i never noticed that i live in a bowl

[holyrood]

my mom came to visit this weekend and it was the most consumeristic weekend i've had since i moved. we went to a mall! it was so totally california

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[thedctr]

Please reference Wikipedia entry on Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) (and, no, while a good acronym, it's not made up)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder

There are actually light boxes you can buy to counter these effects to be used like 30min a day. Jesse used one with reasonable success in Boston for a while, and another of my friends in NYC swears by it.

[holyrood]

yeah, i never believed that i was bad enough to get a lightbox...but i've been looking over my past few years of journal entries (on LJ and in my paper journal) and it's funny, every entry from november-march is like, "i am depressed!" and every entry from april-october is like, "i am happy!" i never realized it affected me so much.

do you find it is sunny enough in the south to avoid SAD? just wondering if i'll have to be a CA resident for the rest of my life... : )

[thedctr]

Oh yeah, the sunshine is a-plenty down here. It's the bible-thumping neocons that get me depressed in these parts...

:-)

[holyrood]

ha! all the evangelists in LA are spanish-language only so it is easy to pretend i don't understand em. : )

[woquinoncoin]

I love the sun!
And it smelled so beautiful here today, too...

[holyrood]

i wish i could say that LA smells good, but usually it smells like a mixture of garbage and BO. maybe i should move closer to the ocean. : )

[gangur]

glad you had a nice time with your mom!

[holyrood]

yeah, it was nice!
my sis is coming in 2 weeks, i'm gonna to get us up to SB to see wineries. i'll let you know details soon...