Insomnia

~ Clarissa

Insomnia always comes at the worst possible moment,  doesn’t it? I never feel sleepless when I can stay in bed all day long next day, catching up on sleep. I mean, why couldn’t it have attacked me at any other day in the past 3 weeks? Why can’t I be snoozing happily in a warm bed instead of sitting in the kitchen waiting for coffee to brew and knowing that I have to catch an international flight in a few hours?

I blame the middle-of-the-night phone call but it isn’t really the call’s fault. I wouldn’t have slept anyway.

So to avoid letting the night go to waste completely, I decided to finish East Lynne, a XIXth-century novel from my Classics Club challenge. I will post a review when I’m done but for now I can say that I absolutely love love love this wonderful novel.

Oh, and one more thing. I got so tired packing and wrapping gifts (an autistic packing gifts is a very sorry sight, folks) that instead of a full, sealed bottle of Dominican rum I almost wrapped an opened, slightly depleted bottle. That would be the shame of the century. Can you imagine a worse gift than a bottle of alcohol that has been partaken of already? Somehow this seems like a particularly horrible gift to give. It is like saying, “We tried it and it wasn’t too good but we know that you are so desperate to get shit-faced that you’d lap up any old leftover moonshine, so here, have a happy drunken New Year!”

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    2. Question: What kind of wishy-washy liberal statist would write the following:

      At every stage, the innovation economy depends on sources of funding decoupled from concern for economic return. As economists have long recognized, such funding will not be delivered by competitive markets. Only an active state in pursuit of politically legitimate missions — national development, national security, conquering disease — can play the required role.

      Answer: one who is “a managing director and senior advisor of a leading private equity firm” with “over 40 years as a working venture capitalist”.

      Here: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-janeway-innovation-govt-investment-20121227,0,7793938.story

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  2. I can’t really sleep that much either right now for some reason. My sleep cycle and circadian rhythms are sometimes pretty bizarre in that I’ll wake up at around 3 or 4 in the morning. It hasn’t happened that much lately, but it sure did at the beginning of the year. You’re not alone and I hope you’re okay.

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