zorakzoran ([info]zorakzoran) wrote,
@ 2004-02-20 04:40:00
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Current mood: Sleep deprived zombie
Current music:Ministry - Thieves (live)

Sleep deprevation is my new drug
It's 4:40 AM in the morning. Glurmp.

Having stayed too late at work, and finding that my office floor is very hard and uncomfortable, I resolve to just work the rest of the night, then work through Friday. Hurrah! This being Bulgaria, however, there's no damn vending machines for Coke around. Argh. Must do it on willpower and heavy metal music alone.

Unfortunately, the quality of my work suffers. After editing course descriptions, I re-wrote the department course descriptions in gansta-rap. Erk.

Very annoyed. Had invited a friend I don't see much over for dinner; they, naturally, bail the day before because they're busy. Which would be okay, I suppose, but they're always busy. WTF is it about people in the region that they go on and on about how important friendship are, yet are (in my experience) ludicrously bad about keeping up with people? Fuck it. Fuck 'im.

Very amused. One of the local student rags -- and here, the student rags have all the edge of a wet noodle -- is running a great project I was involved in (in the role of evil foreign advisor). It rocks, I can hardly wait to see it. If it comes out, given the organizational skills of the region. Heh.

Ah, shit. 20 hours before I can go to sleep. And why is it that when I play "3D Space Cadet Pinball" on my piecer Windoze here in the office, I do better when I'm sleepy? I've never broken 8 million before. Maybe my hands are ordinarily too hyper to react quickly... and the sleep slows them down. Perhaps I could convince AIR to fund a study on it. This means I can be sleep deprived all the time. Hmm.

HRB Index:76 (+4 from being dinner-ditched; -3 from cool project; -3 from being so damn sleepy I couldn't shoot straight.

Current Book:None, oddly.




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[info]jecook
2004-02-19 06:59 pm UTC (link)
If I may ask a stupid question, what is the HRB index?

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[info]zorakzoran
2004-02-19 07:01 pm UTC (link)
The Holy Redeeming Bloodbath index. Having read far, far too much pre-1914 and interwar German history, I've resolved that when my stress level hits a certain point, blammo. : O

(I can't recall the author -- too sleepy -- but there's a prewar figure that wrote "I long for the holy redeeming bloodbath," in reference to sweeping away the old system and replacing it with a utopia. The phrase stuck, for some reason.)

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[info]jecook
2004-02-19 07:02 pm UTC (link)
Ah. I see.

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[info]zorakzoran
2004-02-19 07:04 pm UTC (link)
Horrifying, really. I like to think of it as providing evidence for future criminal psychologists to say, "You see, at this point, the police should have stepped in..."

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[info]joekerstef
2004-02-20 09:34 am UTC (link)
sleep? what is this sleep you speak of?

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......................

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[info]zorakzoran
2004-02-20 04:19 pm UTC (link)
Hah. Let's see... it's 2:12 AM. I got up on Thursday at about 9 AM. So that means... 24+12+2+3 = 41 hours awake.

Cool. But I'm not yet hallucinating, which I was rather looking forward to, oddly enough...

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(Anonymous)
2004-02-20 04:43 pm UTC (link)
Well, of course I had to see what you're up to. Speaking of bad friends, sorry we didn't get together when you were in DC but I ended up going to NC and tried to call Steph's house about 150,000 times but there's apparently to no call waiting or something. Anywho, you know it's just really had to get out when you've got a young'n. So, I hope to see you soon. Come visit us in NC. We'll get you drunk and sell you to the rednecks.

Speaking of that scene from Deliverence, I'm still reeling from the news that Fox is going to be a daddy. I'm starting a therapy fund.

Take care,
Chris

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[info]zorakzoran
2004-02-21 04:01 am UTC (link)
Yeah. Kinda sad that all I do is grouse now, isn't it? Waits, that's all I ever did. Huh. Well, at least my rut is comfortable.

I'll be back in the US in the summer, so there's always a chance then -- but don't know exactly when I'd be back, etc. So where will you be living in NC? Did you end up getting the house?

Perhaps the Fox can have a daughter next, so that in 20 years blessed union could break out between your children! (Or you can have a daughter. Or whatever. The intended horror is you saying, "Er, yes, these are my in-laws..."

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