So, I got here at the PCC Cascade library at 5:30, and just now, with 10 minutes until class starts, did a computer with internet become available. So, really quickly:
I had delicious vegetable soup, and read “Harry, A History”, and took the bus here. That’s pretty much it.
The next post will either be pretty on time or rather late, depending on if I want to risk being late for Lost.
DFTBA!
Does today’s “Blondie” comic strip contain intentional sexual innuendo?
Also, do you think today’s “Dilbert” is making a joke at the expense of Oregonian legislators?
Hopefully I will get this done in about 5 minutes. So, in the past hour I practiced my ninja abilities in a suit (that will be fully explained later, if I get sleep deprived enough), traded snarky remarks on YouTube, read The Edge, and at some mixed nuts. I’m planning to eat vegetable soup within the next hour, and then go to class.
The one thing worrying me is that I have this underlying tiredness – not necessarily sleepy, though a bit of it, but mostly just tired, and that really doesn’t forebode well. We’ll know for sure after Lost, because if I haven’t gotten a single natural energy kick by then, I might have to postpone this Quest, and just pretend that this was a regular day.
If you want to see the list of holidays I am using, and try to guess what holidays I will celebrate, or make suggestions about which ones I should, or whatever, go the following site: http://www.brownielocks.com/february.html
NOW for lunch!
So, sorry about being late in posting. I missed the hour 4 post, due to inability to use the intranetz, and then I got distracted by the site of a recently demolished fungus-infested, radon-laden middle school. Between getting home and now, I’ve basically just been reading fanfiction. Sorry, again.
I’m probably going to try to scrounge together some sort of meal involving crackers and cheese. I’ll try to make the 4:00 post on time. Hopefully these posts will be more like the first official post was, and not so short and boring. However, I have great faith in my ability to go batshit insane (mostly due to the fertile soil and close proximity to caves, but still), and I suspect that things will get more interesting as the day (and night, and then day again, and then night again, and then day once more and then one last night) drags on. Also, I will become progressively more miserable, and nothing is funnier or more entertaining that watching someone else’s self-inflicted misery.
Oh, and I won’t be able to make it to class today, due to it being…
INCONVENIENCE YOURSELF DAY!
No, I am not kidding. Well, I am about class, of course I’ll be there. But today is actual National Inconvenience Yourself Day, and I think I don’t really have to do anything else to celebrate it. Let’s review the facts, shall we?
1. I am preparing to act upon on of my stupidest ideas ever.
2. I had 5 and a half hours of sleep in preperation for this event.
3. Starting today, I can’t eat meat.
What are YOU doing to celebrate IYD, huh? Huh?
Also, this is National Read Me Week. Not “Read To Me”, but “Read Me”, and guess writing many blog posts to then be read counts.
Lastly, February is National Time Management Month, which I am celebrating ironically, by poorly managing my time, as witnessed by all the late posts.
Tomorrow, I promise I will choose more fun holidays to celebrate, and choose them earlier in the day.
Okay, now I really am going to go get something to eat.
(Again, assuming I posted this on time, at 12:00)
I’m home, and there’s not much to report that wasn’t covered in the previous post. Well, I think I’ll get a low B on my rocks test, so that’s pretty good. Feeling a tad tired, which isn’t a great sign, but whatev. I just have to remember the crippled schoolchild – he makes me feel better.
Let me rephrase that.
So, we’re going to pretend that I have both one of those nifty 3G phones, and that I have a time turner, and that I am typing this blog post at about 11:00…
Hey guys! Sorry it’s about an hour late, but I got done with my test early, and was able to make the 10:00 shuttle. And then the shuttle stopped at my bus stop, because a group of kids were crossing the street, and that gave time for the actual bus to catch up, making me miss my bus, and then I hung around a bus stop that someone had SHAT in. I kid you not. There were two ropes of poo, just lying there.
Now I am out at what was once Whitaker Middle School, and is now a slightly grassy field next to a large track, and the field is quite odd. Weird depressions, and such, and I’m having fun trying to figure out the cause of the patterns, and digging out rocks with other, smaller rocks, and my fingers.
It’s good to work with the soil every now and then. Well, I think I’m just going to walk home now. See you in two hours!
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!
Yes, I woke up at exactly 6:00 ATMCPST (According To My Clock Pacific Standard Time), took a shower, dressed, and am now typing this out. Well, I got breakfast to shovel down my gullet and two buses and a shuttle to catch. Peace.
To Sleep, Perchance To Make Bad Jokes
