The good news is that I finally got enough sleep. After New Years Day, when I
finally got back to rowing, my subconscious was apparently so nervous that I
wouldn't wake up in time that it kept waking me up all night, just to make sure.
Never mind that I have this nifty modern invention known as an ALARM CLOCK --
apparently my subconscious isn't up on the latest technology. Actually, we have
two alarm clocks, one on each side of the bed, partly because it's really annoying
to have to turn the alarm off when you're not the one who has to get up and partly
because I like to see what time it is (and thus, how much longer I get to sleep)
when I wake up in the middle of the night. I can't see more than about five inches
without my contact lenses or glasses on, so my alarm has these big honkin' numbers
that you could practically read by.
The bad news is that I may have a
cold, but I'm hoping the runny nose is just an artifact of sleeping over nine
hours. On the other hand, if I do have a cold, that makes it more likely that the
two people who promised they'd set up interviews for early next week will come
through. (And one of these has been diddling around since the beginning of
November!) I'm a fir believer in Murphy's Law. There's nothing as eminently
hireable as a job interviewee with sniffles. Thank goodness for
Sudafed.
My two books from Amazon came yesterday, so I piled them
with the two I haven't yet read from the used book store and now I have a small
TBR pile (to be read -- Rudder had to ask, so I guess not everyone knows that
acronym). That's not even counting all those Library of America books we should
have, but too many of those are the sort of thing I
href="http://dichroic.diaryland.com/bfulhere.html">should read. Why is a four-
book pile of my own unread books so much more exciting than ten books from the
library? Maybe it's because the library books are ones that just looked
interested, not ones I've searched out and waited for.
And for
posterity, the TBR pile consist of:
But I suppose I should finish my
library books first. Yeah, right.