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[verbicide]

I never want to go to sleep on Sunday nights.

I have a really crazy week ahead and am going to be kicking myself in the morning when I haven't had enough sleep. But I get so wound up about needing sleep, that I'm too wound up to actually sleep. And the tragedy is that I'm tired. I just can't sleep!

Random bits:

- I bought an exciting new cat-brush and have removed enough excess fur from Hobbsie to make a whole new Hobbsie. He loves being brushed and was nigh-orgasmic about the whole event.

- I made some Paki food. Mushroom curry and ground beef/peas curry. It was weirdly exciting. I haven't cooked in awhile and think I was inspired by Ellie's home cooking.

- I'm still determined to re-read all the Potter books before July 16th. Though I should be prepared to fail. I've only just started book 3. And I really need to re-read 4 and 5, so I should have just started there, but noooooooooo.

- I didn't realize that Richard Preston (author of Hot Zone) had other virus-y books out because apparently I live in a cave. I really want to buy The Demon in the Freezer and The Cobra Event. I can't buy these, or any other books that I want (like The Time Traveler's Wife, which Judy and Stacey both loved) until I beat my way through the toppling towers of books on my immediate to-read pile. It would take a year to go through the backlog, and yet, I still buy. I am out of control. It also doesn't help for me to sit around reading five books I've already read a few times. Gah!

- Inspired by euphrasie, I need to set-up an auto-withdrawal thing into savings to force myself to budget better and not just hand my paycheck over to Amazon.

Things to remember for morning:

- get Netflix out of dvd player and into bag to return today
- don't leave the edited stack at home
- pack gym bag, prepare to curse that you didn't do that tonight
- lunch is in fridge, don't forget it
- don't forget mushroom curry for Jeff
- prepare to curse self for not doing laundry this weekend when you have nothing to wear tomorrow

OMFGWTF is wrong with me. GO TO BED NOW!!

Okay, but before I go, I'm very excited about having nursed back this jasmine plant from the brink of death. Look at all the exciting blossoms-to-be?







They make the living room smell like heaven. And my other jasmine plant, on the balcony (not yet photographed) also has zillions of little blossoms which make the balcony smell fantastic. It reminds me of my grandmother. It was her favorite scent and her yard in Pakistan was filled with them.

Comments

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Hey, watch where you point those things!

I'm so wrapped up in reading new books (and not nearly so disciplined in buying new books before I finish existing ones), I haven't been able to re-read the books I'd like to. Luckily, I did read Goblet of Fire already.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Have you read Order of Phoenix yet? It's very good.

And I have the opposite problem. Especially these days where I'm so busy and my brain is fried by the time I come home, I just want to read something that I already know I love, that won't require any mental effort on my part. Pathetic, but I vow to change this. Um, just as soon as I'm done rereading the Potter books.

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't, but I did buy it -- does that count? Looks like once again I'll be one book behind, unless I managed to read it by July, which isn't likely, although my consumption has been markedly improved (two books a month) by the book club. I'm trying to re-prioritize my life to give more time to reading, but it's hard with everything else that comes up. And energy that goes down -- I don't read at home all that much because of the condition you mention, I'm just too wiped out to focus. (But not too tired to stay up late playing computer games, oddly. But that seems to be changing.)

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

I need to work on improving my book-consumption :)

I never used to watch this much tv, but lately, it's so easy. Especially after a day like today, which has left me incapable of forming complex sentences.

But I hear you--if I wasn't too lazy to hook up my gaming systems (and take the time figure out how to run everything concurrently with tivo/dvd/vcr), it would be easy to play games for hours.

It's sad because I get so much more out of reading, when I make the time for it. I'm going to try to set some goals and work at it!

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

It's sadly all too easy to play games at my house. The Dreamcast is safely in the basement (although it would take me just a minute to hook it up). The real timesink for about the past year has been on the PC -- City of Heroes. It's fun to play a superhero, leaping from rooftop to rooftop, but it's not very satisfying in the long term. The entertainment equivalent of dessert versus a nutritional meal, I suppose. And, of course, t doesn't help that those games are designed to keep you playing, so you're never really done. And it says something about the addictiveness of a game that it has prevented me from (among other things) watching the DVDs I've been buying. Cutting down on TV is also tough, particularly because TiVo makes it so easy to watch the shows I know are good (The Daily Show, Ghost in the Shell), not to mention the shows I probably should be watching (Battlestar Galactica) because people rave about them.

Then there's stuff I'm sort of watching out of habit (is The Simpsons still funny?) and all the reruns available... God, where was all this stuff when I was a kid? Safely tucked away in the future, I guess, and that's why I read so much. Although it does make me wonder how much of my reading (and tinkering) simply would have transferred online. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if I read more now than I ever did as an adult, but since it's all stuff like blogs and news stories and esoteric little web pages, it doesn't add up like page turning (not to mention that physical books are just much more satisfying). Pant, pant.

So, yes, I'm gradually working more reading into my life, and hopefully some day, some more writing. And hopefully I won't ever have to give up all the other stuff, but that just raises the question of just where those limits and priorities should be. Time to grow up, sort of... but into what, if not me?

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

You're right that in the long run, there's nothing sustaining about video-superhero-dom. But man, it can be fun. Though honestly my game play is entirely limited to Final Fantasy. And when the next one comes out, I'll hook up my PS2 and get no sleep.

I agree that I probably read more now than ever, but as much as I love LJ and other online sources, there's something so utterly satisfying about finishing a good book. And I miss that. I have so much stuff that I've been dying to read for ages. But I pick it up, and don't have the commitment to finish because I get so easily distracted.

And TiVo is definitely making me watch more tv than ever! All the season finales last month have finally quieted things down. But there are still the must-haves, like you mention: The Daily Show.

And hopefully I won't ever have to give up all the other stuff, but that just raises the question of just where those limits and priorities should be.

And that sounds like a pretty grown-up sentiment to me. :) I think a good part of growing up is just having some self-awareness and the desire to moderate the excesses.