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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More late-night reading material. (OK, that was a flimsy excuse for posting off-topic.)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/12/why-we-should-all-care-about-senates-vote-fisa-amendments-act-warrantless-domestic
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/12/congress-caves-privacy/
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OK, this is really bad news. These things are being snuck past us while we sit there flapping our ears. Sheesh.
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Question: What kind of wishy-washy liberal statist would write the following:
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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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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I’ve always been bizarre about sleep. Who knows, maybe it’s a mark of our greatness. 🙂
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