Epidiascope

Hrm… weekends. I hate being sick. It hit on friday morning, and is only just clearing up now… stuffy head, non-functional nose, fever a hair over 39, general body aches. It doesn’t help that I only got around to going to get some benadryl and sudafed this afternoon… after taking it, life is much better. It does, however, tend to make me feel a bit zonked out. Everything is less distracting, it feels like my mind is on blinders, with whatever I’m currently focused on overwhelming everything else. Just very relaxed, and very focused if I’m working on something. I can see why they say not to mix these things with alcohol.

Eating a banana now.

Chris came up for the weekend… I took Austin down for his brother’s birthday and picked up Chris. We hung out, didn’t get much accomplished, but that’s fine… a fair bit of late night unreal tournament was played.

We’ve got 2 highschool students from Rio here right now for college days (the PUC recruitment program thingy where HS students come up and stay for a while and PUC tries to tell them why they should go here). Apparently we get $8 in gift certificates a piece for hosting them… woo! heh. The one of them seems quite bemused by my sleep habits.

Speaking of which, I’ve pretty much settled into a modified schedule of 20 minute naps every 4 hours, augmented by periodic core sleep from 4-8am if I feel like it (usually 2 or 3 times a week) (or sometimes a 1.5 hour nap at noon). I’m able to be pretty flexible about the schedule now, in a way that I wasn’t during the first month or so. As long as I don’t miss 2 consecutive sleep periods, I do quite well. If I miss more than 2 (stay up all afternoon, for instance) I’ll sleep for maybe 3 hours to make up for it and then feel fine. It’s odd how it seems to take nearly an hour of sleep later on to make up for a missed 20 minute nap… I guess it is true what they say – timing is everything.

I think I’m gonna go shower and shave now… I brushed my teeth earlier and that helped me feel cleaner, but it’s really time for a proper shower, and I haven’t shaved in probably 5 days, which means it’s getting out of control. I need a haircut too… bleh, have to schedule that. And need to remember to call the bank tomorrow too… apparently a check I deposited wasn’t signed, so they took $400 out of my account… not acceptable at all.

Anyway, I’m going to go shower now, I think.