Saturday, October 2, 2010

Insomnia

Michael and I are both suffering from insomnia these days. He's very stressed, which adds to my stress. My asthma has been acting up and hitting very inconveniently at night shortly after I go to bed. I've always tended to toss and turn in my sleep, and that makes things hard for insomniac Michael.

I wish I could sleep as still and soundly as this guy has since 1924 (without being dead of course).




It's Saturday morning, the one day of the week where I don't have to be anywhere (though I have a lot to do today), and I feel like ... well, I feel like this:




"Is it dead or alive? human or inhuman?" indeed.
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9 comments:

  1. June ButlerOctober 2, 2010 at 11:12 AM

    Insomnia is a bitch. I've been with her. I hope you're now more on the alive side than the other.

    Last night, Tom was watching a Dracula B-movie on AMC Movie Classics. As I watched a few minutes of the over-the-top melodramatic acting, I asked him if the movie was a comedy, and he said no. I guess it's one of the it's-so-bad-it's-good classics.

    Nothing to do with insomnia, of course, but maybe a distraction from your half-dead - or is it half-alive state?

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  2. CounterlightOctober 2, 2010 at 11:37 AM

    Speaking of over-the-top horror melodrama, I love the old Boris Karloff Mummy.

    Still feeling more undead than alive, and I have a lot of errands to run plus papers to grade today.

    I'm taking it all at a stately pace today.

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  3. June ButlerOctober 2, 2010 at 11:42 AM

    From the women's hairstyles, (you can tell even in period movies) the film appeared to be from the 70s.

    Stately Doug. I can just see you.

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  4. JCFOctober 2, 2010 at 3:38 PM

    {{{Doug}}}

    {{{Michael}}}

    I pray you receive bookoo Zzzzzzz . . . ASAP!

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  5. LapinbizarreOctober 2, 2010 at 4:05 PM

    An interesting aspect of Lenin's tomb is that before the Revolution its architect, Aleksey Shchusev, was a prominent practitioner of Russian medieval-revival architecture. He was architect (1908-12) for the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent, built for the widowed Grand Duchess Elizabeth, in a style described on the convent's Wiki page as an "Art Nouveau rendering of a medieval Novgorod architectural type".

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  6. CounterlightOctober 2, 2010 at 4:38 PM

    Interesting article about Shchusev. I knew about his ties to Constructivism, but didn't know he went so far all over the map in the course of his career.

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  7. CounterlightOctober 2, 2010 at 4:44 PM

    Thanks for the support folks.

    It's been a stressful Saturday with our little Betty cat saluting the dawn with a barrage of pukes, Michael having to go in to work early, and one of my studio mates finding a big pool of rainwater on the floor of his work area ... again.

    I filled a prescription for a potent looking anti-inflammatory for the asthma attacks. I see the doctor again next week.
    Next Friday will be doctor day. I see a kidney specialist in the morning and my pulmonary specialist (the one treating my asthma) in the afternoon.

    I've decided to postpone the bulk of the grading for tomorrow

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  8. CounterlightOctober 2, 2010 at 4:49 PM

    I think the design for Lenin's crystal coffin in the photo is later, and appears to me inconsistent with the rest of the room.
    I love "is it red flags or red lighting?" pattern on the wall of the chamber.

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  9. UnknownOctober 3, 2010 at 7:46 PM

    I so hate being an insomniac! Prayers for peaceful sleep for both of you tonight!

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