Change change change!

[clevermanka]

I'm restless. I want change-change-change and I want it now-now-now! Mental, physical, emotional--I am ready for change, baby! If that's not indicative of Spring Fever, I don't know what is. Hello, Spring! "O yes, I’m here again and your heart knows I was coming."

The emotional change (or perhaps I should say emotional shift) has been developing over the past few weeks. I've been all fluttery and exceptionally (for me) affectionate with mckitterick. It's all awww and squish and cuddle--to the point where if you saw it, you'd wonder where the pod people hid my original self.

My body is changing, little by little. There's no improvement of the food/bloating issues, but I'm adjusting well to the alternate-day eating schedule. My body's insulin regulation has adapted to the low-calorie days already. While I'm hungry, I'm not famished. I don't wake up in the night from hunger. Last night the only thing I desperately wanted was beer--and that was largely to help dull the girl cramps and ease my headache. The winter flab is slowly-slowly melting away, too, and that's nice.

The mental change...well, I just need a vacation. Some time away and mostly alone. Time to get things done and organized. Time to shift gears in my head and pull myself out of winter hibernation. I want to take more than a week off, but that's not feasible with all that's going on at work. Second round of admissions, recruitment, and soon I'll be dealing with exam/defense issues and making sure everyone's ducks are in a row for graduation. A week isn't enough, but I'll make the most it.

Positive thinking! Positive change!

So hurry up, Spring. My heart knows you're coming. Don't drag your feet!

Comments

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

Good to hear. Spring seems to have arrived here too. I'm not sure what's up. Your post made me think of something I wrote years ago.

Spring Fever

It's spring and the world has lost its mind,
bouncing bonkers,
lovelorn drool,
and insanity divine.

Can't tell you what I'm gonna see next
but I may just have to hide,
her world is exploding while his is imploding
or maybe not,
they can't decide.

I swear to you my friend that the end is near at hand.
There is no way I can work today,
the feelings are too intense
it must be
now, now, now,
I know it makes no sense.

It's spring and the world has lost it's mind
and so she hates me
but he loves me
or maybe it's the other way,
it doesn't matter much.

For now we'll just pretend
we didn't go a little bonkers
and the world didn't really end.

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

And I just realized that I commented a poem...*facepalm*

Yep. Spring is here.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha! EMO SPRING!

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

All the little brain cells are bouncing around screaming "SUNLIGHT BLESSED SUNLIGHT WE MUST FUCK LIKE BUNNIES".

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's pretty much how it's going at my house, too. =D

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

You'd think that with all the brain cell reproduction one would become smarter not dumber in the spring.

[curieuse.livejournal.com]

Love the poem! Thanks for the link.

Reminded me of another favorite:

since feeling is first
e.e. cummings

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
—the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. Yes. "somewhere i have never travelled" is my favorite of his.

I think.

"if ups the word" is so good, too, though!

e.e. cummings

[starwyse.livejournal.com]

My favorite this time of year is this:

in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little lame baloonman


whistles far and wee


and eddyandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring


when the world is puddle-wonderful


the queer
old baloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing


from hop-scotch and jump-rope and


it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed


baloonMan whistles
far
and
wee

[stuology.livejournal.com]

I hesitate to rejoice, but listening to the weather report this morning, there is a chance that we could see a 60-degree day next week.

Either way, in a few weeks, we will be seeing more 50-60 degree days than we will 10-30 degree days.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

in a few weeks, we will be seeing more 50-60 degree days than we will 10-30 degree days

Yay!

[thefox-rb.livejournal.com]

A-fucking-men, sister. Great to hang with you today. It was definitely the bright spot in my day. :)

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[bestill.livejournal.com]

It sounds like you are READY for my Spring Cleaning Visual Journaling Workshop!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

And how!!!