Are you male? \u00a0Do you want to read musings about women’s periods? \u00a0No? \u00a0I didn’t think so. \u00a0So, just look away. \u00a0Go find some pictures on The Google to oogle at instead (it’s a pun!) \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0If you choose to go on then don’t say I didn’t warn you.<\/p>\n
So yes, this is a little post, mostly for me to have to refer to in a month’s time, documenting the fact that today I have hormonally induced quasi-depression. \u00a0How do I know? \u00a0Well, I just know<\/em> this thought-pattern. \u00a0I’ve observed it often enough that I know how it behaves, how it feels, and how different it is from the ‘normal’ me (even when stressed and\u00a0grouchy).<\/p>\n It begins as a rather non-functional day, descends into ‘crap, there’s no way I can do what I’ve signed up to do’ and then comes an avalanche of negative thoughts. \u00a0At which point some other part of my brain goes “Hang on! \u00a0That’s unusual! \u00a0What time of the month is it? \u00a0Ahhh… Right! \u00a0Ok, ok, just remember, you’ll be back to not thinking this way in two day’s time.” \u00a0At which point another part of my brain groans and curses stupid biology. \u00a0A yet another brain part starts looking back to the past week trying to estimate the consumption of dark chocolate, and comes to the conclusion that none was bought, and that at least one evening passed where there was much desperation at the lack of dark chocolate. \u00a0And then I go have lunch and growl at Finnur, Life, the Universe and Everything.<\/p>\n The big difference from my previous life as a graduate student though is that I HAVE TO TEACH A CLASS TOMORROW MORNING and I don’t feel remotely like this is a good idea, or that I’ll be able to finish it. \u00a0 \u00a0But I will. \u00a0Because that’s what I do. \u00a0And I had dark chocolate for lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are you male? \u00a0Do you want to read musings about women’s periods? \u00a0No? \u00a0I didn’t think so. \u00a0So, just look away. \u00a0Go find some pictures on The Google to oogle at instead (it’s a pun!) \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0If you choose to go on then don’t say I didn’t warn you. So yes, this is a littleRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3378,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions\/3378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}