It's amazing to me just how quickly a good mood can evaporate when it's already tenuous.
I have been in a pissy mood since yesterday--day three of the headache from hell (now on day four!) was not helping, and other stuff conspired to just make me really angry and upset and frustrated with the world in general. No Wombat and dinner with Brett last night helped, but it carried over into this morning, when I woke up just cranky.
It started to turn around as I was headed out to my car. There's a guy on our floor who has a lovely black lab/retriever mix, and the guy is nice, but the dog is just incredibly friendly and always happy to see you if she knows who you are. They got off the elevator, she stopped by my feet with her tail wagging like mad, he smiled at me and wished me a good morning, and that really lifted my mood in a huge way.
It even carried over into the commute, which is unusual--most often, the dickhead drivers out here leave me frothing about some stupid thing or another by the time I get to work. But this time, that didn't happen, and I was really strangely encouraged by that.
And then, I got to work.
All it took was two emails, one from a developer and one from a client, to suck every last vestige of a good mood out of me and shoot it into outer space. Sigh. It sucks that it happens so quickly.
Posted by Liz at April 22, 2005 08:06 AM