Panthera Sapiens Ellipsis: The Blog

I have just... well, not quite just ... I have been awake for about 1.5 hours at this point, having gotten about five hours of sleep. You're unlikely to be able to do the math, seeing as how this post will show up at different times on either Blogspot or on Facebook (someday I think I will actually just start using one and find some way to share posts other than through Facebook Notes--just keeping the link to this blog in the profile should be more than adequate for those who actually want to read it), and so I'll tell you I slept this morning at around 6am. It's surprising how the symmetry of life works, isn't it? I've gone through the whole cycle of see-be amused-be bored-be annoyed with that email about how babies just want to not poop in their clothes and children want to be with their families and so on and eventually old people just want to be with their families and very old people just want to not poop in their clothes; also that one about how life should g...

I woke at 10.30am today, 2.5 hours later than usual--and in fact I only woke at 10.30am because I have an alarm setting on my phone for when the 8am alarm goes off and I want to sleep in a bit more. Left to my own devices (no pun intended) I would probably have woken up a long time after lunchtime; not that I'm particularly hungry at the moment, I did plenty of eating yesterday and the fullness has got carried forward. I think it's the sleep debt forcibly paying itself off, though; I haven't been sleeping very early for the past few days, mostly because I and a friend have gotten hooked on playing board games and we've been spending a fair bit on new ones. Well, we've only bought two, so far, but they're pretty addictive games--the first one was Shadow Hunters, which I played twice or thrice a long time ago at the Settlers' Cafe and liked, and the second was Munchkin Quest, which we've been playing over and over because the rulebook is just that difficul...