I have a theory that sleep deprivation, if frequent or chronic enough, will lead even the more-or-less sane to border on psychosis...hmmmm...Gotta go to bed early tonite...right now my sanity is questionable at best, prolly better not to push it. Tossed and turned for most of last night, and just when I finally started to drift off, I was awoken by my (neutered!) cat attempting to bury his face into most inappropriate spots. Once I might have been willing to call a fluke, but he's a persistent little bastard....this doesn't bode well for my habit of sleeping in my birthday suit.

So I went to the ridiculous little meet-and-greet for first years at my school, loaded up with enough text books that their weight alone probably constituted a deadly weapon in most parts of the civilized world. At the mere mention of books for sale I was beseiged by a sea of eager-looking first-years, their little faces not yet showing the dejection and hopelessness that sets in after the Faculty of Nursing is through with you. One particularly ambitious one offered me $260 for a set of books that only cost me $300 to start with....ka-ching!!! Why, that must work out to..let's see..50 gin& tonics! Well, okay maybe 12 if you buy them in the club district....

The kids are going away for the weekend.....sadly, tho, this will not translate into long, leasurely sleeps for me as I have to be at the motorcycle training course by 8:15 at the latest ( a most ungodly hour). I suspect the training people are closet sadists......

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