Great. It's one of those grey nights when the brain just won't shut down. The only problem with writing marathons is that they whack out my brain chemistry and I have a hell of a time sleeping for the next three or four days. I've already gone out for a drive, and I'm going to take half a Xanax and see if that turns the crank off for a couple of ( Read more... )

We're talking four hours of sleep the night before tired (my own damn fault -- I got wrapped up in doing laundry, then dyeing my hair, then watering the plants, argh). Four hours which were then interrupted when I swallowed wrong and inhaled a sizeable hunk of phlegm, causing me to wheeze and choke alarmingly for at least fifteen minutes before I ( Read more... )

Well, 2:16 AM CDT musings, if you want to be strictly accurate, but it loses the alliterative flow.

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And Lyndon is off to Chicago for a photography conference, which means I have the apartment to myself for three days, so you all know what that means ( Read more... )

I've been dealing with insomnia for the last couple of days, so I haven't been as overflowing with the posts as usual. I'm also experiencing an odd side effect -- every so often I get really hot (you just sit down there and be quiet, Mr. O'Shaughnessy), like I'm running a mild fever. But my head feels cool, even clammy, and I don't feel sick, ( Read more... )

Three cowboys are sitting around a camp fire, out on the lonesome prairie, each with the bravado for which cowboys are famous. A night of tall tales begins. The first says, "I must be the meanest, toughest cowboy there is. Why, just the other day, a bull got loose in the corral and gored six men before I wrestled it to the ground, by the horns, ( Read more... )

I had to skip lunch and take another nap in the car because I was about to do a faceplant on the keyboard this morning (the Sudafed probably didn't help, but it was either that or lever my sinuses out with a plastic spoon). I have GOT to start getting to sleep at a reasonable hour -- problem is, that's usually when Lyndon is getting ready for work ( Read more... )