jmfargo: (sam the eagle)
I am a morning person.

I am a solar-powered person.

When the night creeps in, so do all the negative thoughts/emotions. I never really realized this before because I had little to be negative about.

Now, the darkness happens and all the happy-go-lucky good things I had in my brain during the sun-lit hours go away, followed by doubt and insecurity.

I guess that means it's time for bed. Sleep allows me to ignore these things, at least consciously. Sub-consciously I'm guessing it's time for yet another zombie dream where nothing I do is good enough to hold them off.

But hey, at least I get to shoot the zombies right in their f#@$ing* faces. Good dreams. Zombies go bye-bye.

G'night all.

*My mom reads this. Hi mom!

Up Late

May. 14th, 2008 11:16 pm
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I can remember when "staying up late" meant that I saw the sunrise through the trees of my friend's backyard, or getting home just before it was time to get up for school the next day. Usually, I'll admit, I ended up staying home from school when I was up that late, but I never would have considered midnight "late."

Then I vaguely recall, with a sense of someone possibly making up the memory because they think they should be able to remember it, when "up late" meant after 8 or 8:30. The disappointment when my parents suddenly realized that it was after 9, that the movie they were watching was probably going to give me nightmares for a week, and that I was gleefully watching it, quietly watching them to make sure they didn't notice me.

Now, it's eleven at night, dark outside, the dogs sleeping in the bedroom with Maria, and my eyes are trying to betray me. I want to go to bed, go to sleep and be blissfully unaware for a while. I could, very easily, and not regret it in the morning except for knowing that I could have stayed up later and gotten more done. A small regret, when all is said and done, really.

At midnight I'll sneak into the bedroom, slide under the covers next to Maria while quieting Monster down as she yips at me from inside her cage, and push MaiTai closer to the bottom of the bed where she normally sleeps. I'll drop off into sleep quickly, without all the normal nighttime tossing and turning that comes with going to bed before I'm really ready, and I'll dream.

Morning will come, and hopefully, if my projection is correct, and I have actually been getting too much sleep lately, I'll feel refreshed and ready to face the day. I might stay in bed until after Maria's done getting ready for her day, since I don't have to actually go to work until nine or so, but at 7:30 I want to be up and out of bed, ready to face the day.



Yeah. Good luck with that. My other half that's not nearly as positive says quite plainly "Screw you! I'm going to bed now, sleeping in, and getting 9 hours of sleep!"

Guess we'll see who wins, both tonight and in the morning.
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Maria and I remember the story a little different, and while mine is a little more action packed, hers is a little more true. That doesn't mean my version of things is a lie, I report them exactly as I remember them, it just means I may have been slightly asleep at the time.

My version:

Bombs were exploding everywhere, the cyborg army was coming for me. I was alone, rushing through the rubble that was once New York City and was now a war zone. I knew they were searching for me, and I knew that if I was caught then my band of resistance fighters were doomed. I couldn't be captured, damn it, it was too important. I couldn't let the bullet wound in my leg slow me down!

There! Ahead! I could see the meeting zone, and someone was waiting for me! Just 100 meters to go, and I could rest!

That, of course, was the signal for the sound of the rolling wheels of the robots to start up behind me, close. A shot rings out, and blood blossoms in the air in front of me. Whose blood? I look down at the stinging hot/cold area in my chest to see that, strangely enough it's my blood. I'm going to die, it seems surreal. The robots stop, having assessed me as dead through their superior technology. There's hope, they just think I'm a random human, not a Package Carrier.

I find the woman who is waiting for me, and as I die I say to her "Take tihs. It must get to Her. You must find a way to get it to Her!" See seems reluctant, so before I die I shove it into her hands, and collapse.

My eyes are bloodied, and I look up at her in a haze, knowing that if she doesn't do this, my life means nothing. As it gets dark my gaze meets her eyes one last time. I mouth the words, not sure if they make a sound, "Go. Just, go." And I die.

Maria's version:

It's the middle of the night, probably early morning. Maria is slightly awake, having probably been startled by my abrupt sitting up. I'm holding a large pillow, and I turn to her. "Miah, is everything okay?" She asks, concerned.

"Take this," I say, offering forth my pillow, "It must get to Her." When she doesn't take it I get angry. "Take it! You have to give it to her!" Again she refuses to take it, looking at me confused, and I shove it violently into her hands.

Then I lay back down, and fall peacefully back to sleep and Maria deposits the "package," my pillow, on top of my head before going back to sleep herself.

Little did she know she was dooming the human race by not delivering that package.

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