My friend S taught me the merits of two top sheets when she stayed with me for a few months. She and her husband have done it for years and it makes for a lot of peace on earth.

Personally I'm top sheet never tucked in feet naked and out entirely or in a blanket tent if bitterly cold. No or minimal jammies unless in non-romantic company or, again, bitterly cold. Window at least cracked if at all possible. I think I just like to feel air moving. If I'm driving and the vents are all closed I feel like I get twitchy and feel like I can't drive.

Nightmare Before Christmas has a lot of Henry Selick's vision in it. When you're directing stop-motion animation you're doing a lot of the "acting," after all. And he was primary or sole designer of the sets and all the characters except Jack. And, yes, he's a cousin which I know I've mentioned a bajillion times before.

I don't sleep with socks, but that's only because we have a heated mattress pad. In the summer, we don't use the heated mattress pad, but despite the a/c, I still don't need socks. But there's a weird No Man's Land of April, May, and September, where it's warm enough to not need the heated mattress pad but my feet get cold, so I do wear socks to bed then.

Top sheet, blanket, comforter (which REALLY needs a trip to the laundromat -- that xoJane article tipped me off as to how gross we are w/r/t the comforter), fan on, pretty much sleep on my side, and roll over pretty often. We both steal the covers, but don't want to switch to 2 sets of sheets, so it's an ongoing battle full of 3 a.m. thievery and recriminations over coffee.

I still need to buy down pillows. I went to Macy's last week and they were on sale for ½ off! But they were sold out.

Ikea! I have a mountain of the cheapest, fattest down ones. I think I'll get two thinner ones also for when I sleep on my side. My sleeping position amounts to "whateverthehell position I can fall asleep in." Sometimes my head at the foot of the bed works... started doing that as a kid and I have no idea why. Haven't tried that in a while, actually.

DH is a no covers sleeper unless very cold so I get All The Covers most of the time.

I discovered back in the day that pillows were fucking with my back--I switched to Tempurpedic about ten years ago, and it was one of the most clear improvements I made for my health. I can now sleep with a single flat normal pillow, if required, but for a while I travelled with a smaller Tempurpedic, or went without pillows at all--that was more comfortable.

I certainly haven't returned to my former two-pillow habits.

I always put socks on before going to sleep here--I used to pretend that it was a minor issue, but I would find myself getting angrier and angrier at my feet being a different temperature, and little ruined falling asleep more. I don't use them in Jamaica, but LA is rarely hot enough long enough for me to put them aside here.

I got some awesome pillows at Costco. I went back and bought extras just to have more.

So, what does the Vatican think about Batman these days?

Vatican's communications site runs Batman story

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One of the Vatican's main Twitter accounts and the website of its communications office were running stories about Batman on Thursday with the headline "Holy Switcheroo!" — raising concerns they might have been hacked.

But two Vatican officials said the site hadn't been hacked, and that the reason for the unusual posting was an "internal system failure" due to a non-native English speaker posting the story on the website.

The story was from the Catholic News Service. It has as its headline: "Holy Switcheroo! Batman has grown bitter, more vengeful with the years" and details the evolution of the Batman comic franchise.

I can't decide if I prefer them in the short or the long style--they're both rather cute, but would be overkill.

Vatican's communications site runs Batman story

the reason for the unusual posting was an "internal system failure" due to a non-native English speaker posting the story on the website.

Man, I was all Fuck Yeah New Pope!

We each have a Temperpedic pillow and then 3 regular pillows. DH uses one pillow; I use the rest.

I think I just like to feel air moving. If I'm driving and the vents are all closed I feel like I get twitchy and feel like I can't drive.

THIS. SO much this.