It's a better earworm than the insipid Christmas carol I couldn't lose yesterday.

I'm switching between GLEE earworms of "Defying Gravity" and the "It's My Life/Confessions" mashup.

It's... interesting.

I know I shouldn't say it out loud, but I have never gotten not morning people.

I've never gotten morning people. Then I moved in with one. She gets up at 5am and is asleep by 9pm. In an ideal world, I would get up at 9am and go to bed at 1am. Since that would mean we never ever saw each other ever ever, I am working on going to bed at 11 and getting up at 7. It's HARD work.

ETA: I found old 'A Bit of Fry and Laurie' eps to ahem, and am watching them during study breaks. So much fun!

Hey buffista mommas: what gift do you wish someone had brought you when you were in the hospital with your new baby?

Oh dear god who linked the Jeeves alarm clock? WANT.

1. I cannot imagine living with someone who gets up before me and then helps me get up. Seriously, that's a fantasy I dream about sometimes, but in that wistful "world without shrimp" kind of way.

2. My alarm is "Going Through the Motions" because it really REALLY captures how I feel about morning.

3. I, like ChiKat, hate teaching hours. Yet...I've adapted because I had to. I am definitely a creature of the night given my druthers, but I'm perfectly functional in the morning because I have to be. Not only to get to work on time, but also because I have to motivate teenagers to be awake and engaged. Sometimes I feel like Jeckyll and Hyde, because I am incapable of getting up on weekends or vacation, but that alarm goes off at 5:45 every school day and I'm okay. These two aspects of my personality never coincide. I don't get it.

4. I slept in a second story loft in my childhood bedroom. I was so bad that I could climb down the ladder/stairs, turn off my alarm, climb back up the ladder/stairs, and go back to sleep without any memory of doing so. My mom took to squirting me with a water gun in high school to get me up. She'd tried everything else without success. t shudder

ETA: It occurs to me that #1 is total karmic payback for #4.

Zen! Hiya! Where you been, girly?

I answered you in my head, smonster, but it's possible you didn't catch it... I've been in a self-imposed isolation zone while I try to catch up with my work, having been assigned to do someone else's job as well as my own. I have mostly succeeded, at the cost of dong nothing fun all summer. I have now entered the "fuck it, I work too much" zone, and expect to return to having fun soon.

Oh dear god who linked the Jeeves alarm clock?

That was me. I want it badly!

Damn you all. Between Aims' texting me re: "Down on Skid Row" and you bastards here...

Poor. All my life I've always been poor. I keep asking God what I'm for. And he tells me "Gee, I'm not sure." Sweep that floor, kid!

what gift do you wish someone had brought you when you were in the hospital with your new baby?

The hospital was pretty well taken care of, it was the after that dinners for my freezer were most appreciated.

Though, a four foot panda bear was pretty awesome if for nothing else than freaking out the nursing staff.

Oh dear god who linked the Jeeves alarm clock? WANT.

ThinkGeek has it cheaper than HS: [link]

In case that's WANT in an actually gonna get it kinda way.

I've been wanting to post all week because I've wanted the hugs and hairpats. There's seriously not an area of my life that's not stressing me out so hard I want to sit down and have a good cry. But I don't want to sit and list them because I'd depress myself and probably would cry, and they don't love that in the workplace. So you'll all go ahead and take my word for it and make with the virtual love and strong liquor, si?

Another oh-so-not-a-morning-person here, btw.