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I might be wrong about this, but I think I slept the whole night straight through, last night. That would be the first time in almost seven weeks, at least. Sadly, I think it's more a product of unusual exhaustion yesterday, rather than any great sign of my arm being better. But I'll take it any way I can get it!

Another weekend over, another work week about to begin. After barely dipping my toe in the water the past five or six months (at least), I'm going to do some archiving this week. Time to wrap this project up and be done with it. I've also got parent conferences to line up and prepare for, so it will be a busy month.

I managed to stay awake all afternoon only by dint of drinking a lot of diet soda. Now, having drunk a lot of diet soda, I'll probably be wide awake all night. Nothing new there.

Hockey update:

*The Penguins won their game yesterday, leaving them up 3-2 in the series. They go back to Montreal tomorrow, where they could end the series if they could muster up the energy for back-to-back wins, something they haven't managed yet in this series.

*The San Jose Sharks eliminated the mighty Detroit Red Wings in five games. This is the first time in, I believe, four years that the Red Wings won't be in the Western Conference Finals. This makes me happy.

*The Vancouver Canucks just pulled off a win against the Chicago Blackhawks. Another reason to be happy. Vancouver and Phoenix were the two Western Conference teams that I was pulling for from the start of the playoffs. Phoenix got taken out by Detroit, but Vancouver made it through the first round, only to self-destruct when faced with Chicago in round two. Tonight was clearly a good game, however, and they beat Chicago 4-1. Chicago leads that series 3-2, so Vancouver needs another two straight wins to move on to the Conference finals. It's not likely, but it has been done before (most recently by Montreal in round one this year against the Capitals) but they've put up a fight, so good for them.

Ah, blessed silence.

The water pipes have been humming noisily for a week, while the landlady was out of town. She got back yesterday, we flushed all the pipes out just now, and they've stopped humming. Yay! Maybe the lack of constant, grating noise at night will help me sleep a little better.

In related news, I'm very disappointed in the vicodin my doc prescribed. It's helped a little with pain, but it certainly hasn't knocked me out when I take it. Other people get so completely knocked out they sleep right through work. I wake up every two or three hours. Not fair, drugs, not fair!

After the rain we had last week and over the weekend, the skies have cleared up and returned to Blinding Blue. On my walk to work yesterday, I passed a little garden and saw a butterfly just hanging out on one of the flowers. So of course I had to pull out my handy dandy camera and snap a few pics.

( Butterfly and Flower )

In other interactions with wildlife, I had a spider drop onto my face as I was trying to get to sleep last night. This was after I finally got relaxed and comfy, after an hour and a half of tossing and turning. I was finally almost asleep and then I'm up and flailing. Turned on the lights, tossed back the pillows and sheets and found the sucker in the middle of the bed, stunned. *shudders* I'm very polite to bugs outside, in nature, but inside my house, they are toast.

Sadly, it put paid to any relaxation I might have found earlier and it was another two or three hours of tossing and turning before I finally fell asleep. Looooonnnnggggg night.

I think I channeled my inner

lyda_pearl today. Somehow I ended up sleeping all afternoon. A five hour nap. It felt very luxurious, but I'm probably going to be up all night, now. There's got to be some way to not be so exhausted by the time the weekend rolls around, but I haven't found it yet. Until I do, I guess I'll just continue to sleep away at least half of the weekend.

I finished up the last episodes of my season one Invisible Man box set, and watched some ST: TOS on Hulu. I also fed my new obsession by reading all the latest hockey news and watching a bunch of postgame interviews, and attempting to teach myself some of the finer points of the game, so that I can stop asking

eve11 to explain every little thing to me. Unfortunately, I still have a long way to go in that department. It's a very fast paced game with a lot of specialized terminology, but I'm getting there. The most frustrating thing for me is that I'm a visual learner, and NBC (the only major network to carry hockey) only televises a few games a year. For the most part, I have to listen to the games on the radio, which makes it a lot harder to pair actions and jargon. Watching a live game at the arena was as amazing for the purpose of understanding the game as it was for the high of watching your team come out on top.

Tomorrow I intend to be nearly as lazy as today, although hopefully without the huge nap in the middle of it. There are a few things that can't be put off, such as laundry, but otherwise, I want to get caught up on some missed tv (mainly Numb3rs and SPN) and watch the Netflix dvds that have been lying about for weeks untouched. Seriously, if I don't watch Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil this weekend, I should just return it because it's been sitting on my dvd player for too many weeks to keep track of. I also have T2 and the first disc of Little Dorrit. That should be plenty to keep me busy.

I've come to realize something about Saturdays. I'm really just going to mostly sleep through them. I did get up and go into Squirrel Hill for a little bit of shopping this morning. I bought a couple of books and then relaxed at Panera eating an early lunch while starting one of the books. But the timing thing with the buses continues to elude me, so I didn't have enough time to go to the grocery store and buy real food, so a quick stop at Rite Aid for kitty litter and milk had to suffice. Back home, I felt so ridiculously sleepy (despite getting what seemed like a decent enough eight and a half or nine hours of sleep) that I ended up taking a two and a half or three hour nap, killing the entire afternoon.

I never used to feel so terribly tired all the time, and I'm not much enjoying it. I was looking at sample interview questions the other day (oddly not on purpose - it was a document I came across while doing archiving at work) and one of the questions was 'tell me about a recent weekend. What did you plan and what did you do?' This was to gauge the applicant's level of energy. I would totally fail that sort of question. I have plenty of energy to do my job during the course of the week, but I lately need a lot of downtime on the weekends. I should probably start taking vitamins or something.

Anyway.

Books. I bought How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets, by Garth Stein. I started reading it while eating lunch and it's making a promising beginning.

I also picked up German Demystified. I've been wanting to relearn German for quite awhile now (German was my foreign language of choice in high school, but that was a long time ago), and now that I've gone and applied for a job in Germany, it seemed like a reasonable time to go ahead and buy a book. But it's more a personal desire for a project than out of any expectation that I'll be needing it in the near future.

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