Endorphins

I really hate running while I'm doing it, but I've noticed that if I do a medium-length (20-30 minute, for me) run at a comfortable/slightly-faster-than-comfortable pace, then make sure to take the time to do a proper cool-down, I feel great for an hour or more afterward. Kind of fuzzy and lightheaded and blissed-out, a bit like what it feels like just after I've had work done on a tattoo or if I've spent a couple of hours coding. (It's even better if I can change into clean warm clothes immediately afterward instead of having to sit around in sweaty ones.)

Five journalpoints to anyone who can figure out a common thread between that set of stimuli, other than the fact that it's me who responds positively to them.

Also, the people who say that regular exercise does good things for your mood are not just making things up. ( TMI, but it's enough for you to know that )

for the last few days I've been feeling uncharacteristically great.

Anyway, time to come down from cloud nine and play around some more with this interesting little functional language I've been learning, after which I'll probably be back around cloud six or seven at least. Weird, weird brain.