Since writing last, a friend of mine has given me some advice. I don't really have many friends, as I generally don't let people get very close to me, but I guess this person is the closest thing I have ever had to a real friend.

This friend, we'll call him "Bob", said to me that he has noticed me seeming a little overwhelmed, and consequently a little flat, as of late.

I thought about my grey clouds and how the sun doesn't seem to be shining through anymore, and I said, "Yeah, you could say that."

Bob knows that I have taken on a lot of committments in order to improve my paper appearance, and he believes that while these extra tasks are achievable, that I have let myself become overwhelmed by it, and thus they seem to be defeating me.

Bob believes that in similar fashion to eating an orange, I cannot expect to consume that orange whole, I must break it apart into pieces, making it easer to eat.

So Bob has suggested to me that I do not look at all my tasks from afar, but rather break the big tasks into smaller tasks, making it a lot less daunting, and a lot more manageable.

So in essence, I must not sit back and wait for the clouds to part and the sun to resume shining, I must manually part those clouds by chopping my workload into little orange pieces.

The whole idea sounds very logical to me, but putting it into practice will be the ultimate test.

Wish me luck.