Brain reset

[mrissa]

Here's what I tried to get my brain out of its previous bad rut:

--writing to Grandpa L. as specified (this is markgritter's maternal grandfather, technically, but there's a point with each in-law where you shift from thinking of them as the other person's to thinking of them as yours -- at least ideally there is -- and with Grandpa Lyzenga and me, that took about 3.2 seconds, and he is just the very most you could ever ask a Grandpa Lyzenga to be)
--cleaning up a bit of my desk mess, which is there because I hate desk mess and will therefore deal with things put on my desk to drive me nuts
--working out
--reading a little of Blood and Iron, then stopping because getting all wrapped up in someone else's book wasn't really the point here
--drinking water
--showering
--drinking more water and taking an Advil
--playing with the dog
--putting on music
--putting on different music, and that finally did it -- thanks, markiv1111 (and thanks dd_b for being my supplier). Don't know why "The First Overnight Guest" did it, but there it was, "There's a chance of rain but no real chance of rest," and my brain went click click whirrrrr...and then it was behaving sensibly again.

And now I'm in late-afternoon crash and have learned not to beat myself up if I'm not useful for an hour or two, because I am definitely a morning person and sometimes an evening person, but what I am not is an afternoon person.

What are your favorite brain-reset tricks?

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[intrepida.livejournal.com]

Brain reset tricks? Kids books. Spring of my senior year at GAC, I was having issues. Reading "The Hampster History of Britan*" was what knocked me back to normal. I started studying in the Juvenile Lit. section of the library.

(*A picture book deatiling great moments from the history of Britan, "Founding of Londinium by the Romans," "Death of Lord Nelson," "Signing of the Magna Carta," etc. each illustrated with lovely colored pencil illustrations of hampsters dressed up as the main characters, riding rabbits instead of horses.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Spring of my senior year at GAC, if I'd had any more issues, they'd have to start publishing a morning and an afternoon edition. I think a lot of people have that sort of thing their last semester of college. But I didn't find their kids' section at all.