Blinding light

Day 418

I am indescribably exhausted and I haven't had as severe a headache as this one for quite some time. A combination of a spur of the moment road trip, sleeping on some guy's floor for a period of three and a half hours and then getting back up to do it all over again has taken its toll on my mood and physical well-being. As much as I'd like to sit here and make some progress on some of my games, it is now dawning on me that it would be much wiser just to give in to sleep. I might lose some time, but I'll (hopefully) feel a lot better once I get up. This is the kind of headache prompted by exhaustion, extreme heat (my car air conditioning seems to be acting up) as well as stuffing my face at new restaurants on consecutive days. I'm probably lucky I didn't decide to do any drinking, because that likely would have made things far worse.

I really don't like being in this kind of mood because it colors my perceptions of everything in such a negative way. I'm finding it very difficult to even concentrate, much less actually enjoy doing anything I'm doing. I had originally planned to catch up on the League of Legends World Championship games but I don't have the patience to sit through them. I ended up looking up the results instead. I'm sure I would have enjoyed watching them live but the magic is gone at this point. I also tried making some more progress on Torchlight II, but my co-op partner seems to no longer be interested in playing the game without mods. I can't in good conscience call the game beaten if I do so by abusing a 10x experience mode to breeze through the game's content. I imagine I'll be playing it alone from now on, which means I'll probably be making progress more slowly. Oh well.

I'd briefly considered the option of playing more Theatrhythm or Lufia 2 but my throbbing headache cannot take the kind of exacerbation staring at those small screens would provoke. I'm not left with a lot of options in the end as it turns out. Hopefully I'll wake up at 2 or 3 in the morning feeling reasonable refreshed and I can get back to my normal routine. I might even finish out the remaining story modes in Persona 4 Arena, since I only have about four of them left. The game is technically beaten, but I'd feel better if I'd seen all of the story, as repetitive as it tends to be.

I don't necessarily regret my decision to go to Louisville (I got some pretty decent food out of it) but I'm feeling pretty miserable at the moment. I have a hard time sleeping as it is, but napping on a hard floor in an unfamiliar apartment is not exactly what I'd call the pinnacle of comfort. To top it all off, it was unseasonably warm and unpleasant today. I would be very pleased if it started raining really heavily and didn't stop for awhile. A dip in the temperature would go a long way toward improving my mood--because for right now my air conditioning unit is putting up a very feeble struggle against the heat. I'm being dramatic, of course. It's not really that hot but considering the circumstances it's not surprising I'm predisposed towards negativity at the moment. Hopefully some rest will cure that.