{"id":337,"date":"2018-01-23T03:08:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T07:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:24:49","slug":"everyone-else-is-down-i-cant-muster-an-emotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Everyone else is down, I can&#8217;t muster an emotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At work today, everyone else was down and expected me to be as well. I just couldn&#8217;t muster any &#8211; Mondays are bad after a sick weekend &#8211; my sleep is all screwed, my voice is gone (not much talking after most of the weekend in bed), and if the sickness is still around, well, there you go.<\/p>\n<p>So, not much interaction, we all went to lunch, and I just pretty much sat there. Someone asked me about the goings on, and I was just like &#8220;Meh.&#8221; Nothing personal, but I&#8217;m shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Yoga was good &#8211; it was a welcome escape from work expectations. But I kept on thinking of things I could do &#8211; had to focus on breathing.<\/p>\n<p>And afterwards, found a Depeche Mode playlist on youtube and just finally got an emotion &#8211; happy! Supposed to be sad, but they always cheer me up. By the way, I also love\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Goth-Electro-Tribute-Depeche-Mode\/dp\/B000AMU15C\">Goth Electro: Tribute to Depeche Mode<\/a>. I guess on youtube:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLC9XAaJFOx4Vkz2dgHpubyOH-WFcR5Ni1\">Goth Electro Tribute to Depeche Mode (youtube)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Started to get silly, so on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L3wKzyIN1yk\">Rag&#8217;n&#8217;Bone Man &#8211; Human (Official Video).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8UVNT4wvIGY\">Gotye &#8211; Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) &#8211; official video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Gotye song is simply one that has come up along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, music, it does a body good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At work today, everyone else was down and expected me to be as well. I just couldn&#8217;t muster any &#8211; Mondays are bad after a sick&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronic-fatigue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}