elaine's strange little world

i dreamt the other day that i could be happy with 4 hours of sleep each day. how awesome would that be? man, the things i could do if i was perfectly rested after 4 hours of sleep! that's not only extra waking hours, it's also more productive waking hours, since i wouldn't be sleep deprived!

in other news, life is insane. i'm still super busy, spending full days at work and just barely keeping up with all the stuff that's coming my way. it's not a bad thing entirely, since it means that we have lots of subjects coming in for the study, but it's utterly nuts. i've been home for very short stretches of time, other than to sleep. it's funny...when i'm stressed or moody, sleep is such a great thing 'cause it gives me a break...but when i'm happy and life is good, sleep just gets in my way. i feel like it's such a waste of my time, i have so many better things to do. heh. it's nice to just sleep in every once in a while, though. i haven't even gotten to do that on the weekends, recently, 'cause there's always something to do.

i still haven't gotten any of my holiday shopping done. there's just been no time! i'll take some time off during the week between christmas and new year's, maybe, and do it then.

does anyone have cool new year's plans? i want to do something, but i don't know what! new year's is my favorite holiday, so i must party! heh. i usually host, but my place isn't big enough for anything this year, and my parents are hosting at their place, so i can't relocate to there. if anyone wants to volunteer a place, i don't mind organizing!

quick entry because i'm kinda swamped at work (and hence here at the ungodly hour of 8am, trying to do stuff before people arrive and i have to deal with them.) also, i owe several people responses to comments and emails...i'm not ignoring you, i promise, i simply don't have the time to give the response the thought it deserves.

so, life's good, like's it's been. v. grateful for the extended period of happiness. saturday was david's birthday, so i organized a minor great america outing...much fun, except for the waiting in hugely long lines bit. and there was an indian festival that day (diwali), so there were booths with indian food and we didn't have to eat food court food! so that was happy. sunday had lunch with parents, then watched interview with the vampire. i'd forgotten how bizzare and gory that movie can get, but i still like it. it made the 13-year-old me have a crush on brad pitt! and then yesterday, it was gross and rainy and i was stressed out from work...so when i got home (at 7 or so, since i went to my parents' place first), i decided that really, what i needed was a bath. so i drew myself a bath, with bubbles and all (warm vanilla sugar, from bath and body, for risk of sounding like a commercial) and put on music and lounged in the bath reading a book. and then got in my pjs at like 8pm and sat around reading and watching tv and drinking tea for the rest of the evening. it was so nice to just chill like that. i mean, i love being social and hanging out with large groups, and i've had lots of fun these last couple of months hanging out with the boy during most of my free time, but sometimes it's nice to have not just down time, but down time when i'm alone. so yes. good times, and now back to work.

guess what? i'm updating from my appartment, from my computer, from the internet connection in my room! yayness! it all works! now we just need to get a wireless router so that kevin can also have internet in his room, but at least we know it works! and i have my computer back and healthy and working, thanks to the boy! happiness!

in other news, tomorrow at sundown is yom kippur and i will probably have a longer post about it in the morning, but just in case i don't, i should warn you all that i will be unreachable from sundown tomorrow to sundown thursday. that is all.

had a very nice weekend, with less sleep than i wanted, but lots of social stuff. decided that i'm very glad i'm forward and impulsive and got things cleared up before they had a chance to get weird. more details later, locked. will probably update for real on my lunch break.

but to summarize: friday after work played munchkin with david, meghan, and jessica. saturday, had a lovely breakfast outing with kevin and tali, cleaned for a while, then went to a house concert with david, then went to a bab-5 (the thursday group, david's friends) party. sunday, went to my sister's birthday lunch, then to ikea for the first time ever (heh) and then crashed at home. so good times.