Something Misunderstood

Radio 4 has a programme which throws together random readings and slivers of music conducted by one of a number of men with striking voices, in the hope that we find it profound. It seems to be on at 6am and 11.30pm on a Sunday, when it is fairly easy to sound profound.

Yesterday was about spring, and the impact it has on emotions, and I was caught up short a) by his reference to May being the commonest time for suicide (I thought they were more evenly spread but I might be wrong - my memory is of someone attributing the period of Christmas as the most depressing period) and b) by the parsing of SAD as Seasonally-Adjusted Depression.

In seasonally-adjusting, do we not compensate for the factors that vary according to season, and so this would be the very opposite of SAD?

On the other hand, going in search of what precisely SAD stands for I found:

• Sagittal Abdominal Diameter,
  
• Schizoaffective disorder
  
• Separation anxiety disorder
  
• Sexual arousal disorder
  
• Selected area diffraction
  
• Social anxiety disorder
  
• Standard American Diet
  

I think I suffer from several of these - although I don't think want to know this at 6.00 in the morning or 11.30 at night.

2009 Films: XIX

XIX: The Believer (Henry Bean, 2001)

I think I ordered this after having a discussion with KV as to whether it was Ryan Reynolds or Ryan Gosling - you know, that startling young actor, makes a name in indie, has a mainstream hit, and becomes a whatever became of within five years. And, leaving Fracture to one side, and despite (apparently) The Nines I think it's Gosling.

Someone with a better knowledge of Judaism is likely to appreciate this film better than I - or maybe less than I - and it's going to have ( spoilers )

Totals: 19 - Cinema: 5; DVD: 14; Television: 0