It has been an emotionally strange two weeks...Beth is moving to a new apartment, which has exhausted her as preparations are made, and I have been floating in and out of consciousness-or so it seems, as the long winter finally breaks and my mind adjusts to the changing of the seasons. I have read too many studies about split brain patients-those who have had strokes or had their corpus callosum between the two brain hemispheres cut-to take anything my left verbal 'reasoning' side makes up to explain a mood too seriously, but it really does feel sometimes that factors beyond my conscious awareness-even things such as magnetic field changes-influence my emotional state unexpectedly. Perhaps the increased light of spring causes hormonal changes which require a transitional period during which the mind works out an equilibrium-which at another time of year would scarcely be noticed...Biorhythms are odd beasts..such as whatever causes women who work together to synchronize their menstrual periods ...So there Is some scientific reality to all this, as well as the possibility that some of it is bullshit made up by the left brain to explain a right brain mood which it does not comprehend... hard to tell which is which.
