Sleep: The Other White Meat

[greygirlbeast]

Thanks to the new (very expensive) medications, my insomnia is vastly better than it's been for years. But last night, I was awake until sometime after four, and then only got to sleep because I'd taken Ambien (which I dislike doing). Then I woke from a nightmare at eight, to construction noise from next door. And that was it. No getting back to

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[mellawyrden]

Some of those glass flowers toured through my area (Corning Museum of Glass) last year. They're astonishing. I want to go to the Museum of Comparative Zoologgy with my sketchbook, now.

[greygirlbeast]

I want to go to the Museum of Comparative Zoology with my sketchbook, now.

It's worth the trip.

[greygirlbeast]

Were you ever on Metafilter or Plastic by any chance?

Nope.

[jdack]

What in the hell is <.<, >.> supposed to be?

[greygirlbeast]

What in the hell is <.<, >.> supposed to be?

Near as I can tell, it works like this.

Person A says something which Person B perceives as outlandish or peculiar. Person B then...

>.> = looks right

<.< = looks left

and finally >.< makes a squinchy face meant to denote pain at said peculiar or outlandish statement.

Yes, it's dumb.

[jdack]

Wow. Dumb is an understatement.

[catconley]

That's a hell of a lot of effort...

[martianmooncrab]

plagued by idiotic emoticons.

having learned that > and < are math symbols, their current use confuses me, plus I learned to type on a manual typewriter, and I used a teletype in my Navy job.... so to me, emoticons are a different language I dont care to learn.

I also used to read baudot, so I am a real lumbering off to the tar pits kinda typist.

[stsisyphus]

Although I'm not joining you in the hatred of emoticons, but I will join you in hatred of the omnipresent and superfluous "lol" suffix to all statements. Mind you, the saturation of emoticons that you have while being in-game in WoW will probably not endear you to the fact that humans draw breath, much less their typological habits.