No sleep yet. Prospect of talking to dentists tomorrow atop the surprises at work today and continuing drama at home have brought on internal dialogue with l'ennui ( Read more... )

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woke 4:30, went to the bathroom, got back in bed.
alarm at 5:45, reset to 6:30, reset to 6:45
lay in bed until just about now when I managed to sit up
and stand up up, after composing this post.

Memories have faded and the plotlines weren't all that cohesive to begin with. Did not seem to get the "it's the last day of school and I haven't finished my English paper" one that has popped up a few times lately. Did have an episode involving my (new) car disappearing briefly from where I had somewhat thoughtlessly parked it for a pickup. ( Read more... )

A quite lengthy discussion on the /. that stemmed from a review of the D&D 4th Edition preview books but covers all sorts of gaming related territory. Funny and enlightening in various places: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/04/180224Read more... )

Larped about on #linuxchix and #olpc until I finally was ready to try sleep again at about 19. Woke up at 3 AM or so, checked watxh at 3:30ish, argued with cat and got up at 4. Went downstairs, had a toasted muffin, came back up here and took bath. It's almost 5 am and it seems quite impossible for me to get back to sleep.

I suppose it is useful ( Read more... )

... insomnia post. Argh ( Read more... )

Some notes from my place in my reading of the pro-science propaganda masterpiece, The Demon Haunted World*:

• Bah. The ghost of Carl Sagan commands me to be a science teacher.
• and then blames me for letting SciTrek close. Argh. Apparently they have one in Ithaca, NY, his home town.
• Continuing his criticism of how I spend my free time and money, Sagan's ( Read more... )

Just as I was almost drifting off to sleep at 1030 i woke up. I thought could hear the Super Mecha Cat Box getting stuck and grinding through its track over and over again, and suddenly I needed to pee. I threw the cat and covers off gently and padded to the bathroom, and I thought I heard my phone buzz, although the cat box had stopped instantly ( Read more... )

Bah. I've showered and put on jammies, gone upstairs, got into bed, but brain no switchy off ( Read more... )