Much job-ma, ita. That's a helluva a way to start the week. October? You're on notice!

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Teotihuacan, once the center of a sprawling pre-Hispanic empire, is set to become the launch pad for an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial life.

Starting on Tuesday, enthusiasts from around the world will have a chance to submit text, images, video and sounds that reflect human nature to be included in the message.

Those contributions -- part of media company Yahoo's "Time Capsule" project -- will be digitalized and beamed with a laser into space on October 25 from the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan, now an archeological site near Mexico City.

I think I'll submit a message to the aliens:

Yo, aliens: bite me. No, seriously. We humans taste really good. Like chicken - or bacon. Both of which are really nummy. Trust me. Come and get it! Our people have a saying: "Human - it's what's for dinner."

P.S. - Baltar is a traitor who helped the Cylons.

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Teotihuacan is incredibly cool.

Teotihuacan is incredibly cool.

Although, suddenly, a lot less cool than previously seemed.

ita, I'm sorry about the layoff.

I'm listening to a radio documentary about sleep, and they are talking about an experiment where they put people in a dark room for 12 hours a day for a month, and how for the first week they all slept about 11 hours, but after they made up their sleep debt they went back to a more normal night's sleep. The participants talked of the crystal clear awakeness they felt once they rid themselves of their sleep dept and were getting all their required sleep. I can't imagine what crystal clear awakeness is. I always feel like I'm in a fog.

Although, suddenly, a lot less cool than previously seemed.

It's still really cool! It's Yahoo that's less cool.

I'm listening to a radio documentary about sleep, and they are talking about an experiment where they put people in a dark room for 12 hours a day for a month, and how for the first week they all slept about 11 hours, but after they made up their sleep debt they went back to a more normal night's sleep. The participants talked of the crystal clear awakeness they felt once they rid themselves of their sleep dept and were getting all their required sleep. I can't imagine what crystal clear awakeness is. I always feel like I'm in a fog.

This. Last night I fell asleep by 11, which is a vast improvement from my patterns over the last week. However, since my alarm still goes off at 5:30, not enough. I have accumulated so much sleep debt that I am sincerely frightened about my commute. I have literally been finding myself barely able to keep my eyes open and even having moments of blurred vision when driving, lately, and I've had to resort to cranking music, opening windows, and singing out loud to manage to keep myself conscious. Not good when I've got 29 miles (about 45 minutes if traffic isn't too bad) to go every morning. Even coffee on the way doesn't seem to help. Obviously I need to get more sleep, but I also need to find something to use as a failsafe. Any suggestions?

I love the way I feel when I'm rested; mornings are actually pleasant and productive. I hate this fog. Being on an opposite work schedule from ND combined with my own natural night owl tendencies has been a dangerous (literally) combination. I think I'm posting this here to acknowledge that it is a real problem I need to fix. So long as I want to be a high school teacher at this school and live in Pasadena, going to bed much earlier is a must.

Although, suddenly, a lot less cool than previously seemed.

Yeah, that's where the hungry aliens will land first.

Hec, can I get UI while I'm teaching krav? It's a total pittance, so it'd be a shame. But I would ask them to stop paying me if it made a difference. Since it is such a pittance, and UI less so.

As Theo notes, it's the same in California. You just deduct your Krav pittance from the the unemployment you'd get that week. However, it just winds up extending your unemployment benefit, so it's not actually counter productive financially. There's a set amount of money you're entitled to and whatever you earn in krav only affects your bi-weekly check. Not the total amount you can get.

Beth wound up extending her UI over the course of a year by temp jobs. You can do that too.

Before I had children, I was one of those crystal clear awake people, because I often got 10 hours of uninterrupted sleep a night. I really like to sleep. Give it a try, people who lack late-night responsibilities! Or, if you really want to stay up late, please come to my house and chat with my daughter about the plot of Monsters, Inc. for half an hour at 3am, so I can sleep.