What puts you in a good or bad mood? Can you do anything to improve a bad mood, or are you powerless until it runs its course?

-- ann monroe (monroe@chorus.net), February 25, 2000

Answers

The one thing that affects my moods the most is sleep. My schedule has not been allowing me to get more than 4 or 5 hours at a time, (and sometimes, 4 or 5 hours a night for days on end) and when I'm tired I get really cranky and lose any patience I may have. When I'm well rested, I tend to be a pretty jolly fellow, very positive, and willing to give anyone a break and the benefit of the doubt, but if I haven't slept, watch out for my sharp tongue and loud mouth! Pete

-- Pete sublord of Homemade Cake and Safe Driving (PLeMay816@aol.com), February 27, 2000.

Music: Lack of it can put me in a bad mood. Having it can put me in a good mood. Having it and then having it taken away can slow my mood (e.g., when a person at work in a neighboring work are can not work with music so I have to be a good team player and shut it off. . . :-(( . . . .) Soft music excites me. Hard, Loud music excites me. Bad music annoys me or makes me laugh. Participating in music thrills me. People who criticize another's pleasure in music aggravate me. . . . .

Oh yeah, sex and food and conversation are a lot similar in their effect on me too . . . .

-- (leet@megsinet.net), February 29, 2000.