I don't have any problem waking up. I have a problem with making a commitment to staying awake.

I do wake up whenever the sun comes up unless I have good shades to block it. That pillow might be jut what I need.

Or it might give me nightmares that I am sleeping on a radioactive mushroom.

It's a problem, actually. Having to be quiet in the morning makes me sleepy.

This is me. Luckily, I can have NPR on if it's not above, what you might hear coming out of someone's headphones from a seat away.

Xposted with Bitches, after discussing with Andi, not everyone here is also there and vice-versa :

I was catching up on my reading of eWeek, and lo and behold who should show up but our own Jilli.

It was a brief article covering the Microspotting blog.

A petticoat- and top-hat-wearing Goth was another Microspotted employee, also not the image presented by "PC guy."

From the interview, readers learn that not only does this Technical Editor on the Dev Div team write an online advice and etiquette column for Goths, she often finds herself doing the same for Microsoft employees who have questions about her subculture.

"Every team I’ve been on, I’ll get someone who wanders into my office and says, 'So, my kid’s getting into this wearing all black kinda thing, listening to weird music … can I bring them into to talk to you?' And I’m always like, 'Sure! I’m happy to explain that you can still be a freak and a gainfully employed grown-up,'" Jilli** V***** told Microspotting.

(real name removed by me)

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I give no comment on the article itself, just "Buffistas! in unexpected places!"

ETA: Feb 18th issue

Another chart that cracked my shit up: [link]

shouldn't the last item be "the" bitch.

like my will, all salad is gone.

No, it's "a" bitch.

No, I'm pretty sure "a" is correct.

Stand corrected.

It shouldn't take 15 minutes for Outlook to fully start up, right?

um, no.

'Cause, seriously, I think her alarm probably wakes up half the building.

The person who lives upstairs from me has been driving me crazy with this. I can hear their alarm vibrate every morning. And then they hit snooze a few times. It's not, technically, LOUD, but it does wake me up...

my new medication seems to be doing the trick with keeping my heart beating correctly so I'm feeling good about that.

Yay! This is good. We need continued Gud.

Sleep bon is pretty much a craven addict that bargains away exercise, coffee, showering, hair brushing, and being on time for work for more sleep.

Sleep meara and sleep bon are very very alike.

What's really nice is if I'm with someone who has to get up earlier than me, just by a little bit. So if they will have their alarm go off, and get up and shower (and I drift back to sleep) and then come wake me up (and not cuddle, cause they're wet from the shower)...that's the best. Sadly, that hasn't happened in a long time.

I continue to want an Obama vid to that Jay-Z song. It would be awful, but so right.