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I finally bought one of the clear plastic hard cases for my iPod Nano, so I could enact what I've wanted to do for customizing my iPod ever since I got it.
Completely not in light of the silly idea to ban tiny zip-lock bags in Chicago just because drug dealers use them, I went to the crafts store and bought 100 each of 2"x3" and 3"x4" baggies. This is a LOT of baggies. This led to some very obsessive-compulsive game bit bagging.
Oddly enough, I've been sleeping quite regularly and healthily ever since DLS teased me about setting my internal clock 4.5 hours ahead, as a median between my timezone and his time zone (which, as he's nearly nocturnal, he has already done). I started out going to bed around or a little after DLS went to bed (which happens to be usually between 7 and 8PM), but the ridiculousness of it moderates itself after a bit and I'm usually in bed by 11PM now. (It is currently 11PM as I edit this post. I am aware of this.)
It almost sounds like a stupid idea, but it's working for me. In the last week I've only gone to bed past midnight once. And I was pretty dead exhausted by then, and I'm getting up in the morning more or less before or around 7AM, whether I want to or not (at first this included some ridiculous waking up at 5AM, but there's a period of adjustment). If I can keep this up somehow my parents can't yell at me about sleeping in on ... uh ...weekends every day during vacation anymore.
Consequently it is likely that this was the reason I was already feeling tired and droopy and yawning by the time I finished setting up for board game night, pushing and moving tables into the common area and stuff.
Board game night was EPIC FAIL. I set up Settlers of Catan and Ticket to Ride: Europe on a couple of tables, and I probably would have given up when no one had showed up by 7:15 (I wanted to start at 7) had Mohammed not spotted me earlier in the afternoon and told me he was coming. I had posters on every floor, and it was just me and him, sigh. Granted, a lot of people were away on the ski trip, but still. So we played a game of vanilla Carcassonne (I won) and TransEuropa (he won every round). I can't thank him enough for taking part.
| Old iPod skin ("Blood Flower" from Gizmobies). They claim to be reusable but I'm not convinced; fortunately I also have one of the "Fleur-de-lis" design. | New iPod skin and case. Skin is custom-printed from myTego - those iCoke.ca points aren't totally useless after all :) |
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Completely not in light of the silly idea to ban tiny zip-lock bags in Chicago just because drug dealers use them, I went to the crafts store and bought 100 each of 2"x3" and 3"x4" baggies. This is a LOT of baggies. This led to some very obsessive-compulsive game bit bagging.
Oddly enough, I've been sleeping quite regularly and healthily ever since DLS teased me about setting my internal clock 4.5 hours ahead, as a median between my timezone and his time zone (which, as he's nearly nocturnal, he has already done). I started out going to bed around or a little after DLS went to bed (which happens to be usually between 7 and 8PM), but the ridiculousness of it moderates itself after a bit and I'm usually in bed by 11PM now. (It is currently 11PM as I edit this post. I am aware of this.)
It almost sounds like a stupid idea, but it's working for me. In the last week I've only gone to bed past midnight once. And I was pretty dead exhausted by then, and I'm getting up in the morning more or less before or around 7AM, whether I want to or not (at first this included some ridiculous waking up at 5AM, but there's a period of adjustment). If I can keep this up somehow my parents can't yell at me about sleeping in on ... uh ...
Consequently it is likely that this was the reason I was already feeling tired and droopy and yawning by the time I finished setting up for board game night, pushing and moving tables into the common area and stuff.
Board game night was EPIC FAIL. I set up Settlers of Catan and Ticket to Ride: Europe on a couple of tables, and I probably would have given up when no one had showed up by 7:15 (I wanted to start at 7) had Mohammed not spotted me earlier in the afternoon and told me he was coming. I had posters on every floor, and it was just me and him, sigh. Granted, a lot of people were away on the ski trip, but still. So we played a game of vanilla Carcassonne (I won) and TransEuropa (he won every round). I can't thank him enough for taking part.
