There are days when everything feels like an effort, a responsibility, a commitment, a chore. Today was one of those days, maybe because of post-vacation tiredness, or the anti-climax of being back home after an adventure, or wobbly hormones or maybe just the pile of laundry and empty fridge that I faced when I woke up. The last two alone are usually enough to make me grumpy, but today all of them converged so that I moved slowly from one room to another, navigating through the fog in my overtired brain completing one task after another.

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