In fact I seemed to spend most of my time deep in thought, staring at nothing in particular, trying to come to terms with what had gone on and trying to stave off any thoughts of the Arsenal's season collapsing completely.
By way of a little therapy, I decided to put my thoughts into words and by the time I had done last week's article and everything had been considered, I honestly did feel a lot better about things.
True enough, we had to face Liverpool last Friday and in all honesty, it's not the fixture I would have chosen for us to have after the events of the previous four days. Why? Well over the years, Liverpool had taken more Premiership points off us than anybody else and they have always had this annoying habit of being able to pinch points off us at Highbury no matter how well we actually play against them.
However as I said in last week's article if it's one thing the Arsenal have shown over the years, it is that they DO have character when it really matters and in the end our eventual 4-2 win over the Scousers proved my point somewhat emphatically.
48 hours later we were in Newcastle. Prior to the game against Liverpool, there were many people from the North East that believed that the Gunners were there for the taking. And, even after we had seen off Liverpool there was still some "smart money" going on Newcastle to end our unbeaten run in the league. So, you can imagine how pleased I was when they were all proved wrong.
Okay, we didn't actually win the game on the day but aside maybe from the first 10-15 minutes we were never really in danger of losing the game either and given the clear cut chances we had, we really have won.
Nevertheless I was pleased with the point. I thought that we paced ourselves through the match and we looked very assured in doing that. Newcastle do not tend to take any prisoners on their own turf and it's not the sort of place where you pick up points just by turning up.
Having been more than satisfied with how our Easter had gone, I tuned into watch Mondays' pay per view offering and the true value of the character we showed over Easter became palpable as Villa put on an excellent display to see off "the Russians" at Villa Park. I'll tell you all this for nothing; I bloody enjoyed that.
So, with a bit of pride restored and our position in the league strengthened, we now entertain Leeds.
It's hard to know where to start with this lot really other than to say that the Leeds we all know now needs precious little introduction. Now, I'm not going to suggest that there is any love lost where this lot are concerned because there isn't but I have to say that I am pleased that they remain in existence and that they have appear to have kept the wolves from their door at least in the short term.
What's more, I am big enough to admit that, in my opinion, the whole make up of the Premiership just does not seem quite right without the likes of Leeds in it though that's as near as I get to being sentimental where they are concerned.
You see, for all the well publicised problems they have had, all the players that have been sold and all the begging borrowing and stealing that was done in an attempt to replace them, the fact is that there are still plenty of players at the club that played significant roles in the clubs' salad days of three years ago.
They may have lost Ferdinand, Woodgate, Kewell and Bowyer but Dominic Matteo, Eirik Bakke, Paul Robinson, Gary Kelly, Jason Wilcox, Lucas Radebe, Ian Harte, Mark Viduka and, of course, Alan Smith, were all there when Leeds were playing in the Champions League semi-finals and are still there now.
Now you can argue the toss over whether most of the guys they got in on loan did the team more harm than good but I believe that the Leeds players I have quoted above, along with the bright young talent of people like James Milner, Aaron Lennon and Matthew Kilgannon made up a nucleus of a squad that was certainly capable of doing a little better than they have.
I have been disappointed in those players because when the going has got tough, they haven't got going and it was no surprise to me when Alan Smith, no less, publicly came out with an outburst along those lines the other day.
Still, it seems as though what Smith said appears to have struck a belated chord because Leeds have picked up seven precious points from the last nine available.
What's more, it looks as though Mark Viduka, so often a man that is erratic in the art of facing up to his responsibilities, is definitely on a roll at the moment. The big Aussie has banged in something like four goals in his last six matches and is starting to find the form that saved Leeds from the drop last term.
Speaking of last term, there is no doubt that last year's corresponding fixture was a surreal contest played under a bizarre set of circumstances. We played them at a time when both sides were low in confidence for different reasons and were in desperate need of a result.
In fact, the lead up to the game I remember saying that the team who managed to perform in spite of their respective situations rather than because of them would win the match.
Now I said the contest was surreal and I meant it. We totally dominated the game from start to finish only to somehow end up on the wrong end of 3-2 scoreline.
Mark Viduka was the man who took advantage of a poor decision to score the winner that day. He also scored the winner for Leeds when we met them at Highbury the year before that and he is, by far, the biggest threat to us.
Still, I talked about the fact that we have restored a little pride in the last few days and with that a new improved sense of belief tends to follow. I know that I tend to bang on about the big picture but I also think that we have a little score to settle with Leeds here. They have come to Highbury in the last two seasons and pulled off smash and grab raids on both occasions. I, for one, do not expect them to pull off a third.