Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Today I slept. Not quite enough, but more than the previous few nights. I woke at 18:00. That after the weekend I had, several things on my to-do list did not get done is not surprising. That I was asleep while not doing them instead of awake and feeling wretched while not doing them is a little better than what I'd expected.

I had a fun weekend, just a painfully tiring one.

Other than spot-checking a few individual journals, I'm nearly a week behind on my friends list (something like six days and twenty two hours behind, I think, but I'm not going to go check that figure right now.)

I have to figure out which of the apparently unsolvable problems in front of me really are unsolvable and how bad the fallout from not solving them is going to be. Y'know, the idea of needing to borrow money to be able to afford to file for bankruptcy strikes me as perverse. But that may well be where I am at this point. More on that later.

When I'm buying gas by digging into my bag of quarters (the one that I hang from my belt when I'm in medieval or renaissance garb) to buy gas a dollar or two at a time, I start thinking, "Can I afford to go where I'm planning to go today?" I don't like thinking that way. I find it quite uncomfortable. Asking that question about a long trip -- to NYC, Boston, Pittsburgh, or Toronto -- is familiar. But "Can I afford to go to rehearsal?" feels odd and frightening.

I don't like the depressiveness index of this entry, so here are some good things I'd been meaning to write recently anyhow:

For the record, silmaril does glamour quite nicely. The subtly-retro approach works very well for her.

I enjoyed a nifty conversation about grammar over the weekend, which was interesting because we were talking about English, French, Turkish, Greek, Russian, and Latin all at once. I learned new cases and new kind of verb. (Well, new-to-me -- they've been around for centuries.) Who knew, back in seventh grade, that knowing declensions and conjugations would later prove so entertaining? I still have to get around to asking juuro to explain a bunch of other unfamiliar cases as well.

The thing I want to mention about understanding semiconductors requires more background that I feel like typing right now, but it still goes on the positive-things list.