{"id":6687,"date":"2013-04-12T19:22:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T23:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=6687"},"modified":"2013-05-09T17:52:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T21:52:39","slug":"retrobruxist-friday-41213-also-sad-moreover-i-probably-dont-have-nose-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/retrobruxist-friday-41213-also-sad-moreover-i-probably-dont-have-nose-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrobruxist Friday 4\/12\/13, Also SAD, Moreover I Probably Don&#8217;t Have Nose Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, after three days of finding it extremely easy to be nice to my students without even faking it, which is what I had been having to do, and this despite having to get up at stupid:30 a.m. after a long and luxurious spring break, I realized something:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/S.A.D..png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6706\" alt=\"S.A.D.\" src=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/S.A.D..png\" width=\"437\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/S.A.D..png 437w, https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/S.A.D.-300x118.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A whole bunch of people said they could relate to that statement, which made me wonder, how I\/we might deal with this problem in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Things that might help:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Awareness? Is there a service that will email me, &#8220;Easy there, Ame; you&#8217;ve got the SAD,&#8221; every week from November to March for the rest of my life?<\/li>\n<li>Moving to the Equator?<\/li>\n<li>Seasonal meds? Is that a thing? Do people dose up on Celexa during non-Daylight Savings Time?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Things that don&#8217;t help:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Light box. I have one. It&#8217;s in my shed. I have to be at work at 7:15, so getting up 30 minutes earlier to sit in front of a light box? Ain&#8217;t nobody got time for that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was telling a friend about this problem today, and he says he uses a light&#8212;wait for it&#8212;VISOR. Like a light box, but FOR YOUR HEAD. Hahahaha.<\/p>\n<p>Other thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>**********<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three years<\/strong> ago, I was writing a lot about my students, so it&#8217;s all password-protected, but <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/12\/as-a-rug\/\">here&#8217;s a good<\/a> one if you have the password.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two years<\/strong> ago, I offered you all an obscene sum for a simple, <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/12\/blarghy-blarg-rrrrr-grrr-cotton-pickin\/\">simple task<\/a>, and you FAILED. YOU&#8217;RE ALL FAILURES.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One year<\/strong> ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/11\/bellatrix\/\">bought a new car<\/a>! I love it. It is covered in dog hair and nose prints.<\/p>\n<p>Apropos of nothing, you guys would tell me if you thought I had nose cancer, right? I seem to have a growth on the left side of my nose that&#8217;s been getting bigger for a few years. Probably just a wort, right? Because I&#8217;m a spinster, and spinsters get those.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130412-132753.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"20130412-132753.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130412-132753.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Retrobruxist Friday, y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, after three days of finding it extremely easy to be nice to my students without even faking it, which is what I had been having to do, and this despite having to get up at stupid:30 a.m. after a long and luxurious spring break, I realized something: A whole bunch of people said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/retrobruxist-friday-41213-also-sad-moreover-i-probably-dont-have-nose-cancer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Retrobruxist Friday 4\/12\/13, Also SAD, Moreover I Probably Don&#8217;t Have Nose Cancer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-call-me-crazy","category-dating","category-first-world-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6687"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6860,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687\/revisions\/6860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}