Tuesday, February 08, 2005
It never ceases to amaze me how time can go by so quickly. Although it seems like merely days since I last posted an article, it has actually been over a month. I have no viable excuse, but, as usual, I do have a theory to explain this lapse in productivity.
At first I thought that perhaps my brain had just run low on energy and needed a jump start so I proceeded to spend 10 lazy days at our house in Florida in some attempt to awaken my concious thought process. I found relaxing easy, in fact way too easy. The first few days were spent enjoying the sight of sunshine and palm trees with coherent thought far from a priority. Actually it took at least three days just to warm up from the frigid Maryland temperatures in January. Florida was experiencing a colder than normal spate of weather while I was there and I can remember chuckling as the news people lamented the "bone-chilling" air. Granted a low of 40 degrees seems cold to Floridians but a high in the 50's during the day can hardly be considered "bone-chilling" to one used to highs in the 30's.
And so I excused my lack of productivity as a low brain battery and being just plain weary of work and cold weather. I even attempted writing an article while in Florida but found putting sentences together drained what little brain function I seemed to have left. When asked by my sister where I would like to have lunch, I looked at her as if asked something in a language I had never heard before....similar to the tilted-head looks my dog gives me when I ask her a question.
Apparently she expected me to "think" which seemed way above my abilities at the time.
After my ten day escape from reality, I returned home to definite bone-chilling temperatures and a little snow just for good measure. Landing in Baltimore to gray, cold skies and several inches of fallen snow, I not so silently wished for the pilot to return to the runway and whisk me back to Florida. Unfortunately, we pulled into the gate and I reluctantly made my way outside......brrrrr!!!
Thawing out has again taken considerable time and I have come to the conclusion that my brain has gone into hibernation, not to awaken again until the temperatures rise into more human-friendly readings. Thankfully we are experiencing a wave of warmer weather but not being an eternal optomist, I fully expect to relapse into my brain freeze before the winter is over. After all, didn't the groundhog see his shadow??
At first I thought that perhaps my brain had just run low on energy and needed a jump start so I proceeded to spend 10 lazy days at our house in Florida in some attempt to awaken my concious thought process. I found relaxing easy, in fact way too easy. The first few days were spent enjoying the sight of sunshine and palm trees with coherent thought far from a priority. Actually it took at least three days just to warm up from the frigid Maryland temperatures in January. Florida was experiencing a colder than normal spate of weather while I was there and I can remember chuckling as the news people lamented the "bone-chilling" air. Granted a low of 40 degrees seems cold to Floridians but a high in the 50's during the day can hardly be considered "bone-chilling" to one used to highs in the 30's.
And so I excused my lack of productivity as a low brain battery and being just plain weary of work and cold weather. I even attempted writing an article while in Florida but found putting sentences together drained what little brain function I seemed to have left. When asked by my sister where I would like to have lunch, I looked at her as if asked something in a language I had never heard before....similar to the tilted-head looks my dog gives me when I ask her a question.
Apparently she expected me to "think" which seemed way above my abilities at the time.
After my ten day escape from reality, I returned home to definite bone-chilling temperatures and a little snow just for good measure. Landing in Baltimore to gray, cold skies and several inches of fallen snow, I not so silently wished for the pilot to return to the runway and whisk me back to Florida. Unfortunately, we pulled into the gate and I reluctantly made my way outside......brrrrr!!!
Thawing out has again taken considerable time and I have come to the conclusion that my brain has gone into hibernation, not to awaken again until the temperatures rise into more human-friendly readings. Thankfully we are experiencing a wave of warmer weather but not being an eternal optomist, I fully expect to relapse into my brain freeze before the winter is over. After all, didn't the groundhog see his shadow??
