2 posts tagged “sleep”

I woke up in the morning, I looked behind the wall

I like to ask Snark, "What country am I from today?" meaning: so, given what I'm wearing, where might you think I was a tourist from? The answer today was Canada.

"Your outfit is practical, and your shirt is dark green," he explained. I don't know, man.

The skeeters and the bedbugs were having a game of ball

I have a super cute umbrella that I bought in Italy, though I think it was actually made in France. It's a kid's umbrella, green (and kid-sized small), with a green wooden handle ending in a green wooden frog's head. It's a great umbrella. However, I am starting to think that I need a second umbrella, of the collapsible variety. (Great story! Tell us more!) Further, I feel that this second umbrella should be fuchsia. Maybe this one. I hear it's "translucent for easy carrying." Opacity is awkward to tote around all day.

The score was six to nothing, the skeeters were ahead

You know that space under your desk? The one that can be so terribly inviting when you contemplate how easy it would be just to slide off your chair and curl up under there, and sleep and sleep and sleep and sleep? Mm. Stop coming on to me, space under my desk. You know it wouldn't work out between us. Plus, how long has it been since the maintenance guy vacuumed you? Too long, too long.

The bedbugs hit a home run and knocked me out of bed.

Our friend Rose and her law school friends introduced us to a very entertaining party game called "Celebrities" (I think). Here's how it works. Everyone gets five or six slips of paper and writes the name of a famous person, or fictional character, on each slip. The slips go into a bowl. The group is divided into two teams. Then the game itself is played in three rounds. Each round is made of one-minute turns, in which a player picks slips out of the bowl and tries to get her team to guess as many as possible in a minute. You go back and forth between the teams, rotating through so each player takes a turn being the clue-er, until you've used up all the slips.

Here's the fun part: In the first round, you can say and act out whatever you like, other than the actual name, to get your teammates to guess the name. In the second round, you get only one word (though you can say it as many times, and in many ways as you like) plus charades, and in the third round you have to be completely silent. So as you go, you often wind up doing as much to remind other players of how a name was clued in earlier rounds as actually coming up with your own clue. I really liked it -- it was a lot more fun, even, than I'd expected. Recommended!

I just started a course of oral antibiotics, and boy did I get hit with the drowsiness side-effect stick. Queasiness I was expecting, but all I want to do is lie down and sleep forever. Since I arrived at work today, my brain has slipped out of my skull and fallen gelatinously to the floor. Next I crumbled into a pile of dust. That's about as far as I've gotten.