{"id":1618,"date":"2006-08-10T20:28:20","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T03:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/08\/10\/dont-ask\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:43:06","slug":"dont-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/08\/10\/dont-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Ask"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m fried; too many projects needing attention within the same time span, and I’m behind on several, and the agency’s technology isn’t working so well, and I’ve had too many long days and commutes. So I’ll borrow words from another blogger whom I adore:<\/p>\n

Of course, it’s PMS time in my world, so most everything and everyone shows up with a hateful little halo around them, as if because of the dip in my estrogen levels, my brain refuses to do its usual Isn’t It All So Lovely Dance. I force myself to go running, to lift weights, to go for a walk in the forest motivated by those hateful little mosquitos to jog for at least part of the way. I refuse to let myself eat funky stuff or drink alcohol. I resist the urge to pick up the phone and whine. I show up to work on time.<\/p>\n

Because this too shall pass. I will eventually catch up on sleep, and complete all the projects at work, and finish my last day without having had a meltdown. <\/p>\n

–Kate Turner, Dating God<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Me too with the seismic hormonal shifts. The only hitches are: I haven’t been working out, I’ve been eating funky stuff. I catch myself off-guard and notice that my jaw is clenched, or my leg muscles are taut. I’m tense and tired. My body isn’t serving me very well since I am exhausted more often than not in the past few months. Frankly, I’m getting old. I’m psychologically okay with that, but gosh, I wish my body had more pep than it does. (And I’m trying to procreate<\/em>?)<\/p>\n

World news isn’t helping. Nor is the Brave New World of Carry-on Baggage Restrictions. (I’m rather a homebody and I actively dislike flying anymore. This turn of events is more disincentive.)<\/p>\n

But I too will prevail. My last day is, oh, about 10 weeks away. Soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m fried; too many projects needing attention within the same time span, and I’m behind on several, and the agency’s technology isn’t working so well, and I’ve had too many long days and commutes. So I’ll borrow words from another blogger whom I adore: Of course, it’s PMS time in my world, so most everything […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-social-science","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11124,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/11124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}