A Diagnosis for my Current Funk

 I feel as if I have been in a funk recently. For one, I've been suffering, off and on, from sinusitis and pink eye, of all things, for over a week and am beginning to feel some relief from antibiotics I got too late in the game, as usual. My husband , of course, caught it from me, so I've been dealing with his as well. Nothing can make you feel funkish like conjunctivitis, which I have not had since my son was a toddler and I worked in the church nursery. To someone who spends most of her time reading and too much of it from a screen, this is miserable, and even two types of antibiotics (oral and drops) have not given total relief yet. Of course, there is the pollen and dryness. O Lord, send rain!

I should be elated, as my eleventh novel is to be published in late-ish summer, and we are working on the launch and revisions. This one is going to get what it deserves, finally. Although I am not 100% happy with it yet. The title and cover should get sales, though. Whether it will garner me recognition like the Townsend Prize again is another matter. They seem to like dead serious material and this book is part-satire of reality television. 

I find therefore I hide serious work behind "research" that is really just site-hopping (not even surfing, as it takes no skill like surfing does!) This article struck my heart--I am too influenced by curiositas (as defined by Aquinas) and not by studiositas, as defined by Josef Pieper (Holy Spirit-led study). I am not reading books, just sites. I am writing on the computer instead of by hand. And I am not praying. 

Today is a good day for repentance. 

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