Keeping with my unhealthy sleep schedule, I went to bed at around 11:45 last night. Yes, that’s right. I should be going to bed an hour earlier or even, to stay in the right time-zone mentality, two hours earlier than that. But I’m not. That’s right.
I fell asleep pretty fast, but I woke up at various points during the night due to the storm that decided to hit yesterday. Now, storms where I come from mean lots of wind. My bedroom lacks a lot of insulation. It was very amusing to watch the leaves of the plants on top of my bookshelf waving in the wind blowing in through the floor and the walls. However, the temperature of my room was a little less amusing.
Besides that, my brain has been doing strange things to me lately. Whenever I closed my eyes, I would hear a sort of buzzing at regular intervals. Crazy, I know. I finally decided it was because I was too tired and my brain was about to explode. After that, I was ok.
My dreams were also crazy. They ranged from musings about almost getting hit by cars and how I would react in such a situation (the person in the dream said, “Don’t you know that it’s not nice to hit girls?” to the car, which I found strange even in my dream) to strange beigish lumps of food that were probably supposed to taste like stuffing and be stuffing (in my dream, we couldn’t decide if they tasted like fish or stuffing). One of those paranormal people would have a hayday with my dreams.
What other recent developments are happening in my life? I’m sure you’re dying to know.
Well, I just started a Facebook group called The Book Club which I am very excited about. It’s pretentious, yes, to be “The” Book Club, but everyone should join anyways. I’m not trying to be Oprah-ish, though it might come across that way. Actually, it’s all thanks to an article Boundless Webzine published recently called “Mind Ink Soul Paper” by Rachel Starr (go to http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0001912.cfm for the original article). I’ve always loved reading, and I agree with almost everything Rachel says. I know I could sit in a used book store for an entire day, just flipping through books on all sorts of things. The book for this month, December, is Three Cups of Tea, which I’ve heard is a wonderful book from so many people. I think reading it now will give me a very different perspective on the recent Mumbai Terrorist Attacks.
Besides that, I am still going strong on the Bible in 40 days plan that my friends and I are doing right now. It’s great. Sometimes I get lazy and don’t actually absorb anything, but I’m usually pretty good at writing down observations and redefining my faith based on what I find.
I’m also trying to study lots of French because I feel like I’m letting my year in Belgium go to waste by forgetting everything I ever learned while across the Atlantic. This really came home when I realized that it was very difficult to reply to my Belgian friend on Facebook chat yesterday.
What is Homlock doing lately? Well, he’s enjoying himself immensely on vacation with the rest of his invisible family in Yellowstone, which he assures me is much more beautiful in the winter.
I’ll close with some more quotes, this time about weather and dreams:
Weather is a great metaphor for life – sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, and there’s nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella. ~Pepper Giardino
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone. ~Tommy Cooper
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ~William Dement
