I'm doing much better than usual for this time of year, but I think some hypomanic episodes last month had something to do with it. And now new meds, so I'm not really sure which way is up. But my fingers are crossed that I won't have the usual winter blues, because I have about 250 pages of dissertation to write in the next 5 months.

We just had 3 days of sunshine (practically unheard of in CNY in November) and unusually warm temps, so I'm hoping today's gray skies don't cancel out all of that residual Indian Summer pleasantness. I'm getting completely befuddled by everything being dark at 4:30 though - this morning half the breakfast conversation revolved around how to reconstruct our Thursday evening routine, since it's too dark to make it worth taking the dog for a walk in the park after we pick up our farm share, like we've been doing all summer.