Sleep dep: spamming the lj begins

[mrissa]

Well, and here we go: this is pretty much the limit of "normal bedtime" for me. I took a short nap in the afternoon as planned, but when I tried to take one this evening, I couldn't (stomach too upset), and now I'm not allowed. For another...about twelve hours, counting the time until I get there and then the test time. Meep.

I'm going to need to eat something in the next hour or two, but I'm not sure what will be reasonable. Cereal, maybe. Cereal is good. Cereal has blueberries in.

Some of you made one or two good suggestions for babbling topics. One of you made so many that I'll be set for random topic prompts for weeks. Much appreciated, thanks.

I've been plenty awake enough to read down on the couch, so that's what I've been doing. I finished matociquala's Worldwired, and it had the good problem for books with ensemble casts rather than the bad problem. (The bad problem comes about when I only care about one of the characters and resent having to read about the rest of these stupid people. The good problem comes when I care about all the characters and want more about all of them, so that a 400 page novel would be about 1200 pages: this is not a good want to indulge.) I'm in the middle of Ann Halam's Siberia now, and it appears to be genuine YA SF and not YA fantasy with SFnal decoration. So that'll be pretty neat if it keeps up.

Comments

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the staying awake. I'm tired enough already that I may not be able to call, but we'll see how the evening progresses.

[gaaneden.livejournal.com]

Good luck. Remember, I'm up until midnight my time. I'm also online if you want to chat there.

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

Godspeed, and good luck.

I am trying to write a story about a man, a woman, and a snake. The kind with bowls, not apples.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

Fuss hope fuss wish fuss.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

I'm laughing at silly people in chat and not being very productive at all. Which is okay. Long day at work, watched the boys for Sir Charles and the brain is mulling over novel revisions. That is probably enough for one night.

[one-undone.livejournal.com]

If energy permits, you could always get some baking done. Or, you know, some sort of crafty thing if you do those things (knitting, sewing, etc.) because those are even good if you're seated and they force you to focus enough to stay awake.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Chinese water poison torture could keep you up.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The bit where the serpent drips a drop of venom on you and your wife has to empty the bowl periodically and the venom drips on your face? That's not Chinese!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, right. I addressed matociquala's comment as though it was made as a suggestion to me. Oops.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about it too much -- if it happens, great, and if not, that's fine, too. No one person is responsible here (except, of course, for me).

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

There are silly people in chat? This must be a first!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I don't do crafty things because I am an obsessive person and already have enough to do (by which, of course, I mean too much to do), but I was thinking of making bread and maybe some bars, on the theory that they wouldn't involve too much interaction with hot surfaces.

Also I was thinking of cleaning the house.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

Well, I must admit I'm one of the silly people as well. It seems to be the silly season, at least for me. I'm counting this as a good thing. *g*

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

*g* well, the water dripping on the forehead is!

[mkille.livejournal.com]

Don't you have a robot vacuum for that?

Good morning!

[(Anonymous)]

For me it will be day, so If you have anything you would feel like talking - be it Baba Yaga, the bone leg (that is all her name. Afanasyev has some interesting ideas about that) or Finno-Ugoric sillies, then ask away.

Aet

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. Who did the Aesir consult when they were coming up with this, anyway? Must go figure out which Chinese mythological figures would be likely to provide that kind of help....

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you know of a model of robot vacuum that dusts the top bookshelves and scrubs the john, do let me know.

PS

[(Anonymous)]

Have you read anything by Arto Paasilinna?

http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=26187

What is your general attitude towars picaresque novel?

[mkille.livejournal.com]

There's the "Scrubmate" (http://discover.edventures.com/functions/termlib.php?action=&single=&word=Joe+Engleberger), but I don't think it vacuums also.

PS

[(Anonymous)]

Have you read anything by Arto Paasilinna?

http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=26187

What is your general attitude towars picaresque novel?

Aet

PS on PS: Too easily amused, it always pushes me to pondering when LJ asks "Please confirm you are a human below." May be I am, unknowingly, a spam robot?

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Bars!

[mkille.livejournal.com]

And there's dusting robots (http://peterthink.blogs.com/thinking/2005/05/dusting_robot_b.html), but they don't seem scaled to bookshelves.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Not Kwan Yin.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

And there's this Quasar Robot (http://incolor.inetnebr.com/bill_r/quasar_robot.htm) thing that vacuumed and dusted, which was actually radio controlled, but sitting down using a radio controller seems more pleasant than actual cleaning.

Hm. Don't suppose on of them would be on eBay...

[copperwise.livejournal.com]

I'm going to bed in a few minutes. If it's an insomniac night, I will call you. Good luck!

Re: Good morning!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I'm currently wondering who would be on Baba Yaga's curling team, though I may have an in-story way around that.

Re: Baba Yaga's curling team

[aet.livejournal.com]

Would not Baba Yaga create her own?

As an occasionally amusing LJ community detskiy_dvor is currently into images of Snow Babas, I can show you how the Yaga team may look like:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/detskiy_dvor/55920.html

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

It sounds like one of Monkey's ideas, except I doubt that he'd exactly be in favor of a trickster figure being trapped beneath the earth until Ragnarok. Given all the time he spent lying crushed under a mountain, it would probably hit too close to home.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

So far I have not had to resort to cleaning the toilets or gramming for people on Wikipedia. I am well checked-in-on, and babbly.

Re: Baba Yaga's curling team

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you, that's lovely! Kind of spooky, too....

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I get unnecessarily woken up at 4AM a lot - any day Ted is rowing and I'm not. It was nice that it could be useful for once.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Much appreciated.

Your voice is higher than I expected. This is true of, like, 70% of people I talk to for the first time, though. I don't know why I'm going around imagining all these deep voices.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

It does sound deeper and more resonant from inside - I've always hated the sound of my voice when heard from outside my head. (Recorded, I mean.) The only thing that reconciled me to it a bit was when I had a roommate junior year whose voice apparently sounded so much like mine that our families couldn't tell us apart on the phone. I wouldn't have said that Paige's voice was as pleasant as, say, yours, but I didn't find it horribly screechy, either, so I drew the logical conclusion.

I tend to think of people I know online as taller and thinner than they turn out to be. Of course, part of that is that they generally are taller than me.

Re: PS

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Paasilinna is now on my list to find, and I will answer the picaresque novel question at more length separately.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

People who know me online seem split between those who expect me to be taller and those who expect me to be shorter. As 5'6" is a pretty average height, I guess this is just statistics at work.

I've had traits that all of a sudden looked less awful when seen in others. It's a useful thing.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Unless there was some reason he wanted Loki to suffer the way he'd suffered.

Hmmmmmm. Oh dear.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

My reply to this seems to have gone independent below. Silly lj.