Exhaustion.
Ever since I got back from Greece, I’ve had almost zero energy for anything. I’ve had guests and all but fallen asleep on them. Going out to dinner with friends leaves me stupefied. And I’ve written no fiction, so thank God I have the Clarion Write-a-Thon to goad me.
Is this a sickness? Some jetlag hangover? Who knows? Either way, it’s annoying. I’ve just got the energy to play videogames and sleep.
Which is especially irritating, as my birthday is this weekend – it’s the most important day of the year, y’know – and I can’t really muster enthusiasm for a party or anything relevant. I’m going to see some movies with Gini, but largely I just want to collapse and play Doom.
And I have ideas for essays. Just dealing with the feedback seems exhausting, though.
I wish I knew how to fix this. I’ve crashed a fair amount. But I haven’t been this tempted to take a couple of days off from work to just sleep in a long time, but weekends have shown that sleep isn’t this issue here.
Anyway, I’ll probably be back about the Internets at some point. But if I’ve fallen off in my correspondence with you, I apologize; even texting seems kind of onerous right now. Everything’s underwater. It’s not awful, it’s just very few hours of productivity. I’d like to do more with my hours in the day, honestly, but it’s not like my Seasonal Affective Disorder.
This is just me staring at a lot of things, vaguely perplexed as to why I’m not doing more with myself.
I suffer from “fatigue”, which is what you’re describing. Things that help me: more protein & less sugar, copious amounts of vitamin D supplements, black blood of the earth (but that may not be good with your heart).
Also, fatigue is a symptom of heart stuff. I assume you’ve been checked recently?
<3 May you feel improvement soon.
Have you had your iron and B12 checked?