I'm very sorry about your friend, ita. I hope you get a chance to let her know you're thinking of her.

ita, I'm so sorry about your friend--what a nightmare situation.

I was trying to figure out how it was possible that I woke up an hour early, but still couldn't make it on to the early shuttle, which in my head is a half-hour earlier. Yeah, that's because in real life it's 45 minutes earlier, and I've been moving slow. Ah well.

ION, zzzzzzzzzzzzz.

I am so sorry about your friend, ita.

Unlike Jesse, I made the early bus today! I was trying for the early bus the past 2 days and did not even make the regular bus. I don't have a ride anymore because my ride somehow accidentally sold her house to buy another house, and then her pre-approved mortgage fell through and now she has no house and had to move in with a friend (and bring her mentally challenged brother, her niece and her niece's toddler, so must be a good friend). She was buying a bigger house because all these people were living with her.

I made the regular bus today. That was considered a win.

Also, I was woken up by the low battery warning of the smoke alarm at 6 AM. I got up, fed the cats. Found the spare batteries, hauled a chair to the landing and changed the damn batteries. Then, I went back to bed and slept for another 50 minutes. Because I see no point in getting up earlier than I absolutely have to.

I'm not sure that getting up earlt actually helps me, because I move so slowly. When I get up late, at least I have panic on my side.

Also, I used to be totally a morning person-- as a teen, in college, forever. Now I actually feel better staying up super late and getting up super late-- but I cannot do that. But every time I have time off for theatre, I get into the mode of staying up until 4 or 5 am and sleeping until 11 am.

I really prefer sleeping approx. 12-8, which shouldn't be so different than what works with my job, but feels REALLY different.

I don't have a ride anymore because my ride somehow accidentally sold her house to buy another house, and then her pre-approved mortgage fell through and now she has no house and had to move in with a friend (and bring her mentally challenged brother, her niece and her niece's toddler, so must be a good friend). She was buying a bigger house because all these people were living with her.

Good lord!

I think I need to start going to bed at 10 because it's too cold to walk from the subway to my office and the buses are SO FREAKING SLOW. I'm used to leaving the house at 7, but I've been late to work 2 days in a row.

My biggest problem is that I want to fall asleep at 5 am, but I actually need to get up at 5 am. Which leads to crazy sleeping- after a vacation I have 1 day of no sleep at all, followed by a day where I fall asleep as soon as I get home, and then am awake in the middle of the night, then asleep when I need to get up, followed by a night where I fall asleep at 8 pm and am up at 3 am, followed by a "normal" night of sleep.