As you may know, I use my posting pattern as a gauge of my overall long-term mood. The better my mood, the more I post in a month. I’ve written about this a number of times, most recently in mid-September of this year, New Savanna Moods: I was down, but I’ve started back up. The trend I reported in that post has continued through the end of the year, with a total of 112 posts in September, 120 in October, 132 in November, and 111 for December. Here’s how things look for the last three years:
![Update: My mood over the long term [intellectual productivity]](https://m5.paperblog.com/i/758/7582188/update-my-mood-over-the-long-term-intellectua-L-E3VnoD.png "Update: My mood over the long term [intellectual productivity]")
And here’s how things look over the life of New Savanna, starting back in June 2010:
![Update: My mood over the long term [intellectual productivity]](https://m5.paperblog.com/i/758/7582188/update-my-mood-over-the-long-term-intellectua-L-RvxMzH.png "Update: My mood over the long term [intellectual productivity]")
The overall trend is up. Last year (2023) is my highest annual total: 1004. Then we have 2019 (912) followed by 2018 (871).
I should note, however, that prior to September of 2018 I had not been posting tweets to New Savanna, though I joined Twitter in October of 2011. In terms of psychic energy, tweet posts are cheap posts, so I tend to think that some of the increase since has to be discounted in the sense that the increase doesn’t reflect my mood, rather it reflects ease of posting.
See also, A Mind Over the Long Haul: My Posting Patterns For that matter, take a look at this while you're at it, What is depression? [an umbrella term]..
