10.13.06
3:30 a.m.
Let’s not go into the reasons I’m awake right now. Suffice to say that I am, and I have to be up yet for a little while, and if I don’t do something that is at least moderately active, even if it only requires that I wiggle my fingers to generate text in a window on my computer screen, I will fall back to sleep and I can’t do that right now. (Plus, while I can touch type, I cannot touch-read a book, so there’s that.)
As a result you get a snapshot of the contents of my head at this unkind hour. Things about which I have been thinking as I’ve stumbled around blinking, notions that have bubbled their way through the semipermeable barrier between REM sleep and premature consciousness.
1. I still think it would be way cool to have 108 braids with turquoise and amber and carnelian beads braided into them.
2. Why don’t dogs have special emergency backup bladders for those times when they’re out on a particularly long walk and they discover that they have more trees and lampposts that they need to territory-mark than they have pee to do it with?
3. I hate the way my bad arm gets so cold at night. It feels icy around my elbow (where the nerve problem and RSI are) even now, despite wearing an arm warmer and a long sleeved hoodie.
4. The beads on the pendant I was working on last night really do look a bit like octopus’ eggs. Cool.
5. One nine-ounce bar of Scharffen Berger unsweetened chocolate is exactly the right amount to make two 9×9 pans of the best brownies you’ll ever eat. I am still very pleased by the sight of the brownies I made yesterday. I look forward to eating another one of them later on today. You know, when I’m awake.
6. In another life I think I am a singer for Cirque du Soleil. One of the road companies, not one of the stationary productions.
7. I’m so glad that I don’t lead the kind of life where I would ever be required to look presentable at this hour. Simply sitting up and being clothed right now is hard enough.
8. I wonder if my grandmother has tried to make the Thai sticky rice recipe I sent her recently. She apparently tried sticky rice with coconut and mango a while back in some restaurant or other and was very taken with it, and I mentioned that it is easy to make, and she asked for the recipe.
9. I have a headache. Waking up in the middle of heavy sleep always seems to give me one. I wonder why that is?
10. My dog needs a bath and a haircut. So do I, for that matter.
Oh oh oh oh oh. It is *so* past time for me to be able to go back to sleep. Soon. Soooooooooooon. Not soon enough, but soon.