Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

A Thing That Sucks, number (n+1) out of (m):

When you're a third of the way into a murder mystery novel that you started reading because you couldn't sleep, at the point where you're getting some idea how the subplots all hang together and are really interested in the next clue, and you shift your position in the bed because your shoulder is getting stiff, and the act of moving wakes you up so you discover that you'd actually been asleep after all, dreaming that you were lying awake reading, and the book you were in the middle of doesn't even $%^@ing exist, and even though it was your own @!$! brain that was making up the story as the dream went along you still have no idea how to get back to it to find out what happened next.

That's one of the things that sucks.

And the fact that it always seems to happen right at in the middle of some suspenseful action by one of the characters that you really want to find out the results of, a) makes it just that little bit more annoying, and b) yes, yes, does in fact mean that this particular (meta-virtual-somno) eit has happened to me more than twice (the most recent being a few minutes ago).

After so much trouble falling asleep, couldn't I have at least dreamt of, say, being asleep? Or at least dream a real book that I can go read in real life later to find out how it ends, or maybe even just have my dreaming unconscious leave the Cliff's Notes for the imaginary novel in some corner of my brain where my waking self can look at them later? Or maybe, just maybe, as a consolation prize, leave enough details lingering to be able to start over from scratch and write the %*^$ing story after waking up?

It's just not fair! [stomp]

"When I hear someone say, 'I don't care, just fix it,' my universal translator converts that into, 'I don't know what the problem is, and I don't have the ability to comprehend it anyway; so don't bother trying to explain it. I have money, I have power, I'm the boss.' Although the phrase makes the speaker sound decisive and managerial, it's really just a sham; it means the person saying it has lost touch with the technology that he or she is being paid to implement." -- anonymous, "Off The Record" column, InfoWorld magazine, 2006-07-17 (vol. 28, no. 29), p. 44