affect vs mood.

we revised the difference between affect and mood today. it's similar to asking about weather vs climate. for example you can have fluctuating affect in a day depending on the situation you're in but be of a general mood overall. I think that's what it means.

I suppose one can seem "happy" but actually have a low mood...

got struck with gastric pains the second time in a few months. don't recall having such problems regularly prior to this year. had them before but not this bad. the last one was when I was on Paeds acutes at the start of the year and missed my dinner, resulting in horrible epigastric pain. this time was while waiting for my dinner. funnily enough I had a proper breakfast/lunch and a banana at 5pm. maybe it's just that I haven't been snacking the past few days. which implies...I have to resume eating snacks in order to prevent these unwarranted "hunger pangs"/overproduction of stomach acid...?

cycled about 30km on Mon, today 13km. tomorrow think will just hit more than 15km. not that I'm counting or what. hmm.

back to reading up for psych. need to start studying for Biochem soon.