brain dead...but brain happy too

[cosmolinguist]

I have a confession to make.

I'm weary of hearing about equal marriage, I'm sick of thinking about marriage (Andrew already pouted "I hope you aren't sick of our marriage!", so that one's been done, joke fans). Of course it'll be a long time before I'm sick of the fact that we're so much closer to marriage equality now; it is a remarkable thing and I'm thrilled for everyone who can now get married if they want to. But no one will be better off if I think any more about it just now.

I know well that I am an extremely tiny cog in a huge machine -- I've slept this week, unlike diffrentcolours, who did a ton of work to get LGBT+ Lib Dems ready for this in time -- but I did go to London for a little Q&A thing with Cleggy yesterday, and my friends chatted at me about it, and I explained some of the nuances on other people's Facebook pages, and my Twitter's been full of it (even when I was Twitter-famous, getting RTed by the likes of Charlie Stross to my great bemusement, it was for criticizing O2's age-filters as they wouldn't let me look at LGBT+ Lib Dems' equal marriage page), and when I got home Andrew wanted to talk about it when he came to bed...

But my brain is tired. I have a million other things I have to do this week, I had my own stuff going on before this flurry of activity, and my brain's just not coping. Even after a pretty decent night's sleep, I feel like my head's full to bursting and things will slosh out of it if I move too quickly.

I'm going to try to have a very easy day at work, and maybe get started on some of the sorting and organizing I need to do before we go away (Andrew's sarted saying such helpful things as "this time next week we'll be getting picked up to go to the airport!" which just make me think of the mountain of stuff I have left to do, hopefully before it becomes an avalanche of stuff but it feels like that already).

Comments

[miss_s_b]

*snuggle*

[cosmolinguist]

Snuggles warmly welcomed :)

[sfred]

*hug*?
I hope you did get an easy day at work.

[cosmolinguist]

Hugs are always good.

I ended up hardly doing any work at all :/ I fell asleep reading, woke up enough to go to bed (but not to think "I shouldn't be sleeping now") and napped most of the afternoon. But I can make up any work that needs doing tomorrow: this is one of the wonderful things about my job.

[sfred]

Hurray for a flexible job :-)

[diffrentcolours]

Totally understandable. We're all volunteers, and we all have other things going on. The amount of energy I've been putting into this over the last few days isn't very healthy, and I didn't even do a day-trip to That London!

Partly it's the old adage that if you're sick of the message you're promoting, that's a sign that the people you're promoting it to might have heard it - it's very easy to get the message across to people who are already interested and knowledgable, after all :)

But yes, take a step back, look after yourself and deal with your impending travel and Xmas. This time of year is stressful enough for you *hugs*

[cosmolinguist]

You are sensible and good. ::hugs::

[diffrentcolours]

Oh, and the other thing I meant to say is that we're all extremely tiny cogs - but the machine wouldn't function without us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKtG3UxscZg

[haggis.livejournal.com]

*hugs* and What Dave Said, plus again, thank you for your comments on my FB - it was useful and helpful but I will steer away from the subject unless you bring it up!

[cosmolinguist]

I'm really glad to do that -- I made the comments voluntarily, I was mad keen on the subject as I was getting the train down to London :) -- but by the end of yesterday when I got home, I'd had enough. I'd enjoyed everything up until then, but suddenly when Andrew came into the bedroom talking about whatever he'd read on Twitter, I just couldn't take it any more :) I'm sure I'll be fine in a bit when Xmas and other things have taken over as the overwhelming and wearying subject of the moment :)

[starbrow.livejournal.com]

Not just you, I feel much the same. Happy with the recent developments, completely unable to watch any news broadcast about this subject due to ragequitting and just sheer overload.

[cosmolinguist]

Hope you've found other lovely things to engage with instead :)