[Coda]

So tired.

Maybe I'm just a curmudgeon that's getting a little too old, but I really don't like the holiday season.

Four "major" holidays in three months means the whole world around me getting redecorated, schedules getting repeatedly disrupted, social expectations piling on, money having to be spent... more that has to get done, but no extra time to do it in.

And then when it's all over, cleaning up and trying to recover a sense of normalcy, re-establishing routines that got disrupted, and -- social pressures ahoy! -- a compulsion to try to start a new routine during the time when routines are all out of whack already.

I haven't been able to get much of anything done today because I'm just so burned out. x.x You'd think that the vacation would be an opportunity to FIX burnout, but... no, "holiday" means the rest of the world just wants me to do something else.