wtf?

I think I just heard thunder, though it is 8 in the morning.

Jogging is calling to me. My knees will probably give out after five to ten minutes, though. I wonder if I should chance it. I can feel my body precipitously plummeting to its untimely death due to non-exertion. Must. Run.

melancholia

In "Mourning and Melancholia," Sigmund Freud makes a distinction between mourning and melancholy as ways of dealing with loss. Mourning is an appropriate, "normal" reaction to loss (i.e., death of a loved one). Melancholy is an extreme state reached when the ego cannot escape from loss, incorporating that loss into oneself. Melancholia is a cannibalistic state wherein one's sense of self becomes intertwined with the idea or memory of the lost and it eats away at and incapacitates the self.