Assessing.

I knew I'd have dishes waiting for me when I got back, and I left them anyway. I'm not going to bed until they're done, but that might not be for a while. Same with putting laundry away. It'll get done before bedtime, and it'll affect bedtime in ways I can't yet guess at.

The opera today might've moved me on more than a technical level if I'd gone in with a better mood. Adjusting to the pace of slow crowds when we're all going to the same place isn't a skill I've developed, and left me with enough low-grade irritation I didn't even want to read the program - but then found what little I'd read was still more than what the other people with me had done. I don't regret going, largely for having seen opera and for the dinner after. But I'll need to adjust for the future, if this happens again.