38 Comments on “UGH CANNOT BRAIN”

1. I was like that on Thursday. We drove 918 miles from San Marcos, Texas to Tucson, Az. After we got out of the car, everything was still “moving” and my brain did not work until noon on Friday!

2. Brain is Brain. What is Brain?

3. Oh, man. RIGHT NOW I am trying with the writings and the pretty science words THEY DO NOT COME.

4. I have days like that more often than I’d care to admit. At this point I’m blaming the baby-related sleep deprivation. I imagine it’ll clear up when she moves out in another 18 years or so.

5. Any day now, I’ll begin to edit that story that’s due on Wednesday. That 10,000 word story. Just as soon as I stop watching the squirrels pillage my bird feeder.

6. HOLY CRAP, my brain has not brained good in days! I thought it was me, lol. See, you’re always there for us. :) And you’re right, Krissy does make things better. You lucky bitch you.

7. OK, I feel better. I am not alone either. I am taking two steps backward for every step forward so far today. Which means I should really just stop working, right? and go read a good book instead….

8. My hovercraft is full of eels. Sometimes, so is my head. Yes, sometimes it makes more sense to take a break and let your brain reconnect than it does to force your way through, especially if you have been productive recently (which you have). Sometimes it means your subconscious needs more time to process before you can produce again.
   Trust me, I’m a scientist. Who studies writers.

9. Also known as Monday.

10. My personal cure is to take a break. I’ll make a run to the coffee shop with the specific intent of having a conversation. Going for a walk or a run always gets things moving (knocks on wood). I get to my third place, or a state of being in which I can meditate or think freely.

11. Also recommended, tape a piece of bacon to an animal.

12. Yes. Trying to study for finals right now and not succeeding (hence my checking out Whatever instead of reviewing my Epidemiology notes).

13. You are not alone-people. You are not even alone-person. We definitely grok.

14. I read Amanda’s comment as “Also known as Monkey”… evidently, not only can I not brain, I cannot read either.

    Monday, how I hate thee… let me count the ways.

15. Mine was Saturday. Brain fatigue… Felt like Homer Simpson.

16. UGH CANNOT BRAIN is now and forevermore my personal mantra. Especially apropos for those of us with ADHD, in whom it’s the default state.

17. You are not alone people. You are a lone person. *Grammar*.

18. 1: Kid sick. (I drove her in to school. I then stayed awake (rather than going back to bed) because I knew she was gonna call.)

    2: Spouse sick.

    3: Me TIRED. And maybe sick.

    This day is so much cannot brain.

19. It’s finals week.

20. Karen Carpenter said it best for me “Rainy Days and Mondays always get me down!”
    The picture of Krissy does make me feel better. Five Piercings!!! That is so-o-o-o COOL! As Soon as I retire, that is exactly what I am going to do! And wear earrings in every single one like she does. Krissy, You Rock!!!

21. I would have replied a couple hours ago, but I couldn’t find the any key on my keyboard.

22. Gimme the brain! Muh tongue ith stuck to the floor!

23. I had one of those nights where you keep turning over to look at the clock and end up being able to account for every hour from 12 to 6. Brain? I can barely body today. Krissy does help though. She’s got such an awesome smile.

24. Heck, I’m so unbrained the only thing I can handle right now is mandatory on-line training.

    I did read “Lock In” over the weekend, and thought it among your best. Though I would have liked to see you go farther with the ethics of potentially eliminating Haden culture by curing the disease. Not that working near Gallaudet has anything to do with that.

25. Far too frequently, today being one of them. Fibrofog + migraine spike = brainless.

    –glinda, adding more caffeine. and ginger. especially ginger.

26. Welcome to the experience of chronic mental illness. Today I am not merely “not braining”, I am “not actioning” either.

    Well, actually I tell a lie. While a fair chunk of my brain would like nothing more than for me to be spending the entire day in bed doing nothing or pretending to sleep, the rest of my brain knows full well I would get horrendously bored within the first twenty minutes of not being able to sleep, and start looking around for things to do. It also knows I have a knee rug (Christmas present for my father-in-law) to finish by Saturday afternoon, along with at least one batch of biscuits for my mother-in-law. Plus, of course, there’s the housework and the regular chores which need to be done or else the house starts to look as though a bomb hit.

    But I’m doing all these things through a mental fog and a profound feeling of “bleh”, which basically adds the feeling of doing everything while walking through chest-high treacle on a cold day.

    The even better bit: I’ve been feeling like this for at least the past month or so. If I lived in the Northern Hemisphere, I’d be able to write it off as seasonal glumph, but I’m in Australia. Depression sucks rocks through a straw.

27. [thinks]

    FAIL

28. To quote the internet: “I cannot brain, I have the dumb.”

    And yes, that was me yesterday, an extra-classic Monday. There was much consuming of the caffeine and tapping of the keys but not much in the way of definable output… :(

    @Megpie71 – I don’t know, the “seasonal” soup pretending to be air in Sydney this week is enough to give anyone the glumphs! But in all seriousness, I’ve been there too and it sucks balls. I don’t have any sugary-happy-cheer-up tips to give but I hope you find the other side sometime soon :).

29. Last night I woke up to go to the bathroom and thought of “Duel” and a bunch of other great stories by Richard…Miller? Milton? Millhouse? Manning? For the life of me I couldn’t think of his last name.

    It’s Matheson, and if he was before your time you kids don’t know what you missed. Get off my lawn, go to the library, and check out anything you find with his name on or in it (he’s in a lot of anthologies). You’re welcome in advance.

30. BRAAAAAAINZZZZ! (Hey, somebody had to make the obvious bad joke.)
    The comment section says “Add your thinky bits”, but I don’t have any of them today.

31. I cannot brain today. I have the dumb.

32. Brain and brain… what is brain? I’ve been mildly unable to concentrate (and crabby) for the past few weeks; maybe it is seasonal. With Christmas barreling down on us like an out of control overloaded sleigh, I think we all have an excuse.

33. SINGS:- “When the sun’s in the sky and an eel bites your thigh, that’s a moray!”
    Lots of them. In a hovercraft. With bacon-cats.

    Your commenters are even more distracting than your posts. It’s all your fault! And the fault of all your commenters! Except me, of course…

34. 1,3,7-Trimethylpurine-2,6-dione

35. Narf

36. Oh I suffer not being able to brain quite often. Sometimes it is just a few moments, other times pretty much the whole day. I blame it on my co-workers.

37. For me it was yesterday. I’ve been sleep-deprived and finally caught up a little, but I never even made it out of my pajamas.

    I love the U2 song, Some Days Are Better than Others. Favorite line:
    Some Days Have Bouncers that Won’t Let You In

38. Not braining = accidentally putting three filters stuck together into the coffee-maker instead of one, and then sitting watching the drops in mild bemusement, wondering why the coffee’s coming out so pale. It took an embarrassingly long time to figure out what was wrong.