• I totally vegged yesterday and it was awesome.  mr_pugh  had picked up some snacks, including a chocolate bunny.  I picked up some food and made a great dinner.  Brown rice, cooked to perfection in the rice steamer.  To this I added smoked tofu fried with mushrooms, onions, corn, peas, green beans, carrots and lima beans.  I also added some vegan chicken ( Read more... )

I am feeling so much better.  One of the reasons is that I'm less sick.  I'm only vaguely sore and a little stuffy.  I'm back to sleeping my regular 9.5 hours a night instead of needing 14 or more.

I'm also feeling good because I have finished writing my proposal for the AAR and it doesn't suck.  I'm trying for a second, but not getting my hopes  ( Read more... )

While filling in for a coworker I have suddenly become ill.  My face was like a faucet yesterday.  One of those old faucets that makes sudden explosive bursts of water and just trickles pointlessly when you try to shut it off.  I'm also feverish and sore in body and throat.  I was also a little queasy, but that could be from all the sinus pills I ( Read more... )

 Today I did some editing work on my AAR speech, adjusting the language into something easier to speak and less like something to read.  It makes me happy and terrified.

I also took a 5 hour nap which made up slightly for waking up at 3a.m. with back pain and sinus trouble and not being able to sleep again.  I watched two Harry Potter movies and did ( Read more... )

Last night I was awoken at 1 a.m. by a tamil protest outside my home.  No little sheets warning me in advance that such an event would occur - like we had to distribute for Pride.  No, just a bunch of loud people shutting down traffic and screaming and scaring my cats.  It went on for half an hour.  I called in a noise complaint, but the police ( Read more... )

I still seem to have insomnia.  I'm trying the relaxing thing, but it's not working well.  I suspect this is some kind of post-traumatic stress as I come down from the uber-competent high of trying to control everything.

Orientation day went well. The best part for me was when Dr. Mercier asked if I'd like to be his teaching assistant again this year. I said yes, although I had no idea when I'll fit it into my schedule. Monday night I close; Tuesday day I open. Mercier's class would be directly after I finish work on Tuesday. That will super-suck. But I'll be ( Read more... )

I'm awake, but feeling like crap. I slept until noon, had fabulous dreams which combined the Buffyverse with the Six Feet Under universe with D.C. comics universe. It was wacky! Also starring a teenaged Famke Janssen. I woke up to see a naked Mr. Pugh standing in the middle of the room, apparently doing absolutely nothing. It kind of freaked ( Read more... )

It's the middle of the night. I just woke up from one of the least satisfying naps of all time. I wasn't dreaming as much as I was consciously unconscious for an extended period of time. It had none of the rejuvenating qualities I associate with sleep ( Read more... )