The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: exhaustion

  • COVID-Induced Blog Stress

    Even typing seems to exhaust all my resources.

  • Let’s Be Gentle with Ourselves

    I’d rather be a hammock than a trampoline.

  • I Sure Could Use a Mashed Potato Mystery

    Are you suffering from news fatigue? Me too.

  • Entropic Exhaustion

    A very cool name for a very scary theory.

  • Irritable Blog Syndrome

    Stupidity is the root cause.

  • Don’t Overdo

    Live to mow another day.

  • The Middle Distance

    I shouldn’t blog when I’m this tired. I’m seeing things out of the corners of my eyes that aren’t actually there. Furtive movements. I so rarely have the opportunity to use the word “furtive”. Why is that? Hmmm… Clearly, I lack focus. I’m finding it impossible to think coherently. So brace yourself, dear reader. This…

  • Exhausto-Day

    To say I have a really screwed up work schedule is putting it mildly. Part of the week I work swing shift, and then, to make life interesting, I switch over to day shift. That means that there’s one day where I only get about 5 hours of sleep between shifts. Needless to say, by…

  • Bad Bridge! Bad!

    I’d say that working on a drawbridge is a very zen-like experience 95% of the time. Unfortunately, you never know when that 5% of pure chaos is going to rear up and bite you on the patootie. I had one of those days recently. I went to bed at 3am. No, I’m not a party…

  • National Compassion Fatigue

    No matter who you vote for on November 8th (and please, please do!), I think there’s one thing that most Americans can agree on: we’re tired. We’re tired of this pervasive feeling that everything in this country is going to hell in a handbasket, even if we can’t seem to agree on the root causes.…