I am very tired. I do not know how much I have slept lately: not much. I have been having bad dreams. I haven’t slept because I prefer this half-awake state to fractured sleep. But I am having trouble standing up. I am making very little sense when the tiredness catches up with me, though […]
Because who needs sleep? Does this count as insomnia? I am electing not to sleep because I am sleeping poorly. Does it matter if it counts as insomnia?
Last night in one of my dreams (not a bad one, just a weird one), I was going to Norway. (Why? I’ve never been to Norway.) I went […]
My little sister starts high school (already! almost a teenager!) today. She is, I think, excited, and also scared, and so hiding all of it under a veneer of “you know I don’t care about school”. I guess we will see. This is about as much of back-to-schoolness there is — my new year […]
You Are Likely an Only Child
At your darkest moments, you feel frustrated.
At work and school, you do best when you’re organizing.
When you love someone, you tend to worry about them.
In friendship, you are emotional and sympathetic.
Your ideal careers are: radio announcer, finance, teaching, ministry, and management.
You will leave your mark on the world with organizational […]
This has been a travelly sort of summer, alternately speeding through the moments and barely moving (like during my 4 week notice period!). I have, I think, been away more weekends than not. Every weekend in August, anyhow. This weekend, though a long weekend, I do not have plans to go anywhere. More accurately: I […]
Last night, my family went for ice cream. I had a delicious ice cream, which made up for a disappointingly bad dinner. (First, we had reservations somewhere for 7; at 10 to 8, they were just about to seat us, but rudely (what, we should expect an apology for being an hour behind? imagine!); we […]
Today I finished Jasper Fforde’s new book, ‘The Big Over Easy’. It’s less laugh out loud funny, but in a way I am preferring it to the Thursday Next books because it’s about mysteries and nursery rhymes, and I catch many more of the references. I am incredibly curious about why Fforde is so fond […]
Apparently there are people who know me who think I’m stable (insane, but stable). Well! I cannot tell if I am delighted or horrified. It’s nice, of course, but it feels very odd. I mean, I often figure how well I’m doing by how long it’s been since my last sustained non-PMS suicidal period. (Like, […]
Questions from Brina!
1. What do you think will be the best and worst parts of your new job?
Well, it’s hard to be sure. I will cheat and say: working from home, for both answers.
2. Where would you like to travel next?
My plan is still Prague/Vienna/environs, in the spring. There are many beachy-tropical places I would […]
I used to write. I mean, more than blog posts, things I throw together and don’t edit (quite deliberately: that would be writing), more than an occasional comment at other blogs. (Also, though, stuff with fewer readers. How these things go.) I wrote a lot, some good, most of it not very. I kept journals, […]