Ash Wednesday. I woke up early after a lovely Mardi Gras, and I lay in bed and considered getting up and going for a walk or a run, or maybe even doing some yoga, but instead I just lay there and had stress thoughts for 30 minutes before I finally got up.

In the last 2 weeks I've lost, in three separate lots: my glasses, my wallet with only 10$ but my 2 credit cards and my student card, and last night my phone. So now not only am I a complete failure of an adult, but I don't have any of the things I need to replace the other things. Blergh.

Otherwise, Mardi Gras was freezing, but lovely. I walked around with friends all day in costume. My favorite was the best couple costume I've ever seen: Garth Vader and Obi Wayne Kenobi, which pretty much looked like you might expect. I was a woman-who-lives-on-the-plastic-bag-island-in-the-ocean-after-the-apocalypse. I made my costume entirely of plastic stuff I found. I guess I get pretty stressed because of all the trash the parades generate. I now own an industrial glue gun, and this makes me feel that at least in some ways my life must be on the right track.

9:54 a.m. - 2016-02-10