Rebeca just keeps going and going and going...
My sleeping schedule has been so messed-up lately that I think it might have gone around the clock back to normal. I took a nap yesterday afternoon after I got home from work (think I had a dream about NCIS) and woke up again around seven to go to the movies with Sara and Adam. We saw Paranormal Activity 2, and it was better than the first one - a really fun, scary popcorn movie. But we didn't get back until after eleven, and I went to sleep again around one.
Cut to today, when I woke up at seven to go on a long, exhausting trip through deep-southern Cajun Country with Grandma et. al. It was a little awkward visiting really distant relatives that I'd never met before - including Aunt Debbie, who had the thickest Cajun accent I've ever heard and was even more gung-ho about feeding her guests than Grandma, and Uncle Roland, who was so old that he almost looked like a corpse but who also walked perfectly without needing a cane (!) - but I'm glad I went. I ate gumbo and finally saw my great-grandparents' graves. Abbeville, the place where my grandma grew up, is a really beautiful little town. We were big-city folk down there, no exaggeration.
After we got home from that, I just had time to take a twenty-minute nap before riding my bike to the Shabbat evening service. I almost didn't go because I was so tired, but I'm so glad I did. Not only was there a rabbi and a dinner afterward, but our little temple was also visited by a camera crew from the History Channel! They were there filming a piece to be called You Don't Know Dixie, that will try to debunk stereotypes about race, religion, and culture in the South. How cool is that? I love the History Channel! (Update: Screencaps from our segment in You Don't Know Dixie are here!)
I won't be participating in NaNoWriMo this year, but good luck to all my friends who are!