Finding a place to go for Yom Kippur services is a pain. (Synagogues don't do collection plates or things like that, like churches do, and the usual system in the US is that you pay to be a member of the synagogue. You don't have to be a member if you want to just go to regular services during the year, but for the High Holidays, you have to pay for tickets. Usually, there's some system where you don't have to pay if you can't afford it, but different synagogues are different about how well they run that system, and how humiliating it is to ask for it. And I, as usual, completely forgot about this until this week, so now I've got to call around and find a synagogue that still has tickets available, and (hopefully) has some kind of special price for young single people.) (There is one synagogue that I know of in Cincinnati that doesn't require tickets, but it's one of the ones that does the service mostly in English, and I prefer Hebrew prayers. I do like the rabbi there, though, so if I can't get a ticket to one of the other ones, then I'll go there.)

Places like NY and DC have special services that are pretty much designed as the place to go for young single people who forgot to find somewhere else to go, and when you go there, there's all sorts of "Hey, come to all these other Jewish community things! And why don't you all date each other? Because old Jewish people are really freaking out about how there aren't enough Jewish babies!" pressure. Which is kind of eye-roll-inducing, but I can deal with it. But Cincinnati doesn't seem to have a big enough Jewish community for that.

I've been having gritchy, jittery, free-floating anxiety for several days ("free-floating" as in, no specific thing set it off, which is annoying as hell). Activity seems to diffuse it (I don't mean "defuse," just to be clear), so I'm going to go take a walk. I should be working, but this gritchy jitteriness won't let me concentrate.

Ugh, I had that in the aftermath of the shooting incident and my psychiatrist upped my Sertraline and now I'm just soooooo lethargic and sleepy. I can still only do the bare minimum of what I need to do workwise.

I just want to sleep till noon every day and have constant access to burritos and ice cream sandwiches. Fuck working. I need to pitch but I just... can't.

That's so hard, Nora.

my psychiatrist upped my Sertraline and now I'm just soooooo lethargic and sleepy.

Can you take it at bedtime? (Or you might already do that, in which case I am not helpful.)

Can you take it at bedtime?

Hmm, I'll try that. If I took my dose this morning, can I take another dose tonight instead of tomorrow morning? Or should I skip tomorrow morning's dose and start on evenings tomorrow night?

I'd wait until tomorrow night. I think it's better to have a 12(ish)-hour gap rather than taking it 12(ish) hours too soon.

Lexapro (which is in the same family as Zoloft) made me tired and dopey as hell when I took it in the morning, so I took it at night. The bonus was that it helped me sleep better.

If you don't want to skip a whole day, you can take it a few hours later every day until you are taking it at the time you want.

The tea keeps disappearing out of my cup today. I have reading material and tea packed for the weekend; that's all I need, right? Also, I must remember to turn off some of ltc's electronic toys when she's napping. They feel extra loud today.

The tea keeps disappearing out of my cup today.

I seriously reached for my coffee mug earlier and was genuinely surprised it was empty. I suspect coffee gnomes.