Jilli, were you rendered unable to wear eyeliner for some period of time?

(the thought makes me sad)

The snooze button is my friend

Snooze button is a friend and a foe, in my case. The problem is that I never know when it's starting to ring which one it'll be today, and I'm too much into sleep to try and find out. But in occasion, I can linger up to an hour and a half of snoozing (if I don't have anything in particular to do that day). Sometimes, extra 10 minutes of sleep are vital. At other times, I just want to escape everything and everyone for that day. And sometimes I can be all out and about the first time the alarm rings. But trusting my mostly-sleeping body to make that conscious decision, well... A friend and a foe, as I said. A friend and a foe.

Feel better, smonster!

Omnis, here's a post OKCupid administration did on their observations about pics in profiles:

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In other news, I signed up for Alikewise [link] , a personals site Neil Gaiman mentioned that uses what books people read as a criterion for matching.

ETA: Damn, I had this queued up to post and got distracted. Now Omnis is asleep.

... I'm not that entirely sure I'd like to date people who read the same shit I read. Plus, it takes the fun out of converting them into sci-fi. However, I remember reading about a site which matches academics according to the ideas/theories they believe in. That's something I could go on with, if only I believed in the idea of dating.

Me, metareconsidering-everything since 1985.

DCJ, it's good to hear they caught the sleep problems. CPAPs are meant to be fantastic and make a huge difference.

Health~ma for everyone who needs it. 2010 is not being kind to the health of Bitches. Hmph.

Teppy, that confusion is why the American phrase 'from... through' is helpful (although I suppose not useful in your particular sentence). I always wish we have that, when people say "from the 1st to the 3rd of September" and I'm almost sure they mean including the 3rd, but 'through' would make that clearer. Oh and your unicorn is both awesome and disturbing. Which may be the point.

My sleep patterns are chaotic. The snooze button is my friend, on multiple machines.

So true. I also have a 'Lumie' alarm clock that wakes me up with light. That helps.

I'm not that entirely sure I'd like to date people who read the same shit I read. Plus, it takes the fun out of converting them into sci-fi.

The Girl found me on OutEverywhere solely because I had Buffy as a 'like' in my profile. Joss Whedon: responsible for all the best lesbian pairings.

The Girl found me on OutEverywhere solely because I had Buffy as a 'like' in my profile. Joss Whedon: responsible for all the best lesbian pairings.

High-fives Seska. Also a few good het. pairings, says the woman who met her man in a Buffy chat room.

There was a time in my life when I thought I could only be happy with a man who loved Tolkien as much as I do. And after a decade of loneliness lowered my standard to "comprehends after a brief explanation why I could not watch the LOTR movies in the theater". At least we are agreed on Whedon and Gaiman.

At the moment, there are a lot of people with NYTimes best-selling literature and award-winning lit in their profiles. Foolish me stuck to what I actually read a lot so I've got hardly any matches at the moment. Couldn't find anyone with Charles De Lint, Marion Zimmer Bradley or Katherine Kurtz in their profiles. Heh.

As I said, it's only one criterion. You can still match on other things you would use in regular ol' personals sites.

Yay, Trudy! Fantastic news. What a relief.

DCJ, good luck with the sleep apnea diagnosis. I hope that this is the beginning of improvements for you in that area.

Continued ~ma for Pix and ND!

Oh, gosh. I was so stuck on Daniel's sleep stuff, that I kinda spaced out on the Sloan-Kettering contingent. Trudy, Yay for them getting the whole tumor! Amyth, I'm glad to hear the surgery went well.

Pix, how are you holding up?

I'm not that entirely sure I'd like to date people who read the same shit I read.

I suppose it depends on how much you really really enjoy discussing and/or geeking out over what you read. I love The Boy madly, but he doesn't read, and I really, really wish he did, so we could geek out over books. Although he does read comics, so there's that.

Some people don't really care about discussing what they read with their SOs; the have a book club or other friends for that, so that's fine. And I have Buffistas to geek out over my books with, and that makes me happy. But still.