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snails and clocks and vampires
2002-06-11 04:13:09
I've been watching and reading about Buffy non-stop for the last two days. My waking hours are occupied with dissecting the postmodern phenomenon that is the Buffy TV series and its fandom.
I've pretty much blown my ADSL transfer limit for the next two weeks with all the Buffy episodes I've had to download.
It could be the whole vampire theme of the series... my sleep schedule is screwed beyond belief. I sleep at 8am and wake at 4pm. It's really weird to wake up to the sounds of my dormmates chopping veggies for dinner. When I step out to bush my teeth, it's twilight. I go through an entire day without food because my clock is just so confused I don't know when to feel hungry.
But such is the life of a Uni student. People tell me to enjoy it while it lasts. If working life is worse than this, I think I'll pass. I'll go become a snail farmer or something. A snail farmer with a degree in Media. Oh joy. -
have some of my magic horlicks
2002-06-09 17:07:28
*Edited for from last night's entry. Because it was too stupid. Yes, way stupider than this version.
Looks like almost all the food in my food cabinet is past its use-by date. Of course I only found out AFTER consuming some of the months overdue muesli. Now if I mutate you'll know why.
Knowing my luck, I'd probably get stuck with all the lousy mutant powers. Like turning walls blue when I'm stressed. Or making essay page numbers mysteriously disappear. Or making citrus fruits spotaneously turn themselves inside out while at the supermarket. Or the power to induce hair loss. Hah, actually, that be cool.
"Desist, Green Goblin! Under that ugly green mask/helmet thing, you hair is falling out! Unless you want me to leave you as bald as a baby's butt, you will apologise to all these dead people! And then you will help me with my chemistry test!"
OK, the toxic muesli must be taking effect on my brain already. *The power to induce hair loss?!* What next? The power to induce erectile dysfunction? (Of course, a power like that could only be used for EVIL.)
"Haha, Superman, not so MAN now, are we?!"
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Let's not even start thinking what symbol a villainess with powers like that would sport. -
2002-06-08 01:16:44
Check out what happened to the mandarin I left in the rat cage:
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Yarrr!!
2002-06-08 00:57:55
I went to sleep at 10 pm last night and woke up at 12 noon. Actually I woke up at 3 am and thought, "I could wake up now and do my essay," closed my eyes and went back to sleep.
My friend took one look at me and commented how good my skin tone looks today. She said it about three times. I must have looked really moldy the past few days. Thing about me is that I can't go without sleep without looking like a dead fish. I feel alright, but I certainly don't look... fresh.
My genetically endowed eyebags puff up, my skin turns grey, and past a certain number of days without sleep, I get hyperactive. I go very mad. People stop to stare. Even my dormmates who are used to seeing me do spontaneous galloping dances of joy in the corridor ask me if I am OK.
The rats have been getting in touch with their scavenger instincts. They spent most of their time out of the cage today trying to sneak off with my breakfast bars. It's quite funny, watching them drag it off and then try to navigate the mess of books and boxes that make up the escape route between the desk and the floor, with the bar between their legs. And I think the only reason how they know there's something good to eat in the packet is because they know the sound the plastic makes from all those times I gave them bits of the bar I was eating.
It's amusing to watch until I remember that if they manage to stash my bar somewhere I can't find it, I won't have anything for breakfast tomorrow. -
Now I lay me down to sleep
2002-06-07 08:13:52
I am so tired that my legs feel all weird and wobbly.
This is the first time in probably a decade that I'm going to turn in at 10 pm. So OF COURSE the Argentina/England match has to be on now, and OF COURSE my neighbour has to be testing his subwoofer next door. But you know what? I don't care. I'm going to sleep. I don't think I'll even need to try like I usually do.
I think sleeping a total of 6 hours in the last 3 days has something to do with how tired I am tonight. Wow. I didn't even notice. And now I... can't flex my toes.
Funny thing is, I didn't feel tired at all the last three days. Like, really, no need for naps and a crazy fired-up attitude that had me finishing my assignments like a maniac. Looks like my mojo is back. I don't know. It seems to come and go.
But after those three days of hysterically humming "I'm a lean, mean essay machine", tonight I feel something huge and heavy has settled on me. Not exhaustion exactly, just a deep desire for rest. It's like a sudden gravity, something I feel in the downward press of my shoulders and knees, and I know that dropping into bed is going to be the best feeling on earth.
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OK, that sounded weird. But I'm not going to bother editing or erasing it, because that's what I feel. Plus, I still can't feel my toes. I think I can afford a little celebratory lack of writing finnese. Yay. Not that I ever had writing finesse. Or... oh whatever. OK. Brain melting. Eyes rolling up in head. Must sleep.
Hopefully toes will work in the morning.
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