More fortune cookie fortunes (plus a healthy dose of 'Woe Is Me')

I swear, I do not feel like myself these days. I'm trying really hard to keep my chin up, but it seems my brain is back to its old tricks, sabotaging an otherwise normal life. I don't want to leave home to go to work, I don't want to leave work to go back home ... I just want to put my head down and crash.

And it's so hard to concentrate -- I think this is editors' hell. I just sit and stare at the paper or the screen. Stare. Read a couple of lines. Realize I didn't catch any of it. Read it again. I refuse to leave the office until all my work's done -- I like to start the day with a clean plate -- but with my mind wandering all over the place, it's a struggle to leave here by 6 p.m.

Fortunately, I'm very particular about getting the job done right. So even if it takes me a little bit longer, I'm confident that the quality of my editing hasn't suffered. Even if I have to triple-check something, I'm not going to turn it loose until it has my seal of approval. Still, everything is drifting. My head doc knows about the concentration issue, and I figure it's just part of the territory -- when I'm too high or low emotionally, I drift. When I level out, my concentration returns.

Coworkers (and a handful of online friends) have mentioned they don't like seeing me withdraw like this. Trust me, if I knew how to fix my brain, knew how to snap out of it, don't you think I would?

Anyway, that explains why my posts lately have been rather mindless and meandering. I can't concentrate on this any more than anything else in my life. ::grins:: One of the SA forums promotes writing (or drawing) every day, and I've held myself to that -- I've written every day in August so far. It may not be quality, but it's something stable in my life. Stable is good.

Now that that's out of the way ...

I have more fortunes to share! ^_^ The reason I save my fortune cookie fortunes is because when I have enough, I turn them into bookmarks! I made one earlier this year, which I'd scan if I wasn't so lazy. By the way, don't those fortune cookies look like Pac-Man? Or :v: (if you're in the know)?

Anyway, here are the fortunes that grace my first bookmark:

• You are gifted in many ways.
• A gathering of friends brings you lots of luck this evening.
• Look for the dream that keeps coming back. It is your destiny.
• You have a quiet and unobtrusive nature.
• Although it feels like a roller coaster now, life will calm down.
• Go ahead and be as sexy as you can.
• You display the wonderful traits of charm and courtesy.
• Patience is easy to wish for and difficult to achieve.
• You make other people realize that there exists other beauties in the world.
  
• Every friend joys in your success.
• The best mirror is a good friend.
• Soon you will be sitting on the top of the world.
• You will be of good comfort.
• Do something unusual tomorrow.

My favorite is "Go ahead and be as sexy as you can." What the hell kind of fortune is that?!