orange bathtubs and random oddities

There's got to be a word somewhere for what happens when you're unhappy, and then you run across somebody unhappier, and suddenly you're fine again, without the whole process of "gee, that's awful, I should appreciate what I've got" going on in your head.

Anyway, I'm better today. I didn't get quite enough sleep last night, and my previously white bathtub is a really disturbing shade of orange because I left bleach in it for most of 16 hours, but I feel better about life in general. The prevailing internet wisdom says that Clorox 2 will fix the bathtub problem, so I'm going to try that. (What DID people do without the internet?) Since it's mostly peroxide, I expect it will bleach the porcelain out again.