Ali, I'll repeat my recommendation of hot chocolate. It's good both if you want to go back to sleep and if you want to stay awake. [Edit: I'll gladly trade it for bouncy alertness, for the record]

I think we'll just have to trade. I love hot chocolate, but it is a better stimulant than coffee for me. Also, real hot chocolate needs milk, and I'm out. Although I do have some awesome Eloise hot chocolate powder mix, that is pink, of course, that I haven't tried yet. But again, I need milk. Also, I don't want to have to brush my teeth again. Because I am lazy even when I am wired.

Aww, thanks vw! I might try tea soon, despite the tooth brushing thing.

Also, I just wanted you guys to know that I love you all. You are so awesome.

Now be boring-- which I know is difficult-- so you can put me to sleep. Because it's all about me.

I was wary of Richard Gere b/c I don't really like him, but if the soundtrack is that good I will give it a try.

Passover this year starts the first weekend of JazzFest. This probably has significance only to me, but trust me, it's odd.

I will now take Nilly's advice and have hot chocolate, for lo, I have the means of production.

Although I do have some awesome Eloise hot chocolate powder mix, that is pink, of course, that I haven't tried yet.

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Yes. Apparently The Plaza really does have everything.

I got it at Starbucks, though.

Although the Starbucks was in NYC, so there you go. I also have the Eloise pink lemonade mix, but that doesn't have quite the same impressiveness factor as pink hot chocolate.

ETA: That's exactly it, Cindy!

vw, I like this professor better than the one that said to write everything down.

Adar I and Adar II, right?

Yup, and if you want to be 100% accurate, "Adar Aleph" and "Adar Beit".

Don't worry, we'll fix it. Eventually it all evens out.

Heh. I see it more as a way to have it both ways: a lunar cycle (I can tell you the full moon days in pretty much each and every date in History, because it's always in the middle of the month in the Jewish calendar), but having the holidays fixed in the seasons of the year (which the Muslim calendar, also lunar, doesn't do). So in every 19 years, there are 5 years (scattered along them) with an extra month.

It's strange because there are events (like birthdays) that happen one after the other in usual years, but on the reverse order on "pregnant" years. The "official" month is the "Beit" one (that's why Purim is in it), so if you have something on Adar in a regular year, it's on Adar Beit in a pregnant one. Therefore, for example, if person A's birthday is the 17th of Adar Aleph (was born on a "pregnant" year), and person B's birthday is on the 11th of Adar Beit, in most years both of them will celebrate their birthdays in Adar (because there's just the one, see), and B's birthday will be celebrated before A's. But on pregnant years, A's birthday will be celebrated nearly a month before B's.

It's more complicated written down like this than it actually is. Really. And writing it down now had reminded me that my cousin has a birthday in 3 days, so even if everybody's head spins when reading this, it was worth it at least for writing it. t /selfish

[Edit: 8+4=6+6]

And it goes by so quickly you don't even get a second to think about what might have been on the floor, until long after the move has been completed.

Exactly! You're dancing along, and then you're moving very fast and suddenly over on the other side of your partner and you have to reconstruct the experience to realize that you were just on the floor. I want to ask if your teacher could have been my teacher, since I did ballroom dance in LA, but that was 15 years ago and she could easily not be teaching any more.

I have hot chocolate, but it is not pink.

Exactly! You're dancing along, and then you're moving very fast and suddenly over on the other side of your partner and you have to reconstruct the experience to realize that you were just on the floor.

Yes, exactly! Then there's the fact that, for me at least, I'm a much better dancer if I turn my brain off. Thinking trips up my feet. So, since I find it very difficult to turn my brain off, I will instead concentrate it on focusing my eyes on one spot, and the reconstructing of the experience then happens on what it was I was seeing in my peripheral vision a few moments before. Which is interesting.

Perhaps just to me, though.

I want to ask if your teacher could have been my teacher, since I did ballroom dance in LA, but that was 15 years ago and she could easily not be teaching any more.

My teacher is a guy, and he was a guy 15 years ago, too. (I know because he was in "Dirty Dancing." Which makes him even cooler to me. Because I am a dork.) So yeah, probably different.

Sight unseen, I know the original Japanese version of Shall We Dance? is superior because it is honest about what the lessons are doing to the protagonist's marriage. And why his decisions matter.

Timelies, everyone! It's back to February weather today, which is grumpifying slightly, but then... it is February, so why am I surprised?

I'm a much better dancer if I turn my brain off.

Many things are done better with the brain turned off, not just dancing. Typing, for example, for me, as well as knitting.

grumpifying

I like this verb very much.

vw, I like this professor better than the one that said to write everything down.

My first impression of him is better than my first impression of the prof that told me to write everything down. But, I ended up LOVING that professor, despite his annoying enthusiasm for note-taking, so who knows what'll happen with this one.

Although, I am really liking this professor. He's just very different than my lit prof who was obsessed with note-taking. They're both good...just in very different ways...which one would expect. It's nice to get such a rounded education.

It's back to February weather today, which is grumpifying slightly, but then... it is February, so why am I surprised?

Hee! It is a little nippy out there. It took me a bit by surprise when I went and walked Toto.