A + B = Foul Mood Me

Still not back to feeling 100%, but I think that lack of sleep was one of the main culprits. I took a very long nap today and that really helped. Woke up early to go vote, but there weren't any candidates I was interested in, so I just declined to make a decision. Had Sunday breakfast with my whole family, a rare occurence, since they're usually gone before I'm awake (my parents to visit my grandmother, a weekly ritual that my tutoring job doesn't allow me to participate in) ad my brother to band practice. I think I've seriously been ignoring the physical side of my health, not to a large extent, but enough to make a difference. I've been sleeping later than usual (I usually turn in by ten p.m., but have been going to bed at midnight sometimes), I sometimes skip lunch coz I'm so busy, and because of the seminars, I was consuming vast amounts of snacks (we had two coffee breaks a day). It's not a huge lifestyle change, but it was the culmination of modifications that I'm sure it has a factor in my funk. Sigh. I have plans with Miko tomorrow, I missed her. I heard she has a new boyfriend, which she refused to tell me about and my plan is to crack her tomorrow. I need to know! I live vicariously through my friends. I have a hunch as to who she's dating, but I need confirmation. My best friend called me from China, I was so happy. She was telling me she's quite fluent in Mandarin now and that she has to sleep in like seventeen layers because it's so cold. I'd love to be in the cold. She always said she's the sun bear and I'm the polar bear, and we used to have to compromise on what temperature to set the air conditioning. She always wanted it at like twenty-seven degrees Celsius, but I was more comfortable at eighteen or fifteen (coincidentally, the lowest temperature possible). I miss her, and I think her absence is yet another variable in my negative mood. So, all right, that's lack of sleep + altered diet + missing confidante - oh, and disappearing friends (no doubt super-busy, so I forgive them), overall, equals me in a foul mood. But I'm trying to pull myself out. I pushed myself in, I can get myself out.

Final thought: Slow and steady wins the race.