The Light Kmorning
Posted on | July 18, 2008 at 10:49 pm | Comments Off
Ah, the middle of summer… the morning light is in flux… the queenly flux, eternal light…
Don’t know if I’ve ever brought this up here before. Seems like I must have, since I enjoy talking about my sleep patterns so much. Forgive me if this is a repeat. After over 4 years of blogging (and nearly 9 months of continuous daily blogging) it’s sometimes hard to remember what I’ve talked about and what I haven’t. Sure, there’s the Search function and all, but it’s hard to know what to search for, and too many entries come up no matter what I put in. And who wants to go back and read through that many entries? Certainly not me. They make me cringe.
Anyway, this is that weird time of summer when the days are getting shorter again. I kind of liked how it was back in June when the sun would come up really early. That way, when I woke up and saw the light, I could still pretend it was going to be a long time before the alarm was going to go off. (I set the alarm for 5:25a on most work days, so that I can go running. Or so that I can get up and do other things like avoiding running.) But now with the shorter days, it’s getting so that if I wake up and there’s some light, the alarm is going to go off real soon. And then I can’t fall back asleep.
When I wake up in the night/morning, I don’t like to know what time it is (even though my superpower usually lets me know). I always like to think there’s plenty of time left before I have to get up. This is especially easy to do in the winter when the sun rises long after I get up. I can more easily fool myself and my exquisitely honed senses. But in the spring and summer, it’s vexing. I hate thinking it’s the middle of the night and then opening my eyes and seeing the light. I have blackout blinds in my bedroom, but that doesn’t stop the light from poking in around the edges. Plus I usually have the bedroom door open at night and light seeps in from other parts of the house.
I especially don’t like those early light summer mornings on weekends, when it’s been light for awhile and I know I should be up. Makes it hard to rationalize sleeping in. I wish we had more cloudy days in Colorado, but cloudy mornings are even rarer than cloudy afternoons.
At least the pre-alarm phantom music seems to have stopped. So either something in my psychological makeup has changed and the audio hallucinations have decided to abate for the time being, or it really was something like my neighbor playing music loud in the car as she left for work in the morning. The neighbor’s house was foreclosed on some months ago, so no one has been living there for awhile.
Okay, I really should be going to bed soon…
Latre.
Jogged Today: Yes (@ 64°F)
Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Jogging:
- “Get Your Hands Off My Woman” (The Darkness)
- “Tangled Up In Plaid” (Queens Of The Stone Age)
- “Wooden Legs (Reprise)” (Trotsky Icepick)
- “This Scene Is Dead” (We Are Scientists)
- “First Of The Gang To Die” (Morrissey)
- “The Song (We Go)” (Ultravox)
- “Michael Caine” (Madness)
Pet Peeve of the Day: People asking me if I’ve seen The Dark Knight yet. No, I haven’t. Just because it’s the movie I’m most looking forward to, that doesn’t mean that I went to the midnight showing last night. I’m getting too old for that. Heck, I may not even see it this weekend, as there are some roadblocks to that (work issues and other things). But I don’t mind. Anticipation makes it all the sweeter. I also sort of want to watch Batman Begins again first, and I just got the Blu-Ray of that. And if I can talk N into going with me, which looks likely, she’s never seen BB and would want to see it first also. So it may be awhile before I can answer “yes” to everyone. It’s nice to have things to look forward to.
Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “alien probing games”. Note: 35% of the searches lately have been either “taco bell coupon” or “taco bell coupons”. And this just started the last few days, even though that blog entry has been up for weeks. Anyone know why people are suddenly searching online for Taco Bell coupons?