It’s good to be a bug.

Can you imagine yourself in a particular mood? Try it: imagine yourself pissed off, annoyed, happy, or scared. My guess is that you can do a pretty good approximation of your thought processes… how you think, what you’d say, do, etc.

Me too.

But when I get into moods like the one I was in from yesterday into this morning, I can’t even begin to replicate it once the mood has passed. It’s like I’m a different person.

This morning, I felt really low. I felt like people (myself included) were nothing more than advanced bugs, whose every action and mood were simply complex extrapolations of termite behavior… and that it was incredibly arrogant to pretend otherwise. But I also felt (and feel) that God, the Spirit, etc., was everywhere in equal measure… so being a bug isn’t all that bad, in the end.

It was a strange mood.

What did I do to change my mood? I hunkered down and got my shit done. I had a very difficult conversation with an employee. I did all of my direct marketing. I spent an hour on the phone with Dell getting an RMA number for a printer and getting another printer fixed. I scheduled employee interviews. I called a bunch of friends. I went to the tanning salon (for psoriasis, not for vanity). And I ran 5 miles at the gym.

Also, I got interviewed for a magazine article about branding in my industry. That was way cool.

So I feel better. But man, I’m glad those moods are few and far between. Yeesh.

And by the way, the comments you all left me absolutely rock.

Love to all. Even you, the ornery Akita on 5th and 13th.