Browsing All posts tagged under »sleep madness«

An Appeal to Anyone Experiencing Impending Parenthood

March 7, 2012 by

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Arkem: Did you know that I’m leaving tomorrow? Me: That’s very sad. (Sad face. Thinks.) Don’t. Arkem: Well played. You are a master of strategy. I am going to tell you a story. It starts here: I am officially down by one Paul. At least in terms of geographical convenience. I took him to the […]

It’s Not Christmas Anymore. That Makes This Okay.

March 1, 2012 by

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  Personally, I’ve always thought Santa was a fireman. But this documentary seems very convincing.  

This is an Unreasonable Extrapolation Given the Evidence

February 23, 2012 by

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Raven: How goes? Me: I am writing extremely clever words. Well, funny words. Well, they’re making me laugh. Although I haven’t slept a lot lately, so. Yeah. Turns out if you write things in your sleep and then forget about them you get the opportunity to read your own work as if someone else has […]

Because Words Mean Different Things to Different People

February 22, 2012 by

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Sleeping well is only waking up three or four times a night rather than more. Sleeping well is being able to roll over and go back to sleep at least 75% of the time. Sleeping well is not being either trashed or manic as a result of lack of sleep all the time. Sleeping well […]

Just So We’re Clear, Seven Hours of Sleep in Two Days is Not Enough

February 15, 2012 by

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So according to Rick my newly developed sleeping patterns are an illustration of a Karnaugh map. An array of Yes, No and I don’t care leaving me with not enough sleep.* This is like the time Arkem convinced Shig to forge my signature on the internet by telling him it looked like math. For the […]

The Horrible Unreasoning Fear That THIS Would Happen

February 10, 2012 by

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I have reached the rather odd point in my life where I now buy books rather than borrowing from somewhere to read first. I’m not sure why this is odd. Perhaps it’s not. Perhaps everyone does that. But I used to live with a book courier (a.k.a librarian-mother-who-would-bring-me-books) and spend a rather obscene amount of […]

How the Apocalypse Happens

February 9, 2012 by

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Paul S: Are you still looking for good names? Me: I am always looking for names. I have a collection. I chloroform them and pin them to the wall and cackle with glee. Paul S: Hopefully they “go to sleep and never wake” from the chloroform — rather than wake up pinned to a collection […]

What Legends Are Made Of

February 7, 2012 by

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There’s a rhyme you probably know: Sugar and spice and all things nice, that’s what little girls are made of. Slime and snails and puppy dogs tails, that’s what little boys are made of. It’s a rather stupid rhyme. Which made me want to be something else entirely. But once upon a time the title […]

Killing People Takes Me to My Happy Place

February 6, 2012 by

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I’ve known how Path (the series) ends for a while now (which is immeasurably comforting) but that just means I can see all six thousand plot strands and characters threads that are converging on the final book. And right now it like it’s going to be this dense, frenetic cascade of trauma and I just […]

Rarely Do I Ever Have A Thought By Itself

February 3, 2012 by

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This. So I’m going to go back to reading about serial killers now. I would tell you why but… well, it’d take a while.