It’s been a good week. A better week than I’ve had in a long, long time.

I was in moods that ranged from decent to good nearly all of the time. In fact, things that I expected would plunge me into the Pit Of Despair let me just sit at the edge of the pit and dangle my legs over the edge.

It’s also been months since I had so many days of good energy in a row. Four Days So Far!! Four days of feeling like a normal human being. Four days of walking around town at a normal human speed. Four days of skipping the cost-benefit analysis when accepting invitations or suggesting activities with friends. When I did get tired, it always felt like legitimate tiredness born of long days rather than sinister exhaustion designed to keep me from doing anything interesting or fun. This week’s tiredness had none of the attendant numbness (physical and mental) that serves as disproportionate punishment for the slightest movements during my wilty phases. This tiredness would even have been pleasant if I weren’t always just a little bit worried that it was just the prelude to something worse. Luckily, though, the Something Worse never materialized. I hope it doesn’t for a long, long time.

What’s more, everything at work seemed to go my way (a pleasant change after the last couple of months). I even made decent headway in catching up on many of the things that had gotten away from me recently. But better than that, a series of pretty intense projects that could easily have worn me out and derailed my moods served instead to reconnect me with my colleagues and my enthusiasm for our mutual goals. And it reminded me that I have some pretty great co-workers, and that we have some pretty great mutual goals.

This weekend I have a series of fun things lined up, including catching up with a friend from college, seeing a Shakespeare play, and hanging out with a couple of other groups of friends. I also plan to go through last week’s list of Things I Like To Do and actually do a couple of them.

Which brings me to the best part: a gift of charcoal, pencils, and a sketch pad from a good friend, all of which arrived in today’s mail. I grin from ear to ear whenever I look at them sitting on the table beside me. I couldn’t have asked for a better ending to a good week.

Hopefully next week will be similar, plus an actual appetite and less of a cough.