2001-03-28 - 3:06 p.m.
Not much going on

Answer to yesterday's question: A. Nepal. Today's Q at entry's end.

Not much going on today. I sat in the office all day and did data correction and report writing again. Bleh ... but it's better than traipsing around measuring houses!

I spent a couple of hours on EverQuest last night, leveling my character up to 7. Pretty cool. There's all sorts of stuff to do in that game ... you don't stop leveling until 60 and even then you're not at the end of the game; plus, it takes months and months to get anywhere near that far.

I've noticed before that when I'm intensely concentrated on something (like this game, or a good book) I lose track of a lot of things going on around me. It's like a thick wool blanket was pulled between me and the rest of the world. When I've been concentrating for a couple of hours, the feeling sticks around when I'm done, as if I've pulled myself inwards and can't quite figure how to come back out. It's always seemed rather strange to me that this happens.

In fact, the pulled-in feeling is a lot like what depression feels like for me; except that it's very difficult to snap out of depression, while a little interaction with another living being will easily cure the other. It makes me wonder sometimes whether that solid year-long depression I experienced after breaking up with my fiance (The "Weatherman Effect") was as much from continual concentrated self-examination as it was from the after-effects of all the emotional baggage that he burdened me with. I suspect that they go hand-in-hand in situations like that one.

Anyway. I'm not really in the mood for throwing around deep questions at the moment. *yawn* I didn't get nearly enough sleep last night ... bad Shell! I'm glad I get Friday off.

[For $1,000,000]: In Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, how many lovers does Leporello claim Don Giovanni has had in Spain?

A. 156
B. 849
C. 1,003
D. 3.727