Hour 2: I can do this!

Now, it probably seems a little early for me to be giving myself vain support already, but let me inform you of a couple unexpected handicaps I will be questing under:

1.  I WILL NOT BE EATING MEAT.  Granted, this wasn’t totally unexpected, as  I realized that Lent began today a couple days ago (that’s some awkward sentence construction right there), but I hadn’t had time to plan for this.  I don’t know how this will effect the successfulness of my quest, but I guess we’ll find out.

2.  I got 5.5 hours of sleep.  Trust me, I tried to sleep more.  I turned the lights out at 11, which I never do these days.  At around 12:10 I fell asleep.  And let me tell you, the dream was WEIRD.  In it, I was talking to this girl, and then she took her fingers and stuck them into that gap between your eyeball and your eye socket where the flesh of your eyelid gives way, you know?  Well, she hooked her finger into there, and pulled.  If anyone here has ever worn retainers, you’ll know what I mean when I say that it felt like she was pulling retainers off my jaw, except she was pulling at my jaw instead.  And something cracked.  Like, half of my top jawbone split off from the rest.  I woke up, totally freaked out.  And I was happy, because, yes, the dream was weird has platypus, but at least I had fallen asleep.  I looked at the clock, and it was 12:25.  Groan.

And then I woke up, of my own accord, at 5:15!  That NEVER happens!  True, I went straight back to sleep, but it’s like my body is sensing that I’m planning something that isn’t exactly the wisest or most healthful of ventures, and is trying to sabotage it.

Well, that’s about it.  Just two things.  But lack of protein and only 5 and a half hours of sleep does not bode well for this quest.

However, as stated in the title, I am confident that I can do this.  Why?  Because I saw a strangely inspiring site and the way to school today.  I was taking the 72 bus to Cascade campus, planning to then take the early morning Sylvania shuttle.  As the bus turned off of Alberta onto MLK for a few blocks before turning onto Killingsworth, I saw a high school student with one leg hopping down the street.  Granted, he had crutches, but you would think that having only one leg would entitle you to a wheelchair, not the exact same support system given to people who just badly sprain their foot.

Anywho, the young man was at about Alberta and MLK, and this impressed me greatly, because he was obviously walking to Jefferson High School, because he had a backpack on, he was high-school age, and Jefferson is the closest high scool.  Well, he could have been walking to PCC, but since they’re at the same location, basically, it doesn’t really matter.

Anyways, this impressed me because the corner of Alberta and MLK and Jefferson High School are a good distance apart, (about a mile), and so walking there with one leg is no mean feet (sorry).  Add to that the fact that he was using crutches, which are slow and exhausting, that he could have started much farther back, and that HE HAD ONLY ONE LEG.

And so, I thought to myself, “Damn, I’m hungry.”  But I also thought to myself, “Damn, if that guy can walk at least a mile to school with crutches and one leg, EVERY DAY, then I sure as hell can stay awake for 72 hours, meat or no meat, negligible amount of rest beforehand be damned!”

In other news, I have a geology test in 43 minutes, so I should probably beging reading the material and finding out what the test is actually on.  The next check in could be up to an hour late, depending on how the test goes.  DFTBA!

Da Rules: Music: Caramelldansen

If you do not remember, Caramelldansen is a song made by some Swedish Eurodance group.  It became famous through the following looped animation set to the chorus (which was also looped):

This song is just so… high energy, that I am placing a further restriction on it, in addition to the fact that it is in the Insomnia Playlist.  The restriction is thus: For every 24 hours, I can only spend 2 of them listening to Caramelldansen (speedycake remix, by the way).  Now, that might seem like a lot, but the song is almost 3 minutes long, and so that becomes only about 42 listens.

So…. yeah.  I don’t have too much else to say.  Ooh!  I do have something I could share – I got SOCKS!  They’re blue, and have lightning bolts on them, and they remind me of socks that Dobby would make!  Awesome!  Oh, and here’s another video, but this time with the entire song, not just the chorus.  Same blasted animation, though.  Oh, and that is apparently an actual dance.  People have filmed themselves dancing to that song whilst doing that dance, and put it up on youtube.  Anywho:

Addendum: Please do not judge this blog based on the AMV’s in this post.  This blog is really much cooler than that.  It has Harry Potter references!  And breasts! (See top right corner)

Da Rules: Music: Scorpions – YTCracker

“Rock You Like a Hurricane” by the Scorpions
I have used this song in conjunction with footage of storms more times than is probably morally acceptable.

“Expecto Patronum” and “Shrieking Shack Disco Gang” by the Shrieking Shack Disco Gang
One of the most fun to dance to wrock bands in existence, they sadly left the scene over a year ago.

“A Hazy Shade Of Winter” and “At The Zoo” by Simon & Garfunkel
Again, proof that folk rock can be awesome.  Sometimes.

“Dominique” by The Singing Nun
What can I say?  I have weird musical tastes.

Slovakian Republic and Syrian National Anthems
I only ever checked out the “S” CD from the library.

“Celtic Techno Burrito (Extended Version)”, “My Sister-In-Law’s Ears”, “Shuffle Function Theme”, “I Like To Eat Eat Eat Aples and Bananas “, “Celtic Techno Burrito”, “Mike Celestino, What Have You Done With Star Wars”, “We Got Technical Difficulties”, “Napoleon”, “Super Mario Brothers Theme (Original Nintendo Is Awesome Remix)”, “MC Underwear vs. MC Pantz”, “Dinosaurs With a Outragous BMP”, “Beware the Sea Anenemone”, “Fishcat Catfish” by Songs To Wear Pants To
“Songs To Wear Pants To / Is a website / It has some songs / And you can listen to them on your computer / All you have to do is Right Click / And Save-As / Pants Solo!”

“Blame” by Soul Coughing
Odd lyrics and a catchy tune make this one of the better random songs I have found whilst listening to internet radio.

“Harry’s Wand” by Steve Goodie
One of the most professional-sounding filks out there, this song has gotten much play on Dr. Demento’s show.

“Eye Of The Tiger” by Survivor
THE song for montages.

“Supernova” and “Supernova (Radio Version)” by Syrian
Some random trance-techno band made one of the most fun songs in the genre.  At some point in time.  Somewhere.  It’s a good song.  Moving on.

“Hallelujah (The Boy That Lived)” and “The Sorting Hat” by Talons & Tea Leaves
This collaboration between Catchlove and Oliver Boyd & the Remembralls has produced songs so great it seem criminally unfair that only four of them have been made.

“Cherry Chocolate Rain” by Tay Zonday FEAT Mista Johnson
When large corporations and internet memes pair up, the result is often disastrous.  This is one of the very few times that something magical happens.

“Chinese Dance” by Tchaikovsky
I have a theory that all of Tchaikovsky’s opuses (opi?) are, in one way or another, about sex.

Da Rules: Music: Gunther – Scar

Here’s the second batch of music that will be on my Insomnia playlist!

Pleasure Man by Gunther & the Sunshine Girls
You know how Aqua had great music and hilariously bad lyrics?  Gunther is like that, but even more so.  This album WILL make you move, be it uncontrollable dancing, or uncontrollable laughing at lyrics like “Ohhhh, you touch my tra la la / Mmmmm, my ding ding dong” and “I’m so free / You wake the stud inside me / So take your chance / Let’s do the mating dance”.  Throw in a deep understated sense of irony, and you’ll have one of the best albums to drive away sleep, EVER.

“Hampster Dance Techno Radio Edit” by Hampton the Hamster
De de de de de do du du…

“O Little Town Of Bethlehem” by Hangnail
Hangnail’s super fast rock version of one of the most somber-sounding Christmas hymns is nothing short of amazing.

Enchanted Ceiling EP by Harry & The Potters
What it would sound like if Fishboy and They Might Be Giants teamed up to make a wizard rock album.

The Power of Love by Harry & The Potters
My first ever wizard rock album, and still one of my favorites.

“Platform 9 And ¾”, “Save Ginny Weasley”, and “Blood of a Prince” by Harry & The Potters
Two of the HatP standards, and one of their darkest, most metal songs, respectively.

“Girlfriend” by Harry’sJulie
Filking (fandom-themed parodies) takes the guilt out of guilty pleasure music, like this parody of the Avril Lavigne song, from Ginny’s point of view.

She’s watching… always… watching…

So, yeah, this blog now contains girls.  Sweeeeeet.  Also, she’s green.  Not entirely sure why.  Maybe one of her parents was a cucumber and the other was a Slytherin.

Also, it should be made clear that while the main focus of this blog is the chronicling of my struggle against my addiction to sleep, there may be some posts, such as this one, that lean more towards the “farce” side of things, then the “dangerous melatonin-related marathons/experiments” side of things.

 

Addendum:  An alternate title for this post was “Farce Blogica – Now Contains Breasts!”