{"id":314,"date":"2006-05-23T09:18:48","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T08:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/?p=314"},"modified":"2006-05-23T09:34:56","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T08:34:56","slug":"state-of-the-mental-health-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"State of the Mental Health Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updating from work again. I called my ISP yesterday. The support guy couldn&#8217;t connect to my router. Said it was probably dead. He filed an error report. Probably some technician will try to find out what&#8217;s going on, probably will have to get a new router. Probably will take somewhere around 48 hours. And then a couple of days to send me the router. Probably without internet the next week. Probably maybe somewhat crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Funny, last week I was saying how great it was that Thursday is a holiday this week and I would be able to download the season finale of Lost and watch it and have a good time. Now I will count myself lucky if I even have internet on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I&#8217;m cut off from my life. As I said on my LJ, I should see this as an opportunity to go out and do stuff away from the computer. Instead I see it as an opportunity to bang my head on the desk. <\/p>\n<p>Oh well. It&#8217;s not a catastrophe. But it isn&#8217;t making me happy exactly. My mantra has sort of reverted to its negative self. Remember my &#8220;Life, it goes on&#8221;? The old version was &#8220;I hate my life, and I want to die&#8221;. Repeated over and over, quickly.  Also I&#8217;m finding myself swearing a lot. In my head. I&#8217;m not the kind of person who swears a lot in real life. But right now it&#8217;s as though I have Tourette&#8217;s syndrome. In my head. Not particularly constructive. I think it has more to do with the frustrations than with unhappiness. I&#8217;m feeling sort of ok. I&#8217;m just tired of things going wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Also I&#8217;m reading a book about a man who lost most of his memory due to a brain tumor. It is still my little pet theory that I have a brain tumor. And that is why my eyesight is deteriorating and why I can&#8217;t talk to people and it will only get worse until my head explodes. That would be a neat way to die, by the way. Head explosion. At least it would be unique.<\/p>\n<p>Ouw. I just cut my finger. Actually, it didn&#8217;t hurt. But then I saw the blood. And now I&#8217;m typing with 9 fingers. Which is trickier than you&#8217;d think. I wish I was an alien\/human hybrid with super self-healing powers.<br \/>\nOops. Got blood on the keyboard. It really is tricky. I am typing this while folding our monthly fliers. 1200 ones. Fun for a day.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Tina from work came in and asked if we could talk privately. We went out into the hallway. I thought &#8220;Uh oh, what have I done now?&#8221;. But it was nothing like that. She just wanted to tell me that she had found my website. While searching for stuff about our workplace I guess. I always knew that was a risk, when I put  the name of the place in my blog. Someone here might find it. And that&#8217;s okay, I don&#8217;t have a problem with it. I think she handled it the perfect way too, let me know that she knew about it and that she wasn&#8217;t going to make a big deal about it and tell everybody and so on. She just wanted me to know. Very nice of her. And she&#8217;s a very nice and happy person in general. So thank you for that Tina, if you&#8217;re still reading. She complimented my English. And my cartoon. I must update that again soon.<\/p>\n<p>It reminded me once again that I must be thankful of all the nice people I have met the last few years. I have needed a lot of support. And I have gotten it. I have been lucky really. That&#8217;s one reason to keep going, to make it. I don&#8217;t want to let all those people down. I don&#8217;t want their effort to be wasted.<\/p>\n<p>I still have those good news to share, but I&#8217;ll wait till I can write about it at home. For now I&#8217;ll leave you with some pictures that I uploaded before my internet went belly-up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?album=20&#038;pos=328\"><img src=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pictures\/thumbs\/2006\/060520_goatsinside_th.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a wonderful mess of goats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?album=20&#038;pos=329\"><img src=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pictures\/thumbs\/2006\/060520_ninacat_th.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nina the cat made a reappearance on Saturday. Good to see her again. Altough she scratched me when I rubbed her tummy. Nothing serious. I wonder if I was doing it wrong or if she wasn&#8217;t in the mood or if it was just that cat instinct to swat at things. She has really sharp claws in any case. I felt that when she was half standing half sitting in my lap. She was flexing her claws and they went straight through my pants and I had to get her off. Like razorblades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?album=21&#038;pos=270\"><img src=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pictures\/thumbs\/2006\/060519_nougat_th.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nougat climbing fences. The kids are so big now that they can jump and climb most everywhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?album=21&#038;pos=271\"><img src=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pictures\/thumbs\/2006\/060519_nougatvanilje3b_th.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mathilde&#8217;s kids in particular like that bench there. They&#8217;re often up on that.<\/p>\n<p>There you go. Back to work for me. I just had a &#8220;Bomba energy drink&#8221;. It&#8217;s the bomb. Apparently. <\/p>\n<p>Feel free to leave me messages of sympathy. It will make me happier when I get back to work tomorrow and check the blog. Right now I have more than 200 spam comments in the moderation queue. And those are just the ones that the spam filters have caught. I dread logging in to my home account and seeing all the ones that have slipped past the filters. Another 200 at least, surely. I hate spammers. And yet. Life, it goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updating from work again. I called my ISP yesterday. The support guy couldn&#8217;t connect to my router. Said it was probably dead. He filed an error report. Probably some technician will try to find out what&#8217;s going on, probably will have to get a new router. Probably will take somewhere around 48 hours. 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