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Dream.
Sleep and I are at odds again. It took me a while to fall asleep last night and when I finally did I woke up three hours later, groggy and confused. Fell back asleep. Woke up three hours later again, reeling from a very vivid, gory dream. Fell back asleep and woke up two hours later. So it's no surprise I've been a bit spacey all day, with a ( Read more... ) -
Send back my dream test baby, she's my main feature...
Every few months or so, sleep and I sort of hit a rough patch in our relationship for anywhere from a few days to a week. I don't know why, but my brain gets disgruntled with the whole "lying down and slipping into a restful sleep coma for 8 or perhaps 10 hours" arrangement that's been working out so well for us, lo these many years. So lately I've ( Read more... ) -
Fucking dammit.
David Bowie Dead at 69
Confirmed by his official website, Facebook and his son.
I didn't really think he'd live forever, but...
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Eating like a five year old...
In a moment of weakness, I bought a giant bag of panko-crusted chicken nuggets from Costco. Guess what I've eaten for dinner for like, three nights in a row now? It gets worse. I'm eating them with rice and a mixture of ketchup and mustard. Mind you, I'm an adult, I can cook, and I have real food in the house. But it's almost Thanksgiving and I ( Read more... ) -
Almost Halloween...
The neighbor across the street has gone all out with those inflatable lawn decorations in the shape of ghosts, jack o'lanterns, etc. As an added bonus, there's an accompanying soundtrack. More than one, in fact ( Read more... ) -
Hmmm.
So the trailer for the Victorian era Sherlock Christmas special is up and it looks so pretty I might watch it after all. I thought season three was... okay, I don't really know how to describe season three, but after seeing it I wasn't sure I wanted to stick around for season four ( Read more... ) -
For a little spooky reading...
I just finished John Harwood's The Ghost Writer, and while there's a lot to process, I quite liked it. It's a bit like The Woman in Black or Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger, with a creeping sense of wrongness and dread that keeps building. Lots of lovely gothic detail, too-- family secrets and mysterious photographs, unsettling paintings that ( Read more... ) -
In fulfillment of a childhood wish...
... I bought myself a machete. It was on sale. There's a sheath and a thingy to attach it to one's belt loop and it's pretty much requiring all my willpower not to pretend it's a sword. I have to remind myself that I'm not a kid anymore, I have poor hand/eye coordination and if I chop myself in the shin or lop off a finger not only it is going to ( Read more... ) -
It's the little things...
While leaving the kitchen with a banana (which I may or may not have been brandishing like a gun, pretending to be James Bond), I accidentally stepped on a spider in my bare feet. It made a tiny popping noise, like stepping on a Cheerio. I was super grossed out but I feel better now that I've shared that with you guys.
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