No, it's tin instead.

[mrissa]

I don't make a practice of mentioning typos du jour, but I think today's is worthy of note: there is nowhere in Finland where anyone has a New Year's Eve/St. Sylvester's Day or All Saints' practice of divination with molten Tim dropped into cold water. Not ever. So you might as well get different vats ready for next year.

(I think this is an epilogue. I'm almost sure it is. I've never had an epilogue before; it's rather novel. It's marked as Chapter 53 on the notecard, but that's almost certain to be wrong anyway. Ah! And now we learn that notecards are really no different from outlines: I have them so that I can be wrong about them. What a relief.)

I'm enjoying Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, although it's only marginally less unwieldy than a printed manuscript in a binder. It looks slightly patchy to me -- in all these pages, there are some small bits that don't seem as clever to me as they apparently seemed to the author -- but there are enough good patches to make it all very worthwhile. I'm caught up enough in the rest of my life that I don't know if I'll be able to return it to porphyrin tomorrow, though. Ah well.

I've been trying to clean my new fountain pen more regularly than I did my old ones. I used to have the habit of just sticking a new cartridge (of a different color) in and going on to see what the colors mixed to, and that amused me, but I think the pen needs more cleaning than that. But I find now that there's too much water in the pen when I add the new cartridge, and I have extremely pale, watered-down ink for entirely too long, and while it might be charming for drawing my own lightly ornamented stationery if I had the time and inclination, I do not. Fountain pen gurus: advice on cleaning the silly thing so that it's ready to use more or less right away? How often do you clean yours?

I woke up in the 5:00 hour again this morning. This is officially Not Enough Sleep, and I'm worried that if it keeps up, I'm going to get sick. But I can't seem to stay asleep long enough most mornings.

The problem is extremely clear: I'm waking up hungry around 5:30. Really, really hungry. "No waiting five minutes to check e-mail; get me breakfast now" hungry. I've always awakened hungry, but it's previously been around 6:30. We have not changed our dinner hour to an earlier one. I'm not eating different amounts, either more or less, so far as I've been able to tell. I'm just waking up hungry. Last night I tried having ice cream at 9:00 in the evening to see if that would hold me through longer. It did not. I was hungry at 5:00 a.m., though I manged to get back to sleep for another half hour.

So -- it's good because I don't really have to worry about sleep disorders. I know too many people with sleep disorders, and they're not even remotely a good time. But it's bad because -- hungry! Extremely hungry! And tired, dammit. And I don't know what to do other than moving a snack to before bed, but I've tried that, and it doesn't seem to work. Has anybody had this problem? What did you do about it?

I'm blaming hormones, because, hey, why not? They've been evil enough to me in other regards lately. But maybe I just made that part up.*

*My auntie Mim would never argue with you as she got older. If she said, "I have a doctor's appointment Tuesday," and you said, "Mim, are you sure? We just took you to the doctor last Tuesday, and she didn't say anything about another appointment then," she'd chirp, "Oh, I don't know, maybe I made that up." And either she or you would go look and find out the fact of the matter, no fuss. So the rest of the family picked it up ourselves, a frequent, amiable, "or maybe I made that up."

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[angeyja.livejournal.com]

I do dinner before bed. So protein, heavy carbs, definitely nothing sweet. Hormones usually means dreaming for me. Stress will do it too. I think it brings me closer up on that 90 minute high point of the sleep cycle. I wipe my pens on paper towels and then just doodle until they are right.

Really, I'm just stopped in to see if you got your back straightened out. All well now?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Dinner before bed is not an option for me. I'm hypoglycemic. I barely make it to dinner at 6ish. (This is another problem with waking up early, actually: I start to get really shaky at the six-hour point, which puts me at an 11:30 lunch and a 5:30 dinner, which is not workable with markgritter's work schedule, much less in any social circumstance. I sometimes will have fruit leather or some other snack to get me through, but it's annoying and not optimal.)

My back is as straightened out as it ever is, though. Mostly fine, and thanks for asking.

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

I understand; my Mom is hypoglycemic also. We have quite a bit of either (incl diabetes) this on both sides of the family. I was thinking about ups and downs again this weekend but it's the case that this gets so complicated (I am glancing off of Redfield now but I spiked a real high Monday night from relief from the dentist and midweek from so indications that my job may be OK for a while yet. That's my brain on it's own chemicals!)

At those points my sleep can get disturbed also because my brain just seems to be "running high" so to speak. I have to watch the eating too but more because I tend not to when I get inot a high focus or flow state, and that can have neg. So I will tend to keep things around so I can graze during the day. And I can't really do much sugar.