I feel grateful when he suddenly grabs my hand and holds it.

And I don't know if I should, indeed, be glad that, even after all these years months he is still capable of these little spontaneous gestures of affection, or if I should, actually, be upset at feeling grateful for something so utterly normal in a couple.

Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

Or is it simply twice too big?

Or do you need more data?

Yeah. That's what a few hours reviewing the worse paper ‒ scientifically speaking ‒ you've ever set your eyes upon does to you. No motivation, no backing up of claims, no logical connection between paragraphs, information scattered all over the place... and I just wrote four pages on how to improve this non-sense I am not even really interested in. Damn being nice to editors.