Lately I have been doing a lot of this

It is feeling like small things take a long time, two hours bus transit yesterday, most of it at the stops, inhaling other peoples' cigarettes (why oh why can't they just stand still while smoking and not follow the bystander moving out of their way), three hours for a quick errand on Friday, most of it in the rain... sigh. If only my reading material wasn't equally depressing(see here http://www.quarterlyessay.com/ ).. a little flat this week.