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1
When I find myself feeling melancholic, I focus on the fundamentals - booze, weed, and sex.
2
Writers are a miserable lot. That's why we drink and take antidepressants and meet in dark coffee shops to grunt curmudgeonly rants at each other or stare vacantly into our laptops. It's the best and worst profession in the world, and one most of us don't really choose. We just have to scratch that itch.

Take a break and go for a walk in the woods. Seward Park or Discovery will do.
3
Good list, Brendan. When I find myself in such a mood, just about any page at random from Frances Trollope's "Domestic Manners of the Americans" (1832) will suffice. To wit:

"Almost every man you meet will tell you, that he is occupied in labours most abundant for the good of his country; and almost every woman will tell you, that besides those things that are within (her house) she has coming upon her daily the care of all the churches. Yet spite of this universal attention to the government, its laws are half asleep; and spite of the old women and their Dorcas societies, atheism is awake and thriving."
4
Didn't you go to Europe a few years ago (hopped off a wall? hurt your arm?). Get back to that feeling. Like cedarthvader suggests, a walk in the woods, though I would amp it up. Try swimming across the Duwamish, and play chicken with some big ol boat barrellin down.
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@4 has the best suggestion.

Consider boarding down Rainier from the peak. It's quite the ride.
7
Or take a course in bee keeping.

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