It's 3/4/5 AM in the USA. You are awake, and why?

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I'm awake because: I fell asleep at 10 PM and woke up, sadly refreshed, at 2 AM. I then had some labnah and got involved in comparing versions of "The Unquiet Grave" in my record collection. I have a movie date later this morning so I'd best be going back to sleep soon. How about you?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 26 January 2003 10:13 (twenty-three years ago)

It's 10:15am! < /smartass>

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 26 January 2003 10:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll be sleeping at 10:15am! It's 5:18 right now. I can't sleep, was partying with friends and just can't get to bed, I get wound up. I haven't been sleeping like virtually at all lately, besides the weekend I had some short term flu like thing. I hope to go to bed around 6 or 7, and then wake up around noon or 1.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 26 January 2003 10:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm awake because

a) I'm an insomniac
b) it's too cold to sleep
c) I'm still really annoyed/depressed about my Discman being stolen

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 January 2003 10:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Re. (b), I finally got my landlord to hike up the furnace. The last few nights it was about 20 degrees in my apartment c. 11 PM. Brrrrr. Are you having radiator problems too?

I should note that I am now doing work, as in, work I should be doing on a weekday. Pathetic I know. It's because I'm in the middle of jury duty and feel bad leaving all my work for my boss.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 26 January 2003 10:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I can buy you a new one, come to Matos's birthday. It's a late/early birthday/holiday present. I know it's not going to get rid of the annoyance because the item itself isn't the issue but maybe you would feel a little better.

The thing about your apt sucks too. I had no heat for a long long time before my boss took over the building, and fixed the heat for me. It's true, it gets to a point where you just can't sleep, even with sweats and blankets, because your nose is still cold and it'll bother you all night...

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 26 January 2003 10:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I am awake because I have been going to bed at 7 or 8am every single night for the last month and don't have any need/urge to change it

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 26 January 2003 10:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you having radiator problems too?

I don't have a radiator in my bedroom, only a heat pipe (which just coughs, as the country music station plays soft).

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 January 2003 10:37 (twenty-three years ago)

The pipe might need to be snaked.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 26 January 2003 10:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks, that's really generous, but you totally don't have to. It's OK. I'll replace it myself.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 January 2003 10:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Oooh, thank you Jody, you can add Blonde on Blonde to the list of records I'm playing today. Oh, and after that I'm going to listen to Smokey Robinson. Oooh, I'm feeling a little light headed...

(That line--about the heat pipe coughing and the country music station playing soft--always reminds me of taking bus trips across Michigan. The old Greyhound buses, where the drivers could feel free to play country music stations softly instead of blaring bad movies from built-in TVs.)

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 26 January 2003 10:41 (twenty-three years ago)

(So much for going back to sleep. I'm going to listen to Dylan and Smokey, get some warm cinnamon rolls, and then wander around until The Band Wagon begins at 11:30.)

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 26 January 2003 10:43 (twenty-three years ago)

going back to sleep? You fool. You're part of the 24 hour party now.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 26 January 2003 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I tend to fall asleep at movies when I haven't had enough sleep, but Cyd Charisse's gams should be incentive enough to keep my eyes open.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 26 January 2003 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I stayed out very late on Friday, then got up only a few hours later because my friend Davie made me some awesome french toast, then went back to sleep for most of the day. So now my sleep schedule is totally messed up. And I am going out again tonight. Gah.

― Jen (nstop), Sunday, 26 January 2003 11:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What's really fucked up is, if I get my sleep schedule all messed up (viz. Jen) I'll be sleeping through trial on Monday which means either the judge will yell at me or a mistrial will be declared. So my going out for cinnamon rolls will impact our democracy in unutterable ways. Or not.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 26 January 2003 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)

you too, Jen? Jesus, we might as well have a FAP (just kidding, tried this already but it isn't gonna work, oh well)

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 26 January 2003 11:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Amateurist is my new ILE crush.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 January 2003 11:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Matos and whoever else -- wanna have dinner or something?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 January 2003 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

(Sigh, I miss NYC...)

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 26 January 2003 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Amateurist is the greatest.

― Arthur (Arthur), Sunday, 26 January 2003 11:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm up for dinner in lieu of middle-of-the-night FAP action. I will probably wake up just in time.

― Jen (nstop), Sunday, 26 January 2003 11:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I've obv given all of you the wrong impression.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 26 January 2003 11:17 (twenty-three years ago)

You're like our version of the pinefox.

― felicity (felicity), Sunday, 26 January 2003 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

heaven forbid.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 26 January 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

2 boxes reviewed. 3 to go.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 08:53 (twenty-three years ago)

how do you review a box!("a tall oblong. with its wax coating and unusually strong reinforced base it's excellent for grocery shopping on a rainy day, 4 stars"??)

― minna (minna), Thursday, 13 February 2003 08:59 (twenty-three years ago)

haha, minna. They are full of documents.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 08:59 (twenty-three years ago)

But this one gets a thumbs up! I found a funny picture in it.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 09:01 (twenty-three years ago)

was it of the defendant in flagrante with a rubber snake and a teenager?

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 13 February 2003 09:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Felicatas -- I hope you are well rested enough for tomorrow. I am awake bc I did nothing all day and I feel melancholy. I finished Simon's book and am listening to the newest in Swedish electropop -- Jay-Jay Johnson. Hello Matos.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 13 February 2003 09:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I am awake and I'm working on various mix CDs that I owe people.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 February 2003 09:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Rust never sleeps. Neither does NyCiLx it would seem.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 13 February 2003 09:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I just bought New Order RETRO and my eyes are rolling into the back of my head in ecstasy... Peter Saville is my personal Jesus.

I'm also doing my own 4 disc set, 1 of Joy Division and 3 of New Order for a friend who's lending me his apartment in SF this weekend. yay!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 13 February 2003 09:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Rust never sleeps. Neither does NyCiLx it would seem.

Impromptu FAP!! (Well, maybe not.)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 February 2003 09:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Can I just tell you I love you all?

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 13 February 2003 09:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha... I am awake too. Sorting all the bills I've had scattered across my apartment for the past few months, tax preparation, etc. Ugh.

― Jen (nstop), Thursday, 13 February 2003 09:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Eek I have to pay my bills. I have been putting it off for so long. What can I do to cheer myself up? I have already had Belgian Waffle Royale from oh no! Odessa!

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 13 February 2003 09:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm awake 'cause I have absolutely no self-discipline or self-control. The average time at which I go to bed has been creeping forward by about an hour each year for the last few, which means that in just a couple years I shall be a TRUE VAMPIRE.

muahahahahahahahahahahahahahah! ha. hmmmm....

― Dan I., Thursday, 13 February 2003 10:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I am a Vampire. Or neurotic. Ok, both

― Vic (Vic), Thursday, 13 February 2003 10:50 (twenty-three years ago)

It is now 6 am. Who in this bitch is not going to sleep anytime soon?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I do not understand your "sleep."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Some idiot was clomping around in the hallway outside my apartment. I usually get up at 6 so I've opted to stay up and monitor my soulseek downloads for impending burning to CD. Yay.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Insomnia, which happens frequently. I'm making jambalaya to reheat for lunch tomorrow, to save time.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got a lecture at 2pm, so I don't think I'll be sleeping for a bit yet..

― alix (alix), Thursday, 13 February 2003 11:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't want to open a new thread for this.

I am still at work! It's 10:30 PM. I stayed v. late to get some stuff done and decided to stay here and finish my French homework lest I try to start it at home and fall dead asleep on my couch. But--it is sad! I am at work at 10:30! There are all sorts of creepy noises coming from the water cooler and the fax machine! I'm afraid I won't leave until 1 AM!

Say hi everyone, so I don't feel as nervous and isolated.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 20 February 2003 04:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi, Amateurist!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 February 2003 04:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Bonjour! Ca va?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 20 February 2003 04:45 (twenty-three years ago)

But--it is sad! I am at work at 10:30! There are all sorts of creepy noises coming from the water cooler and the fax machine! I'm afraid I won't leave until 1 AM!

quelle horreur!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 20 February 2003 04:56 (twenty-three years ago)

C'est terrible, je ne veux plus etre ici! Je veux rentrer a la maison!

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 20 February 2003 05:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(Je ne sais pas faire les accents!)

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 20 February 2003 05:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi, awake northerly types. At least you're not in my shoes. Its 4pm here, and if I dont drink something caffienated soon, I am going to fall asleep face down on my keyboarddddddddddddddddddddddd

oops.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 20 February 2003 05:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Réveillez!

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 20 February 2003 05:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Bonjour!

It's only 9:45 PM here- still early, except that my alarm is set for 6 AM! I'm too bouncy to go to sleep, though.

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 20 February 2003 05:44 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah come on dude, it's like 9:45, get up and boogie already

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 February 2003 06:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been perpetually insomniac since I moved into the new place last month. Not sure if it's the different sounds (the wind is kicking up here right now) that I'm not used to, or unresolved stress from everything. At best I'm getting maybe four or five hours at a time before waking up.

10pm right now.

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Thursday, 20 February 2003 06:09 (twenty-three years ago)

4 or 5 hrs = all i get every night, if I'm lucky

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 20 February 2003 06:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I wast asleep and missed this new leg of the thread. I feelst so ashamed. (NB: I awoke at 7 today. What hast happened to me?)

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm now awake (5:25 AM CST) because I have the flu, and am sick of laying down only to fall asleep for five minutes and then waking up again in a fit of uncomfortableness. Bah.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 February 2003 11:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Waking up at 3 PM followed by drinking lots of coffee couldn't have helped.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 24 February 2003 11:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone up?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 09:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm awake and watching Jackie Chan in The Tuxedo. I rented four movies because of terrifically horrible nightmares for two nights running and the self-fulfilling certainty that I'll have em again tonight if I sleep before I'm just plain exhausted.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 09:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I promised myself this week to try to break this cycle of ridiculous hours I've been keeping but, tonight anyway, to no avail. Ate dinner too late, like midnight, and since I never like to sleep after eating I stayed up doing some cleaning. I just can't seem to eat at a normal hour, not sure why. Tried to sleep earlier but I couldn't. Although, I think I feel this shot of NyQuil finally kicking in so I may attempt to retire just now.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 09:46 (twenty-three years ago)

thesising. my life is ruin

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 09:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Because I work on UK time. Hello Americans. Hi Geeta! What is your BRANE THESIS?

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 09:51 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm awake and i think i fell in love tonight...

*SIGH* (i would font=+7 bold that but my html is not-trustworthy).

she: was standing next to me at a show tonight

she: works with a friend and looks REALLY familiar

she: is totally rad (she has **** ***** originals on her bedroom walls!!!!!) (!!!!!!!!!!!!) (this is what she told me).

i will: see how check with friend and get the thumbs up/down tomorrow... (wish me luck)

bad move? i googled her name (very exotique) and got her webpage but it has a webstat tracker on it. am i fucked?

it is 1:50 am. i will be up in 5 hours and hopefully on the subway in 5.5 hours. yay.

― gygax!, Wednesday, 26 February 2003 09:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I was just on the phone with someone special. but now I'm off to bed. have to build a website in the morning before lunch. yay.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It is 5:02 am. I am awake because these are the hours I keep, and I get overstimulated late at night when I should be shutting everything off and going to sleep.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 10:05 (twenty-three years ago)

It's 4:36 am on the west coast. Slept for perhaps an hour or two earlier before waking up without reason... grumble grumble...

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 12:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I was awake at 5:30 am. Not sure why. Now I'm sleepy again. ZZZ.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm. Usually i'm awake at those times 'cause of the toddler. Very very very rarely am i awake at those times 'cause i haven't slept at all.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 16:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I was awake but I was reading (a book, not ile).

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I was awake and listening to The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and starting at the ceiling.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Because the sun never sets on ILx.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 08:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I am awake and watching VH1 and staring at the computer.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 08:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Fact: It's very hard to fall asleep to bluegrass.

I'm going to put on vol. 4 of The Sounds of Steam Locomotives now, that should do the trick.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 08:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Because I spoke w/ my brother for the first time in like a month; the conversation was great but lasted two hours; I still hadn't eaten yet, so I made a vegetable soup which took about an hour and a half. Now I'm trying to wind down but I'm still too wired. Shucks. I'm really trying to go to bed earlier.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 08:44 (twenty-three years ago)

"'Toughy Hill' is located 25 miles north of Lincoln, Nebraska. It is on the Union Pacific route bteween Omaha and Kansas City. Short sections of this grade is 4%. It will average probably 2% for three or four miles. This is a good climb for prairie country, and is a good spot for something spectacular. That is just what happens in early fall 1952 when helper #5042, with a 2-10-2 wheel arrangement, assists #9062, one of the unique three cylinder 4-12-2 road engines, over this grade."

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 08:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"Note the difference in the sound of these two locomotives as first one dominates, and then the other, as the train winds around the many curves. The sharp staccato is from the helper $5042 and the mushy 'off-beat' exhaust is from the three cylinder #9062."

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 08:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Arggh that is making me sleepy and I need to finish what I'm doing!

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 08:51 (twenty-three years ago)

what I'm doing = procrastinating

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 08:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I blame Neil Patrick Harris.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 08:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, I have the feeling he had something to do with this.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 08:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The historian?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 08:59 (twenty-three years ago)

And a historian too? He's very versatile.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 09:03 (twenty-three years ago)

He looks hottt now!

http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/04/wkd.neil.patrick.harris.ap/story.harris.ap.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 09:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I do not owe you an explanation, ILx.

*special all-nighter reinforcement beats sent out to fr from the Rap de Rap show on WRMS*

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 09:05 (twenty-three years ago)

bc i'm rding the ilx archive

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 10:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Between this and his goth picture, I am starting to lust after him now. Someone help me please.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

No, no, I think this is your divine penance for Justin. I would say this, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm leaving for Australia tomorrow afternoon! I'll try to find some internet cafes & post some updates while I'm down there. I'd offer rides in my luggage, but I'm only bringing one tiny bag, and it's a bit overpacked as is. ;- )

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 6 March 2003 06:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Where in Australia?

I can trace my rise and fall from ILX favor on this thread. Anyways, it's not quite 3 AM but it's creeping up there. I was working until 9 (oy) and the stuck around to finish my homework, then went grocery shopping and the place was loaded with Orthodox Jewish teenage girls, with whom I've had something of a lifelong fascination. Anyone I made it back home despite several inches of snow on the ground, and now I'm getting olive oil all over my keyboard because I had fresh mozarella sandwiches with oil and basil mmmmmmmmmm. Also I discovered that olive oil + honey = surprisingly good. Hopefully another glass of crappy wine and I'm off to bed.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 6 March 2003 07:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I am awake b/c for the last two months I've been off meds and manic which for me means VIOLENT.

Tonight I argued with an old retired white Dallas cop about the instutional racism of the entire Southern way of life and think I entirely alienated him while simutaneouly nailing myself on the cross.

Eariler today I hit a child so hard that I actually hurt him. Now I'm afeared that his mother might pay me a visit. Our principal and coaches parol the halls carrying their paddles but this environment offers me now relief. . .hmm.

Now I need to go to bed.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Thursday, 6 March 2003 07:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I was out at a Uk garage nite as I am wont to do.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 6 March 2003 07:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I was out Latin dancing (salsa almost exclusively) and I don't have to get to work tomorrow until quite late (although not having to go at all would be even better).

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 6 March 2003 08:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I have class at 8:30 and am teaching a brand new lesson. pity me as it will be truly pitiful.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Thursday, 6 March 2003 08:11 (twenty-three years ago)

(I want to start improving my dancing again. I am getting stagnant.)

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 6 March 2003 08:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't want to go to bed.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 6 March 2003 08:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh. It's 3:40, isn't it? Hmm.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 6 March 2003 08:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry for my silly post above. I had had a bit too much wine.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I am hungover. I didn't go to APT or Sorted! So how was it girls? I am listening to a copy of the special comes with the British edition of Generation Xtasy cd. I seem to have already misplaced the case.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 7 March 2003 11:05 (twenty-three years ago)

This is when I go to work.

*sob*

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 7 March 2003 11:18 (twenty-three years ago)

and I'm late!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 7 March 2003 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I was up until 3:00 last night and then I got up at 7:30. I was trying to meet a looming deadline (I've had a week of looming deadlines and now I am knackered), but then found an e-mail from nice magazine lady saying "Hi Anna, if you could get it in by two that would be great, but if you need any more time just give me a call." I thought she wanted it at 11:00. Oh well, I guess I'll hand it in early now which never hurts. (Although my eyes are all sore and I've smoked too much)

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 7 March 2003 12:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I was up until 3:00 last night and then I got up at 7:30.

shift that forward an hour and you have my sleeping patters, up till 2ish, up at 630. i need to stop this, i stayed in last friday and had 16 hours sleep, i think that is telling me something

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 7 March 2003 12:41 (twenty-three years ago)

so much for monthly resolutions!

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 7 March 2003 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't had a looming deadline in ages.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 7 March 2003 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Gareth, delete AIM. I can't think of any other single thing that would help you get more sleep.

(Greek chorus of Gareth's AIM buddies: "Noooooooo")

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 7 March 2003 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

or indeed: "Yeeees!!"

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 7 March 2003 12:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Uh I was up until about 3 AM last night, then got back up at 6:30 AM to get ready for work. AIM is indeed a killer: I got home not too late only to get online, chat with ILXors and blab about my great night and my various crushes. Not that I'm blaming ILXors, of course!

― hstencil, Friday, 7 March 2003 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

i blame hstencil

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 7 March 2003 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

gareth you told me you were already in bed at 11:45 last night and were about to go to sleep!

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 7 March 2003 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

i was already in bed! i think i did manage to get to sleep around 12 last night. i was well behaved, i was going to go out to a club with blueski, but decided to stay in, but then stayed up later than i had intended because i wanted to burn some of my cds to mp3 before taking them home (im downsizing) and also scanning on some things i want to put on website.

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 7 March 2003 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

(thanks for leaving yr machine on btw - i have all of ultra kiki metroplex now and it's FANTASTIC.)

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 7 March 2003 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Hm. Tonight I went out with friends, had a few too many Jack Daniels, and then had the great privilege of vomiting in the finest bar bathroom in Bucktown (at Danny's, tours available by appointment only). So my night ended early. However serendipity came to my rescue as my cab driver turned out to be an extremely nice guy, exactly my age, who lives right around the corner and frequents the same local bars--he was a Hungarian from Romania and we spent a half hour talking about Miklós Jancsó and how Hungarian bears little relation to any other European language. I like Chicago. Now I'm going to watch All That Heaven Allows and hope my stomach settles down. Who's up yo?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 8 March 2003 07:36 (twenty-three years ago)

It's only 2:39 here, but I'm awake because I just finished watching the new 2-disc Style Wars DVD. (The extras are even better than the movie.)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 8 March 2003 07:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Just got back from playing with a friend's hardcore band. They're called The Last Waltz, and they will destroy the world.

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 8 March 2003 07:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm cleaning house very slowly. How was dinner JBR? I am listening to Sandie Shaw and drinking Guinness. Cleaning has consisted of picking cds off the floor and searching for their cases.

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 8 March 2003 07:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Dinner was good. I had a spinach salad and a yellowfin tuna sandwich with field greens.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 8 March 2003 07:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Cool I woke up around 7-ish pm or else I might have made my way over. How was APT?

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 8 March 2003 08:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It wz aight.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 8 March 2003 08:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I just took a cab home from Harlem. NNCK reprazent! I'm fucking exhausted.

― hstencil, Saturday, 8 March 2003 08:09 (twenty-three years ago)

oh and I'm stoned out of my gourd.

― hstencil, Saturday, 8 March 2003 08:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I just got home. I missed the last subway so I've been walking for most of the last two hours cause I didnt feel like waiting for the bus.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 8 March 2003 08:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I just got back from the NYC (4:15 AM EST, for those of you stalking me) (come on over & say hi already). Outhud is really testing my like-slash-fuck-buddy-love for them & their funkstastic bloopiness w/ godawful pretentious "move yr ass" / "dancefloor wall!" / "I need GOOD weed" / "500 words for shit" stage banter / song title booshit, but Liquid Liquid more than made up for their egregious effronteries (and w/out "Cavern", too!). AND I made it back to Grand Central to catch the CT train w/ a full 45 seconds to spare! Thanks, Mr. Cab Driver!

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel so excluded from this thread, just cause I'm British and up too early for no particular reason at all.

― kate (suzy), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Sod off you limey morning persons!

― Amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Trust me, I'm NOT a morning person. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

― kate (suzy), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Danny's for fuck's sake, Amateurist? You're too hip.

I saw some friends' crappy ass bands play at a crappy ass bar, but it was good fun. Unfortunately I didn't get drunk enough before last call so now it's 5:00 and i'm polishing off a bottle of wine and catching up on Ile madness. And listening to this fucking Playgroup Party Mix. It's so lazy and so so much fun.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 8 March 2003 11:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Welcome Kate:)

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 8 March 2003 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

What's wrong with Danny's? I miss that bar, esp. the first-Wednesday-of-the-month funk nights by my friends Dante (aka Pickles from Naptown), Supreme Court, Squalls, etc.

Spent the entire day sleeping after last night's fun adventures. More to come tonight, prolly.

hi kate!

― hstencil, Saturday, 8 March 2003 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Friday night at Danny's, there is a phenomenal dancehall DJ set. I have no idea if Mr. Diamond is being sarcastic or not. There are "hipper" bars in Chicago without question.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 8 March 2003 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Absolutely. That Danny's hasn't been too overrun with Bucktown idiots is kind of a blessing, but I guess it depends on what night you go.

― hstencil, Saturday, 8 March 2003 23:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I hear in America they sometimes stay up till 11pm!

No(NO!) need for shouting!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Saturday, 8 March 2003 23:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Was I being sarcastic? Um I don't know; I don't think so. It was late night drunken rambling. I was just yanking your chain. But really it's just not my scene. I generally try to avoid Wicker Park/Bucktown in general if possible. But I'm not sure I'd agree w/ you re: hipness. I mean, you go to a bar to listen to a dancehall dj = hip to me. I usually just want to drink and bs with the bartenders and maybe catch some of a ballgame. Plus, hstencil's friends dj there. It has to be the hippest!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 9 March 2003 06:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh. You made it sound as it if were beyond-the-pale-too-pretentious-to-live hip, as opposed to just, um, fashionable and fun and a good place to hear good music. Also we discovered yesterday that their margeritas are cheap.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 9 March 2003 07:30 (twenty-three years ago)

My SO, though not feeling well, decided to come back to my place after the concert we went to, and somehow she didn't leave until after 3AM. (Unfortunately, it wasn't feasible for her to just stay over.)

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 9 March 2003 09:32 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Hiya. I'm watching the How Green Was My Valley DVD with the commentary track on. Really this movie is as good as any that's come out of America in any era. The quieter moments in this film are devastating.

I have a large quantity of perogi and red wine in my belly. I probably should get to sleep soon.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 23 March 2003 09:36 (twenty-three years ago)

large quantity . sounds good. you are watching and ILEing?

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 23 March 2003 09:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, multitasking.

Reason #44,304 why John Ford is a genius:

Scene where the brother's choir is invited to sing before the Queen. After a brief celebration, the post officer and crowd dance away in an extreme long shot, and the family is left on stoop, to contemplate both the honor of the invitation and the impending departure of two sons for America (and the first sundering of the family). There is a brief sequence of shots, beginning with a pan following the father back the doorstop -- then held as a pointedly long shot, almost a tableau -- where in the background the mother somberly walks over to lean against the doorway. Then a cut to a slightly low-angle of the mother as the father and brothers file past, back into the house.

Boy were there a lot of doorways in that movie.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 23 March 2003 10:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I forgot to go to sleep. Also we were up until 4 or 5 last night and I slept for ten hours. I'm fucked monday.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 23 March 2003 10:06 (twenty-three years ago)

i am working on my thesis (AAARGH) and am now nocturnal, sleeping from 7am until 2pm on a regular basis. heeelp.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Sunday, 23 March 2003 10:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Got home from Matt M's housewarming party around 1am and happened to fire up email and AIM. Of course the NZ'ers are on and now it's 2:30am PST

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Sunday, 23 March 2003 10:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm on the up-at-4pm sleep weirdness jag. Again. Now I'm trolling Prince websites for a project I'm working on and listening to The Essential Willie Nelson (some combination) for a review I have to write. I've also accomplished approximately nothing in re: the many articles I've begged various editors to let me write = I am effectively useless.

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 23 March 2003 10:30 (twenty-three years ago)

If you start describing Prince's clear Texan tones, you need to think again. Or saying how hot Willie Nelson looks in peach and purple.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:25 (twenty-three years ago)

nah, just talked about Willie's great falsetto on "Kiss." all's well

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:53 (twenty-three years ago)

bump2

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 23 March 2003 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Bump, damn bump. I'm not in the US, but this thread fits my mood. It's currently 4:20 am British Summer Time and I am awake. I am finsihing off submissions for the Vogue Young Writers Competition 2003 that I have been unable to do before due to proper paid deadline pressure. They have to be at Vogue House by tomorrow morning. I will have to hand deliver them. I would give up, but I'm proud of what I've done and feel I should give it a shot even if extreme measures are needed. The last time I felt like this saw me taking a train at 6:00am in the morning from Sheffield to Manchester to hand deliver a job application to get it in on time. I got the job and I didn't even tell them about my trans-Pennine adventure until I'd worked there for a month. I'm not saying I'll even make the shortlist, but I want to give it a go.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 11 April 2003 02:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm just glad to know I'm not the only UK ilXor still awake, all the best Anna....go and get them (go get 'em pronounced in cut-glass accent).

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 11 April 2003 02:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not saying I'll even make the shortlist, but I want to give it a go.

Best of luck, Anna! If your writing on ilx is any indication of your talent I think you have a shot.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 11 April 2003 02:43 (twenty-three years ago)

It's about 12:22 AM where I am, and I can't sleep because I'm not feeling well. I would look for an AIM chat but I'm useless on them because I can't type quickly enough to make relevant points. I would go to bed but I will probably just have to jump right back up again. NEED TO STOP POSTING RANDOM THOUGHTS.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 11 April 2003 04:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks. I finished half an hour ago and then went and had a shower. I feel slightly mental.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 11 April 2003 04:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Good luck with that Anna - you know I rate your writing highly, here and in magazines.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 11 April 2003 11:41 (twenty-three years ago)

that is hardcore! I think I would stay in bed, this is why I am broke.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 11 April 2003 12:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Rah for Anna indeed! It will go very well I'm sure. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 April 2003 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Ranimez!

Yay! J'ai fini mon devoir (français) -- finalement! Je veux célébrer! Pouvez-vous m'aider?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Er, ranimons?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm such a dork when I'm in a good mood. Thank God I'm a depressive.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:31 (twenty-three years ago)

félicitations!

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I was going to say that, but thought I might be stepping on toes.

Amst - congrats

(and good pesach all around, as applicable)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks gabbneb! HEPL I have eaten about 7 chocolate macaroons.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Because I am a currently unemployed and cannot sleep.

I say, "Why not?"

― Cub, Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I want some macaroons.

― rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:54 (twenty-three years ago)

(Hey! I have a new egg separator and wire racks! And a Hadassah cookbook! I will make some!)

― rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 17 April 2003 05:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll save you some, too!

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 17 April 2003 06:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just got back fm the Erase Errata + Scene Creamers show and it wz grebt except for the typical DC crowd of chinscratching armcross loser bums. The bassist for the SC (and the Make Up, by association) is quite possibly the hottest musician alive at the moment (thought by her estimation, she's 'too old' for me (whatever)).

I'm awake bcz I bought a pack of Backwoods cigars and I feel the need to smoke one and drink another Stroh's before I pass out beneath my down comforter, mostly bcz of all these classic rock songs we listened to on the way back home on the radio in Nick's car, which reminded me of this girl I knew in college who was fluent in German and was one year ahead of me and totally awesome in every way (especially the eyes (they were brown(dark brown))).

I totally have 'Duran Duran: Greatest' on the boombox right now. Could I be any more pathetic? Really.

Sometimes the police shoot people who pose no threat.

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 17 April 2003 06:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm listening to Bran Van 3000 and trying (and failing - thank god for urls)) to post a pic finally on the pic thread and drinking passion fruit juice and throwing the little tiny squeaky cow toy for the big bad bruiser dog...

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 17 April 2003 06:06 (twenty-three years ago)

(though it is only midnight)

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 17 April 2003 06:08 (twenty-three years ago)

That Sum 41 video with all the dolls is totally cute.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 17 April 2003 06:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Cubhead, meet felicity.

Amateurist, congratulations.

I have no fucking clue why I'm still up. Late dinner or something like that. You're supposed to wait three hours before sleeping and I'm trying to maintain my girlish figure.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 17 April 2003 06:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Only 1.30am, but have just broken up, except she's not even a girlfriend, just a very dear friend and am crying to Vic Iodine he's a swell chap folks but I am very sad and this is all about me.

― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 17 April 2003 07:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Hope you feel better Leee! Now trade me all yr good players! :-)

Chin up bud!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 17 April 2003 07:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi Americans! Well done, Amateurist!

and-Cheer up, Leee! Maybe get some sleep?

It's a beautiful day here, and I've got NO WORK to do!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 17 April 2003 08:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Because I couldn't start a paper early/when I want to if someone had a fucking rifle to my head. I still have a couple hours left on this one and all I want to do is SLEEEEP.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 17 April 2003 09:09 (twenty-three years ago)

felicity, I ate, um, TWELVE macaroons. I feel a bit funny now.

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 18 April 2003 03:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Do they have hallucinogenic properties?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 18 April 2003 03:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Yup, another chocolate macaroon dinner at the office for me.

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 18 April 2003 03:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Now now this thread is off limits to Americans for another 3 hours or so . . .

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 18 April 2003 03:39 (twenty-three years ago)

No, but I'm not sure that all the wax paper that is stuck to the bottom of the cookies is very good for me.

Then why are you posting, Mary??? Huh????

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 18 April 2003 03:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm writing an essay. And by "writing an essay" I mean staring blankly at the screen. I wrote a bibliography, it's great reading.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 April 2003 03:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Oops ;) I ate 2 chicks.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 18 April 2003 03:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Come again?!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 18 April 2003 03:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Er . . . the Easter kind.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 18 April 2003 03:51 (twenty-three years ago)

(i.e., nuns)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 18 April 2003 03:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Do you meen Peeeeeeeeeps?

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 18 April 2003 03:54 (twenty-three years ago)

MARY'S GONE ALL ME!! I am so proud of my influence, mind the crazy ILM stalkers.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 April 2003 03:54 (twenty-three years ago)

You crazy people.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 April 2003 04:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Right again Gilbert, peeps. What sort of godforsaken foodstuffs are they. Oh. anyone want a peeps tshirt? I never wear it.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 18 April 2003 04:23 (twenty-three years ago)

ME!

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 April 2003 04:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck. I want it. :(

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 18 April 2003 04:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone want a sleeveless Rolling Stones t-shirt with a pastel, studded tongue on it?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 18 April 2003 04:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone want a now-useless-because-I'm-going-into-the-conservative-enclave-of-Orange-County "People's Republic of Berkeley" tee?

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 18 April 2003 04:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I WANT THEM ALL. Like Veruca Salt.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 April 2003 04:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha ha ha. It is rather cute. Light blue with a school of little peeps following their mother peep. With a nice purple logo in the corner.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 18 April 2003 04:31 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm awake as a knee-jerk act of anti americanism

― duane, Friday, 18 April 2003 06:04 (twenty-three years ago)

anyone want a streets t-shirt? someone gave it to this guy, who decided the pale blue was uncool and he gave it to me and...ugh. it says a new day, another morning after.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 April 2003 06:47 (twenty-three years ago)

...because Geeta and I were just out at a favored Hell's Kitchen watering hole drinking and chain-smoking* and bitching about our love lives.

*ha! take THAT, Bloomberg.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 18 April 2003 07:12 (twenty-three years ago)

tell me more JBR

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 April 2003 07:16 (twenty-three years ago)

we're sad cuz boys don't actually want girls like us, they just think they do

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 18 April 2003 07:18 (twenty-three years ago)

o
its all in my head then?

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 April 2003 07:19 (twenty-three years ago)

mmmmmmmmmm

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 18 April 2003 07:20 (twenty-three years ago)

mmmmmmmm

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 April 2003 07:51 (twenty-three years ago)

11:12 am, I am going to see Bulletproof Monk today! hoorah!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 18 April 2003 09:14 (twenty-three years ago)

It's 3:18am PDT and I'm awake because some other folks in the building decided to crawl onto the roof (right outside my balcony!) for an under-the-full-moon-smoochfest.

Bastards. I just got to sleep.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Friday, 18 April 2003 09:21 (twenty-three years ago)

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 18 April 2003 09:23 (twenty-three years ago)

it's 10am and I kind of have a really ramshackle draft of my essay. My holocaust essay somehow became 7 pages on the African AIDS crisis.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 April 2003 13:01 (twenty-three years ago)

what is the paper for & supposed to be on?

― H (Heruy), Friday, 18 April 2003 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)

at this point I have no idea.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 April 2003 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

if you stay with AIDS in Africa there are some useful links here http://www.uneca.org/adf2000/docs.htm

― H (Heruy), Friday, 18 April 2003 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Bastards. I just got to sleep.

Just make loud comments like "Goddamn cats!" and throw a shoe.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 April 2003 13:33 (twenty-three years ago)

thank you H

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 April 2003 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

failing that, leaning out the window and yelling "will you hurry up and come already???" also works

don't ask me how I know.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 18 April 2003 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought I was on the orgasm thread for a moment...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 18 April 2003 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Right now it's 3:30 in the am and I'm taking care of my extremely drunk best friend. I'm in his apt. We got drunk at a nearby thai restaurant. Several shots of whisky were had by all. One of the guys who ended up with us was some kind of set designer from nyc who had won a tony. I got to apologize for my friend's drunkenness to one of the waitresses I crush on. We had a nice chat; she has lovely screwed up teeth, I love that. We go to this place a lot. The bartender introduced himself to me, said 'yr regulars but I haven't met you' 'yes I'm geoff, I like this place a lot' 'yes well we like you.' My friend vomited in the bathroom and we had to drag him home, not far away. I'm waiting for him to finally pass out so i can get some sleep, i'm still qt drunk myself. It's been v emotional.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Saturday, 19 April 2003 07:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I spent a normal night at my local bar. Spilling drinks and playing rowdy Uno. then 3 boys from my past came in and upset the ecosystem.

Seeing cute boys you have made out with and then sort of moved on from always stirs things up.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Saturday, 19 April 2003 08:15 (twenty-three years ago)

saw japón with an old friend then went to a house part. came home, busied myself making jody's crush tape and listening nat king cole, then decided to watch distant voices, still lives for the nth time. now i'm going to sleep, really i am. i'm getting up early tomorrow to make it to a archive to watch yet more films. i'm movie-mad.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2003 09:12 (twenty-three years ago)

house part = house party

of course

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2003 09:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm up listening to my friends complain about their lives and trying to finish my Hal/Falstaff paper. Also downloading a Kinks track I've never heard before ("See My Friends").

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 20 April 2003 09:17 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm in one of those good moods where i couldn't give a shit what anyone else has to say. hi everyone.

"see my friends" is good. it's almost a raga ...kind of a slight digression in the kinks' career.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2003 09:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Watched a documentary on Bellevue and then watched Series 2 of The Young Ones on DVD. Mind too full of mania --> no sleep.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 April 2003 09:23 (twenty-three years ago)

i am in a time loop

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 20 April 2003 09:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi Amateurist! Did you enjoy Japon?

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 20 April 2003 09:25 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yes i did very much. that last shot is extraordinary. i also enjoyed all the bits with the animals and how it related to the themes of the human story--which was actually kind of cliché, or should i say archetypal? i think i failed to connect to it emotionally though for most of its length which means i may forget it soon--memories are tied to emotions you see. also the use of pärt was occasionally overbearing as with the helicopter shot (shades of solaris!). i did notice at least two obvious homages to kiarostami's life and nothing more... which made me happy.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2003 09:28 (twenty-three years ago)

(Also I'm really hungry. There's no food in the house. Last night's dinner would have been the salad I had delivered from a local Italian place, but it was slathered in some horrible mustard dressing, so I didn't eat it. All I've had between like noon yesterday and 6:30 am today: a Diet Coke.)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 April 2003 09:31 (twenty-three years ago)

360s are the way forward.

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 20 April 2003 09:32 (twenty-three years ago)

jody i have some good indian sweets here do you want some?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2003 09:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Am: what Pärt was used in the film?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 April 2003 09:34 (twenty-three years ago)

sure!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 20 April 2003 09:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I just got back from some friends house watching videos by XTC, Cro Mags, Manowar, Twisted Sister, Mentors, Gauze, Gism, Extreme Noise Terror, Born Against, Slade, Sweet, Bl'Ast, Meat Puppets, Black Flag, D.R.I., Ziegenbock Kopf, PiL (on American Bandstand), and I forget who else.

WAAAHOOOo!

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 20 April 2003 09:38 (twenty-three years ago)

it used the cantus for britten and two other pieces whose names are escaping me. also bach's st. matthew's passion and some shostakovich whose name i'm forgetting as well, but has become something of a soundtrack cliché.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 20 April 2003 09:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck me. It's 5:30am, and the alarm's set for three hours from now cause they're inspecting all the apartments (for the second time; last time, a troop of like ten guys marched in, checking my pipes and ceiling and whatnot, but I haven't heard anything about plans to patch the leak in my ceiling or fix the sink so it doesn't clog). The younger of my two cats is in heat, and I'm a bit worried that they're going to say, "You're not actually supposed to have those cats, you know," since a few months ago they sent out a "no pets" memo. My story is that I assume they're talking about dogs (they specifically mentioned "evidence of pets in the courtyard," which must be Management Code for "dog crap") -- I paid a pet deposit, after all, under the old management, so I'm hoping they don't have the right to say "well, we're new management now, so you have to get rid of em."

Took kava kava, my usual sleep aid, and no dice. Took a quarter of the usually-way-too-strong sleeping pills I use for major insomnia, and so far, nothing. Insomnia's a key symptom of my mania, so I'm figuring that's probably kicking up. It's just piss-poor timing.

So I'm taking notes for a story I probably shouldn't make the time to write, about fairies -- something that'd never interested me before, but I ran across a reference to this thing that can only be killed by glass bullets, and thought, "Fuck, glass bullets. That's super cool."

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 24 April 2003 09:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Because I have a cold, a fever, a runny nose, am needy and regressive, not even the thought of posting new pics of japanese teenagers in uniform to the sailor thread comforts me.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 28 April 2003 07:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm reading about the Picpus cemetery in France, for a class project. Gen. Lafayette is buried there along with thousands of victims of the guillotine from the last days of the French Revolution. I don't know whether I should try to go to work tomorrow on a few hours' sleep.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 28 April 2003 07:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Amt: you should take the day off. It's beautiful here in NYC.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 28 April 2003 07:47 (twenty-three years ago)

My boss'll kill me, though. No, she won't kill me, but it'll increase the silent tension that occasionally arises. Also, I have my work evaluations soon and I'm already late in submitting my self-evaluation because the whole setup makes me nervous. I've been missing a lot of work lately, perhaps a day every three weeks or so.

I might take the morning off but I'd be so nervous about waking up in time that I might not have a good rest. If that makes sense.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 28 April 2003 07:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know how you do it.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 28 April 2003 07:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Do what?

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 28 April 2003 08:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Keep going day after day on such little sleep.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 02:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Aside from the usual insomnia, I've been up fighting off a migraine.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 07:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey JBR! I tried to sleep and failed. Too much Rules of Attraction excitement I guess.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 07:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm failing horribly in my attempt to regulate my sleeping patterns. The problem today was that I accidentally dozed off for two hours when I got home from work at 6:30. I started my homework around 9:00 but kept distracting myself, so I only finished around 2:00 AM. Then I felt the misguided need to post a long, embarrassing, incoherent new thread to ILF. It's really sobering when you type up your rights and realize how alternately banal and unformed they really are, "in the light of day" so to speak.

I hate myself right now.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 08:03 (twenty-three years ago)

rights = thoughts

Fuck. I'm always in this state of semicoherence b/c of not getting any sleep. I swear, I'm actually brilliant and lucid and charming when I sleep right. Trouble is that last time I slept right was three years ago.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 April 2003 08:04 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

It's exactly 5:00AM by my PC clock (which is pretty meaningless) and I am awake because I have been attacked by a cowardly and unprovoked mosquito. However, I will make its mother cry for the day she brought into the world.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 4 June 2003 08:01 (twenty-three years ago)

i am awake cause of isnomnia

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 10:07 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

I'm a little drunk, my throat hurts from too many cigarettes, I slept until 3 PM and the memory of that godblasted gorgeous French-English girl won't die.

― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 10 August 2003 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)

she will be yrs in another life

i wonder if you will both be ppl then?

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 10 August 2003 08:25 (twenty-two years ago)

We will be otters. It will be the great love affair of the XXIII century.

Anyway: I know I'm a fucking hayseed but a gorgeous French-English girl-painter *is* an exotic phenomenon in Chicago!

― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 10 August 2003 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha! I suspect she may have wanted to go home w/my friend but he's taken.

― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 10 August 2003 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to be a tortoise.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 10 August 2003 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Now I'm listening to "Visions of Johanna".

WHERE IS JODY?

― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 10 August 2003 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

right here!

― The Four Singing Beatles (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 10 August 2003 08:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Why not?

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 10 August 2003 08:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Why not who?

― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 10 August 2003 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

is anyone awake?

anyone in chicago?

i just finished taking apart my bed. i'm moving out tomorrow. my apartment is bare. i need a hamburger and a cigarette.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 07:05 (twenty-two years ago)

First I need a shower though, phew.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 07:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm in Winnipeg (same time zone as Chicago). Just after 3 am. I'm awake because I'm unemployed for at least one more day and going to sleep early just seems silly.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 07:09 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm, i dunno if a jog to winnipeg is in the cards tonight. i have to get up around 10 tomorrow b/c the movers arrive at noon. though i think most everything's in order.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Get to bed you lot! ;-)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i should, but i still have adrenaline coursing through my body from taking apart all my furniture and so forth.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 07:21 (twenty-two years ago)

You could jog here but the asshole cops in Wisconsin (an otherwise lovely state) would pull you over for speeding, and who needs that?

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 07:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I could really go for some stuffed pizza right about now.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

pizza stuffed with tiny little pizzas!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 08:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Fantastic idea Mark! I'll get my coat!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"yes, I'll have a pizza stuffed with little pizzas. I want half sausage, green pepper, and onion...the other half onion, green peppers, and spinach. Got that? Okay. Then on the little pizzas I want one half green peppers and onion and half just cheese. No, no, on each individual little pizza, not on half of the little pizzas as a whole. Actually, that sounds better. Okay, on half of the little pizzas I want green peppers and onion and on the other half I want just cheese. Wait wait, forget that. I'm not hungry."

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 08:26 (twenty-two years ago)

pizzas like russian dolls

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 08:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i'll call france. it's almost noon there.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 08:33 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

I'm awake because I can't sleep. Repetitive glasses of wine and black and white movies on TCM have not helped. Neither has Discreet Music.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 16 January 2004 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

See: "DRUNK & PUKING!!!!"

I passed out around two, woke up around 5:30 and have been up since.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 16 January 2004 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The most tedious (and potentially sleep-inducing) book within arms reach of the bed is The Vanished Kingdom, a history/travelogue of Prussia. Attempting to read the chapter on Königsberg has resulted in a headache that the previous alcohol intake is augmenting instead of deflecting.

I am now thinking about Euler's topology problem "The Seven Bridges Of Königsberg"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 16 January 2004 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe the shapes on my blanket might form a Euler Path

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 16 January 2004 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Diagrams/Konigsberg.jpeg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 16 January 2004 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Königsberg was absorbed into the Soviet Union after WWII and is now called Kaliningrad. The old Prussian city is now known as "a corridor of crime, it’s perhaps better known for AIDS epidemics, drugs plagues, pollution and bleak tower blocks."

It's also home to the "House Of The Soviets", widely considered to be the ugliest building in Russia. It was built on the remains of an old Prussian castle and the Soviet architect and construction crews forgot to fill in the old secret tunnels underneath the old castle. So the building was never occupied, all they could do is fence it off and wait for it to collapse.

Euler's seven bridges are long gone, at least one of the bridges now was never completed because of lack of funds.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 16 January 2004 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

It's 5:04 AM. I had a couple drinks with dinner, came home and fell asleep (thereby blowing off a sorta-date I really wanted to break anyway; I know I'm awful), woke up I dunno maybe midnight and haven't been able to fall asleep since. Sometimes drinking will do that - make me wake up in the middle of the night. Usually it takes more than 2 drinks though. Anyway since I've been out of work my sleep schedule has been all messed up.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 16 January 2004 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not 3am here yet, but at the rate I'm going I'm likely to still be awake then. I'm probably awake because I let myself get into really bad sleep patterns when I'm not working -- staying up till all hours and then sleeping in or taking naps.

I'd take a "sleeping pill," but I actually have work on Saturday and Sunday (after being off all this week) -- I have to be out in Reston at 8:30am, which means I have to leave here at 7:30am.
:^P

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 17 January 2004 06:50 (twenty-two years ago)

it's 11:53pm pst. I have a duo improv gig tomorrow at 4. my big idea was to take recordings of his previous solo improv gigs, isolate sections with discrete monophonic notes, and map the tones to hocket when played on a keyboard. I waited until tonight to chart everything out, I'm about 25% through, and the results are sounding wretched bad, and I have no other ideas. there's a bottle of port in the next room I'm not supposed to open.

― (Jon L), Saturday, 17 January 2004 07:57 (twenty-two years ago)

just got home from work.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Saturday, 17 January 2004 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

still jetlagged, got up about 3:30 my time, 10:30 roman time.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 17 January 2004 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

oh man where was this thread thurs night

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 17 January 2004 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm awake probably because of alcohol. But it's okay because apparently it's MLK day tomorrow and I don't have to go to work. Which also doesn't really matter because it looks like I might quit anyway.

― the icebox (nordicskilla), Monday, 19 January 2004 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

My sleep schedule is totally wrecked. I'm trying to force myself to get back to normal, but so far it's not working.

Hi @d@m; did you get my email from Wed. or something?

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 19 January 2004 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes! Did you not get my reply?

― the icebox (nordicskilla), Monday, 19 January 2004 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate Hotmail.

― the icebox (nordicskilla), Monday, 19 January 2004 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Clock

― Le Coq (DarrenK), Monday, 19 January 2004 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

new insomnia thread

― tweemu (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

I am so wanting to sleep I am about to sob. Every time I've tried I get comfy and then masses of worries kick in. I feel like my career is about to fall over and die (along with large chunks of the UK magazine industry). I am having terrible financial panic and I feel I should be wearing a UN blue beret for advances in household diplomacy. It's the middle of the fucking night and I'm fucking cracking up. Visions of having to move back to Wolverhampton and work in a call centre of doing a manic tango of death in my brain. (This would probably not be happening if it wasn't nearly three o'clock.)

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Anna, if it's any consolation I spent the whole of last night like that. I didn't sleep. I actually found leaving the light on made me worry less. ILX is not good for your brain when it is in that state, though. Beware. And good luck.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

make yourself some herbal tea, drink it. wet a washcloth with cold water, lay down, lay it on your forehead. don't read anything or stay on the internet. breathe methodically.

i have insomnia, and often this routine works for me. eventually.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

me, today, on the phone: "if we have to live in a place with a shitty economy and no jobs, can't it at least be somewhere cool like argentina?"

― stockholm cindy, montessori emo superstar (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks you all. I need ILx right now. I just want to feel there are people out there in the world that I can talk to right now who aren't going to:
1) Send me bills
2) Require vast amounts of cajoling in order to be anything other than madly defensive about the amount of bloody housework they do and be really fucking stubborn when it comes to just trying to get along with other co-habitees. When do I get to go mad and feel underappreciated? Why can't I loose the plot and turn to emotional blackmail (they will not see this, the only internet connection is in my room)? No, I have to make everyone tea and happiness and do the washing up in fucking secret so they think it might have been someone else and start liking one another again. It's not fair. It's not fucking fair.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry anna

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 16 September 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks. I'm going to try my variation on your herbal tea thing, a massive cup of coco with honey. I feel lot better just having ranted.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 16 September 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

rant away. and fuck those fucking motherfuckers.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Because I am an idiot.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 16 September 2004 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Anna, I hope you managed to get some sleep & are feeling a little better.
Again Luna, what are you still doing up??

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 16 September 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I couldn't sleep, so I colored my hair.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 16 September 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice, what colour!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 16 September 2004 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I will post here what I just posted in my live journal.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 16 September 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I have pink. hair.

It was blonde, and the roots were growing out, and I was awake, so I thought ok, I'll fix this, forgetting the CARDINAL RULE OF HAIR DYE, to wit: over the counter blonde dye turns dark roots red. Or in my case, orange.

No problem, she thinks, I can fix this, I wanted to go red anyway.

Apparently I bought the wrong one. It was 2 am, it happens. No problem, thinks I, it's a little brighter than I wanted, but that's okay, it might be fun, I'll use it anyway, forgetting YET ANOTHER CARDINAL RULE OF HAIR COLOR, which is that anything you put on blonde will be DARKER BECAUSE BLONDE IS PALE, YOU DUMBASS.

I. HAVE. PINK. HAIR.

Going to work today, Aimee? Oh, I think not. Perhaps not ever again.

PINK. HAIR.

AND NOT IN A GOOD WAY.

If anyone needs me, I will be under my bed crying for the rest of my life.

This: http://www.westburypharmacy.com/Merchant2/mivagraphics/bergen/324327.jpg plus champagne blonde EQUALS PINK! PINK! HOLY FUCK, MY HAIR IS PINK!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 16 September 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I am awake because I am excited over finding a new one-bedroom apartment in Los Feliz WHERE I WILL BE LIVING BY MESELF thankyouverymuch, ROOMMATE OF DOOM! and I also had two cups of coffee about an hour ago with some random British girl.

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 16 September 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

3 years?

― amateurist, Monday, 24 December 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

ten years pass...

whats a good "5am and wide awake" activity

dont say yoga

― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 June 2018 04:08 (eight years ago)

shaving

― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 10 June 2018 04:19 (eight years ago)

not the right day in my cycle

fuck im gonna have to do yoga amnt i

― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 June 2018 04:28 (eight years ago)

Make coffee

― calstars, Sunday, 10 June 2018 04:33 (eight years ago)

yes thats good ill do that

― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 June 2018 04:36 (eight years ago)

a little rub n tug

puts even the wildest of sasquatches to sleep

make sure u get fully undressed tho thats key

― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 10 June 2018 04:43 (eight years ago)

a little 'flag post'

― you bet, nancy (map), Sunday, 10 June 2018 04:47 (eight years ago)

not enough people awake to do any harm tho

― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 10 June 2018 04:50 (eight years ago)

everyone else is asleep

― flappy bird, Sunday, 10 June 2018 05:41 (eight years ago)

anyway my answer is reading

― flappy bird, Sunday, 10 June 2018 05:41 (eight years ago)

surrender/dislocate obvs

― mookieproof, Sunday, 10 June 2018 05:57 (eight years ago)

Feed babby

― Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 10 June 2018 06:15 (eight years ago)

cup of tea or coff, contemplate quiet morning

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 June 2018 06:25 (eight years ago)

obv answer was obvious, ironing donw for the fortnight

― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 June 2018 07:21 (eight years ago)

because it's 3am eter-nal-oh-ah-oh-ooooh

― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Sunday, 10 June 2018 08:05 (eight years ago)

Cuz sic is a jerk?

― Slippage (Ross), Sunday, 10 June 2018 08:05 (eight years ago)

sic tangentially related to my being awake at best

― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 June 2018 08:40 (eight years ago)

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