sjester

After some initial reviews, I've decided to take a poll.

[Poll #41725]

If it proves difficult to read for enough people, I just might have many happy hours of more tinkering ahead of me.

Woke up this morning to the sounds of my niece doing anything to keep from taking a nap. She didn't recognize me at first, because I had my glasses on. I took them off and couldn't exactly see, but she did recognize me. So I played a game of peek-a-boo by repeatedly putting on and removing the glasses so that she would know me and I could properly see her.

Funny that she has to jump around and make all sorts of noise to keep herself awake, while I seem to have no problem doing so. Despite having fallen asleep sometime after the process of sunrise began and then getting up before noon (though just half an hour before), I am not now, at nearly three in the morning, the least bit tired. So the problem does not seem to be merely that I am nocturnal, but that my natural sleeping patterns don't adhere to a regular, 24-hour cycle. Either that, or I require less sleep than I think. Maybe some combination of both. Whatever it is, it makes dealing with the "real world" a bit frustrating. But hey, it also means that I am awake to see every part of the day and still get some sleep.

Dinner was lemon chicken and white rice. I detest lemon chicken and always have. So I ate just white rice with soy sauce. It was then that I saw myself eating copious amounts of white rice come fall, supplemented by the soy sauce for protein, the monotony occasionally broken up by tortillas, Ramen noodles, chips and salsa (provided I have a supply of real salsa), perhaps some taquitas if I get ambitious on the occasional weekend, and enchiladas if I get really ambitious. But rationality says that things won't be so bad as that. True, I will have rent to pay and no job prospects yet in sight (no work-study in my already crappy financial aid package either), but I also have a best friend who can cook and does it quite frequently and well. And if I can ever find the time while getting myself off probation, I'll return the favor by making enchiladas once again, this time with real green chile which may come from salsa. Perhaps a bit unorthodox, but it'll probably work. And you have to take what you can get when it comes to green chile outside of New Mexico.

So that was the big epiphany for the day. (Well, shit, things are so exciting around here, aren't they? I can hardly stand it.) Today's revelation was that I should probably buy a ticket for Friday's Eddie From Ohio concert at the zoo. Today's conclusion: Human combustion certainly will be spontaneous when smoking, large amounts of alcohol, and flammable material are involved. Even without the alcohol, those are the ingredients for a human candle.

Methinks I have way too much time on my hands.

Brain: Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Pinky: I think so brain, but couldn't one get crazy with the LJ tags without subjecting other people to it?
Brain: Pinky, sometimes you astound me with your failure to grasp the small amount of exhibitionism inherent in keeping an online journal.

Oh, it's late at night/early in the morning...