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dolorosa_12Day 10. Did you have a good day or a bad day? Where do you think that defining line was?
Note: I'm answering this for yesterday, as I would've posted this then, had our internet not died.
Yesterday was a very good day. My German class sailed by very quickly. I didn't look at my watch once, and suddenly it was 12.30. It might've helped that we spent at least half an hour playing Tabu!
I had sent off some work from my thesis to my supervisor on Wednesday, so I didn't have any PhD work to do, so I got my homework done fairly quickly, and mostly understood it (aside from one thing, which I spent way too long trying to get M to explain to me via Facebook chat).
I had a quiet evening at home, chatting with M on Facebook and internetting before going to bed.
With me, there are no defining lines. I am all about extremes. I either have a day so wonderful that I'm dancing around the kitchen, or I have such a terrible day that I'm crawling into bed at 3pm and staring at the ceiling for five hours. And a bad day can come straight after a good one. My mood swings are that severe and abrupt.
Although sometimes the bad days seem to happen for no reason other than some sort of chemical reaction, there is a pattern that I've recognised. Basically, if I feel like I've wasted my time, I am disgusted with myself and consider the day to have been bad. So, to take yesterday as an example, if I hadn't understood my German homework, or left it until the morning before class, if I'd had PhD work to do but ignored it, if I'd tried to talk to M but the internet connection had prevented it, I would consider myself to have wasted my time. And I wouldn't have been happy about it.
Of course, the fact that I'm going to Cambridge on Saturday is doing wonders to improve my mood.
Day 11. Do you feel protective over someone?
Day 12. If you could trade places with anyone for one week, who would it be and why?
Day 13. Where do you see your best friend in 10 years?
Day 14. When you are stressed, what can you use as an outlet? Why do you think it helps you?
Day 15. What do you believe in? And not just God or atheism.
Day 16. What are you passionate about?
Day 17. Who was the last person you kissed? (If you are still with them now, pick the person before them.) What would they say if they saw you now?
Day 18. Talk about your extended family. Why do you think they are the way they are?
Day 19. If you could be anywhere in the world, but you had to be there for a certain cause, where would you be and why?
Day 20. Again, pick a song that projects the mood of your week or day.
Day 21. Look back. Why did you choose this challenge? Do you think it says anything about you?
Day 22. How do you think people see you? Be a little negative and a little positive.
Day 23. Explain your life plan for the next month, then the next year, then three years, then five years.
Day 24. Are you more social or independent? Why do you think that is?
Day 25. What do you think it means to be a good parent?
Day 26. Talk about a moment where you were truly happy. What was happening? Who were you with?
Day 27. Is there a friend you are worried about? Why do they have you concerned? Do you think they’ll be okay?
Day 28. Would you rather someone tell you the truth up front but gently, or be lied to to spare your feelings?
Day 29. If you could be doing the same things you do now, only in your own way, how would a normal day in your life go?
Day 30. Look back on this last month and talk about it.
Note: I'm answering this for yesterday, as I would've posted this then, had our internet not died.
Yesterday was a very good day. My German class sailed by very quickly. I didn't look at my watch once, and suddenly it was 12.30. It might've helped that we spent at least half an hour playing Tabu!
I had sent off some work from my thesis to my supervisor on Wednesday, so I didn't have any PhD work to do, so I got my homework done fairly quickly, and mostly understood it (aside from one thing, which I spent way too long trying to get M to explain to me via Facebook chat).
I had a quiet evening at home, chatting with M on Facebook and internetting before going to bed.
With me, there are no defining lines. I am all about extremes. I either have a day so wonderful that I'm dancing around the kitchen, or I have such a terrible day that I'm crawling into bed at 3pm and staring at the ceiling for five hours. And a bad day can come straight after a good one. My mood swings are that severe and abrupt.
Although sometimes the bad days seem to happen for no reason other than some sort of chemical reaction, there is a pattern that I've recognised. Basically, if I feel like I've wasted my time, I am disgusted with myself and consider the day to have been bad. So, to take yesterday as an example, if I hadn't understood my German homework, or left it until the morning before class, if I'd had PhD work to do but ignored it, if I'd tried to talk to M but the internet connection had prevented it, I would consider myself to have wasted my time. And I wouldn't have been happy about it.
Of course, the fact that I'm going to Cambridge on Saturday is doing wonders to improve my mood.
Day 11. Do you feel protective over someone?
Day 12. If you could trade places with anyone for one week, who would it be and why?
Day 13. Where do you see your best friend in 10 years?
Day 14. When you are stressed, what can you use as an outlet? Why do you think it helps you?
Day 15. What do you believe in? And not just God or atheism.
Day 16. What are you passionate about?
Day 17. Who was the last person you kissed? (If you are still with them now, pick the person before them.) What would they say if they saw you now?
Day 18. Talk about your extended family. Why do you think they are the way they are?
Day 19. If you could be anywhere in the world, but you had to be there for a certain cause, where would you be and why?
Day 20. Again, pick a song that projects the mood of your week or day.
Day 21. Look back. Why did you choose this challenge? Do you think it says anything about you?
Day 22. How do you think people see you? Be a little negative and a little positive.
Day 23. Explain your life plan for the next month, then the next year, then three years, then five years.
Day 24. Are you more social or independent? Why do you think that is?
Day 25. What do you think it means to be a good parent?
Day 26. Talk about a moment where you were truly happy. What was happening? Who were you with?
Day 27. Is there a friend you are worried about? Why do they have you concerned? Do you think they’ll be okay?
Day 28. Would you rather someone tell you the truth up front but gently, or be lied to to spare your feelings?
Day 29. If you could be doing the same things you do now, only in your own way, how would a normal day in your life go?
Day 30. Look back on this last month and talk about it.
