2555: Irresistiblement
Forward I'm heavy, backward I'm not. What am I?
Sleep is pissing me off again. I woke up several times before actually getting up, mostly waking up then falling into partial sleep every few minutes after Chars first woke me at 8:45p. When my alarm finally went off at 9:45p, I dreamt I went to turn off the alarm but didn't actually. In fact, when I realized I was still asleep, I did that usual [painful!] fight against sleep paralysis that still took several minutes to win, even with the alarm blaring fully in my ear.
I don't get how I can drift off so soundly from relaxing for a few minutes but take forever to fall asleep when I'm even slightly awake over a period of up to two hours =p although it does amaze me that my eighteen-year-old alarm clock still works!
I find myself changing gears once again, which makes me wonder what exactly I'll like and dislike in ten years if I'm so easily amused but lose interest quickly. That is, I picked up Picross about a month ago, was it?, and played it so constantly it was interfering with every other project I had on the table. Tonight, I picked it up again for the first time in a week-ish and really didn't feel that excited to play it, to be honest.
Why play, then? Mostly, when I'm interested in something, there's a completionist part of me that craves getting that 100%, sometimes even being disappointed once I finally get it. There have been times when I lose interest well before getting the 100%, though [R-Type Final, although largely because Chars opened up a whole branch of ships for me, instead of letting me do it], so it's not entirely surprising that I eventually run out of steam. It's actually a good thing to lose interest before finishing, I think, since now that last little bit can always be waiting for me should I ever get a craving again, rather than being hungry for more when there isn't any.
[FTR, completed Easy and Normal modes plus Normal mode bonus gallery, unlocked up to the incredibly fruity "Storybook" theme Level 9 in Free mode]
I've also realized I missed another Saturday of the Post, thus losing the answers for the previous quote-acrostic and new puzzle. It pisses me off, but in a way I'm not as upset as I could be, since they've actually been piling up unread as I fail to get around to doing them. I'm not sure why that is--even though I still enjoy quote-acrostics, I got temporarily stuck on one puzzle, and that ended up ballooning into several months of unread Saturdays. I know, it would be easier just buying a book of them, but I really don't see many, compared to the brainless Sudoku and Kakuro and whichever other Japanese number-logic puzzles there are.
[Reiterate: I like Paint-By-Number/Oekaki/Picross and quote-acrostics because the "answer" provides a reward for completion, as it were, while crosswords and Sudoku kind of just "finish." Boring!]
I note that I've also given up learning Spanish. I find myself falling asleep listening to Pimsleur at work [what times I'm not distracted from it by the infernal radioplay], and what times I've been addressed by a Spanish-speaker, my mind blanks, yet I'm not remotely interested in thinking of what I'm supposed to say. I do occasionally pick up something Maya or Alejandro say, like "un medico" or "Estoy infirma" =p ["a doctor," "I [female] am sick"] but overall it feels like a losing battle. Really, I needed my parents to have taught me some second language, and they needed my grandparents to have taught THEM some second language T_T By high school, anyone who hasn't already devoted him/herself to a language will have a fucking difficult time becoming perfectly fluent without total immersion [being thrown into a foreign country].
I still have Heroes on the brain, particularly Monica, even though her power was evident from the moment she cut that tomato at an angle. What has me antsy is whether the story will progress a la Audrey Hanson taking a huge chance on Matt Parkman, or a la the Real World, "You risked your life for a few hundred dollars, YOU FIRED!!1" :( Agh, need new episode!
We'll see how Veronica Mars does, though =B BTW, I did change my "dootdoot" icon, yes ^^ This week's graphic novel!
Sleep is pissing me off again. I woke up several times before actually getting up, mostly waking up then falling into partial sleep every few minutes after Chars first woke me at 8:45p. When my alarm finally went off at 9:45p, I dreamt I went to turn off the alarm but didn't actually. In fact, when I realized I was still asleep, I did that usual [painful!] fight against sleep paralysis that still took several minutes to win, even with the alarm blaring fully in my ear.
I don't get how I can drift off so soundly from relaxing for a few minutes but take forever to fall asleep when I'm even slightly awake over a period of up to two hours =p although it does amaze me that my eighteen-year-old alarm clock still works!
I find myself changing gears once again, which makes me wonder what exactly I'll like and dislike in ten years if I'm so easily amused but lose interest quickly. That is, I picked up Picross about a month ago, was it?, and played it so constantly it was interfering with every other project I had on the table. Tonight, I picked it up again for the first time in a week-ish and really didn't feel that excited to play it, to be honest.
Why play, then? Mostly, when I'm interested in something, there's a completionist part of me that craves getting that 100%, sometimes even being disappointed once I finally get it. There have been times when I lose interest well before getting the 100%, though [R-Type Final, although largely because Chars opened up a whole branch of ships for me, instead of letting me do it], so it's not entirely surprising that I eventually run out of steam. It's actually a good thing to lose interest before finishing, I think, since now that last little bit can always be waiting for me should I ever get a craving again, rather than being hungry for more when there isn't any.
[FTR, completed Easy and Normal modes plus Normal mode bonus gallery, unlocked up to the incredibly fruity "Storybook" theme Level 9 in Free mode]
I've also realized I missed another Saturday of the Post, thus losing the answers for the previous quote-acrostic and new puzzle. It pisses me off, but in a way I'm not as upset as I could be, since they've actually been piling up unread as I fail to get around to doing them. I'm not sure why that is--even though I still enjoy quote-acrostics, I got temporarily stuck on one puzzle, and that ended up ballooning into several months of unread Saturdays. I know, it would be easier just buying a book of them, but I really don't see many, compared to the brainless Sudoku and Kakuro and whichever other Japanese number-logic puzzles there are.
[Reiterate: I like Paint-By-Number/Oekaki/Picross and quote-acrostics because the "answer" provides a reward for completion, as it were, while crosswords and Sudoku kind of just "finish." Boring!]
I note that I've also given up learning Spanish. I find myself falling asleep listening to Pimsleur at work [what times I'm not distracted from it by the infernal radioplay], and what times I've been addressed by a Spanish-speaker, my mind blanks, yet I'm not remotely interested in thinking of what I'm supposed to say. I do occasionally pick up something Maya or Alejandro say, like "un medico" or "Estoy infirma" =p ["a doctor," "I [female] am sick"] but overall it feels like a losing battle. Really, I needed my parents to have taught me some second language, and they needed my grandparents to have taught THEM some second language T_T By high school, anyone who hasn't already devoted him/herself to a language will have a fucking difficult time becoming perfectly fluent without total immersion [being thrown into a foreign country].
I still have Heroes on the brain, particularly Monica, even though her power was evident from the moment she cut that tomato at an angle. What has me antsy is whether the story will progress a la Audrey Hanson taking a huge chance on Matt Parkman, or a la the Real World, "You risked your life for a few hundred dollars, YOU FIRED!!1" :( Agh, need new episode!
We'll see how Veronica Mars does, though =B BTW, I did change my "dootdoot" icon, yes ^^ This week's graphic novel!