i couldn't sleep all last night. i don't know why. this may seem extremely pathetic, but it may have been because i was thinking too much about what other people were writing in their blogs/livejournals and what i was going to write in response.

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i was told once that keeping a journal helps you sleep, because you purge your mind of its baggage of thoughts.

hogwash. that seems to suggest that we all have a finite and static number of thoughts at any one time. it might work for some people, but it seems only to exacerbate the squeaking of my cranial hamster-on-wheel. maybe, like exercise, it's best not to write in a journal immediately before going to bed.

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my sweetie now knows that i've bought him a gift on-line. he noticed my fedex delivery e-mail. it seems the package won't arrive until the 26th, when i'm supposed to be gone to mt. baker for the ed board retreat (oh the anticipation!) so he'll likely be the one who'll take the delivery. i made him promise not to open it until i got back, but if the contents are written on the box somewhere, that might not help things. i want to be there when he finds out what it is. he'll be so excited.

why does it take 13 days to ship by fedex ground, anyway?

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so i've installed the simulation software the boss has been trying to get me to use on my home computer, and it's about 50 000 times faster than when i try to run it off my unix account at school. hence, i am "working from home."

interesting how it's now the mid-afternoon and i have yet to make any real progress on that front.

*shhhh*

i maintain that my progress would be even more stifled were i to go into work, though.

*ahem*. yeah, that's right.