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Thursday, May 12, 2005

 
9:20 PM: who needs sleep? [#] [0]

weirdness: last night sven & i both woke up around 3:30 a.m. and couldn't go back to sleep. i even tried to sleep on the couch, but i finally crawled back upstairs and we eventually fell asleep between 5:30 & 6 a.m. part of it is that my head was full of ideas and some of it was artist's way: i've now found someone else who's teaching a summer course. and part of it might be that i'm still sick. but not sleeping is one of my top 3 "something's seriously wrong" symptoms.

today was better than the lack of sleeping ought to have made it: a warm day led to lunch on back porch, which led to weeding & composting for me and digging up jalex's old garden by the studio for sven. while were were out we heard the first ice cream truck of the season, though it didn't come down our street.

two unrelated items taking up brainspace:

1. we live in a neighborhood full of unusual animals. yesterday sven & i went for a walk, looked into a yard, and saw a goat w/ floppy ears chewing on the grass. it looked up as if to say, "what? if you aren't grass, i'm not interested." at the end of another street lives a small white pony, but when we went to visit, he had been joined by a small brown pony, a hen, and two tiny cutecute white baby goats. we have the howling peacocks a little closer to powell butte, and a large roan horse we can see out our bedroom window. one house has a cat who likes to lie in the middle of the sidewalk and sometimes in the middle of the street. the russian house up the hill has a chicken coop and sven has seen more baby goats in the same pasture as the roan horse. on night walks, we sometimes pass a spooky house that is packed with parrots.

2. i realized that one of the problems with electronic calendars is if you're aiming for a goal, you can't put little motivational stickers on it, like gold stars or "you go girl!" stickers. and ical has the worst printed interface -ever-, so that wasn't really an option, anyway. so i created a category called *cough* "exercise" and copied a star from the special characters palette to use as an all-day event on each day i bike or walk or use the *cough* happy fun ball. i tried to make the category yellow, but for whatever reason, ical doesn't believe you -really- want a yellow category and changes it to a muddy soup sort of colour. so now it's orange. but it works: seeing a string of stars is a happy thing. it seems like something ical could build in, like ichat's emoticons.