In Which ff.net may have actually done something right

[lolmac]

We know what a pit ff.net is -- and how annoying it is that it still gets more traffic than all the other sites put together.  For someone like me, whose main works are in a relatively obscure and lightly-trafficked fandom, I can't afford to ignore the place, even though the user interface is loathsome and the site owners are soulless monsters.  So

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[thothmes]

That kind of disappearing time happens to me all the time, with disastrous effects on any "beauty sleep" I might get. I have to settle for deep and dirty sleep. I get caught up in reading, or in following just one more interesting lead on the internet, or in working on a graphic, or finishing a story, and finding that it is getting light out. I keep crawling into bed about an hour before Beloved Husband needs to get up for work, and telling him "I just suck at bedtimes!" He is delightfully fond of me just the way I am, and just mumbles "I know!" fondly and gathers me in for a cuddle.

This suck-ery is not a problem during school, when my day is just a bit time-shifted from the family's. As long as I get breakfast, exercise, and most of lunch in before we head out on the day's afterschool activities, life works. Now that school is out, I'm going to have to learn to live with a normal schedule because if I'm not up, The Whirlwind of Destruction will wreak havoc unsupervised! There's a certain irony to having a household with members on either extreme of the attention span continuum.

[lolmac]

The only reason I actually got to bed at 3:30 was that my partner woke up and clucked at me, causing me to notice the time. My brain was so revved that it took me a ridiculous amount of time to fall asleep, though.