license to sleep

I wake up way too late. I go to bed way too late. It's not like I sleep too much, I'm just on a semi backward snooze plan compared to the instinctual sleep pattern. I mean, I went to bed at 4 last night, and woke up at 12:30. So what's that? 8 1/2 hours. Not too bad, and considering I'm catching up on those spectacular 5 hour nights during the normal school week, I'm giving myself license to sleep. That reminds me of one of my fav bands, Armor for Sleep, they have this amazing album, "What To Do When You Are Dead" that you would do well to check out. If not in actual sonic form, if the thought-provoking dark and dreamy stuff is not your thing, I strongly suggest finding and reading and later pondering some of their lyrics on songmeanings or your preferred lyric database.

Speaking of databases, my mom reminded me today, through use of internet movie database, that the actor playing Faramir in Lord of the Rings, David Wenham, is also in 300, which I think I realized back when I saw it in theaters, when Andy got me in free of charge (be jealous).

Anyway, you might wonder, what is Hannah doing at these late hours(or early hours, if you are one of those people... I consider 4am to be late because I haven't gone to bed yet, but if you were Natasha, you would call it early as she would be getting up in a few minutes). Well, in case my lovely audience is curious, it's typically nothing too incredibly important. I like to make time for pastimes, such as playing guitar, playing with charcoal, enjoying music, and corresponding with people via the internets. And daydreaming. And cleaning my room. So with all of this out of the way after school, it is typically after 9. To delve further, I work better under pressure, or at least very efficiently. What incentive is there to do work now if I can just get it all done at some boring hour of the night during which nothing at all is happening, no human interaction whatsoever. In my world, there isn't because I just don't look far ahead enough to say "Oh if I do this now, according to my handy dandy Outline of Life, I will have time for fun on this date right here!" No. Brittany's mom made me feel better about this on New Year's morning while we were discussing resolutions. She said a good one is to make time for fun. So it's not so much procrastination as it is savoring. Anyway, this year my system has a slightly larger payment since I love all my classes (save econ) so I can't bullshit answers like I did in classes involving numbers. Plus homework typically consists of essays and reading, and they take a while. Blaargh.

But fear not!!! I had that overnight stay at Fredonia (actually Sun-Tues) and I got a shit load done. I did my entire euro 10 page packet thing, and then read almost all of Tess, which I can easily finish by Monday. So yeah, this one time I actually planned ahead, but I was still making time for fun- I mean, it's not like there was much else to do during a 4 hour drive and 3 hour classes. I did go ice skating though, and found last night that I'd gotten a nasty cut from the boots that totally did not fit. It was sad because Andy had fitting skates, along with everyone else that was there, but there I was, with these dull blades that were like "I don't give a shit if you've been craving a skate all winter". And yes, I did go down once, which was enough to convince me not to try backwards. Next time I'll steal mom's skates. I actually tried hers on and they're not too bad. Kind of funny story if I actually wore them. My mom didn't have skates when she was little, so she stole her dads and stuffed newspaper in the toes this one time. She ended up getting tripped up on the pond that day and twisting her ankle. She was 8 or something though, and I'm only a size behind her so we should be good. Knock on wood.

Anyway, I'm actually kinda tired. Sadly, I have to shower tonight though because I have this other system, where it's one less thing I have to do when I wake up. Not a morning person if you couldn't tell. To quote Chris Carrabba on the Today Show, "I haven't been up this early since... never!"