I can never sleep that much away from home

I really can't. According to my parents, this has been true ever since I was very small. It doesn't matter how late I was up the night before, how tired I am when I wake up, or even the kind of bed I'm sleeping in. I'm always up before everyone else, and wide awake at that. It's bizarre.

So, despite going to bed around 1 yesterday, I was up at 9 this morning. *smacks forehead* oh well. I will probably make up for that tonight. I know it's 8 hours of sleep, but Laura is still sleeping. I packed up most of my stuff, and as soon as I decide what I'm wearing, and wash up for the day, I can pack up the rest.

I forgot how much I used to like being up like this when I was in school. Sophomore year, my computer was out in the common room, so I only had to go outside and not wake my roommate when I wanted time on my computer. My roommate junior year could sleep through construction work with supersonic jets flying overhead, so my messing about with the computer never bothered her. Last year, Carly was almost never home from Tim's until about an hour from now, unless they had a lot to do. So I had this lovely time in the morning to do all sorts of quiet things.

I don't know what it is - sometimes I do this when I'm home, but there's something about a college dorm (or any room that's not quite yours) that has a certain sort of quiet to it. Your room, your own room, knows all of your past and dances it around you like so many ghosts in a horror story, but a room away from that all knows nothing, asks nothing, demands nothing of you. It's just there. That and this end of Albany is about 5 million times quieter than Brooklyn, even though I live in a fairly quiet part of it. Not that I'm planning on leaving the city anytime soon, mind you. I think I just needed a break from it.

Now I have a bunch of things to run and attend to. Then it's away from this marvelously fast internet connection and hopefully away from this bloated blathering. Le sigh.

( A great Virginia Woolf quote for my mom )

I can never sleep that much away from home

I really can't. According to my parents, this has been true ever since I was very small. It doesn't matter how late I was up the night before, how tired I am when I wake up, or even the kind of bed I'm sleeping in. I'm always up before everyone else, and wide awake at that. It's bizarre.

So, despite going to bed around 1 yesterday, I was up at 9 this morning. *smacks forehead* oh well. I will probably make up for that tonight. I know it's 8 hours of sleep, but Laura is still sleeping. I packed up most of my stuff, and as soon as I decide what I'm wearing, and wash up for the day, I can pack up the rest.

I forgot how much I used to like being up like this when I was in school. Sophomore year, my computer was out in the common room, so I only had to go outside and not wake my roommate when I wanted time on my computer. My roommate junior year could sleep through construction work with supersonic jets flying overhead, so my messing about with the computer never bothered her. Last year, Carly was almost never home from Tim's until about an hour from now, unless they had a lot to do. So I had this lovely time in the morning to do all sorts of quiet things.

I don't know what it is - sometimes I do this when I'm home, but there's something about a college dorm (or any room that's not quite yours) that has a certain sort of quiet to it. Your room, your own room, knows all of your past and dances it around you like so many ghosts in a horror story, but a room away from that all knows nothing, asks nothing, demands nothing of you. It's just there. That and this end of Albany is about 5 million times quieter than Brooklyn, even though I live in a fairly quiet part of it. Not that I'm planning on leaving the city anytime soon, mind you. I think I just needed a break from it.

Now I have a bunch of things to run and attend to. Then it's away from this marvelously fast internet connection and hopefully away from this bloated blathering. Le sigh.

( A great Virginia Woolf quote for my mom )