not a card one?) on the computer and listening to my iTunes collection. Even if I remember to put my lightbox on, it doesn't make as much difference as proper sunshine, and since my lightbox is on my desk and you have to sit in front of it for at least 90 mins, it is yet another temptation to mess about on the computer all day.
Yesterday was a good day though, with lots of things at church seeming to be addressed directly to me (which has happened a lot lately), This was followed by two hours watching a series of 'Dad rock' programmes for Fathers' Day on BBC4 - first archive material of Eric Clapton from the Yardbirds days on, and then a great programme on 40 years of Glastonbury (though I started to flag two thirds of the way through that and had to go to bed). The Dad in our family was bemused by all this since his interest in and knowledge of music is almost zero - it's entirely 'Mum rock' in our house. Did I mention I have a fantasy of being in a band called 'Mumrock' and bringing out an album called 'Girls Play Air Guitar'. I probably did.