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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
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06:59 (07.02.10) - A (probably futile) attempt at normalizing my sleep schedule
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Yesterday, I woke up at 4. While 4 am would not have been that bad and something I could probably make work for me in terms of my continued quest for employment, I woke up at 4 pm, which really isn't doing me any favors. Part of the problem is that I have always, dating back to childhood, naturally slipped into a schedule where I go to bed around 5 am and wake up sometime in the afternoon. I think I did this every summer growing up except possibly the summer I had 2 shifts a week volunteering at the zoo that I needed to leave the house before noon to get to. (Other pre-college summers I either had about 2 weeks of all-day day camp or about 2 weeks of all-day volunteering at day camps, and slipped into my nocturnal schedule for the rest of the summer which was largely self-directed time.) The other problem is that I seem to want to sleep about 12 hours a day lately. Anyway, this clearly isn't working out for me very well in terms of accomplishing anything with my life.
So, I'm not going to sleep tonight. With luck, I'll be good and tired about 5 pm tonight, and can sleep a solid 12ish hours and get up at 5 am Monday morning, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, and full of optimism about my ongoing Job Search From Hell. Rather than going to bed at around 5:30, I made and ate a hearty breakfast of eggs, hashbrowns, and coffee. (I kind of regret learning how to make hashbrowns, because they are easy, cheap, and delicious.) I now consider my new day started.
Today should be an interesting day.
current music: The Irish Rovers - The Biplane, Ever More
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| Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
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03:24 (02.02.10) - Bay area visit?
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I just got back from Conflikt (up near Seattle) and I had a great time after a rocky start (allergic reaction to dinner + social anxiety worsened by squirming children sitting behind me and constantly moving in my peripheral vision = lousy Friday), so I'm considering going down to California for Consonance in early March. The con itself is in Newark, CA, which I understand to be in the Bay Area somewhere (I am a little fuzzy on Bay Area geography as I've only been there once and that was ten years ago and I pretty much stuck to Mountain View and Palo Alto while I was there). The con is March 5th - March 7th, and if it's anything like Conflikt I'd pretty much spend the whole weekend busy with con stuff.
However, I know I have several non-filker friends who live in California, and I think at least three of you live somewhere in the Bay Area. Would anyone be interested in hanging out on the Thursday before the con or the Monday after, with or without letting me crash on your floor for a night? This whole thing is still very much in the "maybe" stage (looks like I have to register by the 20th if I'm going, and I'm going to stall as long as possible in case I get a job and can't take that time off from work), but I'd like to go if I can find a way to make it work, and seeing other old friends would be the icing on the cake.
I wish drinking coffee didn't keep me up for so many hours after I drink it. It came in handy for the Saturday night filk circle that I was still awake at 5 because I'd had coffee with dinner about 12 hours earlier, but it's not very convenient today or generally. Perhaps I just need to find all-night filk circles every night. Perhaps I need to stop drinking coffee. It is hard to tell.
I recorded most of Conflikt with my new zoom H2. I'll try to transfer the files to my computer on Wednesday or Thursday and will possibly post recordings of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) two_star singing in open filk if they turned out well. (I already know my one short and painful attempt did not turn out well because I did the panic-thing and let my throat tighten up and then rushed the tempo, so no amount of recording quality will fix that up enough for the internet. Blargh.)
Also, thanks to greatblondelf for letting me crash at your place on Sunday. Being able to stay in Seattle rather than drive back to Portland on the last day of the con was nice. Hanging out with Sean is also nice. I observed to Ali at one point that if you'd told 2000-Nea that she was going to get to spend a weekend going to a filk con and also seeing Sean, she would have thought it was THE BEST POSSIBLE WEEKEND IN THE HISTORY OF WEEKENDS. It fell a little short of that standard (allergic reactions are not a part of the BEST POSSIBLE WEEKEND, for starters), but it was still the most fun I've had in a while. Apparently, this future thing is pretty nice. I just wish it had jobs.
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| Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
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04:28 (20.01.10) - Dumb things I am doing right now, a nested list
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- Not sleeping
- Using the computer
- Reading entries from 10 years ago on my Very First Webjournal
- Posting about it here
- Posting publically rather than custom-friendslocked all to hell
- Editing this entry repeatedly to change little things
In related non-nested notes:
- To every professor I had as a sophomore in college: I was the worst student ever. I can only plead youth and stupidity. I am so embarrassed about it now. Thank you for passing my pathetic ass anyway, which I probably didn't deserve.
- Still crazy and staying up too late and telling the internet about it, although a lot less of that last one. Why did I used to share so very much? I suppose it was A Different Time.
- Some predictions don't come true.
- Goddammit self, caffeine makes you crazy. Stop it.
- Today will be my 10 year Spiffy's-a-versary. I do not plan to celebrate it by driving to Spiffy's, as I probably should have outgrown driving to Chehalis for bad diner food by now. (I do now understand the theory behind vegetarians attempting to locate breakfast places when trying to eat in small towns, though.) I will probably celebrate it by sleeping most of the day and then eating Chinese food for dinner, because that is what I was going to do anyway.
- GOODNIGHT I AM GOING TO SLEEP OR AT LEAST NON-INTERNET NOW. I AM SO DUMB.
current mood:  awake
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| Friday, December 4th, 2009
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23:47 (04.12.09) - Filk Advent Calendar, Day Four
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I had a job interview over an hour's travel time from my apartment today and a concert I was supposed to go to tonight (but had the wrong time for, which I only realized when I saw the sign on the door), so this'll be another fragment (apparently, announcing an Internet Project is a good way to make your Real Life busy, which I will keep in mind against future needs).
( Filk Advent Calendar, Day Four )
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| Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
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23:48 (03.12.09) - Filk Advent Calendar, Day Three
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Folks, I had a major case of Real Life come crashing down on me today (nothing worrisome, just family stuff that belongs in a locked post rather than this one), so this'll be a fragment only.
( Filk Advent Calendar, Day Three )
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| Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
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23:48 (02.12.09) - Filk Advent Calendar, Day Two
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| Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
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22:41 (01.12.09) - Filk Advent Calendar, Day One
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I went to Orycon for the 4th year this year, and I've realized that it's past time that I start actually writing filk songs rather than making vague mutterings about doing so someday. Thus, I have decided to do a Filk Advent Calendar. Every day from now until Christmas eve, I am going to write SOMETHING that could be at least part of a filk song, probably to the tune of a Christmas carol, and post it here. If I go out of town, I'll probably either post them before I leave or after I get back since I have a cell phone so old that it actually makes phone calls.
Most of these songs will not be of very high quality or at all likely to be performed. The main idea is to get me working on (a) scansion and (b) writing something the heck down.
( Filk Advent Calendar, Day One )
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| Thursday, June 18th, 2009
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17:43 (18.06.09) - Portland, Oregon housefilk?
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Would there be interest in a housefilk in Portland (Oregon) in July? My apartment's property management company thought it'd be a reasonable use of our complex's rec room, so I thought I'd ask if people would like to come.
I'm thinking the weekend of July 25th and 26th, no preference on day. I'd probably want it to start around 1 or 2 pm and break up around dinner time. I could offer some out-of-towner crash space at my apartment, and my complex is on a Frequent Service bus line. We have limited visitor parking as well.
The downside: I'm not nearly good enough of a musician to anchor a housefilk by myself. I sing along with choruses, but I don't have a repertoire of my own stuff to sing nor do I play an instrument well enough to accompany anyone else without advance notice and sheet music. So basically, I would have a very sad time if the only people who showed up were me and my neighbors.
Would there be enough interest that I should get the ball rolling on this? If not, would changing the weekend help?
I'll make another post in a week or so to let everyone know for sure whether or not this is happening with an actual time and date included if it is.
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| Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
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22:51 (14.04.09) - Birthday Party Plans Posted
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I just made my annual birthday party invite post to my "party" filter. If you're not on it and would like to be, comment here. If you're on it and don't want to be, comment here. If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands (but don't comment here (unless you also want on or off the filter (and that on or off is different than your current state))).
I should have been asleep over 2 hours ago. I am so awesome at this "8 hours a night" thing. Next up: reading books instead of falling asleep!
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| Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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21:39 (06.01.09) - Where else is everyone?
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So, there's another The LiveJournal Sky Is Falling thing going around. Rather than scrambling to back up my journal (which I did a comprehensive job of several years ago - I'm not too worried about my recent entries since they're just me whining about LiveJournal going downhill and I have comments emailed to me so I probably have them all saved about 5 times each anyway), what worries me is the loss of contact with those I read.
There are some people on here that LiveJournal going away wouldn't affect my ability to stay in touch with at all - I'm pretty sure I'll be able to stay in touch with greatblondelf unless he enters the witness protection program, or at the least gets a restraining order, moves, and convinces his mother and all of our mutual friends to stop telling me or anyone who knows me about his life. Many more are a step down from that but I bet we have enough mutual friends that if I broke down and got a facebook or twitter account I'd be back in touch with them almost immediately.
However, there are a fair number of you that I really only know through LiveJournal, including some people that I really enjoy reading and who seem to be only here. You may have at one point posted a link to someplace else you are but since I don't do any other social networking I haven't added you there. Now I'm kind of wishing I had, just in case. However, I don't have time to keep up with the entire internet, so I really can't join all of these things (I'm stealing the time to write this from my sleep time, which was supposed to start at 20:30 and didn't because I am on the damn internet).
Anyway, if LiveJournal goes away, I am also found at http://www.algeh.com . There is basically nothing there now, but there will be if I ever get around to it and it's my internet "home base". I plan to start a blog there as soon I have time to figure out how to do protected posts without it being a pain in the ass (or if I change careers again to something where public non-anonymous blogging is a little more tenable than it is when teaching). I'm also at http://www.aracnet.com/~linnea , although I have not updated it in about 5 years (the email that goes with that still works, though.) I should really take that old angsty crap down one of these years.
Anyway, please comment to this entry with the places you also are so I can keep in touch with you if LiveJournal goes away. (I have comments emailed to me, so that makes some kind of sense.) If you make a post like this, I'll comment to yours too so we can all have this information in one place each. I'll also post a locked post right after this one for those who don't want their other places public. This is for the other places you're ok with linking to your LiveJournal for the Whole World.
current music: Leslie Fish - The Palace
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