[Quiet Man Cometh]

This morning's drink: Coffee. With milk and sugar. Not as fancy as last night's "Dark Chocolate Delight" tea, but kind of need it right now.

On mental issues: I've heard the nasty stories about mental health care, and I've always just thought myself lucky to have always been with good people, but I wonder now if some of that is because of my physical health history, too. Except for some time when I was going to community services, all the times I've been talking to social workers and psychologists, psychiatrists, etc, have been in conjunction with some other health issue. When I went to a walk-in clinic to get more anti-depressants, while I was detailing my health history, he actually said "wow, you need these." Maybe my physical problems somehow justify the mental ones in the eyes of other people?

On seasonals: yeah, I was *that* person. I worked at a party store as a Halloween employee and ended up missing Halloween due to stomach problems. In my defense though, they did find gastric problems and a tumour showed up a few months later.